Soyuz 8
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Soyuz 8 was a 1969 Soviet crewed spaceflight that formed part of a three-spacecraft joint mission in Earth orbit during the early Soyuz program.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Soyuz 8 canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10998887 — 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: Soyuz 8 Context triple: [Soyuz program (early phase), notableMission, Soyuz 8]
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A.
Soyuz 18
Soyuz 18 was a Soviet crewed spacecraft mission in the mid-1970s that experienced a serious launch abort and is often noted for its dramatic emergency reentry and safe recovery of the cosmonauts.
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B.
Soyuz 5
Soyuz 5 was a 1969 Soviet crewed spaceflight notable for performing the first docking and crew transfer between two spacecraft in orbit as part of the early Soyuz program.
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C.
Soyuz 6
Soyuz 6 was a 1969 Soviet crewed spaceflight notable for conducting welding experiments in orbit as part of an early phase of the Soyuz program.
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D.
Soyuz 7
Soyuz 7 was a 1969 Soviet crewed spacecraft mission that formed part of an early three-ship orbital group flight to test rendezvous and docking operations in Earth orbit.
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E.
Soyuz 19
Soyuz 19 was the Soviet spacecraft that participated in the historic 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, enabling the first international crewed space docking between the USSR and the United States.
- 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: Soyuz 8 Target entity description: Soyuz 8 was a 1969 Soviet crewed spaceflight that formed part of a three-spacecraft joint mission in Earth orbit during the early Soyuz program.
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A.
Soyuz 18
Soyuz 18 was a Soviet crewed spacecraft mission in the mid-1970s that experienced a serious launch abort and is often noted for its dramatic emergency reentry and safe recovery of the cosmonauts.
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B.
Soyuz 5
Soyuz 5 was a 1969 Soviet crewed spaceflight notable for performing the first docking and crew transfer between two spacecraft in orbit as part of the early Soyuz program.
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C.
Soyuz 6
Soyuz 6 was a 1969 Soviet crewed spaceflight notable for conducting welding experiments in orbit as part of an early phase of the Soyuz program.
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D.
Soyuz 7
Soyuz 7 was a 1969 Soviet crewed spacecraft mission that formed part of an early three-ship orbital group flight to test rendezvous and docking operations in Earth orbit.
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E.
Soyuz 19
Soyuz 19 was the Soviet spacecraft that participated in the historic 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, enabling the first international crewed space docking between the USSR and the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Soyuz spacecraft mission
ⓘ
crewed spaceflight ⓘ |
| actualCrewNumber | 2 ⓘ |
| apogee | 255 km ⓘ |
| callSign | Granit ⓘ |
| commander | Vladimir Shatalov ⓘ |
| country | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| crewCapacity | 3 ⓘ |
| crewLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| crewMember |
Aleksei Yeliseyev
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vladimir Shatalov ⓘ |
| crewSize | 2 ⓘ |
| crewStatusAtLanding | safe ⓘ |
| dockingAttemptedWith | Soyuz 7 ⓘ |
| dockingSucceeded | no ⓘ |
| dockingSystem |
Igla automatic rendezvous system
ⓘ
linked to:
Igla docking system
|
| flightEngineer | Aleksei Yeliseyev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedByMission | Soyuz 9 ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | early Soyuz program ⓘ |
| inclination | 51.7 degrees ⓘ |
| isPartOf | 1969 three-spacecraft joint mission ⓘ |
| jointMissionWith |
Soyuz 6
ⓘ
Soyuz 7 ⓘ |
| landingDate | 1969-10-18 ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1969-10-13 ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31
ⓘ
linked to:
Baikonur Cosmodrome
|
| launchVehicle | Soyuz rocket ⓘ |
| missionCategory | orbital flight ⓘ |
| missionDuration | 4 days 22 hours 50 minutes ⓘ |
| missionObjective |
planned docking with Soyuz 7
ⓘ
test of group flight operations in Earth orbit ⓘ |
| missionOutcome | partial failure ⓘ |
| missionProgram |
Soyuz program
ⓘ
linked to:
Soyuz programme
|
| missionRole | active spacecraft in joint mission ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
second flight for cosmonaut Aleksei Yeliseyev
ⓘ
second flight for cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov ⓘ |
| operator | Soviet space program ⓘ |
| orbit | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| orbitsCompleted | 80 ⓘ |
| perigee | 200 km ⓘ |
| precededByMission | Soyuz 7 ⓘ |
| reentryModuleLanding | Kazakhstan ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | Soviet space agency ⓘ |
| spacecraftMass | 6570 kg ⓘ |
| spacecraftType |
Soyuz 7K-OK
ⓘ
linked to:
Soyuz 7K-OK No.4
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How these facts were elicited
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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: Soyuz 8 Description of subject: Soyuz 8 was a 1969 Soviet crewed spaceflight that formed part of a three-spacecraft joint mission in Earth orbit during the early Soyuz program.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.