Titan IIIB
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Titan IIIB was an American expendable launch vehicle variant of the Titan III family, primarily used during the Cold War to place military reconnaissance satellites into low Earth orbit.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Titan IIIB canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10211897 — 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: Titan IIIB Context triple: [Titan III, familyMember, Titan IIIB]
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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.
Titan IIID
Titan IIID was an American expendable launch vehicle developed from the Titan III family, primarily used by the U.S. Air Force in the 1970s and 1980s to place heavy reconnaissance and military satellites into low Earth orbit.
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C.
Titan III
Titan III was a family of American expendable launch vehicles developed during the Cold War era to support heavy military and civilian payloads into Earth orbit and beyond.
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D.
Titan IIIC
Titan IIIC was a U.S. Air Force heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle used primarily in the 1960s and 1970s to place military and experimental payloads into orbit.
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E.
Titan I
Titan I was the United States’ first-generation liquid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missile, later adapted as an early space launch vehicle during the Cold War.
- 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: Titan IIIB Target entity description: Titan IIIB was an American expendable launch vehicle variant of the Titan III family, primarily used during the Cold War to place military reconnaissance satellites 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.
Titan IIID
Titan IIID was an American expendable launch vehicle developed from the Titan III family, primarily used by the U.S. Air Force in the 1970s and 1980s to place heavy reconnaissance and military satellites into low Earth orbit.
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C.
Titan III
Titan III was a family of American expendable launch vehicles developed during the Cold War era to support heavy military and civilian payloads into Earth orbit and beyond.
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D.
Titan IIIC
Titan IIIC was a U.S. Air Force heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle used primarily in the 1960s and 1970s to place military and experimental payloads into orbit.
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E.
Titan I
Titan I was the United States’ first-generation liquid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missile, later adapted as an early space launch vehicle during the Cold War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Titan III family member
ⓘ
expendable launch vehicle ⓘ |
| category | orbital launch vehicle ⓘ |
| configuration | two-stage Titan II core with Agena upper stage ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| derivedFrom | Titan II ICBM ⓘ |
| designLife | single-use ⓘ |
| era |
1960s
ⓘ
1970s ⓘ 1980s ⓘ |
| family | Titan III ⓘ |
| firstFlightDate | 1966-07-29 ⓘ |
| firstStage |
Titan II core
ⓘ
linked to:
Titan II
|
| lastFlightDate | 1987-02-04 ⓘ |
| launchAzimuth | high-inclination orbits ⓘ |
| launchComplex |
Space Launch Complex 4E
ⓘ
linked to:
Space Launch Complex 4
Space Launch Complex 4W ⓘ
linked to:
Space Launch Complex 576-W
|
| launchesRole | polar orbit launches ⓘ |
| launchesTotal | about 70 ⓘ |
| launchServiceProvider | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| launchSiteCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| launchSites |
Vandenberg Air Force Base
ⓘ
linked to:
Vandenberg Space Force Base
|
| manufacturer | Martin Marietta ⓘ |
| missionType | reconnaissance support ⓘ |
| notableFeature | optimized for polar launches from Vandenberg AFB ⓘ |
| numberOfStages | 3 ⓘ |
| operator | National Reconnaissance Office ⓘ |
| orbitType | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| periodOfUse | Cold War ⓘ |
| primaryUse | launching military reconnaissance satellites ⓘ |
| program | U.S. reconnaissance satellite program ⓘ |
| propellantFirstStage | Aerozine 50 and nitrogen tetroxide ⓘ |
| propellantSecondStage | Aerozine 50 and nitrogen tetroxide ⓘ |
| propellantTypeFirstStage | hypergolic ⓘ |
| propellantTypeSecondStage | hypergolic ⓘ |
| propulsionType | liquid-fueled ⓘ |
| reusability | non-reusable ⓘ |
| secondStage | Titan II second stage ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| successor |
Titan 34B
ⓘ
linked to:
Titan 34D
Titan IIID ⓘ |
| targetOrbitInclination | sun-synchronous-like orbits ⓘ |
| typicalPayload |
KH-8 Gambit reconnaissance satellite
ⓘ
linked to:
KH-8 reconnaissance satellites
KH-9 Hexagon support payloads ⓘ |
| upperStage | Agena D ⓘ |
| usedBy | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| usedDuringConflict | Cold War ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Titan IIIB Description of subject: Titan IIIB was an American expendable launch vehicle variant of the Titan III family, primarily used during the Cold War to place military reconnaissance satellites into low Earth orbit.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.