Long March 7
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Long March 7 is a Chinese medium-lift launch vehicle designed primarily to deliver cargo spacecraft and components for China’s crewed space program into orbit.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Long March 7 canonical | 10 |
| Long March 7A | 2 |
| Long March 7 launch vehicle | 1 |
| Long March 7 launch vehicles | 1 |
| derived from Long March 7 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7871248 — 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: Long March 7 Context triple: [China Manned Space Agency, usesLaunchVehicle, Long March 7]
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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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B.
Long March 6
Long March 6 is a Chinese small-lift orbital launch vehicle designed for rapid, cost-effective deployment of satellites into low Earth orbit.
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C.
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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D.
Long March 4C
Long March 4C is a Chinese three-stage orbital launch vehicle used primarily to place satellites into sun-synchronous and low Earth orbits.
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E.
Long March 4B
Long March 4B is a Chinese three-stage orbital launch vehicle used primarily to place satellites into sun-synchronous and low Earth orbits.
- 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 7 Target entity description: Long March 7 is a Chinese medium-lift launch vehicle designed primarily to deliver cargo spacecraft and components for China’s crewed space program into orbit.
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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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B.
Long March 6
Long March 6 is a Chinese small-lift orbital launch vehicle designed for rapid, cost-effective deployment of satellites into low Earth orbit.
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C.
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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D.
Long March 4C
Long March 4C is a Chinese three-stage orbital launch vehicle used primarily to place satellites into sun-synchronous and low Earth orbits.
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E.
Long March 4B
Long March 4B is a Chinese three-stage orbital launch vehicle used primarily to place satellites into sun-synchronous and low Earth orbits.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
medium-lift launch vehicle
ⓘ
orbital launch vehicle ⓘ |
| boosterEngineType | YF-100 ⓘ |
| configuration | two-stage core with strap-on boosters ⓘ |
| coreStageEngineType | YF-100 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| designer | China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology ⓘ |
| developmentGoal | use of non-toxic, non-hypergolic propellants ⓘ |
| fairingDiameter | about 4.2 m ⓘ |
| familyVariant |
Long March 7A
ⓘ
linked to:
Long March 7
|
| firstFlightDate | 2016-06-25 ⓘ |
| firstFlightLocation |
Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site
ⓘ
linked to:
Wenchang Space Launch Site
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| firstPayload | Yuanzheng-1A upper stage and small satellites ⓘ |
| firstStagePropellant | kerosene (RP-1) and liquid oxygen ⓘ |
| fuelType | kerosene ⓘ |
| intendedOrbit |
low Earth orbit
ⓘ
sun-synchronous orbit ⓘ |
| isExpendable | true ⓘ |
| launchAzimuthRange | inclinations suitable from Wenchang coastal site ⓘ |
| launchPad |
Launch Complex 201 at Wenchang
ⓘ
linked to:
Wenchang Space Launch Site
|
| launchSite |
Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site
ⓘ
linked to:
Wenchang Space Launch Site
|
| launchVehicleRole | replacement for some Long March 2F and Long March 3 series missions ⓘ |
| manufacturer | China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology ⓘ |
| nationalDesignation | CZ-7 ⓘ |
| NATOReportingName | Long March 7 ⓘ |
| numberOfStages | 2 ⓘ |
| operator | China National Space Administration ⓘ |
| oxidizer | liquid oxygen ⓘ |
| partOf |
Long March rocket family
ⓘ
linked to:
Long March launch vehicles
|
| payloadToLEO | approximately 13,500 kg ⓘ |
| payloadToSSO | approximately 5,500–7,000 kg ⓘ |
| primaryMission |
cargo resupply to Chinese space station
ⓘ
launch of Tianzhou cargo spacecraft ⓘ |
| propellantType | liquid ⓘ |
| secondStageEngineType | YF-115 ⓘ |
| secondStagePropellant | kerosene (RP-1) and liquid oxygen ⓘ |
| status | active ⓘ |
| strapOnBoosters | 4 ⓘ |
| successfullyLaunchedSpacecraft |
Tianzhou-1
ⓘ
linked to:
Tianzhou cargo spacecraft
Tianzhou-2 ⓘ
linked to:
Tianzhou cargo spacecraft
Tianzhou-3 ⓘ
linked to:
Tianzhou cargo spacecraft
Tianzhou-4 ⓘ
linked to:
Tianzhou cargo spacecraft
Tianzhou-5 ⓘ
linked to:
Tianzhou cargo spacecraft
Tianzhou-6 ⓘ
linked to:
Tianzhou cargo spacecraft
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| successorTo | earlier hypergolic Long March cargo launchers ⓘ |
| usedBy | Chinese space station logistics program ⓘ |
| usedFor | China’s crewed space program ⓘ |
| usedForSpaceStation | Tiangong space station ⓘ |
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 7 Description of subject: Long March 7 is a Chinese medium-lift launch vehicle designed primarily to deliver cargo spacecraft and components for China’s crewed space program into orbit.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Long March 8 (some missions)
linked to: Long March 7
linked to: Long March 7
linked to: Long March 7
linked to: Long March 7
linked to: Long March 7