NASA Commercial Resupply Services missions
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NASA Commercial Resupply Services missions are cargo flights operated by private companies under contract with NASA to deliver supplies and equipment to the International Space Station.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NASA Commercial Resupply Services | 7 |
| NASA Commercial Resupply Services program | 2 |
| Commercial Resupply Services 2 | 1 |
| NASA Commercial Resupply Services missions canonical | 1 |
| SpaceX CRS missions | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9721278 — 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: NASA Commercial Resupply Services missions Context triple: [Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40, usedFor, NASA Commercial Resupply Services missions]
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A.
NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program
The NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program is an initiative that partnered with private companies to develop and demonstrate commercial cargo transportation capabilities to the International Space Station.
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B.
SpaceX CRS-11
SpaceX CRS-11 was a NASA-contracted Commercial Resupply Services mission in 2017 that used a reused Dragon spacecraft to deliver cargo to the International Space Station.
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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.
SpaceX CRS-9
SpaceX CRS-9 was a NASA-contracted Commercial Resupply Services mission in 2016 that used a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft to deliver cargo and a docking adapter to the International Space Station.
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E.
SpaceX Cargo Dragon
SpaceX Cargo Dragon is an uncrewed, reusable spacecraft developed by SpaceX to deliver cargo to and from the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services program.
- 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: NASA Commercial Resupply Services missions Target entity description: NASA Commercial Resupply Services missions are cargo flights operated by private companies under contract with NASA to deliver supplies and equipment to the International Space Station.
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A.
NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program
The NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program is an initiative that partnered with private companies to develop and demonstrate commercial cargo transportation capabilities to the International Space Station.
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B.
SpaceX CRS-11
SpaceX CRS-11 was a NASA-contracted Commercial Resupply Services mission in 2017 that used a reused Dragon spacecraft to deliver cargo to the International Space Station.
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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.
SpaceX CRS-9
SpaceX CRS-9 was a NASA-contracted Commercial Resupply Services mission in 2016 that used a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft to deliver cargo and a docking adapter to the International Space Station.
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E.
SpaceX Cargo Dragon
SpaceX Cargo Dragon is an uncrewed, reusable spacecraft developed by SpaceX to deliver cargo to and from the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services program.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
International Space Station resupply program
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NASA program ⓘ cargo spaceflight program ⓘ |
| cargoType |
crew supplies
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pressurized cargo ⓘ scientific payloads ⓘ spare parts ⓘ unpressurized cargo ⓘ |
| contractor |
Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems
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linked to:
Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman Space Systems ⓘ
linked to:
Northrop Grumman Space Technology
Orbital ATK ⓘ Orbital Sciences Corporation ⓘ Sierra Nevada Corporation ⓘ SpaceX ⓘ |
| contractType | fixed-price contract ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| customer | NASA ⓘ |
| destination | International Space Station ⓘ |
| fundedBy | NASA ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
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Kennedy Space Center ⓘ Wallops Flight Facility ⓘ |
| managedBy |
NASA Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Office
ⓘ
linked to:
Commercial Crew Program
|
| operator | private spaceflight companies ⓘ |
| orbit | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| partOf |
NASA Commercial Resupply Services program
ⓘ
linked to:
NASA Commercial Resupply Services missions
|
| phase |
CRS-1
ⓘ
linked to:
Dragon CRS-1
CRS-2 ⓘ |
| purpose |
deliver cargo to the International Space Station
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deliver equipment to the International Space Station ⓘ deliver scientific experiments to the International Space Station ⓘ return cargo from the International Space Station ⓘ |
| regime | public–private partnership ⓘ |
| relatedProgram |
Commercial Crew Program
ⓘ
Commercial Orbital Transportation Services ⓘ |
| replaces | Space Shuttle ISS logistics role ⓘ |
| startPeriod | 2010s ⓘ |
| status | ongoing ⓘ |
| supports | continuous human presence in low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| usesDockingMethod |
autonomous docking
ⓘ
berthing via Canadarm2 ⓘ |
| usesLaunchVehicle |
Antares
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Atlas V ⓘ Falcon 9 ⓘ
linked to:
Falcon 9 rocket
|
| usesSpacecraft |
Cygnus spacecraft
ⓘ
Sierra Nevada Dream Chaser Cargo System ⓘ
linked to:
Dream Chaser spaceplane
SpaceX Cargo Dragon ⓘ SpaceX Dragon ⓘ
linked to:
SpaceX Cargo Dragon
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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: NASA Commercial Resupply Services missions Description of subject: NASA Commercial Resupply Services missions are cargo flights operated by private companies under contract with NASA to deliver supplies and equipment to the International Space Station.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40
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usedFor
→
NASA Commercial Resupply Services missions
ⓘ
linked to: NASA Commercial Resupply Services missions
linked to: NASA Commercial Resupply Services missions
Commercial Resupply Services 1
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firstOperationalMissionUnderContract
→
NASA Commercial Resupply Services
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subject linked to:
Commercial Resupply Services 1 (CRS-1)
linked to: NASA Commercial Resupply Services missions
subject linked to:
Commercial Resupply Services 1 (CRS-1)
linked to: NASA Commercial Resupply Services missions
linked to: NASA Commercial Resupply Services missions
linked to: NASA Commercial Resupply Services missions
linked to: NASA Commercial Resupply Services missions
linked to: NASA Commercial Resupply Services missions
linked to: NASA Commercial Resupply Services missions
linked to: NASA Commercial Resupply Services missions