Runway 15, Shuttle Landing Facility
E749106
Runway 15 at the Shuttle Landing Facility is one of NASA’s primary concrete runways at Kennedy Space Center, used for Space Shuttle landings and other aerospace operations.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Runway 33, Shuttle Landing Facility | 2 |
| Runway 15, KSC | 1 |
| Runway 15, Shuttle Landing Facility canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8674126 — 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: Runway 15, Shuttle Landing Facility Context triple: [STS-51-C, landingSite, Runway 15, Shuttle Landing Facility]
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A.
Runway 5
Runway 5 is an airport runway designation indicating an approximate magnetic heading of 50 degrees, typically used when runway numbers are updated to reflect shifts in Earth’s magnetic variation.
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B.
Runway 4
Runway 4 is one end of a bidirectional airport runway, typically aligned toward a magnetic heading of approximately 040 degrees.
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C.
Runway 14/32
Runway 14/32 is a primary paved runway at Bern Airport in Switzerland, used for both commercial and general aviation operations.
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D.
Runway 14/32
Runway 14/32 is a primary paved runway at Buffalo Niagara International Airport used for commercial and general aviation takeoffs and landings under varying wind and weather conditions.
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E.
Runway 14/32
Runway 14/32 is a primary paved runway at Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa, California, used for general aviation and commercial flights.
- 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: Runway 15, Shuttle Landing Facility Target entity description: Runway 15 at the Shuttle Landing Facility is one of NASA’s primary concrete runways at Kennedy Space Center, used for Space Shuttle landings and other aerospace operations.
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A.
Runway 5
Runway 5 is an airport runway designation indicating an approximate magnetic heading of 50 degrees, typically used when runway numbers are updated to reflect shifts in Earth’s magnetic variation.
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B.
Runway 4
Runway 4 is one end of a bidirectional airport runway, typically aligned toward a magnetic heading of approximately 040 degrees.
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C.
Runway 14/32
Runway 14/32 is a primary paved runway at Bern Airport in Switzerland, used for both commercial and general aviation operations.
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D.
Runway 14/32
Runway 14/32 is a primary paved runway at Buffalo Niagara International Airport used for commercial and general aviation takeoffs and landings under varying wind and weather conditions.
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E.
Runway 14/32
Runway 14/32 is a primary paved runway at Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa, California, used for general aviation and commercial flights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aerospace infrastructure
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runway ⓘ |
| associatedWithAgency |
NASA Kennedy Space Center
ⓘ
linked to:
Kennedy Space Center
|
| associatedWithProgram |
Space Shuttle program
ⓘ
linked to:
NASA Space Shuttle program
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasAccessControl | restricted access ⓘ |
| hasApproachDirection | from the northwest toward the southeast ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructureType | runway for unpowered spacecraft landings ⓘ |
| hasOrientation | approximately 150 degrees magnetic heading ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryUser | NASA Kennedy Space Center operations ⓘ |
| hasRunwayDesignation | 15 ⓘ |
| isParallelTo |
Runway 33, Shuttle Landing Facility
ⓘ
linked to:
Runway 15, Shuttle Landing Facility
|
| isPrimaryRunwayOf | Shuttle Landing Facility ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brevard County, Florida
ⓘ
linked to:
Brevard County
Kennedy Space Center ⓘ Merritt Island ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| ownedBy | NASA ⓘ |
| partOf |
NASA Kennedy Space Center launch and landing infrastructure
ⓘ
Shuttle Landing Facility ⓘ |
| sharesPhysicalStripWith |
Runway 33, Shuttle Landing Facility
ⓘ
linked to:
Runway 15, Shuttle Landing Facility
|
| surfaceType | concrete ⓘ |
| usedBy |
orbiter vehicles of the Space Shuttle program
ⓘ
research aircraft ⓘ test aircraft ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Space Shuttle landings
ⓘ
aerospace operations ⓘ landing operations ⓘ research flights ⓘ test flights ⓘ |
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: Runway 15, Shuttle Landing Facility Description of subject: Runway 15 at the Shuttle Landing Facility is one of NASA’s primary concrete runways at Kennedy Space Center, used for Space Shuttle landings and other aerospace operations.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Space Shuttle mission STS-51-C
linked to: Runway 15, Shuttle Landing Facility
Runway 15, Shuttle Landing Facility
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sharesPhysicalStripWith
→
Runway 33, Shuttle Landing Facility
ⓘ
linked to: Runway 15, Shuttle Landing Facility
linked to: Runway 15, Shuttle Landing Facility