Shenzhou crewed spacecraft
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The Shenzhou crewed spacecraft is China’s primary human spaceflight vehicle, used to transport taikonauts to low Earth orbit and support the nation’s long-term space station program.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shenzhou crewed spacecraft canonical | 3 |
| Shenzhou program | 3 |
| Shenzhou spacecraft | 1 |
| Shenzhou spacecraft (fictional use) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7871238 — 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: Shenzhou crewed spacecraft Context triple: [China Manned Space Agency, notableProject, Shenzhou crewed spacecraft]
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A.
Tianzhou cargo spacecraft
The Tianzhou cargo spacecraft is a Chinese automated freighter designed to deliver supplies, equipment, and fuel to support long-term operations of China’s Tiangong space station.
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B.
Shenzhou 12
Shenzhou 12 was a Chinese crewed spacecraft mission that carried three astronauts to the Tiangong space station as part of China’s expanding human spaceflight program.
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C.
Mengtian
Mengtian is a Chinese space laboratory module that forms part of the Tiangong space station, supporting scientific experiments and research in orbit.
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D.
Tiangong space station
The Tiangong space station is China’s modular, permanently crewed orbital outpost that serves as the centerpiece of its independent human spaceflight and research program in low Earth orbit.
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E.
Wentian
Wentian is a Chinese space laboratory module that serves as a key component of the Tiangong space station, providing additional research facilities, living space, and support systems for taikonauts in orbit.
- 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: Shenzhou crewed spacecraft Target entity description: The Shenzhou crewed spacecraft is China’s primary human spaceflight vehicle, used to transport taikonauts to low Earth orbit and support the nation’s long-term space station program.
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A.
Tianzhou cargo spacecraft
The Tianzhou cargo spacecraft is a Chinese automated freighter designed to deliver supplies, equipment, and fuel to support long-term operations of China’s Tiangong space station.
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B.
Shenzhou 12
Shenzhou 12 was a Chinese crewed spacecraft mission that carried three astronauts to the Tiangong space station as part of China’s expanding human spaceflight program.
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C.
Mengtian
Mengtian is a Chinese space laboratory module that forms part of the Tiangong space station, supporting scientific experiments and research in orbit.
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D.
Tiangong space station
The Tiangong space station is China’s modular, permanently crewed orbital outpost that serves as the centerpiece of its independent human spaceflight and research program in low Earth orbit.
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E.
Wentian
Wentian is a Chinese space laboratory module that serves as a key component of the Tiangong space station, providing additional research facilities, living space, and support systems for taikonauts in orbit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese space program asset
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crewed spacecraft ⓘ space vehicle ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| crewCapacity | 3 ⓘ |
| designInspiredBy | Soyuz spacecraft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| destinationOrbit | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| dockingSystem | Chinese androgynous docking system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstCrewedAstronaut | Yang Liwei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstCrewedFlight | Shenzhou 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstCrewedFlightDate | 2003-10-15 ⓘ |
| firstFlight | Shenzhou 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstFlightDate | 1999-11-19 ⓘ |
| hasModule |
orbital module
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reentry module ⓘ service module ⓘ |
| launchComplex | Launch Area 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchPad | Site 921 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchSite | Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Long March 2F NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manufacturer | China Academy of Space Technology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionDurationCapability |
up to about 20 days independent flight
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up to about 6 months docked to a space station ⓘ |
| notableMission |
Shenzhou 10
NERFINISHED
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Shenzhou 11 NERFINISHED ⓘ Shenzhou 12 NERFINISHED ⓘ Shenzhou 13 NERFINISHED ⓘ Shenzhou 14 NERFINISHED ⓘ Shenzhou 15 NERFINISHED ⓘ Shenzhou 16 NERFINISHED ⓘ Shenzhou 17 NERFINISHED ⓘ Shenzhou 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ Shenzhou 6 NERFINISHED ⓘ Shenzhou 7 NERFINISHED ⓘ Shenzhou 9 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator |
China Manned Space Agency
NERFINISHED
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China National Space Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | China’s long-term space station program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryMission |
human spaceflight to low Earth orbit
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support Chinese space station operations ⓘ transport taikonauts to space ⓘ |
| program |
China Manned Space Program
NERFINISHED
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Chinese human spaceflight program ⓘ |
| spaceAgency |
China Manned Space Agency
NERFINISHED
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China National Space Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | operational ⓘ |
| successorTo | uncrewed Chinese test spacecraft ⓘ |
| supportsProgram |
Chinese large modular space station
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Chinese space station program NERFINISHED ⓘ Tiangong space station NERFINISHED ⓘ Tiangong-1 NERFINISHED ⓘ Tiangong-2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
crew transport
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long-duration missions in low Earth orbit ⓘ orbital rendezvous and docking ⓘ space station crew rotation ⓘ spaceflight 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: Shenzhou crewed spacecraft Description of subject: The Shenzhou crewed spacecraft is China’s primary human spaceflight vehicle, used to transport taikonauts to low Earth orbit and support the nation’s long-term space station program.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Shenzhou program
this entity surface form:
Shenzhou program
this entity surface form:
Shenzhou program
this entity surface form:
Shenzhou spacecraft
this entity surface form:
Shenzhou spacecraft (fictional use)