White Sands Space Harbor (former Shuttle landing site)
E96945
White Sands Space Harbor is a runway complex in New Mexico that served as an alternate landing site for NASA’s Space Shuttle program.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| White Sands Space Harbor | 1 |
| White Sands Space Harbor (former Shuttle landing site) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T771182 — 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: White Sands Space Harbor (former Shuttle landing site) Context triple: [White Sands Missile Range, hasRunway, White Sands Space Harbor (former Shuttle landing site)]
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A.
Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility
The Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility is a specialized runway complex in Florida designed for the return and landing of NASA’s Space Shuttle orbiters and other aerospace vehicles.
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B.
Mojave Air and Space Port
Mojave Air and Space Port is a civilian aerospace test center and spaceflight hub in California known for experimental aircraft development and commercial spaceflight activities.
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C.
Cape Canaveral LC-41
Cape Canaveral LC-41 is a launch complex at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, historically used for major NASA and interplanetary missions.
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D.
Launch Complex 39C
Launch Complex 39C is a small launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center designed to support launches of small-class commercial and government rockets.
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E.
White Sands Missile Range
White Sands Missile Range is a major U.S. Army testing facility in southern New Mexico known for missile and weapons testing and as the site of the first atomic bomb detonation.
- 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: White Sands Space Harbor (former Shuttle landing site) Target entity description: White Sands Space Harbor is a runway complex in New Mexico that served as an alternate landing site for NASA’s Space Shuttle program.
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A.
Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility
The Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility is a specialized runway complex in Florida designed for the return and landing of NASA’s Space Shuttle orbiters and other aerospace vehicles.
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B.
Mojave Air and Space Port
Mojave Air and Space Port is a civilian aerospace test center and spaceflight hub in California known for experimental aircraft development and commercial spaceflight activities.
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C.
Cape Canaveral LC-41
Cape Canaveral LC-41 is a launch complex at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, historically used for major NASA and interplanetary missions.
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D.
Launch Complex 39C
Launch Complex 39C is a small launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center designed to support launches of small-class commercial and government rockets.
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E.
White Sands Missile Range
White Sands Missile Range is a major U.S. Army testing facility in southern New Mexico known for missile and weapons testing and as the site of the first atomic bomb detonation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Space Shuttle landing site
ⓘ
runway complex ⓘ spaceport ⓘ |
| alternativeTo |
Edwards Air Force Base
ⓘ
Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility ⓘ |
| builtFor |
NASA Space Shuttle program
ⓘ
surface form:
Space Shuttle program
|
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| designedFor |
Space Shuttle emergency landings
ⓘ
orbiter landing tests ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 1,200 meters above sea level ⓘ |
| environment |
dry lakebed
ⓘ
high desert ⓘ |
| hasCode | WSH ⓘ |
| hasLighting | portable runway lighting systems ⓘ |
| hasNavigationAid |
TACAN
ⓘ
microwave landing system ⓘ visual approach slope indicators ⓘ |
| hasRunway |
02/20
ⓘ
17/35 ⓘ 23/05 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Chihuahuan Desert
ⓘ
Dona Ana County, New Mexico ⓘ New Mexico ⓘ White Sands Missile Range ⓘ
surface form:
White Sands Missile Range area
NASA White Sands Test Facility ⓘ
surface form:
White Sands Test Facility
|
| locatedOn | gypsum playa ⓘ |
| missionLandingDate | 30 March 1982 ⓘ |
| near |
Alamogordo
ⓘ
surface form:
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Las Cruces, New Mexico ⓘ White Sands National Park ⓘ |
| notableEvent | landing of Space Shuttle Columbia STS-3 ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Johnson Space Center
ⓘ
surface form:
NASA Johnson Space Center
|
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| ownedBy | United States government ⓘ |
| partOf | NASA Space Shuttle program ⓘ |
| primaryRunwayLength | about 15,000 feet ⓘ |
| runwayOrientation |
northeast–southwest
ⓘ
northwest–southeast ⓘ north–south ⓘ |
| safetyFeature |
flat open terrain
ⓘ
wide overrun areas ⓘ |
| status |
former Shuttle landing site
ⓘ
inactive for Space Shuttle operations ⓘ |
| surfaceType | compacted gypsum ⓘ |
| use |
Shuttle carrier aircraft operations
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alternate landing site for Space Shuttle ⓘ training runway for Shuttle pilots ⓘ |
| usedForMission | STS-3 ⓘ |
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: White Sands Space Harbor (former Shuttle landing site) Description of subject: White Sands Space Harbor is a runway complex in New Mexico that served as an alternate landing site for NASA’s Space Shuttle program.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
White Sands Space Harbor