Surveyor 5
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Surveyor 5 was a NASA unmanned lunar lander that successfully analyzed the Moon’s surface as part of the Surveyor program in 1967.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Surveyor 5 canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11509349 — 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 5 Context triple: [Surveyor program, missionDesignation, Surveyor 5]
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A.
Surveyor 4
Surveyor 4 was a NASA unmanned lunar lander launched in 1967 as part of the Surveyor program to test soft-landing techniques and study the Moon’s surface.
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B.
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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C.
Surveyor 3
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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 5 Target entity description: Surveyor 5 was a NASA unmanned lunar lander that successfully analyzed the Moon’s surface as part of the Surveyor program in 1967.
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A.
Surveyor 4
Surveyor 4 was a NASA unmanned lunar lander launched in 1967 as part of the Surveyor program to test soft-landing techniques and study the Moon’s surface.
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B.
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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C.
Surveyor 3
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA spacecraft
ⓘ
robotic lunar lander ⓘ spacecraft ⓘ unmanned lunar lander ⓘ |
| communication | radio link to Earth ⓘ |
| communicationBand | S-band ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| designedBy | Jet Propulsion Laboratory ⓘ |
| domain |
lunar science
ⓘ
planetary science ⓘ |
| epoch | early lunar exploration ⓘ |
| era | Space Race ⓘ |
| followedBy | Surveyor 6 ⓘ |
| landingBody | Moon ⓘ |
| landingDate | 1967-09-11 ⓘ |
| landingSite |
Mare Tranquillitatis
ⓘ
Sea of Tranquility ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1967-09-08 ⓘ |
| launchMass | about 1000 kilograms ⓘ |
| 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 ⓘ |
| managedBy | Jet Propulsion Laboratory ⓘ |
| missionDurationOnSurface | about 2 weeks of primary operations ⓘ |
| missionStartYear | 1967 ⓘ |
| missionType |
lunar lander
ⓘ
lunar surface science mission ⓘ |
| notableResult |
confirmed basaltic nature of Mare Tranquillitatis surface material
ⓘ
first in-situ chemical analysis of lunar soil by the United States ⓘ measured elemental composition of lunar regolith ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| partOf | Surveyor program ⓘ |
| powerSource |
batteries
ⓘ
solar panels ⓘ |
| primaryObjective |
analyze lunar surface composition
ⓘ
obtain close-up images of the lunar surface ⓘ |
| program | Surveyor program ⓘ |
| scientificInstrument |
alpha-scattering instrument
ⓘ
soil mechanics surface sampler ⓘ television camera ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | NASA ⓘ |
| spacecraftBus |
Surveyor lunar lander bus
ⓘ
linked to:
Surveyor bus
|
| spacecraftConfiguration | three-legged lander ⓘ |
| status | mission completed ⓘ |
| succeeded | Surveyor 4 ⓘ |
| success | successful lunar landing ⓘ |
| target | Mare Tranquillitatis ⓘ |
| televisionImagesReturned | thousands of images ⓘ |
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 5 Description of subject: Surveyor 5 was a NASA unmanned lunar lander that successfully analyzed the Moon’s surface as part of the Surveyor program in 1967.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.