Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex 3E
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Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex 3E is a coastal California launch pad used for interplanetary and other space missions, including NASA’s InSight Mars lander.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex 3E canonical | 1 |
| Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex 3W | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10212032 — 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: Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex 3E Context triple: [InSight Mars lander, launchSite, Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex 3E]
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A.
Space Launch Complex 37B
Space Launch Complex 37B is a launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, historically used for Saturn I/IB missions and now supporting Delta IV rocket launches.
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B.
Space Launch Complex 40
Space Launch Complex 40 is a launch site at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, now primarily used by SpaceX for Falcon 9 rocket missions including satellite deployments and crewed flights.
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C.
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17A
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17A is a historic launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, long used for Delta rocket missions and various NASA scientific satellites.
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D.
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17B
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17B is a former U.S. launch pad on Florida’s Space Coast that historically supported numerous Delta rocket missions for NASA and the U.S. military.
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E.
Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36
Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36 is a historic Florida launch site that supported numerous NASA and commercial Atlas-Centaur rocket missions, including early planetary and communications satellite launches.
- 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: Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex 3E Target entity description: Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex 3E is a coastal California launch pad used for interplanetary and other space missions, including NASA’s InSight Mars lander.
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A.
Space Launch Complex 37B
Space Launch Complex 37B is a launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, historically used for Saturn I/IB missions and now supporting Delta IV rocket launches.
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B.
Space Launch Complex 40
Space Launch Complex 40 is a launch site at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, now primarily used by SpaceX for Falcon 9 rocket missions including satellite deployments and crewed flights.
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C.
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17A
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17A is a historic launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, long used for Delta rocket missions and various NASA scientific satellites.
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D.
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17B
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17B is a former U.S. launch pad on Florida’s Space Coast that historically supported numerous Delta rocket missions for NASA and the U.S. military.
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E.
Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36
Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36 is a historic Florida launch site that supported numerous NASA and commercial Atlas-Centaur rocket missions, including early planetary and communications satellite launches.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | orbital launch complex ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | SLC-3E NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedBaseCurrentName | Vandenberg Space Force Base GENERATED ⓘ |
| associatedBaseFormerName | Vandenberg Air Force Base GENERATED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| environment | coastal ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
fixed umbilical tower
ⓘ
flame trench ⓘ launch control center ⓘ mobile service tower ⓘ propellant storage systems ⓘ |
| launchAzimuth | southward trajectories over the Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| launchPadNumber | 3E ⓘ |
| launchVehicleSupported |
Atlas IIAS
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Atlas III NERFINISHED ⓘ Atlas V NERFINISHED ⓘ earlier Atlas variants ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Santa Barbara County, California NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Vandenberg Space Force Base NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Pacific coast of California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableLaunch | InSight Mars lander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableLaunchAgency | NASA GENERATED ⓘ |
| notableLaunchDate | 2018-05-05 ⓘ |
| notableLaunchVehicle | Atlas V 401 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
United States Air Force
ⓘ
United States Space Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Space Launch Complex 3
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vandenberg launch range NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryMissionType |
Earth observation satellites
ⓘ
interplanetary probes ⓘ scientific missions ⓘ |
| safetyFeature | downrange over open ocean ⓘ |
| supportsOrbitType |
polar orbit
ⓘ
sun-synchronous orbit ⓘ |
| tenant | United Launch Alliance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy |
NASA
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Department of Defense NERFINISHED ⓘ commercial satellite operators ⓘ |
| usedFor |
NASA missions
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
commercial launches ⓘ government launches ⓘ interplanetary missions ⓘ orbital launches ⓘ |
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: Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex 3E Description of subject: Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex 3E is a coastal California launch pad used for interplanetary and other space missions, including NASA’s InSight Mars lander.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex 3W