Shenzhou 13
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Shenzhou 13 was a Chinese crewed spacecraft mission to the Tiangong space station, notable for its six-month duration and inclusion of China’s first female astronaut to conduct a spacewalk.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shenzhou 13 canonical | 5 |
| Shenzhou 13 mission | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9890245 — 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: Shenzhou 13 Context triple: [Shenzhou 12, followedBy, Shenzhou 13]
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A.
Shenzhou 12
Shenzhou 12 was a Chinese crewed spacecraft mission that carried three astronauts to the Tiangong space station as part of China’s expanding human spaceflight program.
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B.
Shenzhou 11
Shenzhou 11 was a Chinese crewed spacecraft mission launched in 2016 that carried two astronauts to the Tiangong-2 space laboratory for China's then-longest human spaceflight.
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C.
Mengtian
Mengtian is a Chinese space laboratory module that forms part of the Tiangong space station, supporting scientific experiments and research in orbit.
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D.
Tiangong space station
The Tiangong space station is China’s modular, permanently crewed orbital outpost that serves as the centerpiece of its independent human spaceflight and research program in low Earth orbit.
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E.
Tiangong-2 space laboratory
Tiangong-2 space laboratory was China’s second prototype space station module, used to test key technologies for future modular space stations and support crewed and cargo missions in 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: Shenzhou 13 Target entity description: Shenzhou 13 was a Chinese crewed spacecraft mission to the Tiangong space station, notable for its six-month duration and inclusion of China’s first female astronaut to conduct a spacewalk.
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A.
Shenzhou 12
Shenzhou 12 was a Chinese crewed spacecraft mission that carried three astronauts to the Tiangong space station as part of China’s expanding human spaceflight program.
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B.
Shenzhou 11
Shenzhou 11 was a Chinese crewed spacecraft mission launched in 2016 that carried two astronauts to the Tiangong-2 space laboratory for China's then-longest human spaceflight.
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C.
Mengtian
Mengtian is a Chinese space laboratory module that forms part of the Tiangong space station, supporting scientific experiments and research in orbit.
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D.
Tiangong space station
The Tiangong space station is China’s modular, permanently crewed orbital outpost that serves as the centerpiece of its independent human spaceflight and research program in low Earth orbit.
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E.
Tiangong-2 space laboratory
Tiangong-2 space laboratory was China’s second prototype space station module, used to test key technologies for future modular space stations and support crewed and cargo missions in low Earth orbit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | crewed spaceflight mission ⓘ |
| callSign | Shenzhou 13 ⓘ |
| commander | Zhai Zhigang ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| crewMember |
Wang Yaping
ⓘ
Ye Guangfu ⓘ Zhai Zhigang ⓘ |
| crewRole |
Wang Yaping – operator
ⓘ
linked to:
Wang Yaping
Ye Guangfu – operator ⓘ |
| crewSize | 3 ⓘ |
| destination | Tiangong space station ⓘ |
| dockingDate | 2021-10-16 ⓘ |
| educationOutreach | live science classes from space to students in China ⓘ |
| EVAcount | 2 ⓘ |
| EVAdate |
2021-11-07
ⓘ
2021-12-26 ⓘ |
| EVAparticipant |
Wang Yaping – 2021-11-07
ⓘ
Ye Guangfu – 2021-12-26 ⓘ Zhai Zhigang – 2021-11-07 ⓘ Zhai Zhigang – 2021-12-26 ⓘ |
| followedBy | Shenzhou 14 ⓘ |
| inclination | about 41.5 degrees ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2021-10-15 ⓘ |
| launchPad | Jiuquan LC-43 ⓘ |
| launchSite | Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center ⓘ |
| launchTime | 16:23 UTC ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Long March 2F ⓘ |
| missionDuration |
about 182 days
ⓘ
approximately six months ⓘ |
| missionType | long-duration space station expedition ⓘ |
| notableFor |
first Chinese woman to perform a spacewalk
ⓘ
longest Chinese crewed space mission at the time ⓘ |
| operator | China Manned Space Agency ⓘ |
| orbit | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| partOf | Chinese space station construction phase ⓘ |
| precededBy | Shenzhou 12 ⓘ |
| primaryObjective |
extravehicular activities for station construction and maintenance
ⓘ
testing of life support and regenerative systems ⓘ verification of long-term crewed presence on Tiangong ⓘ |
| program |
Shenzhou program
ⓘ
linked to:
China's crewed spaceflight program
|
| returnDate | 2022-04-16 ⓘ |
| scienceActivities |
microgravity experiments
ⓘ
space medicine research ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | China National Space Administration ⓘ |
| spacecraftType |
Shenzhou spacecraft
ⓘ
linked to:
Shenzhou crewed spacecraft
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| spaceStationModuleDockedTo | Tianhe core module ⓘ |
| spacewalkParticipant |
Wang Yaping
ⓘ
Zhai Zhigang ⓘ |
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: Shenzhou 13 Description of subject: Shenzhou 13 was a Chinese crewed spacecraft mission to the Tiangong space station, notable for its six-month duration and inclusion of China’s first female astronaut to conduct a spacewalk.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Shenzhou 13