Gemini 6A
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Gemini 6A was a 1965 NASA crewed spaceflight that achieved the first successful rendezvous between two orbiting spacecraft during the Gemini program.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gemini 6A canonical | 15 |
| Gemini 6 | 1 |
| Gemini 6A and Gemini 7 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T645493 — 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: Gemini 6A Context triple: [Gemini program, notableMission, Gemini 6A]
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A.
Gemini 5
Gemini 5 was a 1965 NASA crewed spaceflight that set a then-record for longest human space mission, demonstrating key endurance and rendezvous technologies for the Apollo program.
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B.
Gemini 3
Gemini 3 was NASA’s first crewed Gemini spacecraft mission, flown in 1965 by astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young to test orbital maneuvering and spacecraft systems for future spaceflights.
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C.
Gemini 8
Gemini 8 was a 1966 NASA crewed spaceflight in the Gemini program, notable for achieving the first successful docking of two spacecraft in orbit and for a critical in-flight emergency that tested astronaut Neil Armstrong’s piloting skills.
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D.
Gemini 4
Gemini 4 was a 1965 NASA crewed spaceflight best known for carrying out the first American spacewalk during the Gemini program.
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E.
Gemini 12
Gemini 12 was the final crewed mission of NASA’s Gemini program, notable for successfully advancing spacewalk techniques and rendezvous/docking procedures that paved the way for Apollo lunar missions.
- 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: Gemini 6A Target entity description: Gemini 6A was a 1965 NASA crewed spaceflight that achieved the first successful rendezvous between two orbiting spacecraft during the Gemini program.
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A.
Gemini 5
Gemini 5 was a 1965 NASA crewed spaceflight that set a then-record for longest human space mission, demonstrating key endurance and rendezvous technologies for the Apollo program.
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B.
Gemini 3
Gemini 3 was NASA’s first crewed Gemini spacecraft mission, flown in 1965 by astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young to test orbital maneuvering and spacecraft systems for future spaceflights.
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C.
Gemini 8
Gemini 8 was a 1966 NASA crewed spaceflight in the Gemini program, notable for achieving the first successful docking of two spacecraft in orbit and for a critical in-flight emergency that tested astronaut Neil Armstrong’s piloting skills.
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D.
Gemini 4
Gemini 4 was a 1965 NASA crewed spaceflight best known for carrying out the first American spacewalk during the Gemini program.
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E.
Gemini 12
Gemini 12 was the final crewed mission of NASA’s Gemini program, notable for successfully advancing spacewalk techniques and rendezvous/docking procedures that paved the way for Apollo lunar missions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gemini program mission
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NASA space mission ⓘ crewed spaceflight ⓘ |
| callSign | Gemini 6A self-link ⓘ |
| commander | Wally Schirra ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crewMember |
Thomas Stafford
ⓘ
surface form:
Thomas P. Stafford
Wally Schirra ⓘ |
| crewNationality | American ⓘ |
| crewSize | 2 ⓘ |
| designationChangeReason | reflight after original mission cancellation ⓘ |
| era | Space Race ⓘ |
| landingDate | 1965-12-16 ⓘ |
| landingMethod | splashdown ⓘ |
| landingSite | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1965-12-15 ⓘ |
| launchLocation |
Cape Canaveral
ⓘ
surface form:
Cape Kennedy, Florida
|
| launchSite |
Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 19
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LC-19 ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Titan II GLV ⓘ |
| launchYear | 1965 ⓘ |
| missionDuration |
1 day 1 hour
ⓘ
about 26 hours ⓘ |
| missionType |
crewed orbital flight
ⓘ
rendezvous mission ⓘ |
| nextMission | Gemini 7 ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | first successful rendezvous between two orbiting crewed spacecraft ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| orbitRegime | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| orbitsCompleted | 16 ⓘ |
| originalDesignation |
Gemini 6A
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Gemini 6
|
| originalMissionStatus | scrubbed due to Agena target vehicle failure ⓘ |
| partOf |
Gemini program
ⓘ
United States civil space program ⓘ
surface form:
United States crewed spaceflight program
|
| pilot |
Thomas Stafford
ⓘ
surface form:
Thomas P. Stafford
|
| previousMission | Gemini 5 ⓘ |
| programGoal |
develop rendezvous and station-keeping techniques
ⓘ
prepare for Apollo lunar missions ⓘ |
| recoveryShip |
USS Wasp (CV-18)
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surface form:
USS Wasp
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| rendezvousDate | 1965-12-15 ⓘ |
| rendezvousDistance | approximately 0.3 meters ⓘ |
| rendezvousType | first crewed spacecraft rendezvous ⓘ |
| rendezvousWith | Gemini 7 ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | NASA ⓘ |
| spacecraft | Gemini spacecraft ⓘ |
| spacecraftBus | Gemini spacecraft bus ⓘ |
| spacecraftName |
Gemini SC-4
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surface form:
Gemini SC6
|
| spaceProgram |
Gemini program
ⓘ
surface form:
Project Gemini
|
| targetVehiclePlanned |
Agena Target Vehicle
ⓘ
surface form:
Agena target vehicle
|
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: Gemini 6A Description of subject: Gemini 6A was a 1965 NASA crewed spaceflight that achieved the first successful rendezvous between two orbiting spacecraft during the Gemini program.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Gemini 6
this entity surface form:
Gemini 6A and Gemini 7