Space Transportation System
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Space Transportation System is the formal name for NASA’s Space Shuttle program, which developed and operated reusable spacecraft for human spaceflight and orbital missions from 1981 to 2011.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Space Transportation System canonical | 10 |
| NASA Space Transportation System | 2 |
| NASA spaceplanes | 1 |
| STS (Space Transportation System) | 1 |
| Space Shuttle orbiter | 1 |
| Space Transportation System program | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T249334 — 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 Transportation System Context triple: [NASA Space Shuttle program, officialName, Space Transportation System]
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A.
Space Launch System
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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B.
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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C.
Starliner spacecraft
The Starliner spacecraft is Boeing’s crewed space capsule designed to transport astronauts to and from low Earth orbit, including missions to the International Space Station.
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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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E.
Saturn V
Saturn V was a powerful American heavy-lift launch vehicle used during the Apollo and Skylab programs to send astronauts and payloads into space, including missions to the Moon.
- 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 Transportation System Target entity description: Space Transportation System is the formal name for NASA’s Space Shuttle program, which developed and operated reusable spacecraft for human spaceflight and orbital missions from 1981 to 2011.
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A.
Space Launch System
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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B.
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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C.
Starliner spacecraft
The Starliner spacecraft is Boeing’s crewed space capsule designed to transport astronauts to and from low Earth orbit, including missions to the International Space Station.
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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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E.
Saturn V
Saturn V was a powerful American heavy-lift launch vehicle used during the Apollo and Skylab programs to send astronauts and payloads into space, including missions to the Moon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA program
ⓘ
human spaceflight program ⓘ reusable spacecraft program ⓘ spaceflight program ⓘ |
| agencyProgramName | Space Transportation System self-link ⓘ |
| component |
External Tank
ⓘ
Solid Rocket Booster ⓘ Space Shuttle orbiter ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developedBy |
Johnson Space Center
ⓘ
surface form:
NASA Johnson Space Center
Kennedy Space Center ⓘ
surface form:
NASA Kennedy Space Center
Marshall Space Flight Center ⓘ
surface form:
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
|
| endDate | 2011-07-21 ⓘ |
| firstCrewedMission | STS-1 ⓘ |
| firstLaunchDate | 1981-04-12 ⓘ |
| informalName |
NASA Space Shuttle program
ⓘ
surface form:
Space Shuttle program
|
| lastLandingDate | 2011-07-21 ⓘ |
| lastMission | STS-135 ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
ⓘ
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B ⓘ |
| missionDesignationPrefix | STS ⓘ |
| notableAccident |
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
ⓘ
Columbia disaster ⓘ
surface form:
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
|
| notableOrbiter |
Space Shuttle Atlantis
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Space Shuttle Challenger ⓘ Space Shuttle Columbia ⓘ Space Shuttle Discovery ⓘ Space Shuttle Endeavour ⓘ |
| officialNameOf |
NASA Space Shuttle program
ⓘ
surface form:
Space Shuttle program
|
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose |
human spaceflight
ⓘ
orbital missions ⓘ satellite deployment ⓘ space science missions ⓘ space station servicing ⓘ |
| propellantType |
liquid hydrogen
ⓘ
liquid oxygen ⓘ |
| reusabilityFeature |
reusable orbiter
ⓘ
reusable solid rocket boosters ⓘ |
| solidBoosterPropellantType | ammonium perchlorate composite propellant ⓘ |
| startDate | 1981-04-12 ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| successorProgram | Commercial Crew Program ⓘ |
| successorVehicle |
Starliner spacecraft
ⓘ
surface form:
Boeing CST-100 Starliner
Dragon spacecraft ⓘ
surface form:
SpaceX Crew Dragon
|
| usedFor |
Hubble Space Telescope deployment
ⓘ
Hubble Space Telescope ⓘ
surface form:
Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions
International Space Station assembly ⓘ |
| vehicleType | partially reusable launch system ⓘ |
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 Transportation System Description of subject: Space Transportation System is the formal name for NASA’s Space Shuttle program, which developed and operated reusable spacecraft for human spaceflight and orbital missions from 1981 to 2011.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Space Shuttle orbiter
this entity surface form:
Space Transportation System program
subject surface form:
STS-51-C
this entity surface form:
STS (Space Transportation System)
this entity surface form:
NASA Space Transportation System
this entity surface form:
NASA Space Transportation System