Orbital Sciences Corporation
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Orbital Sciences Corporation was an American aerospace company known for developing and launching satellites, rockets, and space systems for commercial, military, and scientific customers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Orbital Sciences Corporation canonical | 22 |
| Orbital ATK | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2169282 — 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: Orbital Sciences Corporation Context triple: [SCISAT-1, launchContractor, Orbital Sciences Corporation]
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A.
Sierra Nevada Corporation
Sierra Nevada Corporation is a U.S. aerospace and defense contractor known for developing advanced space systems, including the Dream Chaser spaceplane, and providing technology solutions to government and commercial customers.
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B.
Lockheed Martin Space
Lockheed Martin Space is a major division of Lockheed Martin Corporation that designs, develops, and manufactures advanced space systems and technologies for government and commercial customers.
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C.
Astra Space
Astra Space is an American aerospace company focused on developing small, cost-effective launch vehicles to provide frequent, flexible access to low Earth orbit for small satellites.
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D.
Blue Origin
Blue Origin is a private American aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company focused on developing reusable rockets and advancing commercial space travel.
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E.
United Launch Alliance
United Launch Alliance is an American aerospace company that provides launch services for government and commercial customers, operating rockets such as Atlas V, Delta IV, and Vulcan.
- 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: Orbital Sciences Corporation Target entity description: Orbital Sciences Corporation was an American aerospace company known for developing and launching satellites, rockets, and space systems for commercial, military, and scientific customers.
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A.
Sierra Nevada Corporation
Sierra Nevada Corporation is a U.S. aerospace and defense contractor known for developing advanced space systems, including the Dream Chaser spaceplane, and providing technology solutions to government and commercial customers.
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B.
Lockheed Martin Space
Lockheed Martin Space is a major division of Lockheed Martin Corporation that designs, develops, and manufactures advanced space systems and technologies for government and commercial customers.
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C.
Astra Space
Astra Space is an American aerospace company focused on developing small, cost-effective launch vehicles to provide frequent, flexible access to low Earth orbit for small satellites.
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D.
Blue Origin
Blue Origin is a private American aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company focused on developing reusable rockets and advancing commercial space travel.
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E.
United Launch Alliance
United Launch Alliance is an American aerospace company that provides launch services for government and commercial customers, operating rockets such as Atlas V, Delta IV, and Vulcan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aerospace company
ⓘ
defunct company ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developed |
Antares launch vehicle
ⓘ
surface form:
Antares rocket
Cygnus spacecraft ⓘ GEO communications satellites ⓘ Intercontinental ballistic missile target vehicles ⓘ LEO remote sensing satellites ⓘ Minotaur rocket family ⓘ Pegasus rocket family ⓘ
surface form:
Pegasus rocket
Taurus rocket ⓘ launch vehicles ⓘ medium-lift rockets ⓘ missile defense systems ⓘ satellites ⓘ small rockets ⓘ space systems ⓘ |
| focus | small and medium-class space and rocket systems ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Bruce Ferguson
ⓘ
David W. Thompson ⓘ Scott L. Webster ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Dulles, Virginia
ⓘ
Fairfax County, Virginia ⓘ |
| inception | 1982 ⓘ |
| industry |
aerospace
ⓘ
defense ⓘ space systems ⓘ |
| laterParentCompany | Northrop Grumman ⓘ |
| majorCustomer |
NASA
ⓘ
Department of Defense ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Department of Defense
commercial satellite operators ⓘ international space agencies ⓘ |
| mergedInto | Orbital ATK ⓘ |
| mergerCompletionDate | 2015 ⓘ |
| mergerPartner | Alliant Techsystems ⓘ |
| missionType | International Space Station resupply ⓘ |
| notableProduct |
Antares launch vehicle
ⓘ
surface form:
Antares medium-lift rocket
Cygnus spacecraft ⓘ
surface form:
Cygnus ISS cargo vehicle
Pegasus XL ⓘ
surface form:
Pegasus air-launched rocket
|
| operatedVehicle |
Antares launch vehicle
ⓘ
Cygnus spacecraft ⓘ
surface form:
Cygnus cargo spacecraft
|
| parentCompanyAfterMerger | Orbital ATK ⓘ |
| participatedInProgram |
NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services
ⓘ
NASA Commercial Resupply Services missions ⓘ
surface form:
NASA Commercial Resupply Services
|
| providedService |
launch services
ⓘ
satellite manufacturing ⓘ space mission support ⓘ spacecraft integration ⓘ |
| servedCustomerType |
commercial
ⓘ
military ⓘ scientific ⓘ |
| successor | Orbital ATK ⓘ |
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: Orbital Sciences Corporation Description of subject: Orbital Sciences Corporation was an American aerospace company known for developing and launching satellites, rockets, and space systems for commercial, military, and scientific customers.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program
→
selectedCompany
→
Orbital Sciences Corporation
ⓘ
NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program
→
primaryAwardee
→
Orbital Sciences Corporation
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subject surface form:
Dawn
this entity surface form:
Orbital ATK
subject surface form:
GALEX
subject surface form:
GALEX
subject surface form:
Ground-based Midcourse Defense
this entity surface form:
Orbital ATK
this entity surface form:
Orbital ATK
this entity surface form:
Orbital ATK
subject surface form:
Commercial Resupply Services