Goddard Spacecraft Operations Control Center
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The Goddard Spacecraft Operations Control Center is NASA’s primary facility at the Goddard Space Flight Center for monitoring, commanding, and managing the operations of numerous Earth-orbiting and deep-space spacecraft.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Goddard Spacecraft Operations Control Center canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T747375 — 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: Goddard Spacecraft Operations Control Center Context triple: [Goddard Space Flight Center, hasFacility, Goddard Spacecraft Operations Control Center]
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A.
Goddard Space Flight Center
Goddard Space Flight Center is a major NASA research laboratory in Maryland that leads scientific spacecraft development, Earth and space observation missions, and related technology.
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B.
Marshall Space Flight Center
Marshall Space Flight Center is a major NASA field center in Huntsville, Alabama, responsible for developing space launch systems, propulsion technologies, and other key spaceflight hardware.
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C.
Glenn Research Center
Glenn Research Center is a major NASA research facility in Ohio specializing in aeronautics and space propulsion technologies.
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D.
Johnson Space Center
Johnson Space Center is NASA’s primary hub for human spaceflight operations, astronaut training, and mission control in Houston, Texas.
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E.
Ames Research Center
Ames Research Center is a major NASA research facility in California known for its contributions to aeronautics, space exploration, and advanced computing technologies.
- 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: Goddard Spacecraft Operations Control Center Target entity description: The Goddard Spacecraft Operations Control Center is NASA’s primary facility at the Goddard Space Flight Center for monitoring, commanding, and managing the operations of numerous Earth-orbiting and deep-space spacecraft.
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A.
Goddard Space Flight Center
Goddard Space Flight Center is a major NASA research laboratory in Maryland that leads scientific spacecraft development, Earth and space observation missions, and related technology.
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B.
Marshall Space Flight Center
Marshall Space Flight Center is a major NASA field center in Huntsville, Alabama, responsible for developing space launch systems, propulsion technologies, and other key spaceflight hardware.
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C.
Glenn Research Center
Glenn Research Center is a major NASA research facility in Ohio specializing in aeronautics and space propulsion technologies.
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D.
Johnson Space Center
Johnson Space Center is NASA’s primary hub for human spaceflight operations, astronaut training, and mission control in Houston, Texas.
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E.
Ames Research Center
Ames Research Center is a major NASA research facility in California known for its contributions to aeronautics, space exploration, and advanced computing technologies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA facility
ⓘ
spacecraft operations control center ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Goddard Space Flight Center
ⓘ
surface form:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| field |
mission control
ⓘ
space operations ⓘ |
| handles |
Earth-orbiting spacecraft operations
ⓘ
deep-space spacecraft operations ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | SOCC ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedAt | Goddard Space Flight Center ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Greenbelt, Maryland ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Robert H. Goddard ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
NASA
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surface form:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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| partOf |
Goddard Space Flight Center
ⓘ
surface form:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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| primaryFunction |
spacecraft commanding
ⓘ
spacecraft monitoring ⓘ spacecraft operations management ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
anomaly response coordination
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mission operations planning ⓘ real-time spacecraft control ⓘ spacecraft command uplink ⓘ spacecraft health and safety monitoring ⓘ spacecraft telemetry processing ⓘ |
| supports | multiple NASA missions simultaneously ⓘ |
| typeOfFacility | mission control center ⓘ |
| uses |
NASA communications networks
ⓘ
ground station interfaces ⓘ |
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: Goddard Spacecraft Operations Control Center Description of subject: The Goddard Spacecraft Operations Control Center is NASA’s primary facility at the Goddard Space Flight Center for monitoring, commanding, and managing the operations of numerous Earth-orbiting and deep-space spacecraft.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.