H-IIB launch vehicle
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The H-IIB launch vehicle is a Japanese heavy-lift rocket developed to carry cargo, including the H-II Transfer Vehicle, to the International Space Station and support other orbital missions.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| H-IIB | 5 |
| H-IIB launch vehicle canonical | 4 |
| H-IIB rocket | 2 |
| H-IIB Flight 1 | 1 |
| H-IIB core stage upper module | 1 |
| H-IIB program | 1 |
| H-IIB upper stage | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T727707 — 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: H-IIB launch vehicle Context triple: [Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, operates, H-IIB launch vehicle]
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A.
H-IIA launch vehicle
The H-IIA launch vehicle is a Japanese expendable rocket system used primarily for satellite deployment and space exploration missions.
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B.
R-1 rocket
The R-1 rocket was an early Soviet ballistic missile and research rocket developed after World War II as a near-copy of Germany’s V-2, serving as a foundation for later Soviet rocketry.
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C.
Proton rocket
The Proton rocket is a heavy-lift Russian expendable launch vehicle widely used to place large payloads, including space station modules and communications satellites, into orbit.
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D.
Vostok-K rocket
The Vostok-K rocket was a Soviet launch vehicle that carried Yuri Gagarin on the first human spaceflight in history.
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E.
Titan IIIE-Centaur
Titan IIIE-Centaur was a U.S. expendable launch vehicle that combined a Titan III booster with a high-energy Centaur upper stage to send deep-space probes such as Voyager 2 on interplanetary trajectories.
- 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: H-IIB launch vehicle Target entity description: The H-IIB launch vehicle is a Japanese heavy-lift rocket developed to carry cargo, including the H-II Transfer Vehicle, to the International Space Station and support other orbital missions.
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A.
H-IIA launch vehicle
The H-IIA launch vehicle is a Japanese expendable rocket system used primarily for satellite deployment and space exploration missions.
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B.
R-1 rocket
The R-1 rocket was an early Soviet ballistic missile and research rocket developed after World War II as a near-copy of Germany’s V-2, serving as a foundation for later Soviet rocketry.
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C.
Proton rocket
The Proton rocket is a heavy-lift Russian expendable launch vehicle widely used to place large payloads, including space station modules and communications satellites, into orbit.
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D.
Vostok-K rocket
The Vostok-K rocket was a Soviet launch vehicle that carried Yuri Gagarin on the first human spaceflight in history.
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E.
Titan IIIE-Centaur
Titan IIIE-Centaur was a U.S. expendable launch vehicle that combined a Titan III booster with a high-energy Centaur upper stage to send deep-space probes such as Voyager 2 on interplanetary trajectories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: H-IIB launch vehicle Description of subject: The H-IIB launch vehicle is a Japanese heavy-lift rocket developed to carry cargo, including the H-II Transfer Vehicle, to the International Space Station and support other orbital missions.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
H-IIB rocket
this entity surface form:
H-IIB
this entity surface form:
H-IIB rocket
this entity surface form:
H-IIB Flight 1
this entity surface form:
H-IIB
this entity surface form:
H-IIB
this entity surface form:
H-IIB program
this entity surface form:
H-IIB
this entity surface form:
H-IIB