DSS-25
E570561
DSS-25 is a large, high-gain radio antenna at NASA’s Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex used for tracking and communicating with interplanetary spacecraft.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DSS-25 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6125290 — 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: DSS-25 Context triple: [Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, hasAntenna, DSS-25]
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A.
DSS
DSS is the IATA airport code for Blaise Diagne International Airport, the main international gateway serving Dakar, Senegal.
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B.
DSS
DSS is the abbreviated name of the Securitate, the notorious secret police service of Communist Romania.
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C.
D-2
D-2 was a 1993 German-led Spacelab space shuttle mission focused on microgravity and life sciences research in low Earth orbit.
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D.
LDSS-2
LDSS-2 is an earlier-generation astronomical imaging spectrograph that was later replaced by the more advanced LDSS3 instrument.
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E.
D22
D22 is the second-generation Nissan Navara (also known as the Nissan Frontier in some markets), a compact pickup truck platform produced from the late 1990s into the 2000s.
- 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: DSS-25 Target entity description: DSS-25 is a large, high-gain radio antenna at NASA’s Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex used for tracking and communicating with interplanetary spacecraft.
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A.
DSS
DSS is the IATA airport code for Blaise Diagne International Airport, the main international gateway serving Dakar, Senegal.
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B.
DSS
DSS is the abbreviated name of the Securitate, the notorious secret police service of Communist Romania.
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C.
D-2
D-2 was a 1993 German-led Spacelab space shuttle mission focused on microgravity and life sciences research in low Earth orbit.
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D.
LDSS-2
LDSS-2 is an earlier-generation astronomical imaging spectrograph that was later replaced by the more advanced LDSS3 instrument.
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E.
D22
D22 is the second-generation Nissan Navara (also known as the Nissan Frontier in some markets), a compact pickup truck platform produced from the late 1990s into the 2000s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA ground station asset
ⓘ
deep space communications antenna ⓘ radio antenna ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Goldstone Solar System Radar
ⓘ
linked to:
Deep Space Network
Mars missions ⓘ outer planet missions ⓘ |
| communicationRange | interplanetary distances ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| frequencyBand |
Ka-band
ⓘ
X-band ⓘ |
| hasAntennaType | high-gain antenna ⓘ |
| hasCapability |
long-distance space communication
ⓘ
precise spacecraft tracking ⓘ |
| hasEnvironment | desert ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
deep space communications
ⓘ
receiving spacecraft telemetry ⓘ tracking interplanetary spacecraft ⓘ transmitting commands to spacecraft ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Goldstone, California
ⓘ
Mojave Desert ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Fort Irwin Military Reservation
ⓘ
linked to:
Fort Irwin National Training Center
|
| maintainedBy | Jet Propulsion Laboratory ⓘ |
| memberOf |
NASA Deep Space Network
ⓘ
linked to:
Deep Space Network
|
| networkDesignation | Deep Space Station 25 ⓘ |
| operator |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
ⓘ
NASA ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
United States Government
ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
|
| partOf |
Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex
ⓘ
Goldstone antenna array ⓘ Goldstone complex 34-km radio quiet zone ⓘ
linked to:
Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex
|
| supports |
planetary exploration missions
ⓘ
spacecraft cruise phases ⓘ spacecraft encounter phases ⓘ |
| usedFor |
interplanetary mission support
ⓘ
navigation of deep space probes ⓘ radio science experiments ⓘ |
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: DSS-25 Description of subject: DSS-25 is a large, high-gain radio antenna at NASA’s Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex used for tracking and communicating with interplanetary spacecraft.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.