Surveyor 3
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Surveyor 3 was a 1967 NASA robotic lunar lander that successfully touched down on the Moon to test landing techniques and analyze the lunar surface ahead of the Apollo missions.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Surveyor 3 canonical | 9 |
| Surveyor 3 lander | 1 |
| Surveyor 3 soil scoop | 1 |
| Surveyor 3 television camera | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11509347 — 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 3 Context triple: [Surveyor program, missionDesignation, Surveyor 3]
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A.
Surveyor 2
Surveyor 2 was a NASA unmanned lunar lander launched in 1966 as part of the Surveyor program, intended to test soft-landing techniques on the Moon but lost due to a mid-course correction failure.
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B.
Surveyor 7
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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C.
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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D.
Surveyor 3 landing site
The Surveyor 3 landing site is the location on the Moon where NASA’s unmanned Surveyor 3 spacecraft touched down in 1967 and was later visited by Apollo 12 astronauts, who retrieved parts of the probe for study.
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E.
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.
- 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 3 Target entity description: Surveyor 3 was a 1967 NASA robotic lunar lander that successfully touched down on the Moon to test landing techniques and analyze the lunar surface ahead of the Apollo missions.
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A.
Surveyor 2
Surveyor 2 was a NASA unmanned lunar lander launched in 1966 as part of the Surveyor program, intended to test soft-landing techniques on the Moon but lost due to a mid-course correction failure.
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B.
Surveyor 7
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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C.
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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D.
Surveyor 3 landing site
The Surveyor 3 landing site is the location on the Moon where NASA’s unmanned Surveyor 3 spacecraft touched down in 1967 and was later visited by Apollo 12 astronauts, who retrieved parts of the probe for study.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA space probe
ⓘ
lunar lander ⓘ robotic spacecraft ⓘ uncrewed spacecraft ⓘ |
| ApolloVisitDate | 1969-11-19 ⓘ |
| communicationBand | S-band ⓘ |
| componentReturnedToEarth |
pieces of tubing and other hardware
ⓘ
television camera ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| designFeature |
central equipment bay with solar panel mast
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three-legged landing structure ⓘ vernier engines for soft landing ⓘ |
| followedBy | Surveyor 4 ⓘ |
| hasInstrument |
alpha-scattering instrument (planned but not flown)
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soil mechanics surface sampler ⓘ television camera ⓘ |
| landingBody | Moon ⓘ |
| landingCoordinates | approximately 3.01°S 23.42°W ⓘ |
| landingDate | 1967-04-20 ⓘ |
| landingRegion |
Oceanus Procellarum region
ⓘ
linked to:
Oceanus Procellarum
|
| landingSite | Mare Cognitum ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1967-04-17 ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Cape Kennedy
ⓘ
linked to:
Cape Canaveral
Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 36B ⓘ
linked to:
Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36
|
| launchVehicle | Atlas-Centaur ⓘ |
| legacy |
helped confirm bearing strength of lunar regolith
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provided engineering data for Apollo lunar module landing design ⓘ |
| massAtLaunch | approximately 1000 kilograms ⓘ |
| massOnLunarSurface | approximately 300 kilograms ⓘ |
| missionDurationOnSurface | about 2 weeks of active operations ⓘ |
| missionType |
lunar lander mission
ⓘ
lunar surface science mission ⓘ |
| notableEvent | first U.S. spacecraft to use a soil scoop on another celestial body ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| partOf | Surveyor program ⓘ |
| powerSource |
batteries
ⓘ
solar panels ⓘ |
| precededBy | Surveyor 2 ⓘ |
| programGoal |
to analyze the lunar surface
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to support planning for Apollo crewed landings ⓘ to test lunar landing techniques ⓘ |
| sampledBy |
Apollo 12 mission
ⓘ
linked to:
Apollo 12
|
| scientificObjective |
to assess suitability of lunar surface for crewed landings
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to measure mechanical properties of lunar soil ⓘ to obtain close-up television images of the lunar surface ⓘ |
| spaceAgency |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
ⓘ
linked to:
NASA
|
| status | derelict on the lunar surface ⓘ |
| televisionImagesReturned | over 6000 images ⓘ |
| visitedBy |
Alan L. Bean
ⓘ
Apollo 12 Lunar Module Intrepid ⓘ Apollo 12 astronauts ⓘ
linked to:
Apollo 12
Pete Conrad ⓘ |
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 3 Description of subject: Surveyor 3 was a 1967 NASA robotic lunar lander that successfully touched down on the Moon to test landing techniques and analyze the lunar surface ahead of the Apollo missions.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Ocean of Storms on Moon
linked to: Surveyor 3
linked to: Surveyor 3
linked to: Surveyor 3