Apollo 12 landing site
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The Apollo 12 landing site is the location on the Moon where NASA's second crewed lunar landing mission touched down in 1969, situated in the Ocean of Storms region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Apollo 12 landing area | 1 |
| Apollo 12 landing site canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10845675 — 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 12 landing site Context triple: [Mare Cognitum, near, Apollo 12 landing site]
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A.
Apollo 16 landing site
The Apollo 16 landing site is the area in the Moon’s Descartes Highlands where NASA’s Apollo 16 mission touched down in 1972 to conduct geological exploration of the lunar highlands.
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B.
Apollo 15 landing site
The Apollo 15 landing site is the area on the Moon where NASA’s 1971 Apollo 15 mission touched down near the Hadley Rille and Apennine Mountains to conduct advanced scientific exploration and rover-based surface operations.
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C.
Apollo 11 landing site
The Apollo 11 landing site is the historic location on the Moon where humans first landed and walked during NASA's 1969 mission.
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D.
Tranquility Base
Tranquility Base is the historic site on the Moon where Apollo 11’s Lunar Module Eagle landed in 1969, marking the first crewed Moon landing.
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E.
Taurus–Littrow valley
Taurus–Littrow valley is a geologically diverse lunar valley in the Moon’s Taurus Mountains that served as the landing and exploration site for NASA’s Apollo 17 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 12 landing site Target entity description: The Apollo 12 landing site is the location on the Moon where NASA's second crewed lunar landing mission touched down in 1969, situated in the Ocean of Storms region.
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A.
Apollo 16 landing site
The Apollo 16 landing site is the area in the Moon’s Descartes Highlands where NASA’s Apollo 16 mission touched down in 1972 to conduct geological exploration of the lunar highlands.
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B.
Apollo 15 landing site
The Apollo 15 landing site is the area on the Moon where NASA’s 1971 Apollo 15 mission touched down near the Hadley Rille and Apennine Mountains to conduct advanced scientific exploration and rover-based surface operations.
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C.
Apollo 11 landing site
The Apollo 11 landing site is the historic location on the Moon where humans first landed and walked during NASA's 1969 mission.
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D.
Tranquility Base
Tranquility Base is the historic site on the Moon where Apollo 11’s Lunar Module Eagle landed in 1969, marking the first crewed Moon landing.
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E.
Taurus–Littrow valley
Taurus–Littrow valley is a geologically diverse lunar valley in the Moon’s Taurus Mountains that served as the landing and exploration site for NASA’s Apollo 17 mission.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronomical location
ⓘ
lunar landing site ⓘ |
| astronautEVA |
Alan L. Bean
ⓘ
Charles Conrad Jr. ⓘ
linked to:
Charles Conrad
|
| countryOfOperator |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| EVAcount | 2 ⓘ |
| followedBy | Apollo 14 landing site ⓘ |
| geologicEra | Imbrian age basalts ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | site of second human landing on the Moon ⓘ |
| hemisphere | near side of the Moon ⓘ |
| imageSubject | Apollo 12 surface photography ⓘ |
| instrumentDeployed |
ALSEP magnetometer
ⓘ
linked to:
Lunar Surface Magnetometer
ALSEP seismometer ⓘ ALSEP solar wind experiment ⓘ Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package ⓘ |
| landingDate |
19 November 1969
ⓘ
1969-11-19 ⓘ |
| landingType | crewed lunar landing ⓘ |
| landingVehicle |
Apollo Lunar Module Intrepid
ⓘ
linked to:
Apollo 12 Lunar Module Intrepid
|
| latitudeApprox | 3.0° S ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Mare Insularum region of the Moon
ⓘ
linked to:
Mare Insularum
Ocean of Storms ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Moon ⓘ |
| longitudeApprox | 23.4° W ⓘ |
| lunarMare | Oceanus Procellarum ⓘ |
| missionCommander |
Charles Conrad Jr.
ⓘ
linked to:
Charles Conrad
|
| missionCommandModulePilot | Richard F. Gordon Jr. ⓘ |
| missionLaunchDate | 1969-11-14 ⓘ |
| missionLunarModulePilot | Alan L. Bean ⓘ |
| missionNumberInApolloProgram | second crewed lunar landing ⓘ |
| missionReturnDate | 1969-11-24 ⓘ |
| nearbySpacecraft | Surveyor 3 ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
demonstration of pinpoint landing capability
ⓘ
proximity to Surveyor 3 probe ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| precededBy | Apollo 11 landing site ⓘ |
| purposeOfSelection | precision landing near Surveyor 3 ⓘ |
| relatedProgram | Apollo program ⓘ |
| samplesReturned_kg | about 34.4 ⓘ |
| scientificActivities |
deployment of scientific instruments
ⓘ
geological fieldwork ⓘ sample collection ⓘ |
| surfaceType | basaltic mare plain ⓘ |
| totalEVATime_hours | about 7.75 ⓘ |
| totalSurfaceTime_hours | about 31.5 ⓘ |
| usedByMission | Apollo 12 ⓘ |
| visitedBy |
Alan L. Bean
ⓘ
Charles Conrad Jr. ⓘ
linked to:
Charles Conrad
|
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 12 landing site Description of subject: The Apollo 12 landing site is the location on the Moon where NASA's second crewed lunar landing mission touched down in 1969, situated in the Ocean of Storms region.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mare Cognitum region, Oceanus Procellarum
linked to: Apollo 12 landing site