Launch Complex 17B
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Launch Complex 17B is a launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida that was used primarily for Delta rocket launches for NASA and commercial satellites.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Launch Complex 17B canonical | 3 |
| Launch Complex 17 | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11291229 — 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: Launch Complex 17B Context triple: [INSAT-1D, launchSitePad, Launch Complex 17B]
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A.
Launch Complex 19
Launch Complex 19 is a historic launch pad at Cape Canaveral used primarily for NASA’s Project Gemini crewed spaceflights in the 1960s.
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B.
Launch Complex 13
Launch Complex 13 is a historic Cape Canaveral launch site originally used for early Atlas rocket missions during the Cold War and later repurposed for modern commercial spaceflight operations.
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C.
Launch Complex 18
Launch Complex 18 is a former U.S. launch facility at Cape Canaveral used primarily for early missile and space vehicle tests during the Cold War era.
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D.
Launch Complex 34
Launch Complex 34 is a historic launch site at Cape Canaveral, Florida, best known as the pad used for early NASA Saturn I and Saturn IB rocket launches, including the Apollo 1 mission.
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E.
Launch Complex 37
Launch Complex 37 is a historic launch facility at Cape Canaveral, Florida, originally built for Saturn I/IB rockets and now used primarily for United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV missions.
- 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: Launch Complex 17B Target entity description: Launch Complex 17B is a launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida that was used primarily for Delta rocket launches for NASA and commercial satellites.
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A.
Launch Complex 19
Launch Complex 19 is a historic launch pad at Cape Canaveral used primarily for NASA’s Project Gemini crewed spaceflights in the 1960s.
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B.
Launch Complex 13
Launch Complex 13 is a historic Cape Canaveral launch site originally used for early Atlas rocket missions during the Cold War and later repurposed for modern commercial spaceflight operations.
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C.
Launch Complex 18
Launch Complex 18 is a former U.S. launch facility at Cape Canaveral used primarily for early missile and space vehicle tests during the Cold War era.
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D.
Launch Complex 34
Launch Complex 34 is a historic launch site at Cape Canaveral, Florida, best known as the pad used for early NASA Saturn I and Saturn IB rocket launches, including the Apollo 1 mission.
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E.
Launch Complex 37
Launch Complex 37 is a historic launch facility at Cape Canaveral, Florida, originally built for Saturn I/IB rockets and now used primarily for United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV missions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
launch complex
ⓘ
rocket launch pad ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Launch Complex 17A ⓘ |
| associatedProgram |
NASA Earth observation missions
ⓘ
linked to:
NASA Earth Observing System
NASA planetary missions ⓘ
linked to:
NASA Planetary Science Division
NASA science missions ⓘ |
| complexNumber | 17B ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| formerlyKnownAs | Cape Canaveral Air Force Station pad 17B ⓘ |
| hasPadDesignation | Pad 17B ⓘ |
| launchesPayloadType |
Earth observation satellites
ⓘ
commercial communications satellites ⓘ scientific satellites ⓘ |
| launchVehicle |
Delta I
ⓘ
Delta II ⓘ Thor-Delta family ⓘ
linked to:
Thor-Delta
|
| locatedAt | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brevard County, Florida
ⓘ
linked to:
Brevard County
Cape Canaveral ⓘ Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ⓘ
linked to:
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Florida ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Atlantic coast of Florida ⓘ |
| operator |
U.S. Space Force
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Space Force
United States Air Force ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
ⓘ
linked to:
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Launch Complex 17 ⓘ |
| primaryUsePeriod | Delta II era ⓘ |
| status | inactive ⓘ |
| usedBy |
NASA
ⓘ
commercial launch providers ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Delta rocket launches
ⓘ
NASA satellite launches ⓘ commercial satellite launches ⓘ orbital launch operations ⓘ |
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: Launch Complex 17B Description of subject: Launch Complex 17B is a launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida that was used primarily for Delta rocket launches for NASA and commercial satellites.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Launch Complex 17B
linked to: Launch Complex 17B