Pad 36B
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Pad 36B is a launch complex at Cape Canaveral historically used for launching Atlas-Centaur rockets for NASA and the U.S. Air Force.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11289775 — 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: Pad 36B Context triple: [Launch Pad 36B, alsoKnownAs, Pad 36B]
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A.
Power Pad
Power Pad is a floor mat game controller for the Nintendo Entertainment System that lets players use their feet and body movements to control compatible games.
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B.
Pad 1/5
Pad 1/5, also known as Gagarin's Start, is the historic Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad from which Yuri Gagarin and many other Soviet and Russian crewed missions were launched into space.
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C.
Plug One
Plug One is the stage name of Posdnuos, a founding member and primary lyricist of the influential hip hop group De La Soul.
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D.
Soul Pad
"Soul Pad" is a rhythm and blues song recorded by the American vocal group The Coasters.
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E.
The Battery
The Battery is a historic waterfront park at the southern tip of Manhattan in New York City, known for its harbor views, ferries to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, and landmark Castle Clinton.
- 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: Pad 36B Target entity description: Pad 36B is a launch complex at Cape Canaveral historically used for launching Atlas-Centaur rockets for NASA and the U.S. Air Force.
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A.
Power Pad
Power Pad is a floor mat game controller for the Nintendo Entertainment System that lets players use their feet and body movements to control compatible games.
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B.
Pad 1/5
Pad 1/5, also known as Gagarin's Start, is the historic Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad from which Yuri Gagarin and many other Soviet and Russian crewed missions were launched into space.
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C.
Plug One
Plug One is the stage name of Posdnuos, a founding member and primary lyricist of the influential hip hop group De La Soul.
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D.
Soul Pad
"Soul Pad" is a rhythm and blues song recorded by the American vocal group The Coasters.
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E.
The Battery
The Battery is a historic waterfront park at the southern tip of Manhattan in New York City, known for its harbor views, ferries to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, and landmark Castle Clinton.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
launch pad
ⓘ
rocket launch site ⓘ |
| associatedWithAgency | United States Space Force ⓘ |
| coordinateSystem | Earth ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasFacility |
flame trench
ⓘ
propellant storage area ⓘ |
| hasSiblingPad |
Pad 36A
ⓘ
linked to:
Pad 36B
|
| hasStructure |
service tower
ⓘ
umbilical tower ⓘ |
| historicalUse |
launching Atlas-Centaur rockets for NASA
ⓘ
launching Atlas-Centaur rockets for the U.S. Air Force ⓘ |
| launchSiteType | expendable launch vehicle pad ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cape Canaveral, Florida
ⓘ
linked to:
Cape Canaveral
|
| locatedOn | Atlantic coast of Florida ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
NASA
ⓘ
United States Air Force ⓘ |
| partOf | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ⓘ |
| partOfComplex | Launch Complex 36 ⓘ |
| status | inactive ⓘ |
| surface | concrete ⓘ |
| usedByProgram |
NASA planetary missions
ⓘ
linked to:
NASA Planetary Science Division
U.S. Air Force space missions ⓘ |
| usedByRocket |
Atlas II
ⓘ
Atlas III ⓘ Atlas-Centaur ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Atlas-Centaur launches
ⓘ
orbital launches ⓘ |
| usedForPayloadType |
communications satellites
ⓘ
interplanetary probes ⓘ scientific spacecraft ⓘ |
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: Pad 36B Description of subject: Pad 36B is a launch complex at Cape Canaveral historically used for launching Atlas-Centaur rockets for NASA and the U.S. Air Force.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Pad 36B