NOAA-17
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NOAA-17 was a U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration polar-orbiting weather satellite used for global environmental monitoring and forecasting.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8378597 — 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: NOAA-17 Context triple: [Polar Operational Environmental Satellites, notableSpacecraft, NOAA-17]
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A.
NOAA-11
NOAA-11 was a U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather satellite that provided global atmospheric and environmental data from a polar orbit.
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B.
NOAA-10
NOAA-10 was a U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration polar-orbiting weather satellite used for global environmental monitoring and forecasting.
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C.
NOAA-21
NOAA-21 is a U.S. polar-orbiting weather and environmental satellite in the Joint Polar Satellite System, providing advanced atmospheric, oceanic, and climate observations for forecasting and research.
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D.
NOAA-14
NOAA-14 is a U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather satellite that provided polar-orbiting environmental observations for forecasting and climate monitoring.
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E.
NOAA-16
NOAA-16 was a U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration polar-orbiting weather satellite used for global environmental monitoring and forecasting.
- 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: NOAA-17 Target entity description: NOAA-17 was a U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration polar-orbiting weather satellite used for global environmental monitoring and forecasting.
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A.
NOAA-11
NOAA-11 was a U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather satellite that provided global atmospheric and environmental data from a polar orbit.
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B.
NOAA-10
NOAA-10 was a U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration polar-orbiting weather satellite used for global environmental monitoring and forecasting.
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C.
NOAA-21
NOAA-21 is a U.S. polar-orbiting weather and environmental satellite in the Joint Polar Satellite System, providing advanced atmospheric, oceanic, and climate observations for forecasting and research.
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D.
NOAA-14
NOAA-14 is a U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather satellite that provided polar-orbiting environmental observations for forecasting and climate monitoring.
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E.
NOAA-16
NOAA-16 was a U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration polar-orbiting weather satellite used for global environmental monitoring and forecasting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NOAA satellite
ⓘ
polar-orbiting satellite ⓘ weather satellite ⓘ |
| alternateName |
NOAA-M
ⓘ
linked to:
NOAA-17
|
| callSign | NOAA-17 ⓘ |
| carriedInstrument |
AMSU-A
ⓘ
linked to:
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A
AMSU-B ⓘ AVHRR/3 ⓘ
linked to:
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A ⓘ Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-B ⓘ Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer ⓘ HIRS/3 ⓘ
linked to:
HIRS
High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder ⓘ SBUV/2 ⓘ
linked to:
Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
SEM-2 ⓘ Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Radiometer-2 ⓘ Space Environment Monitor-2 ⓘ
linked to:
Space Environment Monitor
|
| COSPARId | 2002-032A ⓘ |
| countryOfOperator |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dataUsedFor |
atmospheric sounding
ⓘ
cloud cover analysis ⓘ numerical weather prediction ⓘ ozone monitoring ⓘ sea surface temperature monitoring ⓘ |
| deactivationDate | 2013-04-10 ⓘ |
| endOfMission | 2013-04-10 ⓘ |
| inclination | ~98.7 degrees ⓘ |
| launchCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| launchDate | 2002-06-24 ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Vandenberg Air Force Base
ⓘ
linked to:
Vandenberg Space Force Base
Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 2W ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Delta II ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Lockheed Martin ⓘ |
| missionStart | 2002-06-24 ⓘ |
| missionType |
environmental monitoring
ⓘ
meteorology ⓘ weather forecasting ⓘ |
| NORADId | 27453 ⓘ |
| operator |
NOAA
ⓘ
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ⓘ |
| orbitalPeriod | ~101 minutes ⓘ |
| orbitRegime | Low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| orbitType | Sun-synchronous orbit ⓘ |
| partOf |
U.S. civil operational meteorological satellite system
ⓘ
linked to:
Polar Operational Environmental Satellites
|
| program |
NOAA Polar Operational Environmental Satellites
ⓘ
linked to:
Polar Operational Environmental Satellites
POES ⓘ |
| purpose |
climate research support
ⓘ
global environmental monitoring ⓘ weather observation ⓘ |
| spacecraftBus |
TIROS-N bus
ⓘ
linked to:
TIROS-N
|
| successor | NOAA-18 ⓘ |
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: NOAA-17 Description of subject: NOAA-17 was a U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration polar-orbiting weather satellite used for global environmental monitoring and forecasting.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: NOAA-17