Progress spacecraft
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The Progress spacecraft is an uncrewed Russian cargo vehicle used to deliver supplies, equipment, and fuel to space stations in low Earth orbit.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Progress spacecraft canonical | 13 |
| Progress cargo spacecraft | 10 |
| Progress-M | 2 |
| Progress MS-14 | 1 |
| Progress resupply spacecraft | 1 |
| Progress spacecraft family | 1 |
| Progress-MS cargo spacecraft series | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T679645 — 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: Progress spacecraft Context triple: [International Space Station program, usesSpacecraft, Progress spacecraft]
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A.
Dragon spacecraft
The Dragon spacecraft is SpaceX’s reusable cargo and crew capsule designed to transport supplies and astronauts between Earth and the International Space Station and other orbital destinations.
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B.
Orion spacecraft
The Orion spacecraft is NASA’s next-generation crewed space vehicle designed to carry astronauts beyond low Earth orbit on deep-space missions, including journeys to the Moon and eventually Mars.
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C.
Space Transportation System
Space Transportation System is the formal name for NASA’s Space Shuttle program, which developed and operated reusable spacecraft for human spaceflight and orbital missions from 1981 to 2011.
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D.
Starliner spacecraft
The Starliner spacecraft is Boeing’s crewed space capsule designed to transport astronauts to and from low Earth orbit, including missions to the International Space Station.
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E.
Commercial Crew Program
The Commercial Crew Program is a NASA initiative that partners with private companies to develop and operate crewed spacecraft for transporting astronauts to and from low Earth orbit, including the International Space Station.
- 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: Progress spacecraft Target entity description: The Progress spacecraft is an uncrewed Russian cargo vehicle used to deliver supplies, equipment, and fuel to space stations in low Earth orbit.
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A.
Dragon spacecraft
The Dragon spacecraft is SpaceX’s reusable cargo and crew capsule designed to transport supplies and astronauts between Earth and the International Space Station and other orbital destinations.
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B.
Orion spacecraft
The Orion spacecraft is NASA’s next-generation crewed space vehicle designed to carry astronauts beyond low Earth orbit on deep-space missions, including journeys to the Moon and eventually Mars.
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C.
Space Transportation System
Space Transportation System is the formal name for NASA’s Space Shuttle program, which developed and operated reusable spacecraft for human spaceflight and orbital missions from 1981 to 2011.
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D.
Starliner spacecraft
The Starliner spacecraft is Boeing’s crewed space capsule designed to transport astronauts to and from low Earth orbit, including missions to the International Space Station.
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E.
Commercial Crew Program
The Commercial Crew Program is a NASA initiative that partners with private companies to develop and operate crewed spacecraft for transporting astronauts to and from low Earth orbit, including the International Space Station.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
spacecraft class
ⓘ
uncrewed cargo spacecraft ⓘ |
| cargoType |
food
ⓘ
oxygen ⓘ propellant ⓘ scientific equipment ⓘ spare parts ⓘ water ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Russia
ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ |
| crewed | no ⓘ |
| designBasedOn | Soyuz spacecraft ⓘ |
| disposalMethod | destructive reentry ⓘ |
| dockingCapability | autonomous docking ⓘ |
| dockingSystem | Kurs automatic docking system ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 1978 ⓘ |
| firstMission | Progress 1 ⓘ |
| guidance |
ground control guidance
ⓘ
inertial guidance ⓘ |
| hasModule |
pressurized cargo module
ⓘ
propellant module ⓘ service module ⓘ |
| launchSite | Baikonur Cosmodrome ⓘ |
| launchVehicle |
Soyuz rocket family
ⓘ
linked to:
Soyuz rocket
|
| manufacturer | RKK Energia ⓘ |
| missionProfile |
orbit reboost mission
ⓘ
resupply mission ⓘ |
| missionType | logistics support ⓘ |
| operator | Roscosmos ⓘ |
| primaryDestination |
International Space Station
ⓘ
linked to:
International Space Station program
Mir space station ⓘ Salyut space stations ⓘ
linked to:
Salyut 1
space stations in low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| propulsion | chemical propulsion ⓘ |
| reentryType | controlled ⓘ |
| spaceAgency |
Russian Federal Space Agency
ⓘ
linked to:
Roscosmos
Soviet space program ⓘ |
| status | in service ⓘ |
| successorVariant |
Progress-M
ⓘ
linked to:
Progress spacecraft
Progress-M1 ⓘ Progress-MS ⓘ |
| targetUser | space station crews ⓘ |
| typicalOrbit | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cargo resupply
ⓘ
delivery of equipment ⓘ delivery of fuel ⓘ delivery of supplies ⓘ orbit raising of space stations ⓘ waste disposal from space stations ⓘ |
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: Progress spacecraft Description of subject: The Progress spacecraft is an uncrewed Russian cargo vehicle used to deliver supplies, equipment, and fuel to space stations in low Earth orbit.
Referenced by (29)
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