Morelos I
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Morelos I was Mexico’s first communications satellite, launched in 1985 to provide telephone, television, and data services across the country.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Morelos I canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5853846 — 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: Morelos I Context triple: [STS-51-G, deployedSatellite, Morelos I]
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A.
Morelos
Morelos is a small, landlocked state in south-central Mexico known for its warm climate, historical sites, and proximity to Mexico City.
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B.
Vicente Guerrero
Vicente Guerrero was a key Mexican revolutionary leader and later president who played a crucial role in securing Mexico’s independence from Spain.
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C.
José María Morelos y Pavón
José María Morelos y Pavón was a Mexican Roman Catholic priest and revolutionary leader who became one of the foremost commanders and strategists of the Mexican War of Independence.
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D.
José Joaquín de Iturbide
José Joaquín de Iturbide was the son of Agustín de Iturbide, the Mexican military leader and briefly emperor who played a key role in Mexico’s independence.
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E.
José Victoriano
José Victoriano was the birth name of Juan Gris, the influential Spanish painter and key figure in the development of Cubism.
- 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: Morelos I Target entity description: Morelos I was Mexico’s first communications satellite, launched in 1985 to provide telephone, television, and data services across the country.
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A.
Morelos
Morelos is a small, landlocked state in south-central Mexico known for its warm climate, historical sites, and proximity to Mexico City.
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B.
Vicente Guerrero
Vicente Guerrero was a key Mexican revolutionary leader and later president who played a crucial role in securing Mexico’s independence from Spain.
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C.
José María Morelos y Pavón
José María Morelos y Pavón was a Mexican Roman Catholic priest and revolutionary leader who became one of the foremost commanders and strategists of the Mexican War of Independence.
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D.
José Joaquín de Iturbide
José Joaquín de Iturbide was the son of Agustín de Iturbide, the Mexican military leader and briefly emperor who played a key role in Mexico’s independence.
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E.
José Victoriano
José Victoriano was the birth name of Juan Gris, the influential Spanish painter and key figure in the development of Cubism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artificial satellite
ⓘ
communications satellite ⓘ |
| belongsToProgram | Morelos satellite system ⓘ |
| countryOfOperator | Mexico ⓘ |
| coverageArea | Mexico ⓘ |
| firstOf | first Mexican communications satellite ⓘ |
| followedBy | Morelos II ⓘ |
| launchCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| launchDate | 1985 ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Kennedy Space Center
ⓘ
Launch Complex 39 ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Space Shuttle Challenger ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Hughes Aircraft Company ⓘ |
| missionType | communications ⓘ |
| operator |
Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes
ⓘ
Telecomunicaciones de México ⓘ |
| orbitType | geostationary orbit ⓘ |
| providesServiceFor |
data communications in Mexico
ⓘ
telephone network of Mexico ⓘ television distribution in Mexico ⓘ |
| purpose |
data transmission services
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telephone services ⓘ television services ⓘ |
| satelliteBus | HS-376 ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
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: Morelos I Description of subject: Morelos I was Mexico’s first communications satellite, launched in 1985 to provide telephone, television, and data services across the country.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.