flew on Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital flight on 2021-07-20
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Flew on Blue Origin’s first crewed New Shepard suborbital mission in July 2021, marking Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s debut trip to space.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| flew on Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital flight on 2021-07-20 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1447236 — 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: flew on Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital flight on 2021-07-20 Context triple: [Jeff Bezos, spaceflight, flew on Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital flight on 2021-07-20]
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A.
Virgin Orbit
Virgin Orbit was a satellite launch company within Richard Branson’s Virgin Group that specialized in air-launched orbital rockets deployed from a modified Boeing 747.
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B.
Boe-CFT (Crew Flight Test)
Boe-CFT (Crew Flight Test) is Boeing’s planned inaugural crewed demonstration mission of its CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
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C.
SpaceShipOne
SpaceShipOne is a privately developed suborbital spaceplane that became the first non-governmental crewed spacecraft to reach space and safely return.
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D.
Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic is a commercial spaceflight company that aims to provide suborbital space tourism and research flights using reusable spacecraft.
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E.
Artemis II
Artemis II is NASA’s planned crewed lunar flyby mission that will test the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System around the Moon as a key step toward returning humans to the lunar surface.
- 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: flew on Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital flight on 2021-07-20 Target entity description: Flew on Blue Origin’s first crewed New Shepard suborbital mission in July 2021, marking Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s debut trip to space.
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A.
Virgin Orbit
Virgin Orbit was a satellite launch company within Richard Branson’s Virgin Group that specialized in air-launched orbital rockets deployed from a modified Boeing 747.
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B.
Boe-CFT (Crew Flight Test)
Boe-CFT (Crew Flight Test) is Boeing’s planned inaugural crewed demonstration mission of its CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
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C.
SpaceShipOne
SpaceShipOne is a privately developed suborbital spaceplane that became the first non-governmental crewed spacecraft to reach space and safely return.
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D.
Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic is a commercial spaceflight company that aims to provide suborbital space tourism and research flights using reusable spacecraft.
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E.
Artemis II
Artemis II is NASA’s planned crewed lunar flyby mission that will test the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System around the Moon as a key step toward returning humans to the lunar surface.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crewed suborbital spaceflight
ⓘ
spaceflight ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Blue Origin NS-16 crewed flight
ⓘ
NS-16 mission ⓘ |
| apogeeAltitude | above 100 km ⓘ |
| boosterName |
New Shepard booster
ⓘ
surface form:
New Shepard booster 4 (NS4)
|
| capsuleLanding | parachute-assisted ⓘ |
| commercialPassenger | Oliver Daemen ⓘ |
| countryOfLaunch |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crewCompartment | RSS First Step ⓘ |
| crewMemberRole |
Jeff Bezos
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surface form:
Jeff Bezos – founder of Blue Origin and Amazon
Mark Bezos – Jeff Bezos’s brother ⓘ Oliver Daemen – Dutch student and paying customer ⓘ Wally Funk – aviation pioneer and Mercury 13 member ⓘ |
| crewSize | 4 ⓘ |
| crossedBoundary | Kármán line ⓘ |
| firstCrewedFlightOf | New Shepard ⓘ |
| landingType | vertical powered landing of booster ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2021-07-20 ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Blue Origin Launch Site One
ⓘ
Corn Ranch ⓘ |
| launchSiteLocation | near Van Horn, Texas, United States ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | New Shepard booster ⓘ |
| missionDuration | approximately 10 minutes ⓘ |
| missionObjective |
demonstrate crewed suborbital space tourism capability
ⓘ
publicity for Blue Origin’s commercial spaceflight services ⓘ |
| missionType |
demonstration flight
ⓘ
suborbital space tourism flight ⓘ |
| notableFor |
carrying the oldest person to reach space at the time (Wally Funk)
ⓘ
carrying the youngest person to reach space at the time (Oliver Daemen) ⓘ first crewed flight of a New Shepard vehicle ⓘ first time Jeff Bezos flew to space ⓘ |
| oldestPersonInSpaceRecordHolder | Wally Funk ⓘ |
| operator | Blue Origin ⓘ |
| oxidizer | liquid oxygen ⓘ |
| passenger |
Jeff Bezos
ⓘ
Mark Bezos ⓘ Oliver Daemen ⓘ Wally Funk ⓘ |
| propellant | liquid hydrogen ⓘ |
| propulsion | BE-3 engine ⓘ |
| relatedOrganization |
Amazon
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surface form:
Amazon.com, Inc.
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| relatedProgram |
New Shepard
ⓘ
surface form:
New Shepard program
|
| reusabilityFeature |
reusable booster
ⓘ
reusable crew capsule ⓘ |
| spacecraft | New Shepard ⓘ |
| spaceTourism | yes ⓘ |
| youngestPersonInSpaceRecordHolder | Oliver Daemen ⓘ |
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: flew on Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital flight on 2021-07-20 Description of subject: Flew on Blue Origin’s first crewed New Shepard suborbital mission in July 2021, marking Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s debut trip to space.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.