Atlas III
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Atlas III was an American expendable launch vehicle developed by Lockheed Martin as an intermediate step between the Atlas II and Atlas V rockets, featuring a Russian RD-180 engine and used primarily for commercial and military satellite launches in the early 2000s.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Atlas III canonical | 11 |
| Atlas IIIA | 1 |
| Atlas IIIB | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2431721 — 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: Atlas III Context triple: [Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36, primaryLaunchVehicle, Atlas III]
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A.
Atlas II
Atlas II was an American expendable launch vehicle family developed by General Dynamics and later Lockheed Martin, used primarily in the 1990s to launch commercial and military satellites into orbit.
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B.
Titan IIIE
Titan IIIE was a U.S. expendable launch vehicle variant of the Titan III family, equipped with a Centaur upper stage and used in the 1970s to send deep-space probes such as Voyager 1 on interplanetary trajectories.
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C.
Alpha Jet
The Alpha Jet is a light attack and advanced jet trainer aircraft developed jointly by France and Germany in the 1970s and widely used for pilot training and tactical support roles.
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D.
Titan III
Titan III was a family of American expendable launch vehicles developed during the Cold War era to support heavy military and civilian payloads into Earth orbit and beyond.
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E.
Atlas V 541
Atlas V 541 is a heavy-lift configuration of the Atlas V expendable launch system used by NASA to send large interplanetary spacecraft, such as the Curiosity Mars rover, 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: Atlas III Target entity description: Atlas III was an American expendable launch vehicle developed by Lockheed Martin as an intermediate step between the Atlas II and Atlas V rockets, featuring a Russian RD-180 engine and used primarily for commercial and military satellite launches in the early 2000s.
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A.
Atlas II
Atlas II was an American expendable launch vehicle family developed by General Dynamics and later Lockheed Martin, used primarily in the 1990s to launch commercial and military satellites into orbit.
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B.
Titan IIIE
Titan IIIE was a U.S. expendable launch vehicle variant of the Titan III family, equipped with a Centaur upper stage and used in the 1970s to send deep-space probes such as Voyager 1 on interplanetary trajectories.
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C.
Alpha Jet
The Alpha Jet is a light attack and advanced jet trainer aircraft developed jointly by France and Germany in the 1970s and widely used for pilot training and tactical support roles.
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D.
Titan III
Titan III was a family of American expendable launch vehicles developed during the Cold War era to support heavy military and civilian payloads into Earth orbit and beyond.
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E.
Atlas V 541
Atlas V 541 is a heavy-lift configuration of the Atlas V expendable launch system used by NASA to send large interplanetary spacecraft, such as the Curiosity Mars rover, into space.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
expendable launch vehicle
ⓘ
orbital launch vehicle ⓘ |
| configurationVariant |
Atlas III
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Atlas IIIA
Atlas III self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Atlas IIIB
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developer | Lockheed Martin ⓘ |
| enteredService | 2000 ⓘ |
| family |
Atlas rocket
ⓘ
surface form:
Atlas rocket family
|
| firstFlightDate | 2000-05-24 ⓘ |
| firstLaunchSite |
Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36
ⓘ
surface form:
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 36B
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| firstStageEngine | RD-180 ⓘ |
| firstStageEngineCycle | staged combustion ⓘ |
| firstStageEngineManufacturer | NPO Energomash ⓘ |
| firstStageEngineOrigin | Russia ⓘ |
| firstStageFuel | RP-1 kerosene ⓘ |
| firstStageOxidizer | liquid oxygen ⓘ |
| lastFlightDate | 2005-02-03 ⓘ |
| lastLaunchSite |
Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36
ⓘ
surface form:
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 36B
|
| launchesSuccessful | 6 ⓘ |
| launchesTotal | 6 ⓘ |
| launchServiceProvider | International Launch Services ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36
ⓘ
surface form:
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 36A
Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36 ⓘ
surface form:
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 36B
|
| launchSuccessRate | 100% ⓘ |
| launchVehicleType | medium-lift launch vehicle ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Lockheed Martin ⓘ |
| marketSegment |
U.S. military payloads
ⓘ
commercial communications satellites ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
first U.S.-operated launch vehicle to use the RD-180 engine
ⓘ
intermediate design step between Atlas II and Atlas V ⓘ transition platform for integrating Russian engines into U.S. launch systems ⓘ |
| operator |
International Launch Services
ⓘ
Lockheed Martin Space ⓘ
surface form:
Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services
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| predecessor | Atlas II ⓘ |
| propulsionType | liquid-fueled ⓘ |
| retiredFromService | 2005 ⓘ |
| stages | 2 ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| successor | Atlas V ⓘ |
| upperStage | Centaur ⓘ |
| upperStageOxidizer | liquid oxygen ⓘ |
| upperStagePropellant | liquid hydrogen ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial satellite launches
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geostationary transfer orbit missions ⓘ medium-lift missions ⓘ military satellite launches ⓘ |
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: Atlas III Description of subject: Atlas III was an American expendable launch vehicle developed by Lockheed Martin as an intermediate step between the Atlas II and Atlas V rockets, featuring a Russian RD-180 engine and used primarily for commercial and military satellite launches in the early 2000s.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Atlas IIIA
this entity surface form:
Atlas IIIB