Chinese astronaut corps
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The Chinese astronaut corps is the group of taikonauts selected, trained, and deployed by China to crew its human spaceflight missions, including the Shenzhou program and the Tiangong space station.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Chinese astronaut corps canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7871249 — 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: Chinese astronaut corps Context triple: [China Manned Space Agency, supervises, Chinese astronaut corps]
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A.
NASA Astronaut Corps
The NASA Astronaut Corps is the group of highly trained astronauts who are selected, prepared, and assigned to crewed space missions for the United States space agency.
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B.
China Manned Space Agency
The China Manned Space Agency is the government body responsible for planning, developing, and operating China’s human spaceflight programs, including the Tiangong space station.
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C.
Sun Jiaolong
Sun Jiaolong is an actor known for appearing in the film "Special ID."
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D.
Chang’e lunar exploration program
The Chang’e lunar exploration program is China’s ongoing series of robotic missions aimed at orbiting, landing on, and returning samples from the Moon as part of its broader ambitions in space exploration.
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E.
JAXA Astronaut Group
The JAXA Astronaut Group is the corps of Japanese astronauts selected and trained by Japan’s space agency to fly on human spaceflight missions, including those to the International Space Station.
- 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: Chinese astronaut corps Target entity description: The Chinese astronaut corps is the group of taikonauts selected, trained, and deployed by China to crew its human spaceflight missions, including the Shenzhou program and the Tiangong space station.
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A.
NASA Astronaut Corps
The NASA Astronaut Corps is the group of highly trained astronauts who are selected, prepared, and assigned to crewed space missions for the United States space agency.
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B.
China Manned Space Agency
The China Manned Space Agency is the government body responsible for planning, developing, and operating China’s human spaceflight programs, including the Tiangong space station.
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C.
Sun Jiaolong
Sun Jiaolong is an actor known for appearing in the film "Special ID."
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D.
Chang’e lunar exploration program
The Chang’e lunar exploration program is China’s ongoing series of robotic missions aimed at orbiting, landing on, and returning samples from the Moon as part of its broader ambitions in space exploration.
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E.
JAXA Astronaut Group
The JAXA Astronaut Group is the corps of Japanese astronauts selected and trained by Japan’s space agency to fly on human spaceflight missions, including those to the International Space Station.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronaut corps
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space program organization ⓘ |
| associatedWithMission |
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 ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| hasRoleType |
payload specialist
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spacecraft commander ⓘ spaceflight engineer ⓘ |
| languageOfOperation | Chinese ⓘ |
| missionType |
low Earth orbit missions
ⓘ
space station expeditions ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Chen Dong
NERFINISHED
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Deng Qingming NERFINISHED ⓘ Fei Junlong NERFINISHED ⓘ Jing Haipeng NERFINISHED ⓘ Liu Boming NERFINISHED ⓘ Liu Yang NERFINISHED ⓘ Nie Haisheng NERFINISHED ⓘ Tang Hongbo NERFINISHED ⓘ Wang Yaping NERFINISHED ⓘ Yang Liwei NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhai Zhigang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
China Manned Space Agency
NERFINISHED
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People's Liberation Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | China Manned Space Program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryLaunchSite | Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
deployment of Chinese astronauts
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selection of Chinese astronauts ⓘ training of Chinese astronauts ⓘ |
| selectionCriteriaInclude |
military pilot background
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physical fitness ⓘ psychological suitability ⓘ technical expertise ⓘ |
| supportsProgram |
China's human spaceflight missions
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Shenzhou program NERFINISHED ⓘ Tiangong space station program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trainingIncludes |
extravehicular activity training
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microgravity adaptation ⓘ space station operations ⓘ spacecraft systems training ⓘ survival training ⓘ |
| usesDestination | Tiangong space station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesLaunchVehicle | Long March 2F NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesVehicle | Shenzhou spacecraft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Chinese astronaut corps Description of subject: The Chinese astronaut corps is the group of taikonauts selected, trained, and deployed by China to crew its human spaceflight missions, including the Shenzhou program and the Tiangong space station.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.