Palapa B1
E673866
Palapa B1 was an Indonesian communications satellite that formed part of the early Palapa series used to provide domestic and regional telecommunications services.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Palapa B1 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7574532 — 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: Palapa B1 Context triple: [Palapa B2, precededBy, Palapa B1]
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A.
Palapa B2
Palapa B2 was an Indonesian communications satellite launched in 1984 that infamously failed to reach its proper orbit and was later retrieved and returned to Earth by a Space Shuttle mission.
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B.
Diccionario del estudiante
Diccionario del estudiante is a Spanish-language dictionary created by the Royal Spanish Academy specifically tailored to the needs and usage of students.
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C.
PEP
PEP is the stock ticker symbol for PepsiCo, the multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation traded on the NASDAQ.
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D.
B1
B1 is the internal designation for the first-generation Volkswagen Passat, a mid-size family car introduced in the early 1970s.
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E.
Pukapuka
Pukapuka is a remote, culturally distinctive coral atoll in the northern Cook Islands known for its traditional Polynesian lifestyle and unique language dialect.
- 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: Palapa B1 Target entity description: Palapa B1 was an Indonesian communications satellite that formed part of the early Palapa series used to provide domestic and regional telecommunications services.
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A.
Palapa B2
Palapa B2 was an Indonesian communications satellite launched in 1984 that infamously failed to reach its proper orbit and was later retrieved and returned to Earth by a Space Shuttle mission.
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B.
Diccionario del estudiante
Diccionario del estudiante is a Spanish-language dictionary created by the Royal Spanish Academy specifically tailored to the needs and usage of students.
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C.
PEP
PEP is the stock ticker symbol for PepsiCo, the multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation traded on the NASDAQ.
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D.
B1
B1 is the internal designation for the first-generation Volkswagen Passat, a mid-size family car introduced in the early 1970s.
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E.
Pukapuka
Pukapuka is a remote, culturally distinctive coral atoll in the northern Cook Islands known for its traditional Polynesian lifestyle and unique language dialect.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artificial satellite
ⓘ
communications satellite ⓘ |
| application | communications ⓘ |
| callsign | Palapa B1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOperator | Indonesia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coverageArea |
Asia-Pacific region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Indonesia NERFINISHED ⓘ Southeast Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Palapa B2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| launchDate |
18 June 1983
ⓘ
1983-06-18 ⓘ |
| launchMass | approximately 1220 kilograms ⓘ |
| launchSite | Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A ⓘ |
| launchSiteCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchVehicle |
STS-7
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Space Shuttle Challenger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Hughes Aircraft Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionType | communications ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Palapa oath ⓘ |
| operator | Perumtel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatorCountry | Indonesia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbitLongitude | 113 degrees East ⓘ |
| orbitRegime | geosynchronous ⓘ |
| orbitType | geostationary orbit ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Government of Indonesia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | early Palapa series ⓘ |
| powerSource | solar cells ⓘ |
| precededBy | Palapa A2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| program | Palapa satellite program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose |
domestic telecommunications
ⓘ
regional telecommunications ⓘ |
| series | Palapa B series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | 1983 ⓘ |
| spacecraftBus | HS-376 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacecraftType | Palapa B communications satellite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stabilization | spin-stabilized ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| transponderBand | C-band ⓘ |
| usedFor |
data communications
ⓘ
telephone services ⓘ television distribution ⓘ |
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: Palapa B1 Description of subject: Palapa B1 was an Indonesian communications satellite that formed part of the early Palapa series used to provide domestic and regional telecommunications services.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.