Delta 3910
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Delta 3910 is an American expendable launch vehicle variant from the Delta rocket family, used primarily in the 1980s to place communications and weather satellites into orbit.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Delta 3910 canonical | 2 |
| Delta 3920 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11001762 — 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: Delta 3910 Context triple: [INSAT-1A, launchVehicle, Delta 3910]
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A.
Delta 2914
Delta 2914 was a variant of the Delta expendable launch vehicle family used by NASA to place scientific satellites, including the International Ultraviolet Explorer, into orbit.
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B.
Delta 5920-8
Delta 5920-8 was a variant of the Delta expendable launch vehicle used by NASA to place the COBE satellite into orbit for cosmological observations.
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C.
Space Delta 3
Space Delta 3 is a unit of the United States Space Force responsible for space electromagnetic warfare operations and capabilities.
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D.
Atlas III
Atlas III was an American expendable launch vehicle developed by Lockheed Martin as an intermediate step between the Atlas II and Atlas V rockets, featuring a Russian RD-180 engine and used primarily for commercial and military satellite launches in the early 2000s.
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E.
Space Delta 4
Space Delta 4 is a unit of the U.S. Space Force responsible for providing strategic and tactical missile warning and related space-based surveillance capabilities.
- 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: Delta 3910 Target entity description: Delta 3910 is an American expendable launch vehicle variant from the Delta rocket family, used primarily in the 1980s to place communications and weather satellites into orbit.
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A.
Delta 2914
Delta 2914 was a variant of the Delta expendable launch vehicle family used by NASA to place scientific satellites, including the International Ultraviolet Explorer, into orbit.
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B.
Delta 5920-8
Delta 5920-8 was a variant of the Delta expendable launch vehicle used by NASA to place the COBE satellite into orbit for cosmological observations.
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C.
Space Delta 3
Space Delta 3 is a unit of the United States Space Force responsible for space electromagnetic warfare operations and capabilities.
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D.
Atlas III
Atlas III was an American expendable launch vehicle developed by Lockheed Martin as an intermediate step between the Atlas II and Atlas V rockets, featuring a Russian RD-180 engine and used primarily for commercial and military satellite launches in the early 2000s.
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E.
Space Delta 4
Space Delta 4 is a unit of the U.S. Space Force responsible for providing strategic and tactical missile warning and related space-based surveillance capabilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Delta rocket variant
ⓘ
expendable launch vehicle ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| design | multi-stage launch vehicle ⓘ |
| era | Cold War space launch vehicle ⓘ |
| family |
Delta 3000 series
ⓘ
linked to:
Delta 3000
|
| firstStageType |
Extended Long Tank Thor
ⓘ
linked to:
Thor-Able
|
| fuelTypeFirstStage | RP-1/LOX ⓘ |
| launchCapability |
geostationary transfer orbit
ⓘ
low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| launchConfigurationCode | 3-9-1-0 ⓘ |
| launchesRole |
commercial satellite launches
ⓘ
government satellite launches ⓘ |
| launchSitesUsed |
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
ⓘ
linked to:
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Vandenberg Air Force Base ⓘ
linked to:
Vandenberg Space Force Base
|
| launchVehicleFamily | Thor-Delta ⓘ |
| manufacturer | McDonnell Douglas ⓘ |
| operationalPeriod | 1980s ⓘ |
| partOf |
Delta rocket family
ⓘ
linked to:
Delta family of rockets
|
| propulsionType |
liquid-fueled first stage
ⓘ
solid-fueled strap-on boosters ⓘ solid-fueled upper stage ⓘ |
| reusability | non-reusable ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| strapOnBoostersCount | 9 ⓘ |
| strapOnBoostersType | Castor solid rocket motor ⓘ |
| upperStageType | Delta-P ⓘ |
| usedFor |
launching communications satellites
ⓘ
launching weather satellites ⓘ orbital launch ⓘ |
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: Delta 3910 Description of subject: Delta 3910 is an American expendable launch vehicle variant from the Delta rocket family, used primarily in the 1980s to place communications and weather satellites into orbit.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Delta 3910