Arabsat-6A
E42995
Arabsat-6A is a high-capacity Saudi communications satellite launched in 2019 to provide television, internet, and telecommunications services across the Middle East, Africa, and Europe.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arabsat-6 series | 1 |
| Arabsat-6A canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T334122 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Arabsat-6A Context triple: [Falcon Heavy, notableMission, Arabsat-6A]
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A.
As-Samad
As-Samad is one of the names of Allah in Islam, signifying the One who is absolutely self-sufficient, eternally depended upon by all creation, and free of all need.
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B.
SAS-3
SAS-3 is the third-generation Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface standard that significantly increases data transfer rates and performance for enterprise storage systems.
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C.
Vanguard 1 satellite
Vanguard 1 satellite is an early American artificial Earth satellite launched in 1958 that became the fourth human-made object in space and the oldest still in orbit, used primarily for geophysical and atmospheric research.
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D.
Suomi NPP satellite
The Suomi NPP satellite is a joint NASA–NOAA Earth-observing mission that provides critical weather, climate, and environmental data as a bridge between earlier Earth observation satellites and the next-generation JPSS series.
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E.
Joint Polar Satellite System
The Joint Polar Satellite System is a series of next-generation U.S. polar-orbiting weather satellites that provide critical data for global weather forecasting, climate monitoring, and environmental observation.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Arabsat-6A Target entity description: Arabsat-6A is a high-capacity Saudi communications satellite launched in 2019 to provide television, internet, and telecommunications services across the Middle East, Africa, and Europe.
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A.
As-Samad
As-Samad is one of the names of Allah in Islam, signifying the One who is absolutely self-sufficient, eternally depended upon by all creation, and free of all need.
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B.
SAS-3
SAS-3 is the third-generation Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface standard that significantly increases data transfer rates and performance for enterprise storage systems.
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C.
Vanguard 1 satellite
Vanguard 1 satellite is an early American artificial Earth satellite launched in 1958 that became the fourth human-made object in space and the oldest still in orbit, used primarily for geophysical and atmospheric research.
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D.
Suomi NPP satellite
The Suomi NPP satellite is a joint NASA–NOAA Earth-observing mission that provides critical weather, climate, and environmental data as a bridge between earlier Earth observation satellites and the next-generation JPSS series.
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E.
Joint Polar Satellite System
The Joint Polar Satellite System is a series of next-generation U.S. polar-orbiting weather satellites that provide critical data for global weather forecasting, climate monitoring, and environmental observation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
communications satellite
ⓘ
geostationary communications satellite ⓘ |
| belongsToSeries |
Arabsat-6A
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Arabsat-6 series
|
| contractType | commercial communications satellite contract ⓘ |
| countryOfOperator | Saudi Arabia ⓘ |
| coverageArea |
Africa
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ Middle East ⓘ parts of Central Asia ⓘ |
| customer |
Arab Satellite Communications Organization
ⓘ
Arab Satellite Communications Organization ⓘ
surface form:
Arabsat
|
| launchCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| launchDate | 2019-04-11 ⓘ |
| launchMass | ~6000 kg ⓘ |
| launchOutcome | success ⓘ |
| launchServiceProvider | SpaceX ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
ⓘ
LC-39A ⓘ |
| launchVehicle |
Falcon Heavy rocket
ⓘ
surface form:
Falcon Heavy
|
| launchVehicleCoreRecovery | center core landing attempt failed ⓘ |
| launchVehicleSideBoosters | both side boosters successfully landed ⓘ |
| launchYear | 2019 ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
Lockheed Martin
ⓘ
Lockheed Martin Space ⓘ |
| missionDurationDesign | 15 years ⓘ |
| missionType |
broadband internet
ⓘ
communications ⓘ telecommunications ⓘ television broadcasting ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first commercial communications satellite launched by Falcon Heavy ⓘ |
| operator | Arabsat ⓘ |
| orbitalLongitude | 30.5° East ⓘ |
| orbitRegime | GEO ⓘ |
| orbitType | geostationary orbit ⓘ |
| powerType | solar-powered ⓘ |
| program |
Arab Satellite Communications Organization
ⓘ
surface form:
Arabsat satellite program
|
| providesService |
direct-to-home television
ⓘ
high-speed internet connectivity ⓘ telephony and data services ⓘ |
| spacecraftBus | A2100 ⓘ |
| spacecraftBusVariant | A2100-based platform ⓘ |
| targetUsers |
broadcast operators
ⓘ
government and enterprise customers ⓘ telecom operators ⓘ |
| transponderBand |
C-band
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Ka-band ⓘ Ku-band ⓘ |
| usesFrequencyBands |
C-band
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Ka-band ⓘ Ku-band ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Arabsat-6A Description of subject: Arabsat-6A is a high-capacity Saudi communications satellite launched in 2019 to provide television, internet, and telecommunications services across the Middle East, Africa, and Europe.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Falcon Heavy
this entity surface form:
Arabsat-6 series