Atlas LV-3B
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Atlas LV-3B was an early variant of the Atlas launch vehicle used by NASA during the Mercury program to send crewed spacecraft into low Earth orbit.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Atlas LV-3B canonical | 10 |
| Atlas LV-3 | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2494586 — 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 LV-3B Context triple: [Atlas, notableVariant, Atlas LV-3B]
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A.
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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B.
Atlas III
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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C.
SLIM lunar lander
The SLIM lunar lander is a Japanese spacecraft designed by JAXA to demonstrate high-precision, lightweight landing technology on the Moon’s surface.
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D.
Vulcan XH558
Vulcan XH558 is the last airworthy example of the British Avro Vulcan strategic bomber, preserved and flown as a historic display aircraft until its final retirement.
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E.
ATV spacecraft
The ATV spacecraft was an automated European cargo vehicle designed to resupply and reboost the International Space Station.
- 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 LV-3B Target entity description: Atlas LV-3B was an early variant of the Atlas launch vehicle used by NASA during the Mercury program to send crewed spacecraft into low Earth orbit.
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A.
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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B.
Atlas III
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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C.
SLIM lunar lander
The SLIM lunar lander is a Japanese spacecraft designed by JAXA to demonstrate high-precision, lightweight landing technology on the Moon’s surface.
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D.
Vulcan XH558
Vulcan XH558 is the last airworthy example of the British Avro Vulcan strategic bomber, preserved and flown as a historic display aircraft until its final retirement.
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E.
ATV spacecraft
The ATV spacecraft was an automated European cargo vehicle designed to resupply and reboost the International Space Station.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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 LV-3B Description of subject: Atlas LV-3B was an early variant of the Atlas launch vehicle used by NASA during the Mercury program to send crewed spacecraft into low Earth orbit.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Atlas LV-3
this entity surface form:
Atlas LV-3