Atlas V
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expendable launch vehicle
heavy-lift launch vehicle
medium-lift launch vehicle
orbital launch vehicle
Atlas V is an expendable, medium- to heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by United Launch Alliance and widely used for deploying satellites and space probes into orbit.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Atlas V canonical | 41 |
| Atlas V N22 | 5 |
| Atlas V 401 | 4 |
| Atlas V launch vehicle | 2 |
| Atlas V rocket | 2 |
| Atlas V 411 | 1 |
| Atlas V 501 | 1 |
| Atlas V 551 | 1 |
| Atlas V family | 1 |
| Atlas V launch system | 1 |
| Atlas V program | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1013493 — 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: Atlas V Context triple: [Boeing X-37, launchVehicle, Atlas V]
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A.
Atlas V 541
Atlas V 541 is a heavy-lift configuration of the Atlas V expendable launch system used by NASA to send large interplanetary spacecraft, such as the Curiosity Mars rover, into space.
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B.
Falcon 9 rocket
The Falcon 9 rocket is a partially reusable, two-stage orbital launch vehicle developed by SpaceX that has revolutionized commercial spaceflight through frequent, cost-effective missions and routine booster landings.
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C.
Atlas-Centaur
Atlas-Centaur was an American expendable launch vehicle family that combined an Atlas booster with a high-energy Centaur upper stage to send payloads, including early interplanetary probes, into space.
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D.
Falcon Heavy rocket
The Falcon Heavy rocket is SpaceX’s heavy-lift launch vehicle capable of carrying large payloads to orbit using a reusable, triple-booster first stage.
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E.
Orion spacecraft
The Orion spacecraft is NASA’s next-generation crewed space vehicle designed to carry astronauts beyond low Earth orbit on deep-space missions, including journeys to the Moon and eventually Mars.
- 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: Atlas V Target entity description: Atlas V is an expendable, medium- to heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by United Launch Alliance and widely used for deploying satellites and space probes into orbit.
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A.
Atlas V 541
Atlas V 541 is a heavy-lift configuration of the Atlas V expendable launch system used by NASA to send large interplanetary spacecraft, such as the Curiosity Mars rover, into space.
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B.
Falcon 9 rocket
The Falcon 9 rocket is a partially reusable, two-stage orbital launch vehicle developed by SpaceX that has revolutionized commercial spaceflight through frequent, cost-effective missions and routine booster landings.
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C.
Atlas-Centaur
Atlas-Centaur was an American expendable launch vehicle family that combined an Atlas booster with a high-energy Centaur upper stage to send payloads, including early interplanetary probes, into space.
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D.
Falcon Heavy rocket
The Falcon Heavy rocket is SpaceX’s heavy-lift launch vehicle capable of carrying large payloads to orbit using a reusable, triple-booster first stage.
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E.
Orion spacecraft
The Orion spacecraft is NASA’s next-generation crewed space vehicle designed to carry astronauts beyond low Earth orbit on deep-space missions, including journeys to the Moon and eventually Mars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Atlas V Description of subject: Atlas V is an expendable, medium- to heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by United Launch Alliance and widely used for deploying satellites and space probes into orbit.
Referenced by (60)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Atlas V family
this entity surface form:
Atlas V launch system
this entity surface form:
Atlas V launch vehicle