Starship
E36030
Starship is SpaceX’s fully reusable, next-generation spacecraft and rocket system designed for missions to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Starship canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T276648 — 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: Starship Context triple: [SpaceX, develops, Starship]
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A.
Blues for a Red Planet
"Blues for a Red Planet" is an episode of the science documentary series *Cosmos: A Personal Voyage* that explores the history, science, and human fascination surrounding the planet Mars.
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B.
The Spaceship Company
The Spaceship Company is an aerospace manufacturing firm co-founded by Virgin Galactic to build and test suborbital spaceplanes and related spacecraft.
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C.
Stardust
"Stardust" is a classic popular song, widely regarded as a jazz and American Songbook standard, famously interpreted by Louis Armstrong and many other artists.
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D.
Black Hole Sun
"Black Hole Sun" is a 1994 grunge rock song by Soundgarden, written by Chris Cornell, known for its haunting melody, surreal lyrics, and iconic music video.
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E.
The Joshua Tree
The Joshua Tree is U2’s critically acclaimed 1987 rock album known for its atmospheric sound and politically charged anthems like “With or Without You” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.”
- 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: Starship Target entity description: Starship is SpaceX’s fully reusable, next-generation spacecraft and rocket system designed for missions to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
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A.
Blues for a Red Planet
"Blues for a Red Planet" is an episode of the science documentary series *Cosmos: A Personal Voyage* that explores the history, science, and human fascination surrounding the planet Mars.
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B.
The Spaceship Company
The Spaceship Company is an aerospace manufacturing firm co-founded by Virgin Galactic to build and test suborbital spaceplanes and related spacecraft.
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C.
Stardust
"Stardust" is a classic popular song, widely regarded as a jazz and American Songbook standard, famously interpreted by Louis Armstrong and many other artists.
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D.
Black Hole Sun
"Black Hole Sun" is a 1994 grunge rock song by Soundgarden, written by Chris Cornell, known for its haunting melody, surreal lyrics, and iconic music video.
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E.
The Joshua Tree
The Joshua Tree is U2’s critically acclaimed 1987 rock album known for its atmospheric sound and politically charged anthems like “With or Without You” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fully reusable spacecraft
ⓘ
super heavy-lift launch vehicle ⓘ two-stage-to-orbit launch system ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
BFR
ⓘ
surface form:
BFR (early concept name)
Super Heavy booster ⓘ
surface form:
Starship-Super Heavy
|
| architectureFeature |
cargo variant
ⓘ
crew variant ⓘ on-orbit refueling capability ⓘ tanker variant for propellant transfer ⓘ |
| boosterRecoveryMethod | catch by launch tower arms (planned) ⓘ |
| companyFounder | Elon Musk ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| designFeature |
aerodynamic flaps for atmospheric reentry control
ⓘ
full reusability of both stages ⓘ heat shield tiles on windward side ⓘ methane-fueled Raptor engines ⓘ stainless steel primary structure ⓘ |
| developer | SpaceX ⓘ |
| engineType | Raptor ⓘ |
| firstStage | Super Heavy booster ⓘ |
| intendedPayload |
Starlink satellite constellation
ⓘ
surface form:
Starlink satellite batches
cargo for lunar missions ⓘ crew for deep-space missions ⓘ large satellites ⓘ |
| intendedReusability |
airline-like operations
ⓘ
rapid turnaround between flights ⓘ |
| landingMethod | propulsive vertical landing ⓘ |
| launchConfiguration |
Starship launch system
ⓘ
surface form:
Starship upper stage stacked on Super Heavy booster
|
| manufacturer | SpaceX ⓘ |
| material | stainless steel alloy ⓘ |
| notableContract |
Starship Human Landing System
ⓘ
surface form:
NASA Artemis Human Landing System
|
| operatedBy | SpaceX ⓘ |
| primaryLaunchSite | Starbase, Boca Chica, Texas ⓘ |
| propellantType |
liquid methane
ⓘ
liquid oxygen ⓘ |
| purpose |
cargo transport to low Earth orbit
ⓘ
crew transport to low Earth orbit ⓘ interplanetary transport ⓘ missions to Mars ⓘ missions to the Moon ⓘ |
| secondStage | Starship upper stage ⓘ |
| selectedBy | NASA for lunar lander role ⓘ |
| status | under development ⓘ |
| targetDestination |
Mars
ⓘ
Moon ⓘ other solar system destinations ⓘ |
| targetOrbit | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| upperStageEngineVariant |
Raptor
ⓘ
surface form:
Raptor Vacuum
|
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: Starship Description of subject: Starship is SpaceX’s fully reusable, next-generation spacecraft and rocket system designed for missions to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.