New Glenn
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New Glenn is Blue Origin’s heavy-lift, partially reusable orbital rocket designed to compete in the commercial launch market for satellites and deep-space missions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New Glenn canonical | 2 |
| New Glenn heavy-lift rocket | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2431736 — 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: New Glenn Context triple: [Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36, plannedLaunchVehicle, New Glenn]
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A.
Douglas Hurley
Douglas Hurley is a retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel and NASA astronaut best known for piloting the final Space Shuttle mission STS-135 and later commanding SpaceX’s first crewed flight, Demo-2.
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B.
Curtis Priem
Curtis Priem is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early chief technology officer of the graphics processing company NVIDIA.
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C.
Armstrong
Armstrong is a common English-language surname borne by numerous notable figures across fields such as science, exploration, music, and sports.
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D.
Antares
Antares was the Lunar Module used in NASA’s Apollo 14 mission to land astronauts on the Moon in 1971.
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E.
Starhopper
Starhopper is SpaceX’s early prototype test vehicle used to validate key technologies for the Starship launch system, particularly its Raptor engines and vertical takeoff and landing capabilities.
- 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: New Glenn Target entity description: New Glenn is Blue Origin’s heavy-lift, partially reusable orbital rocket designed to compete in the commercial launch market for satellites and deep-space missions.
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A.
Douglas Hurley
Douglas Hurley is a retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel and NASA astronaut best known for piloting the final Space Shuttle mission STS-135 and later commanding SpaceX’s first crewed flight, Demo-2.
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B.
Curtis Priem
Curtis Priem is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early chief technology officer of the graphics processing company NVIDIA.
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C.
Armstrong
Armstrong is a common English-language surname borne by numerous notable figures across fields such as science, exploration, music, and sports.
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D.
Antares
Antares was the Lunar Module used in NASA’s Apollo 14 mission to land astronauts on the Moon in 1971.
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E.
Starhopper
Starhopper is SpaceX’s early prototype test vehicle used to validate key technologies for the Starship launch system, particularly its Raptor engines and vertical takeoff and landing capabilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
heavy-lift launch vehicle
ⓘ
orbital launch vehicle ⓘ partially reusable rocket ⓘ |
| announced | 2016 ⓘ |
| announcedBy | Blue Origin ⓘ |
| competition |
Ariane 6
ⓘ
Falcon 9 rocket ⓘ
surface form:
Falcon 9
Falcon Heavy rocket ⓘ
surface form:
Falcon Heavy
Vulcan Centaur ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developer | Blue Origin ⓘ |
| fairingDiameter | 7 meters ⓘ |
| fairingType | payload fairing ⓘ |
| firstStage | New Glenn first stage booster ⓘ |
| firstStageEngine | BE-4 ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
New Glenn three-stage version
ⓘ
New Glenn two-stage version ⓘ |
| intendedUse |
commercial satellite launches
ⓘ
deep-space missions ⓘ government payload launches ⓘ |
| landingLocation | downrange landing platform ⓘ |
| landingMethod | powered vertical landing ⓘ |
| launchPad | Launch Complex 36 ⓘ |
| launchServiceProvider | Blue Origin ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Cape Canaveral
ⓘ
surface form:
Cape Canaveral, Florida
Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36 ⓘ
surface form:
LC-36 Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
|
| launchSiteOperator | Blue Origin ⓘ |
| launchToGTO | heavy-lift class capability ⓘ |
| launchToLEO | heavy-lift class capability ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Blue Origin ⓘ |
| marketSegment | commercial launch market ⓘ |
| missionProfile |
vertical landing of first stage
ⓘ
vertical takeoff ⓘ |
| namedAfter | John Glenn ⓘ |
| numberOfStages | 2 ⓘ |
| operator | Blue Origin ⓘ |
| propellantFirstStage |
liquefied natural gas
ⓘ
liquid oxygen ⓘ |
| propellantSecondStage |
liquid hydrogen
ⓘ
liquid oxygen ⓘ |
| reusability |
first stage reusable
ⓘ
upper stages expendable ⓘ |
| secondStage | New Glenn second stage ⓘ |
| secondStageEngine |
BE-3 engine
ⓘ
surface form:
BE-3U
|
| status | under development ⓘ |
| thirdStage | New Glenn optional third 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: New Glenn Description of subject: New Glenn is Blue Origin’s heavy-lift, partially reusable orbital rocket designed to compete in the commercial launch market for satellites and deep-space missions.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
New Glenn heavy-lift rocket