Surveyor 7
E933183
Surveyor 7 was a NASA unmanned lunar lander that successfully touched down on the Moon in 1968 to conduct scientific experiments and surface imaging.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Surveyor 7 canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11509331 — 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: Surveyor 7 Context triple: [Surveyor program, lastMission, Surveyor 7]
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A.
Apollo 15
Apollo 15 was a 1971 NASA crewed mission that conducted extended scientific exploration of the Moon, including the first use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the lunar surface.
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B.
Luna 17
Luna 17 was a Soviet lunar mission launched in 1970 that successfully delivered the Lunokhod 1 rover to the Moon, achieving the first remote-controlled rover operation on another celestial body.
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C.
Apollo 16
Apollo 16 was a 1972 NASA crewed mission that successfully landed astronauts on the Moon’s Descartes Highlands to conduct extensive scientific exploration and experiments.
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D.
Surveyor 1
Surveyor 1 was NASA’s first successful unmanned lunar lander, which transmitted detailed images and data from the Moon’s surface in 1966.
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E.
Luna 16
Luna 16 was a Soviet robotic spacecraft that achieved the first successful uncrewed lunar sample return mission from the Moon to Earth in 1970.
- 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: Surveyor 7 Target entity description: Surveyor 7 was a NASA unmanned lunar lander that successfully touched down on the Moon in 1968 to conduct scientific experiments and surface imaging.
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A.
Apollo 15
Apollo 15 was a 1971 NASA crewed mission that conducted extended scientific exploration of the Moon, including the first use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the lunar surface.
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B.
Luna 17
Luna 17 was a Soviet lunar mission launched in 1970 that successfully delivered the Lunokhod 1 rover to the Moon, achieving the first remote-controlled rover operation on another celestial body.
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C.
Apollo 16
Apollo 16 was a 1972 NASA crewed mission that successfully landed astronauts on the Moon’s Descartes Highlands to conduct extensive scientific exploration and experiments.
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D.
Surveyor 1
Surveyor 1 was NASA’s first successful unmanned lunar lander, which transmitted detailed images and data from the Moon’s surface in 1966.
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E.
Luna 16
Luna 16 was a Soviet robotic spacecraft that achieved the first successful uncrewed lunar sample return mission from the Moon to Earth in 1970.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
spacecraft
ⓘ
uncrewed lunar lander ⓘ |
| attitudeControl | three-axis stabilized ⓘ |
| communicationBand | S-band ⓘ |
| communicationEnded | 1968-02-21 ⓘ |
| constructedIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| destination | Moon ⓘ |
| epoch | Space Race ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Apollo 11 lunar landing (as next US successful lunar surface mission)
ⓘ
linked to:
Apollo 11
|
| imageCount | over 20,000 images ⓘ |
| imageType | television images ⓘ |
| landingBody | Moon ⓘ |
| landingDate | 1968-01-10 ⓘ |
| landingSite | Tycho crater ⓘ |
| landingTechnique | soft landing ⓘ |
| landingYear | 1968 ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1968-01-07 ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Cape Kennedy
ⓘ
linked to:
Cape Canaveral
Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 36A ⓘ
linked to:
Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36
|
| launchVehicle | Atlas-Centaur ⓘ |
| launchYear | 1968 ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Hughes Aircraft Company ⓘ |
| massAtLaunch | approximately 1000 kilograms ⓘ |
| massOnLanding | approximately 300 kilograms ⓘ |
| missionEnd | 1968-02-21 ⓘ |
| missionNumber | 7 ⓘ |
| missionType | lunar lander ⓘ |
| notableFeature | only Surveyor spacecraft to land in a highland region of the Moon ⓘ |
| notableResult |
measured chemical composition of lunar surface material at Tycho
ⓘ
provided detailed images of Tycho crater region ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| partOf |
Surveyor lunar soft-landing series
ⓘ
linked to:
Surveyor lunar lander spacecraft systems
|
| powerSource | solar panels ⓘ |
| precededBy | Surveyor 6 ⓘ |
| primaryObjective |
lunar surface imaging
ⓘ
lunar surface science experiments ⓘ |
| program | Surveyor program ⓘ |
| programGoal | support Apollo program lunar landing site selection ⓘ |
| propulsionType | liquid-fueled retrorocket ⓘ |
| scientificInstrument |
alpha-scattering instrument
ⓘ
beta-ray backscatter instrument ⓘ soil mechanics surface sampler ⓘ solar X-ray spectrometer ⓘ television camera ⓘ |
| spaceAgency |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
ⓘ
linked to:
NASA
|
| spacecraftBus | Surveyor bus ⓘ |
| status | mission completed ⓘ |
| success | true ⓘ |
| surfaceOperationsDuration | about 40 days ⓘ |
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: Surveyor 7 Description of subject: Surveyor 7 was a NASA unmanned lunar lander that successfully touched down on the Moon in 1968 to conduct scientific experiments and surface imaging.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.