AsiaSat 1
E673868
AsiaSat 1 was a communications satellite serving the Asia-Pacific region, created by recovering and refurbishing the previously stranded Westar 6 satellite.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| AsiaSat 1 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7574570 — 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: AsiaSat 1 Context triple: [Westar 6 stranded in improper orbit, subsequentName, AsiaSat 1]
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A.
PALAPA B1 communications satellite
PALAPA B1 was an Indonesian communications satellite launched in the early 1980s to expand the country's domestic and regional telecommunications capabilities.
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B.
SBS-4 communications satellite
The SBS-4 communications satellite was a commercial telecommunications spacecraft operated by Satellite Business Systems to provide business-oriented communication services in North America.
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C.
ANIK C2 communications satellite
ANIK C2 is a Canadian commercial communications satellite used to provide telecommunications and broadcasting services.
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D.
GSAT-1
GSAT-1 is an Indian communications satellite that served as the inaugural payload for the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) program.
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E.
GSAT-19
GSAT-19 is an Indian high-throughput communications satellite designed to test next-generation technologies and significantly enhance the country’s data transmission capabilities.
- 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: AsiaSat 1 Target entity description: AsiaSat 1 was a communications satellite serving the Asia-Pacific region, created by recovering and refurbishing the previously stranded Westar 6 satellite.
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A.
PALAPA B1 communications satellite
PALAPA B1 was an Indonesian communications satellite launched in the early 1980s to expand the country's domestic and regional telecommunications capabilities.
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B.
SBS-4 communications satellite
The SBS-4 communications satellite was a commercial telecommunications spacecraft operated by Satellite Business Systems to provide business-oriented communication services in North America.
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C.
ANIK C2 communications satellite
ANIK C2 is a Canadian commercial communications satellite used to provide telecommunications and broadcasting services.
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D.
GSAT-1
GSAT-1 is an Indian communications satellite that served as the inaugural payload for the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) program.
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E.
GSAT-19
GSAT-19 is an Indian high-throughput communications satellite designed to test next-generation technologies and significantly enhance the country’s data transmission capabilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artificial satellite
ⓘ
communications satellite ⓘ geostationary communications satellite ⓘ |
| apogeeAltitude | geostationary altitude ⓘ |
| belongsToProgram | AsiaSat satellite fleet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| callSign | AsiaSat-1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfRegistry | Hong Kong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coverageArea |
Asia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Asia-Pacific region NERFINISHED ⓘ Pacific region ⓘ |
| deactivationYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| epochOfOperation | 1990s ⓘ |
| inclination | near-zero degrees ⓘ |
| launchContractor | China Great Wall Industry Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchCountry | China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1990-04-07 ⓘ |
| launchMass | approximately 1,200 kilograms ⓘ |
| launchSite | Xichang Satellite Launch Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Long March 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Hughes Aircraft Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionDuration | about 7 years ⓘ |
| missionType | communications ⓘ |
| notableFor | being created by recovering and refurbishing the stranded Westar 6 satellite ⓘ |
| operator |
Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
AsiaSat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbitType | geostationary orbit ⓘ |
| originalName | Westar 6 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| perigeeAltitude | geostationary altitude ⓘ |
| previousMissionName | Westar 6 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUseRegion |
East Asia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oceania NERFINISHED ⓘ Southeast Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recoveredFrom | Westar 6 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| refurbishedFrom | Westar 6 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed | Asia-Pacific ⓘ |
| sequenceInProgram | first satellite in the AsiaSat fleet ⓘ |
| serviceEntryYear | 1990 ⓘ |
| spacecraftBus | HS-376 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacecraftType | spin-stabilized satellite ⓘ |
| transponderBand | C-band ⓘ |
| usedFor |
data transmission
ⓘ
telecommunications ⓘ television broadcasting ⓘ |
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: AsiaSat 1 Description of subject: AsiaSat 1 was a communications satellite serving the Asia-Pacific region, created by recovering and refurbishing the previously stranded Westar 6 satellite.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.