Apollo 11 mission team

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NASA mission team project team spaceflight mission team

The Apollo 11 mission team was the group of NASA astronauts, engineers, and support personnel responsible for carrying out the first successful manned Moon landing in 1969.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Apollo 11 flight crew	1
Apollo 11 mission team canonical	1
The Apollo 11 astronauts	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6286403 — 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 11 mission team
Context triple: [Collier Trophy, notableRecipient, Apollo 11 mission team]

A. NASA Astronaut Group 1
NASA Astronaut Group 1 was the original group of seven U.S. astronauts selected in 1959, known as the Mercury Seven, who pioneered America’s first human spaceflights.
B. NASA Astronaut Group 6
NASA Astronaut Group 6 was a 1967 class of NASA astronauts that included several future Apollo lunar mission crew members.
C. NASA Astronaut Group 5
NASA Astronaut Group 5 was a 1966 class of American astronauts that provided many of the crew members for later Apollo lunar missions and early Skylab flights.
D. NASA Astronaut Group 3
NASA Astronaut Group 3 was a 1963 class of American astronauts whose members went on to play key roles in the Apollo lunar missions and later U.S. space programs.
E. NASA Astronaut Group 2
NASA Astronaut Group 2 was the second cohort of American astronauts, selected in 1962, that provided many of the key crew members for the Apollo 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 11 mission team
Target entity description: The Apollo 11 mission team was the group of NASA astronauts, engineers, and support personnel responsible for carrying out the first successful manned Moon landing in 1969.

A. NASA Astronaut Group 1
NASA Astronaut Group 1 was the original group of seven U.S. astronauts selected in 1959, known as the Mercury Seven, who pioneered America’s first human spaceflights.
B. NASA Astronaut Group 6
NASA Astronaut Group 6 was a 1967 class of NASA astronauts that included several future Apollo lunar mission crew members.
C. NASA Astronaut Group 5
NASA Astronaut Group 5 was a 1966 class of American astronauts that provided many of the crew members for later Apollo lunar missions and early Skylab flights.
D. NASA Astronaut Group 3
NASA Astronaut Group 3 was a 1963 class of American astronauts whose members went on to play key roles in the Apollo lunar missions and later U.S. space programs.
E. NASA Astronaut Group 2
NASA Astronaut Group 2 was the second cohort of American astronauts, selected in 1962, that provided many of the key crew members for the Apollo lunar missions.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (68)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	NASA mission team ⓘ project team ⓘ spaceflight mission team ⓘ
basedIn	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
employer	NASA ⓘ
endTime	1969-07-24 ⓘ
field	aerospace engineering ⓘ human spaceflight ⓘ mission operations ⓘ
hasComponent	Apollo 11 flight crew ⓘ linked to: Apollo 11 mission team Mission Control Center flight controllers ⓘ linked to: NASA Mission Control engineering and design teams ⓘ launch operations team ⓘ recovery team ⓘ
hasMember	Alan Shepard ⓘ Buzz Aldrin ⓘ Charles Berry ⓘ Charles Duke ⓘ linked to: Charles M. Duke Jr. Christopher C. Kraft Jr. ⓘ Cliff Charlesworth ⓘ Deke Slayton ⓘ Ed Fendell ⓘ Frank Borman ⓘ Fred Haise ⓘ Gene Kranz ⓘ George Low ⓘ linked to: George Low Jr. Glynn Lunney ⓘ Gordon Cooper ⓘ Guenter Wendt ⓘ Jack Garman ⓘ James A. McDivitt ⓘ James E. Webb ⓘ Jay Greene ⓘ Jerry Bostick ⓘ Jim Lovell ⓘ JoAnn Morgan ⓘ John Young ⓘ Katherine Johnson ⓘ Ken Mattingly ⓘ Margaret Hamilton ⓘ Max Faget ⓘ linked to: Maxime A. Faget Michael Collins ⓘ Neil Armstrong ⓘ linked to: Neil A. Armstrong Pete Conrad ⓘ Robert Gilruth ⓘ linked to: Robert R. Gilruth Rocco Petrone ⓘ Steve Bales ⓘ Thomas O. Paine ⓘ Wernher von Braun ⓘ engineering teams at Manned Spacecraft Center ⓘ engineering teams at Marshall Space Flight Center ⓘ launch operations personnel at Kennedy Space Center ⓘ support personnel at Mission Control Center, Houston ⓘ
hasRole	conduct first successful crewed Moon landing ⓘ
location	Kennedy Space Center, Florida ⓘ linked to: Kennedy Space Center Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas ⓘ linked to: Johnson Space Center Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama ⓘ linked to: Marshall Space Flight Center Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas ⓘ linked to: Johnson Space Center
mission	Apollo 11 ⓘ
notableAchievement	supported first crewed landing on the Moon ⓘ supported safe return of Apollo 11 crew to Earth ⓘ
operatedBy	NASA ⓘ
partOf	Apollo 11 ⓘ
startTime	1969-07-16 ⓘ
uses	Apollo Command and Service Module ⓘ linked to: Apollo command and service module Apollo Lunar Module Eagle ⓘ linked to: Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle Saturn V launch vehicle ⓘ linked to: Saturn V

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Collier Trophy → notableRecipient → Apollo 11 mission team ⓘ

National Geographic Society Hubbard Medal → notableRecipient → The Apollo 11 astronauts ⓘ

linked to: Apollo 11 mission team

Apollo 11 mission team → hasComponent → Apollo 11 flight crew ⓘ