Long March 3B
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Long March 3B is a Chinese heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle primarily used to place communications and navigation satellites into geostationary transfer orbit.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Long March 3B canonical | 10 |
| Chang Zheng 3B | 1 |
| Long March 3B/E | 1 |
| Long March 3B/G2 | 1 |
| Long March 3B/G3 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7922836 — 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 3B Context triple: [Xichang Satellite Launch Center, launchVehicleUsed, Long March 3B]
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A.
Long March 3
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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B.
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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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 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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E.
Long March 2C
Long March 2C is a Chinese two-stage orbital launch vehicle used primarily to place satellites into low Earth 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: Long March 3B Target entity description: Long March 3B is a Chinese heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle primarily used to place communications and navigation satellites into geostationary transfer orbit.
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A.
Long March 3
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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B.
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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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 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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E.
Long March 2C
Long March 2C is a Chinese two-stage orbital launch vehicle used primarily to place satellites into low Earth orbit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Long March rocket
ⓘ
expendable launch system ⓘ orbital launch vehicle ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
CZ-3B
ⓘ
Chang Zheng 3B ⓘ
linked to:
Long March 3B
|
| configuration | three-core first stage with four strap-on boosters ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| developedBy | China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology ⓘ |
| fairingType | payload fairing for large communications satellites ⓘ |
| family | Long March ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 1996-02-14 ⓘ |
| firstFlightSite | Xichang Satellite Launch Center ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Long March 3B/E
ⓘ
linked to:
Long March 3B
Long March 3B/G2 ⓘ
linked to:
Long March 3B
Long March 3B/G3 ⓘ
linked to:
Long March 3B
|
| introduced | 1996 ⓘ |
| launchAzimuth | geostationary transfer orbit trajectories from Xichang ⓘ |
| launchCapability |
geostationary transfer orbit
ⓘ
low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| launchesFrom |
Launch Complex 2 at Xichang Satellite Launch Center
ⓘ
linked to:
Xichang Satellite Launch Center
Launch Complex 3 at Xichang Satellite Launch Center ⓘ
linked to:
Xichang Satellite Launch Center
|
| launchProfile | ascent to parking orbit followed by GTO transfer burn ⓘ |
| launchServiceProvider | China Great Wall Industry Corporation ⓘ |
| launchSite | Xichang Satellite Launch Center ⓘ |
| manufacturer | China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology ⓘ |
| marketedAs | heavy-lift GTO launcher ⓘ |
| notableAccident | Xichang launch failure on 1996-02-15 ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
China National Space Administration
ⓘ
China Satellite Launch and Tracking Control General ⓘ |
| orbitTypesSupported |
GTO
ⓘ
LEO ⓘ MEO ⓘ |
| partOf |
Long March 3 rocket family
ⓘ
linked to:
Long March 3
|
| primaryUse |
communications satellite launches
ⓘ
geostationary transfer orbit launches ⓘ navigation satellite launches ⓘ |
| propellantFirstStage | dinitrogen tetroxide and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine ⓘ |
| propellantSecondStage | dinitrogen tetroxide and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine ⓘ |
| propellantThirdStage | liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Long March 3C ⓘ |
| stages | 3 ⓘ |
| status | operational ⓘ |
| successorTo | Long March 3A ⓘ |
| technology |
cryogenic third stage
ⓘ
storable hypergolic first and second stages ⓘ |
| usedBy | Chinese space program ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Beidou navigation satellite launches
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commercial satellite launches ⓘ communications satellite launches for domestic operators ⓘ |
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 3B Description of subject: Long March 3B is a Chinese heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle primarily used to place communications and navigation satellites into geostationary transfer orbit.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Long March 3B