Apollo 8
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Apollo 8 was the 1968 NASA mission that first carried humans into orbit around the Moon, marking a pivotal milestone in the space race and lunar exploration.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Apollo 8 canonical | 33 |
| Apollo 8 mission | 2 |
| Apollo 8 mission insignia | 1 |
| Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T363986 — 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 8 Context triple: [Apollo program, notableMission, Apollo 8]
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A.
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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B.
Apollo 14
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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C.
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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D.
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.
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E.
Apollo 15
Apollo 15 was a 1971 NASA crewed mission that conducted extended scientific exploration of the Moon, including the first use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the lunar surface.
- 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 8 Target entity description: Apollo 8 was the 1968 NASA mission that first carried humans into orbit around the Moon, marking a pivotal milestone in the space race and lunar exploration.
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A.
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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B.
Apollo 14
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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C.
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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D.
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.
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E.
Apollo 15
Apollo 15 was a 1971 NASA crewed mission that conducted extended scientific exploration of the Moon, including the first use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the lunar surface.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA Apollo program mission
ⓘ
crewed spaceflight mission ⓘ |
| apoapsisAltitudeMoon | approximately 312 kilometers ⓘ |
| backupCommander | Neil A. Armstrong ⓘ |
| backupCommandModulePilot |
Buzz Aldrin
ⓘ
surface form:
Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.
|
| backupLunarModulePilot |
Fred Haise
ⓘ
surface form:
Fred W. Haise Jr.
|
| broadcast | Christmas Eve 1968 television transmission from lunar orbit ⓘ |
| commander | Frank Borman ⓘ |
| commandModuleName | CSM-103 ⓘ |
| commandModulePilot |
Jim Lovell
ⓘ
surface form:
James A. Lovell Jr.
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crewMember |
Frank Borman
ⓘ
Jim Lovell ⓘ
surface form:
James A. Lovell Jr.
William Anders ⓘ
surface form:
William A. Anders
|
| crewSize | 3 ⓘ |
| Earthrise photograph | taken by William A. Anders ⓘ |
| famousEvent | reading from the Book of Genesis during Christmas Eve broadcast ⓘ |
| firsts |
first crewed launch of the Saturn V rocket
ⓘ
first crewed spacecraft to orbit the Moon ⓘ first humans to travel beyond low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| followedBy | Apollo 9 ⓘ |
| imageProduced | Earthrise photograph ⓘ |
| landingDate | 1968-12-27 ⓘ |
| landingSite | Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| launchComplex |
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
ⓘ
surface form:
Launch Complex 39A
|
| launchDate | 1968-12-21 ⓘ |
| launchSite | Kennedy Space Center ⓘ |
| launchTimeUTC | 12:51:00 ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Saturn V ⓘ |
| launchYear | 1968 ⓘ |
| lunarModulePilot |
William Anders
ⓘ
surface form:
William A. Anders
|
| lunarOrbitInsertionDate | 1968-12-24 ⓘ |
| missionDuration | 6 days 3 hours 0 minutes ⓘ |
| missionNumber | 8 ⓘ |
| missionType | lunar orbital mission ⓘ |
| objective |
to perform a crewed lunar orbital mission
ⓘ
to photograph potential Apollo landing sites on the Moon ⓘ to test navigation and communication in lunar orbit ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| orbitsOfMoon | 10 ⓘ |
| periapsisAltitudeMoon | approximately 111 kilometers ⓘ |
| precededBy | Apollo 7 ⓘ |
| program | Apollo program ⓘ |
| recoveryShip | USS Yorktown (CV-10) ⓘ |
| significance |
first human mission to leave Earth orbit and reach the Moon
ⓘ
major milestone in the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | NASA ⓘ |
| spacecraftName |
Apollo command and service module
ⓘ
surface form:
Apollo Command and Service Module 103
|
| spacecraftType |
Apollo command and service module
ⓘ
surface form:
Apollo CSM
|
| spaceRaceContext | conducted during the Cold War space race ⓘ |
| status | successful ⓘ |
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 8 Description of subject: Apollo 8 was the 1968 NASA mission that first carried humans into orbit around the Moon, marking a pivotal milestone in the space race and lunar exploration.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
subject surface form:
Launch Pad 39A
this entity surface form:
Apollo 8 mission insignia
subject surface form:
Earthrise
this entity surface form:
Apollo 8 mission
subject surface form:
Earthrise
subject surface form:
Saturn V
subject surface form:
Frank Borman
this entity surface form:
Apollo 8 mission