Long March 3
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Long March 3 is a Chinese three-stage orbital launch vehicle primarily used to place communications and navigation satellites into geostationary transfer orbit.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Long March 3 canonical | 1 |
| Long March 3A | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7922834 — 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 3 Context triple: [Xichang Satellite Launch Center, launchVehicleUsed, Long March 3]
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A.
Long March 2E
Long March 2E is a Chinese expendable orbital launch vehicle developed by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology and used primarily in the 1990s to place communications satellites into geostationary transfer orbit.
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B.
Long March 2C
Long March 2C is a Chinese two-stage orbital launch vehicle used primarily to place satellites into low Earth orbit.
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C.
Long March 4A
Long March 4A is a Chinese three-stage orbital launch vehicle used primarily to place satellites into sun-synchronous and low Earth orbits.
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D.
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.
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E.
Long March 2D
Long March 2D is a Chinese two-stage orbital launch vehicle primarily used to place satellites into low Earth and sun-synchronous 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 3 Target entity description: Long March 3 is a Chinese three-stage orbital launch vehicle primarily used to place communications and navigation satellites into geostationary transfer orbit.
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A.
Long March 2E
Long March 2E is a Chinese expendable orbital launch vehicle developed by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology and used primarily in the 1990s to place communications satellites into geostationary transfer orbit.
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B.
Long March 2C
Long March 2C is a Chinese two-stage orbital launch vehicle used primarily to place satellites into low Earth orbit.
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C.
Long March 4A
Long March 4A is a Chinese three-stage orbital launch vehicle used primarily to place satellites into sun-synchronous and low Earth orbits.
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D.
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.
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E.
Long March 2D
Long March 2D is a Chinese two-stage orbital launch vehicle primarily used to place satellites into low Earth and sun-synchronous orbits.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
expendable launch system
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launch vehicle ⓘ orbital launch vehicle ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| familyVariantOf | Long March 3 series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstStagePropellant | N2O4/UDMH ⓘ |
| launchConfiguration | three-stage configuration ⓘ |
| launchSite | Xichang Satellite Launch Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manufacturer | China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfStages | 3 ⓘ |
| operator |
China National Space Administration
NERFINISHED
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People's Republic of China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Long March rocket family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryPayloadType |
communications satellites
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navigation satellites ⓘ |
| primaryUse | placing satellites into geostationary transfer orbit ⓘ |
| propellantType | liquid propellant ⓘ |
| secondStagePropellant | N2O4/UDMH ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| successor |
Long March 3A
NERFINISHED
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Long March 3B NERFINISHED ⓘ Long March 3C NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| upperStageOxidizer | liquid oxygen ⓘ |
| upperStagePropellant | liquid hydrogen ⓘ |
| upperStageType | cryogenic upper stage ⓘ |
| usedFor |
geostationary communications satellite launches
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navigation satellite launches ⓘ |
| usedInProgram |
Chinese communications satellite program
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Chinese navigation satellite program ⓘ |
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 3 Description of subject: Long March 3 is a Chinese three-stage orbital launch vehicle primarily used to place communications and navigation satellites into geostationary transfer orbit.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Long March 3A