Blue Origin NS-16 crewed flight
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Blue Origin NS-16 crewed flight was the first human spaceflight mission of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket, carrying Jeff Bezos and other passengers to the edge of space on July 20, 2021.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blue Origin NS-16 | 3 |
| Blue Origin NS-16 mission | 3 |
| Blue Origin New Shepard NS-16 | 2 |
| Blue Origin NS-16 crew | 1 |
| Blue Origin NS-16 crewed flight canonical | 1 |
| Blue Origin NS-16 suborbital mission | 1 |
| Jeff Bezos’s first spaceflight | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7113827 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blue Origin NS-16 crewed flight Context triple: [Flew on Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital flight on 2021-07-20, alsoKnownAs, Blue Origin NS-16 crewed flight]
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A.
Crew Dragon Demo-2
Crew Dragon Demo-2 was SpaceX’s first crewed test flight of its Crew Dragon spacecraft, carrying NASA astronauts to the International Space Station as part of the Commercial Crew Program.
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B.
Blue Origin
Blue Origin is a private American aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company focused on developing reusable rockets and advancing commercial space travel.
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C.
SpaceX CRS-10
SpaceX CRS-10 was a NASA-contracted Dragon resupply mission that delivered cargo to the International Space Station as part of SpaceX’s Commercial Resupply Services program.
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D.
Crew-1
Crew-1 was SpaceX’s first operational crewed mission for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, carrying four astronauts to the International Space Station aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft.
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E.
SpaceX CRS-18
SpaceX CRS-18 was a NASA-contracted Commercial Resupply Services mission flown by SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft to deliver cargo and experiments to 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: Blue Origin NS-16 crewed flight Target entity description: Blue Origin NS-16 crewed flight was the first human spaceflight mission of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket, carrying Jeff Bezos and other passengers to the edge of space on July 20, 2021.
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A.
Crew Dragon Demo-2
Crew Dragon Demo-2 was SpaceX’s first crewed test flight of its Crew Dragon spacecraft, carrying NASA astronauts to the International Space Station as part of the Commercial Crew Program.
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B.
Blue Origin
Blue Origin is a private American aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company focused on developing reusable rockets and advancing commercial space travel.
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C.
SpaceX CRS-10
SpaceX CRS-10 was a NASA-contracted Dragon resupply mission that delivered cargo to the International Space Station as part of SpaceX’s Commercial Resupply Services program.
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D.
Crew-1
Crew-1 was SpaceX’s first operational crewed mission for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, carrying four astronauts to the International Space Station aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft.
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E.
SpaceX CRS-18
SpaceX CRS-18 was a NASA-contracted Commercial Resupply Services mission flown by SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft to deliver cargo and experiments to the International Space Station.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New Shepard mission
ⓘ
crewed suborbital spaceflight ⓘ |
| apogeeAltitudeKilometers | approximately 106 ⓘ |
| booster | New Shepard booster ⓘ |
| capsule | RSS First Step ⓘ |
| capsuleLandingType | parachute-assisted landing ⓘ |
| commander | Jeff Bezos ⓘ |
| countryOfLaunch |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| crewMember |
Jeff Bezos
ⓘ
Mark Bezos ⓘ Oliver Daemen ⓘ Wally Funk ⓘ |
| crewNationality |
Netherlands
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| crewSize | 4 ⓘ |
| crossedKarmanLine | true ⓘ |
| durationMinutes | approximately 10 ⓘ |
| firstHumanSpaceflightOf |
Blue Origin
ⓘ
New Shepard system ⓘ
linked to:
New Shepard
|
| followedBy | Blue Origin NS-18 ⓘ |
| landingSite | near Launch Site One, Texas ⓘ |
| landingSuccess | true ⓘ |
| landingType | vertical powered landing for booster ⓘ |
| launchConfiguration | reusable booster with crew capsule ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2021-07-20 ⓘ |
| launchDateTimeUTC | 2021-07-20T13:12:00Z ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Blue Origin Launch Site One
ⓘ
Corn Ranch ⓘ |
| launchSiteLocation | near Van Horn, Texas, United States ⓘ |
| launchSuccess | true ⓘ |
| launchVehicle |
New Shepard rocket
ⓘ
linked to:
New Shepard
|
| missionType |
demonstration flight
ⓘ
suborbital spaceflight ⓘ tourist spaceflight ⓘ |
| notableAs |
Jeff Bezos’s first spaceflight
ⓘ
linked to:
Blue Origin NS-16 crewed flight
Oliver Daemen becoming the youngest person to reach space at the time ⓘ Wally Funk becoming the oldest person to reach space at the time ⓘ first crewed flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ⓘ |
| operator | Blue Origin ⓘ |
| passengerCount | 4 ⓘ |
| precededBy | uncrewed New Shepard test flights ⓘ |
| program |
New Shepard program
ⓘ
linked to:
New Shepard
|
| purpose |
commercial space tourism demonstration
ⓘ
validation of crewed operations for New Shepard ⓘ |
| rocketFamily | New Shepard ⓘ |
| spacecraft | New Shepard ⓘ |
| spaceLine | Blue Origin space tourism service ⓘ |
| suborbital | true ⓘ |
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: Blue Origin NS-16 crewed flight Description of subject: Blue Origin NS-16 crewed flight was the first human spaceflight mission of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket, carrying Jeff Bezos and other passengers to the edge of space on July 20, 2021.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Flew on Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital flight on 2021-07-20
→
alsoKnownAs
→
Blue Origin NS-16 crewed flight
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subject linked to:
flew on Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital flight on 2021-07-20
linked to: Blue Origin NS-16 crewed flight
linked to: Blue Origin NS-16 crewed flight
linked to: Blue Origin NS-16 crewed flight
subject linked to:
Mark Bezos – Jeff Bezos’s brother
linked to: Blue Origin NS-16 crewed flight
subject linked to:
Mark Bezos – Jeff Bezos’s brother
linked to: Blue Origin NS-16 crewed flight
subject linked to:
Mark Bezos – Jeff Bezos’s brother
linked to: Blue Origin NS-16 crewed flight
subject linked to:
Wally Funk – aviation pioneer and Mercury 13 member
linked to: Blue Origin NS-16 crewed flight
subject linked to:
Wally Funk – aviation pioneer and Mercury 13 member
linked to: Blue Origin NS-16 crewed flight
subject linked to:
Oliver Daemen – Dutch student and paying customer
linked to: Blue Origin NS-16 crewed flight
linked to: Blue Origin NS-16 crewed flight
linked to: Blue Origin NS-16 crewed flight