Apollo 14
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Apollo 14 was NASA’s 1971 crewed mission that successfully returned astronauts to the Moon, notable for precision lunar landing and extensive surface exploration following the Apollo 13 accident.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Apollo 14 canonical | 21 |
| Apollo 14 astronauts | 1 |
| Apollo 14 crew | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T363977 — 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: Apollo 14 Context triple: [Apollo program, lunarLandingMission, Apollo 14]
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A.
Apollo 12
Apollo 12 was NASA’s second crewed mission to land humans on the Moon, notable for its precise landing near the Surveyor 3 probe in November 1969.
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B.
Apollo 17
Apollo 17 was the final crewed mission of NASA’s Apollo program, notable for its extended lunar surface stay, extensive scientific exploration, and the last human footsteps on the Moon to date.
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C.
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the historic 1969 spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon and safely returned them to Earth.
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D.
Gemini 8
Gemini 8 was a 1966 NASA crewed spaceflight in the Gemini program, notable for achieving the first successful docking of two spacecraft in orbit and for a critical in-flight emergency that tested astronaut Neil Armstrong’s piloting skills.
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E.
Apollo 7
Apollo 7 was NASA’s 1968 Earth-orbiting test mission that successfully proved the redesigned Apollo spacecraft’s systems and paved the way for subsequent lunar missions.
- 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: Apollo 14 Target entity description: Apollo 14 was NASA’s 1971 crewed mission that successfully returned astronauts to the Moon, notable for precision lunar landing and extensive surface exploration following the Apollo 13 accident.
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A.
Apollo 12
Apollo 12 was NASA’s second crewed mission to land humans on the Moon, notable for its precise landing near the Surveyor 3 probe in November 1969.
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B.
Apollo 17
Apollo 17 was the final crewed mission of NASA’s Apollo program, notable for its extended lunar surface stay, extensive scientific exploration, and the last human footsteps on the Moon to date.
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C.
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the historic 1969 spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon and safely returned them to Earth.
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D.
Gemini 8
Gemini 8 was a 1966 NASA crewed spaceflight in the Gemini program, notable for achieving the first successful docking of two spacecraft in orbit and for a critical in-flight emergency that tested astronaut Neil Armstrong’s piloting skills.
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E.
Apollo 7
Apollo 7 was NASA’s 1968 Earth-orbiting test mission that successfully proved the redesigned Apollo spacecraft’s systems and paved the way for subsequent lunar missions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apollo program mission
ⓘ
crewed lunar mission ⓘ |
| commander |
Alan Shepard
ⓘ
surface form:
Alan B. Shepard Jr.
|
| commandModuleName | Kitty Hawk ⓘ |
| commandModulePilot | Stuart A. Roosa ⓘ |
| crewMember |
Alan Shepard
ⓘ
surface form:
Alan B. Shepard Jr.
Edgar D. Mitchell ⓘ Stuart A. Roosa ⓘ |
| crewSize | 3 ⓘ |
| evaCountOnMoon | 2 ⓘ |
| followedBy | Apollo 15 ⓘ |
| landingDateOnMoon | 1971-02-05 ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1971-01-31 ⓘ |
| launchMass | about 44,800 kilograms (CSM+LM) ⓘ |
| launchSite | Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Saturn V ⓘ |
| lunarExperimentsDeployed |
ALSEP (Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package)
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surface form:
Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package
active seismic experiment ⓘ charged particle lunar environment experiment ⓘ laser ranging retroreflector ⓘ solar wind composition experiment ⓘ |
| lunarLandingSite | Fra Mauro formation ⓘ |
| lunarModuleName | Antares ⓘ |
| lunarModulePilot | Edgar D. Mitchell ⓘ |
| lunarSamplesMassReturned | about 42 kilograms ⓘ |
| lunarSurfaceStayTime | about 33 hours ⓘ |
| missionDuration | 9 days 2 hours 56 minutes ⓘ |
| missionType | crewed lunar landing ⓘ |
| notableFor |
extensive use of Modular Equipment Transporter (MET)
ⓘ
first successful lunar landing after Apollo 13 accident ⓘ precision lunar landing in rugged terrain ⓘ |
| objective |
collect lunar rock and soil samples
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conduct extensive lunar surface exploration ⓘ deploy scientific experiments on lunar surface ⓘ perform precision lunar landing at Fra Mauro ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| precededBy | Apollo 13 ⓘ |
| program | Apollo program ⓘ |
| returnToEarthDate | 1971-02-09 ⓘ |
| spacecraftType |
Apollo command and service module
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surface form:
Apollo CSM and LM
|
| splashdownLocation | Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| splashdownRecoveryShip | USS New Orleans ⓘ |
| totalEVAOnMoonDuration | about 9 hours 24 minutes ⓘ |
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: Apollo 14 Description of subject: Apollo 14 was NASA’s 1971 crewed mission that successfully returned astronauts to the Moon, notable for precision lunar landing and extensive surface exploration following the Apollo 13 accident.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Apollo 14 astronauts
this entity surface form:
Apollo 14 crew