Space Launch System
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The Space Launch System is NASA’s next-generation heavy-lift rocket designed to carry astronauts and large payloads beyond low Earth orbit, including missions to the Moon and eventually Mars.
All labels observed (17)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T93071 — 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: Space Launch System Context triple: [NASA, developed, Space Launch System]
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A.
Falcon Heavy rocket
The Falcon Heavy rocket is SpaceX’s heavy-lift launch vehicle capable of carrying large payloads to orbit using a reusable, triple-booster first stage.
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B.
Falcon 9 rocket
The Falcon 9 rocket is a partially reusable, two-stage orbital launch vehicle developed by SpaceX that has revolutionized commercial spaceflight through frequent, cost-effective missions and routine booster landings.
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C.
Starship launch system
The Starship launch system is SpaceX’s fully reusable, next-generation rocket designed for deep-space missions, including transporting humans and cargo to the Moon and Mars.
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D.
Dragon spacecraft
The Dragon spacecraft is SpaceX’s reusable cargo and crew capsule designed to transport supplies and astronauts between Earth and the International Space Station and other orbital destinations.
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Atlas-Centaur
Atlas-Centaur was an American expendable launch vehicle family that combined an Atlas booster with a high-energy Centaur upper stage to send payloads, including early interplanetary probes, into space.
- 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: Space Launch System Target entity description: The Space Launch System is NASA’s next-generation heavy-lift rocket designed to carry astronauts and large payloads beyond low Earth orbit, including missions to the Moon and eventually Mars.
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A.
Falcon Heavy rocket
The Falcon Heavy rocket is SpaceX’s heavy-lift launch vehicle capable of carrying large payloads to orbit using a reusable, triple-booster first stage.
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B.
Falcon 9 rocket
The Falcon 9 rocket is a partially reusable, two-stage orbital launch vehicle developed by SpaceX that has revolutionized commercial spaceflight through frequent, cost-effective missions and routine booster landings.
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C.
Starship launch system
The Starship launch system is SpaceX’s fully reusable, next-generation rocket designed for deep-space missions, including transporting humans and cargo to the Moon and Mars.
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D.
Dragon spacecraft
The Dragon spacecraft is SpaceX’s reusable cargo and crew capsule designed to transport supplies and astronauts between Earth and the International Space Station and other orbital destinations.
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Atlas-Centaur
Atlas-Centaur was an American expendable launch vehicle family that combined an Atlas booster with a high-energy Centaur upper stage to send payloads, including early interplanetary probes, into space.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
expendable launch vehicle
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rocket family ⓘ super heavy-lift launch vehicle ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SLS ⓘ |
| boosterSegmentsPerBooster | 5 ⓘ |
| boosterType | solid rocket booster ⓘ |
| configuration |
Block 1
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Block 1B ⓘ Block 2 ⓘ |
| coreStageDiameter | 8.4 m ⓘ |
| coreStageEngine |
Space Shuttle Main Engines
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surface form:
RS-25
|
| coreStageEngineCount | 4 ⓘ |
| coreStageLength | 65 m (approximate) ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| derivedFrom | Space Shuttle program technology ⓘ |
| designedFor |
Orion spacecraft
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deep space exploration ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 2022-11-16 ⓘ |
| firstFlightLaunchSite | Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B ⓘ |
| firstFlightMission | Artemis I ⓘ |
| height |
111 m (Block 1B, approximate)
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98 m (Block 1) ⓘ |
| intendedCrewVehicle |
Orion spacecraft
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surface form:
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
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| intendedDestination |
Mars
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Moon ⓘ cislunar space ⓘ |
| launchComplex | LC-39B ⓘ |
| launchMass | about 2,600,000 kg (Block 1) ⓘ |
| launchSite | Kennedy Space Center ⓘ |
| legalOrigin | NASA Authorization Act of 2010 ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
Aerojet Rocketdyne
ⓘ
Boeing ⓘ Northrop Grumman ⓘ United Launch Alliance ⓘ |
| missionProfile |
deep space cargo delivery
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trans-lunar injection ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| partOfProgram | Artemis program ⓘ |
| payloadToLEO |
105,000 kg (Block 1B, approximate)
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95,000 kg (Block 1, approximate) ⓘ |
| payloadToTLI | 27,000 kg (Block 1, approximate) ⓘ |
| primaryMission |
Mars precursor missions
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crew missions beyond low Earth orbit ⓘ lunar missions ⓘ |
| programStart | 2011 ⓘ |
| propellant |
ammonium perchlorate composite propellant
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liquid hydrogen ⓘ liquid oxygen ⓘ |
| spaceAgency |
NASA
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surface form:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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| status | operational ⓘ |
| upperStage |
Exploration Upper Stage
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Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage ⓘ |
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: Space Launch System Description of subject: The Space Launch System is NASA’s next-generation heavy-lift rocket designed to carry astronauts and large payloads beyond low Earth orbit, including missions to the Moon and eventually Mars.
Referenced by (90)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Space Launch System core stage
this entity surface form:
Space Launch System program
this entity surface form:
Space Launch System Block 1
this entity surface form:
Space Launch System Block 1B
this entity surface form:
SLS core stage
this entity surface form:
Space Launch System program
this entity surface form:
Space Launch System Program
this entity surface form:
Space Launch System Block 1
this entity surface form:
NASA Space Launch System
this entity surface form:
Space Launch System rocket configuration
this entity surface form:
Space Launch System program
this entity surface form:
NASA Space Launch System
this entity surface form:
Space Launch System Block 1B crew configuration
this entity surface form:
Space Launch System program
this entity surface form:
Space Launch System Program
this entity surface form:
Space Launch System core stage
subject surface form:
Launch Pad 39B
this entity surface form:
Space Launch System Block 1 core stage
this entity surface form:
Space Launch System program
this entity surface form:
Space Launch System Program
subject surface form:
NASA
subject surface form:
NEA Scout
this entity surface form:
Space Launch System Block 1
this entity surface form:
Space Launch System Block 1