Venera 15
E497611
Venera 15 was a Soviet spacecraft launched in 1983 that orbited Venus to conduct detailed radar mapping of the planet’s northern hemisphere.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Venera 15 canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4780831 — 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: Venera 15 Context triple: [Venera missions, spacecraftSeries, Venera 15]
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A.
Venera 14
Venera 14 was a Soviet space probe launched in 1981 that successfully landed on Venus, conducting experiments and transmitting data and images from the planet’s surface.
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B.
Venera 13
Venera 13 was a Soviet space probe that successfully landed on Venus in 1982, transmitting the first color images and extensive data from the planet’s surface.
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C.
Venera 9
Venera 9 was a Soviet spacecraft that became the first human-made probe to successfully return images from the surface of Venus.
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D.
Venera 11
Venera 11 was a Soviet space probe launched in 1978 as part of the Venera program to study Venus’s atmosphere and surface.
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E.
Venera 10
Venera 10 was a Soviet space probe that successfully orbited Venus and transmitted data from its surface as part of the USSR’s pioneering Venera program.
- 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: Venera 15 Target entity description: Venera 15 was a Soviet spacecraft launched in 1983 that orbited Venus to conduct detailed radar mapping of the planet’s northern hemisphere.
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A.
Venera 14
Venera 14 was a Soviet space probe launched in 1981 that successfully landed on Venus, conducting experiments and transmitting data and images from the planet’s surface.
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B.
Venera 13
Venera 13 was a Soviet space probe that successfully landed on Venus in 1982, transmitting the first color images and extensive data from the planet’s surface.
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C.
Venera 9
Venera 9 was a Soviet spacecraft that became the first human-made probe to successfully return images from the surface of Venus.
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D.
Venera 11
Venera 11 was a Soviet space probe launched in 1978 as part of the Venera program to study Venus’s atmosphere and surface.
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E.
Venera 10
Venera 10 was a Soviet space probe that successfully orbited Venus and transmitted data from its surface as part of the USSR’s pioneering Venera program.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Venus orbiter
ⓘ
spacecraft ⓘ |
| communicationBand | radio ⓘ |
| cosparId | 1983-053A ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| dataType |
altimetric data
ⓘ
radar images ⓘ |
| dataUser | planetary scientists ⓘ |
| discovererOrManufacturer |
Soviet space industry
ⓘ
linked to:
Soviet space program
|
| imagedSurfaceFeature |
Venusian impact craters
ⓘ
Venusian plains ⓘ Venusian volcanoes ⓘ |
| launchCountry | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1983-06-02 ⓘ |
| launchMass | approximately 4000 kilograms ⓘ |
| launchSite | Baikonur Cosmodrome ⓘ |
| launchVehicle |
Proton-K rocket
ⓘ
linked to:
Proton rocket
|
| mappedLatitudeRange | from about 30°N to the north pole ⓘ |
| mappedRegion | northern hemisphere of Venus ⓘ |
| missionEnd | mid-1980s ⓘ |
| missionOutcome | successful ⓘ |
| missionPartner | Venera 16 ⓘ |
| missionStart | 1983 ⓘ |
| missionType |
planetary orbiter
ⓘ
radar mapping mission ⓘ |
| notableFor | first detailed radar mapping of Venus northern hemisphere ⓘ |
| nssdcId | 1983-053A ⓘ |
| operationalStatus | mission completed ⓘ |
| operator | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| orbitingBody | Venus ⓘ |
| orbitType | polar orbit ⓘ |
| periapsisTarget | northern high latitudes of Venus ⓘ |
| powerSource | solar panels ⓘ |
| primaryObjective |
radar mapping of Venus
ⓘ
study of Venusian atmosphere and surface ⓘ |
| program |
Venera program
ⓘ
linked to:
Venera missions
|
| propulsionType | chemical propulsion ⓘ |
| radarFrequencyBand | X-band ⓘ |
| radarInstrument | synthetic aperture radar ⓘ |
| relatedMission | Venera 16 ⓘ |
| scientificDiscipline |
planetary science
ⓘ
radar astronomy ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | Soviet Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| spacecraftBus | Venera orbiter bus ⓘ |
| spacecraftConfiguration | three-axis stabilized ⓘ |
| target | Venus ⓘ |
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: Venera 15 Description of subject: Venera 15 was a Soviet spacecraft launched in 1983 that orbited Venus to conduct detailed radar mapping of the planet’s northern hemisphere.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.