Luna 8
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Luna 8 was a Soviet Luna program spacecraft launched in 1965 that attempted, but failed, to achieve a soft landing on the Moon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Luna 8 canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6675106 — 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: Luna 8 Context triple: [Luna 9, precededBy, Luna 8]
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A.
Luna 11
Luna 11 was a Soviet unmanned spacecraft from the Luna program, launched in 1966 to study the Moon from lunar orbit.
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B.
Luna 12
Luna 12 was a Soviet unmanned spacecraft launched in 1966 that successfully entered lunar orbit and returned detailed photographs of the Moon’s surface.
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C.
Luna 14
Luna 14 was a Soviet robotic spacecraft launched in 1968 to study the Moon’s gravitational field and test tracking and communication systems for future lunar missions.
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D.
Luna 10
Luna 10 was a Soviet spacecraft that became the first artificial satellite to orbit the Moon, marking a major milestone in early lunar exploration.
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E.
Luna 3
Luna 3 was a Soviet spacecraft launched in 1959 that became the first mission to photograph the far side of the Moon.
- 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: Luna 8 Target entity description: Luna 8 was a Soviet Luna program spacecraft launched in 1965 that attempted, but failed, to achieve a soft landing on the Moon.
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A.
Luna 11
Luna 11 was a Soviet unmanned spacecraft from the Luna program, launched in 1966 to study the Moon from lunar orbit.
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B.
Luna 12
Luna 12 was a Soviet unmanned spacecraft launched in 1966 that successfully entered lunar orbit and returned detailed photographs of the Moon’s surface.
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C.
Luna 14
Luna 14 was a Soviet robotic spacecraft launched in 1968 to study the Moon’s gravitational field and test tracking and communication systems for future lunar missions.
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D.
Luna 10
Luna 10 was a Soviet spacecraft that became the first artificial satellite to orbit the Moon, marking a major milestone in early lunar exploration.
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E.
Luna 3
Luna 3 was a Soviet spacecraft launched in 1959 that became the first mission to photograph the far side of the Moon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Luna program probe
ⓘ
Soviet spacecraft ⓘ uncrewed lunar lander spacecraft ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| destination | Moon ⓘ |
| epoch | early Space Race ⓘ |
| failureCause | malfunction in landing system ⓘ |
| failurePhase | descent phase ⓘ |
| finalState | impacted lunar surface ⓘ |
| followedBy | Luna 9 ⓘ |
| impactOutcome | crash landing on Moon ⓘ |
| impactWithSurface | Moon ⓘ |
| landingAttemptResult | failed soft landing ⓘ |
| landingStatus | unsuccessful ⓘ |
| languageOfProgram | Russian ⓘ |
| launchCountry | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1965-12-03 ⓘ |
| launchMass | approximately 1550 kg ⓘ |
| launchRocket |
Molniya-M
ⓘ
linked to:
Molniya-M rocket
|
| launchSite |
Baikonur Cosmodrome
ⓘ
Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31/6 ⓘ
linked to:
Baikonur Cosmodrome
|
| launchStatus | successfully launched ⓘ |
| launchVehicle |
Molniya-M 8K78M
ⓘ
linked to:
Molniya-M rocket
|
| launchYear | 1965 ⓘ |
| missionGoal | achieve first Soviet soft landing on the Moon ⓘ |
| missionOutcome | mission failure ⓘ |
| missionType | lunar soft-landing attempt ⓘ |
| operator | Soviet space program ⓘ |
| operatorType | government space agency ⓘ |
| partOf |
Luna program
ⓘ
linked to:
Luna programme
|
| periapsisTarget | low lunar orbit then descent ⓘ |
| powerSource |
chemical batteries
ⓘ
solar panels ⓘ |
| precededBy | Luna 7 ⓘ |
| program |
Luna program
ⓘ
linked to:
Luna programme
|
| programCountry | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| programObjective | uncrewed exploration of the Moon ⓘ |
| propulsionType | chemical propulsion ⓘ |
| scientificDiscipline |
lunar science
ⓘ
planetary science ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | Soviet Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| spacecraftBus | Ye-6 ⓘ |
| spacecraftConfiguration | descent stage and landing capsule ⓘ |
| spacecraftStatus | inactive ⓘ |
| spacecraftType | lunar lander ⓘ |
| targetBody | Moon ⓘ |
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: Luna 8 Description of subject: Luna 8 was a Soviet Luna program spacecraft launched in 1965 that attempted, but failed, to achieve a soft landing on the Moon.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.