Redstone rocket
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The Redstone rocket was an early American ballistic missile adapted by NASA as a reliable launch vehicle for the first crewed Mercury spaceflights.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Redstone rocket canonical | 6 |
| Redstone MRLV | 2 |
| Sparta rocket | 1 |
| U.S. Redstone rocket | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1116612 — 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.
Target entity: Redstone rocket Context triple: [Mercury program, launchVehicle, Redstone rocket]
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Rocket
Rocket was the famous nickname of Maurice Richard, the legendary Canadian ice hockey player renowned for his speed, scoring ability, and iconic status with the Montreal Canadiens.
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The Rocket
The Rocket was an early 19th-century steam locomotive designed by George Stephenson that became famous for winning the 1829 Rainhill Trials and proving the viability of railway transport.
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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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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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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.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Redstone rocket Target entity description: The Redstone rocket was an early American ballistic missile adapted by NASA as a reliable launch vehicle for the first crewed Mercury spaceflights.
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A.
Rocket
Rocket was the famous nickname of Maurice Richard, the legendary Canadian ice hockey player renowned for his speed, scoring ability, and iconic status with the Montreal Canadiens.
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B.
The Rocket
The Rocket was an early 19th-century steam locomotive designed by George Stephenson that became famous for winning the 1829 Rainhill Trials and proving the viability of railway transport.
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C.
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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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.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ballistic missile
ⓘ
launch vehicle ⓘ |
| configuration | single-stage rocket ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| derivativeOf |
V-2 rocket
ⓘ
surface form:
German V-2 rocket
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| designer | Wernher von Braun ⓘ |
| developer | Army Ballistic Missile Agency ⓘ |
| diameter | approximately 1.78 meters ⓘ |
| enteredService | 1958 ⓘ |
| era | Cold War ⓘ |
| family | Redstone missile family ⓘ |
| firstCrewedUSLaunchVehicle | true ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 1953 ⓘ |
| fuel | ethyl alcohol ⓘ |
| guidanceSystem | inertial guidance ⓘ |
| launchedAstronaut |
Alan Shepard
ⓘ
Gus Grissom ⓘ
surface form:
Virgil I. Grissom
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| launchedPayload |
Explorer 1
ⓘ
Mercury-Redstone 3 ⓘ Mercury-Redstone 4 ⓘ |
| launchMass | approximately 28,000 kilograms ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Cape Canaveral
ⓘ
White Sands Missile Range ⓘ
surface form:
White Sands Proving Ground
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| length | approximately 21 meters ⓘ |
| locationOfNameOrigin | Huntsville, Alabama ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
Chrysler
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surface form:
Chrysler Corporation
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| namedAfter |
Redstone Arsenal, Alabama
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surface form:
Redstone Arsenal
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| notableVariant |
Jupiter-C rocket
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surface form:
Jupiter-C
Mercury-Redstone rocket ⓘ
surface form:
Mercury-Redstone
Redstone rocket self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Sparta rocket
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| operator |
United States Ordnance Department
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surface form:
United States Army Ordnance Corps
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| oxidizer | liquid oxygen ⓘ |
| propulsionType | liquid-fueled rocket ⓘ |
| range | approximately 320 kilometers ⓘ |
| retiredFromService | 1964 ⓘ |
| role | short-range ballistic missile ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| successor |
Jupiter missile
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Saturn I ⓘ |
| thrustAtLiftoff | approximately 350 kilonewtons ⓘ |
| usedAs |
test vehicle for guidance systems
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test vehicle for reentry technology ⓘ |
| usedBy |
NASA
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United States Army ⓘ |
| usedForProgram |
NASA Explorer Program
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surface form:
Explorer satellite program
Jupiter-C test program ⓘ Mercury program ⓘ
surface form:
Project Mercury
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How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Redstone rocket Description of subject: The Redstone rocket was an early American ballistic missile adapted by NASA as a reliable launch vehicle for the first crewed Mercury spaceflights.
Referenced by (10)
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