Long March launch vehicles
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Long March launch vehicles are a family of Chinese expendable rockets that serve as the backbone of China’s space launch program for satellites, crewed missions, and deep-space probes.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Long March rocket family | 2 |
| Long March 11 rockets | 1 |
| Long March 2 rockets | 1 |
| Long March 3 rockets | 1 |
| Long March 4 rockets | 1 |
| Long March 6 rockets | 1 |
| Long March 7 rockets | 1 |
| Long March launch vehicles canonical | 1 |
| Long March rockets | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7922883 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Long March launch vehicles Context triple: [China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, manufactures, Long March launch vehicles]
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Long March 5
Long March 5 is a heavy-lift Chinese orbital launch vehicle developed by the China National Space Administration for deploying large payloads to Earth orbit and deep-space missions.
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Long March 5B
Long March 5B is a heavy-lift Chinese orbital launch vehicle primarily used to carry large modules and payloads for the country’s space station program.
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M-V rocket
The M-V rocket was a Japanese solid-fuel launch vehicle developed by JAXA (and its predecessors) primarily for launching scientific satellites and space probes, including deep-space missions like Hayabusa.
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Epsilon launch vehicle
The Epsilon launch vehicle is a Japanese solid-fuel rocket designed for cost-effective, small satellite launches into orbit.
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H3 launch vehicle
The H3 launch vehicle is Japan’s next-generation, expendable rocket designed to provide more flexible, cost-effective access to space for a wide range of satellite and mission payloads.
- 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: Long March launch vehicles Target entity description: Long March launch vehicles are a family of Chinese expendable rockets that serve as the backbone of China’s space launch program for satellites, crewed missions, and deep-space probes.
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A.
Long March 5
Long March 5 is a heavy-lift Chinese orbital launch vehicle developed by the China National Space Administration for deploying large payloads to Earth orbit and deep-space missions.
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B.
Long March 5B
Long March 5B is a heavy-lift Chinese orbital launch vehicle primarily used to carry large modules and payloads for the country’s space station program.
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C.
M-V rocket
The M-V rocket was a Japanese solid-fuel launch vehicle developed by JAXA (and its predecessors) primarily for launching scientific satellites and space probes, including deep-space missions like Hayabusa.
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D.
Epsilon launch vehicle
The Epsilon launch vehicle is a Japanese solid-fuel rocket designed for cost-effective, small satellite launches into orbit.
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E.
H3 launch vehicle
The H3 launch vehicle is Japan’s next-generation, expendable rocket designed to provide more flexible, cost-effective access to space for a wide range of satellite and mission payloads.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | family of expendable launch vehicles ⓘ |
| abbreviation | CZ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
CZ launch vehicles
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Chang Zheng launch vehicles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| backboneOf | Chinese space launch program ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| designPhilosophy | modular launch vehicle family ⓘ |
| developedBy | People's Republic of China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyMember |
Long March 1
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Long March 11 NERFINISHED ⓘ Long March 2C NERFINISHED ⓘ Long March 2D NERFINISHED ⓘ Long March 2F NERFINISHED ⓘ Long March 3A NERFINISHED ⓘ Long March 3B NERFINISHED ⓘ Long March 3C NERFINISHED ⓘ Long March 4B NERFINISHED ⓘ Long March 4C NERFINISHED ⓘ Long March 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ Long March 5B NERFINISHED ⓘ Long March 6 NERFINISHED ⓘ Long March 6A NERFINISHED ⓘ Long March 7 NERFINISHED ⓘ Long March 7A NERFINISHED ⓘ Long March 8 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstLaunchDate | 1970-04-24 ⓘ |
| firstVariant | Long March 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchSitesUsed |
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
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Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center NERFINISHED ⓘ Wenchang Space Launch Site NERFINISHED ⓘ Xichang Satellite Launch Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manufacturer | China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marketedBy | China Great Wall Industry Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Long March NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableMission |
Chang'e lunar missions
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Shenzhou crewed missions NERFINISHED ⓘ Tiangong space station module launches ⓘ Tianwen-1 Mars mission NERFINISHED ⓘ Tianzhou cargo spacecraft launches ⓘ |
| operator |
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
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China National Space Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryCustomer |
Chinese commercial satellite operators
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Chinese government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| propellantTypesUsed |
hypergolic propellants
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liquid oxygen and kerosene ⓘ liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen ⓘ solid propellant ⓘ |
| status | operational ⓘ |
| technologyType | expendable launch system ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Mars exploration missions
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commercial satellite launches ⓘ crewed spaceflight missions ⓘ deep-space probe launches ⓘ government payload launches ⓘ interplanetary missions ⓘ lunar exploration missions ⓘ military payload launches ⓘ satellite launches ⓘ space station logistics ⓘ |
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: Long March launch vehicles Description of subject: Long March launch vehicles are a family of Chinese expendable rockets that serve as the backbone of China’s space launch program for satellites, crewed missions, and deep-space probes.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Long March rocket family
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
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Long March 2 rockets
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
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Long March launch vehicles
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Long March 3 rockets
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
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Long March launch vehicles
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this entity surface form:
Long March 4 rockets
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
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hasMajorProductLine
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Long March launch vehicles
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this entity surface form:
Long March 6 rockets
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
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hasMajorProductLine
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Long March launch vehicles
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this entity surface form:
Long March 7 rockets
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
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hasMajorProductLine
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Long March launch vehicles
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this entity surface form:
Long March 11 rockets
this entity surface form:
Long March rockets
this entity surface form:
Long March rocket family