Apollo 8 spacecraft
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The Apollo 8 spacecraft was the NASA mission vehicle that carried the first humans to orbit the Moon in 1968, enabling historic observations and photographs of the lunar surface and Earth from deep space.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Apollo 8 command module | 1 |
| Apollo 8 spacecraft canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10787930 — 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: Apollo 8 spacecraft Context triple: [Earthrise, takenFrom, Apollo 8 spacecraft]
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A.
Apollo spacecraft
The Apollo spacecraft was NASA’s crewed vehicle used in the 1960s–70s Apollo program to carry astronauts to and from lunar orbit and support Moon landings.
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B.
Apollo CSM-118
Apollo CSM-118 was the Apollo command and service module used for NASA’s Skylab 4 mission, carrying astronauts to and from the Skylab space station in 1973–1974.
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C.
Apollo CSM-116
Apollo CSM-116 was the Apollo command and service module used for NASA’s first crewed Skylab mission, carrying astronauts to and from the Skylab space station in 1973.
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D.
Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia
Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia was the spacecraft that housed the crew during the first successful Moon landing mission and returned the astronauts safely to Earth.
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E.
Apollo spacecraft CSM-111
Apollo spacecraft CSM-111 was the Apollo Command and Service Module used by NASA for the historic 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, the first joint U.S.–Soviet crewed space mission.
- 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: Apollo 8 spacecraft Target entity description: The Apollo 8 spacecraft was the NASA mission vehicle that carried the first humans to orbit the Moon in 1968, enabling historic observations and photographs of the lunar surface and Earth from deep space.
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A.
Apollo spacecraft
The Apollo spacecraft was NASA’s crewed vehicle used in the 1960s–70s Apollo program to carry astronauts to and from lunar orbit and support Moon landings.
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B.
Apollo CSM-118
Apollo CSM-118 was the Apollo command and service module used for NASA’s Skylab 4 mission, carrying astronauts to and from the Skylab space station in 1973–1974.
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C.
Apollo CSM-116
Apollo CSM-116 was the Apollo command and service module used for NASA’s first crewed Skylab mission, carrying astronauts to and from the Skylab space station in 1973.
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D.
Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia
Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia was the spacecraft that housed the crew during the first successful Moon landing mission and returned the astronauts safely to Earth.
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E.
Apollo spacecraft CSM-111
Apollo spacecraft CSM-111 was the Apollo Command and Service Module used by NASA for the historic 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, the first joint U.S.–Soviet crewed space mission.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apollo spacecraft
ⓘ
crewed spacecraft ⓘ |
| achievement |
first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit
ⓘ
first crewed spacecraft to orbit the Moon ⓘ first crewed spacecraft to reach the Moon ⓘ first humans to witness Earthrise from lunar orbit ⓘ |
| callSign | Apollo 8 ⓘ |
| commander | Frank Borman ⓘ |
| commandModule | Apollo Command Module CM-103 ⓘ |
| commandModulePilot |
James A. Lovell Jr.
ⓘ
linked to:
Jim Lovell
|
| communicationBand | S-band ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| crewMember |
Frank Borman
ⓘ
James A. Lovell Jr. ⓘ
linked to:
Jim Lovell
William A. Anders ⓘ
linked to:
William Anders
|
| crewSize | 3 ⓘ |
| enteredLunarOrbitOn | 1968-12-24 ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Apollo 9 spacecraft
ⓘ
linked to:
Apollo 9 command module
|
| historicalSignificance | paved the way for Apollo 11 lunar landing ⓘ |
| launchDate |
1968-12-21
ⓘ
21 December 1968 ⓘ |
| launchRocket |
Saturn V SA-503
ⓘ
linked to:
Saturn V
|
| launchSite | Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Saturn V ⓘ |
| lunarModule | none ⓘ |
| lunarModulePilot |
William A. Anders
ⓘ
linked to:
William Anders
|
| lunarOrbitsCompleted | 10 ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
North American Rockwell
ⓘ
linked to:
Rockwell International
|
| massAtLaunch | about 28,800 kilograms ⓘ |
| missionObjective |
first crewed flight to orbit the Moon
ⓘ
navigation and communication tests at lunar distance ⓘ photographic reconnaissance of lunar surface ⓘ test of Apollo Command and Service Module in lunar orbit ⓘ |
| missionType | crewed lunar orbital mission ⓘ |
| notablePhotograph |
Earthrise
ⓘ
linked to:
Earthrise photograph
|
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| partOf |
Apollo 8 mission
ⓘ
linked to:
Apollo 8
|
| powerSource | fuel cells ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Apollo 7 spacecraft
ⓘ
linked to:
Apollo 7
|
| program | Apollo program ⓘ |
| recoveryShip | USS Yorktown (CV-10) ⓘ |
| reentryDate |
1968-12-27
ⓘ
27 December 1968 ⓘ |
| serviceModule |
Apollo Service Module SM-103
ⓘ
linked to:
Apollo Service Module Block II
|
| serviceModuleEngine |
Service Propulsion System
ⓘ
linked to:
Service Propulsion System (SPS)
|
| spacecraftType |
Apollo Command and Service Module
ⓘ
linked to:
Apollo command and service module
|
| splashdownDate | 1968-12-27 ⓘ |
| splashdownLocation | Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| tliBurnPerformedBy |
Saturn V S-IVB stage
ⓘ
linked to:
S-IVB
|
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: Apollo 8 spacecraft Description of subject: The Apollo 8 spacecraft was the NASA mission vehicle that carried the first humans to orbit the Moon in 1968, enabling historic observations and photographs of the lunar surface and Earth from deep space.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Earthrise photograph
linked to: Apollo 8 spacecraft