OV-105
E183888
OV-105, better known as Space Shuttle Endeavour, was NASA’s fifth and final operational orbiter, built to replace Challenger and used for numerous missions including International Space Station assembly flights.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| OV-105 canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1639108 — 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: OV-105 Context triple: [STS-88, spaceShuttle, OV-105]
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A.
OV-103
OV-103 is the NASA Space Shuttle orbiter better known as Discovery, which flew numerous important missions including the Hubble Space Telescope deployment and International Space Station assembly flights.
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B.
OV-102
OV-102 is the NASA Space Shuttle orbiter better known as Columbia, the first operational shuttle to fly into space.
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C.
OV-099
OV-099, better known as Space Shuttle Challenger, was a NASA orbiter that flew numerous missions in the Space Shuttle program before being lost in the 1986 launch disaster.
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D.
NL-OV
NL-OV is the ISO 3166-2 subdivision code assigned to the Dutch province of Overijssel.
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E.
Voyager KC2
Voyager KC2 is an Airbus A330-based multi-role tanker transport aircraft used by the Royal Air Force for air-to-air refuelling and strategic airlift operations.
- 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: OV-105 Target entity description: OV-105, better known as Space Shuttle Endeavour, was NASA’s fifth and final operational orbiter, built to replace Challenger and used for numerous missions including International Space Station assembly flights.
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A.
OV-103
OV-103 is the NASA Space Shuttle orbiter better known as Discovery, which flew numerous important missions including the Hubble Space Telescope deployment and International Space Station assembly flights.
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B.
OV-102
OV-102 is the NASA Space Shuttle orbiter better known as Columbia, the first operational shuttle to fly into space.
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C.
OV-099
OV-099, better known as Space Shuttle Challenger, was a NASA orbiter that flew numerous missions in the Space Shuttle program before being lost in the 1986 launch disaster.
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D.
NL-OV
NL-OV is the ISO 3166-2 subdivision code assigned to the Dutch province of Overijssel.
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E.
Voyager KC2
Voyager KC2 is an Airbus A330-based multi-role tanker transport aircraft used by the Royal Air Force for air-to-air refuelling and strategic airlift operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Space Shuttle Endeavour
ⓘ
Space Shuttle orbiter ⓘ spacecraft ⓘ |
| constructedAt | Palmdale, California ⓘ |
| countryOfOperator |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crewCapacity | up to 7 astronauts ⓘ |
| currentCity |
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California
|
| currentLocation | California Science Center ⓘ |
| displayConfiguration | planned vertical launch stack display ⓘ |
| firstFlight | STS-49 ⓘ |
| firstFlightDate | 1992-05-07 ⓘ |
| firstFlightLaunchSite | Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B ⓘ |
| height | 17.27 m ⓘ |
| lastFlight | STS-134 ⓘ |
| lastFlightDate | 2011-05-16 ⓘ |
| lastFlightLandingSite | Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility ⓘ |
| lastLandingDate | 2011-06-01 ⓘ |
| launchMass | about 109,000 kg (orbiter only) ⓘ |
| length | 37.24 m ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Rockwell International ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
HMS Endeavour
ⓘ
HMS Endeavour ⓘ
surface form:
James Cook's research vessel Endeavour
|
| notableMission |
STS-100
ⓘ
surface form:
STS-100 (ISS assembly and Canadarm2 delivery)
STS-123 ⓘ
surface form:
STS-123 (ISS assembly mission)
STS-134 ⓘ
surface form:
STS-134 (final mission of Endeavour)
STS-49 ⓘ
surface form:
STS-49 (Intelsat VI retrieval and repair)
Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission 1 ⓘ
surface form:
STS-61 (first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission)
STS-88 ⓘ
surface form:
STS-88 (first International Space Station assembly flight for Endeavour)
|
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| partOf |
NASA Space Shuttle program
ⓘ
surface form:
Space Shuttle program
|
| payloadBayDiameter | 4.6 m ⓘ |
| payloadBayLength | 18.3 m ⓘ |
| replaced | Space Shuttle Challenger ⓘ |
| retired | 2011 ⓘ |
| role | orbital vehicle for crewed spaceflight ⓘ |
| spaceShuttleProgramOrbiterNumber | fifth operational orbiter ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| totalDistanceTraveled | approximately 122,883,151 miles ⓘ |
| totalFlights | 25 ⓘ |
| totalOrbits | approximately 4,671 ⓘ |
| totalTimeInSpace | approximately 296 days ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Space Shuttle ISS assembly flights
ⓘ
surface form:
International Space Station assembly missions
Spacelab missions ⓘ microgravity research missions ⓘ satellite deployment missions ⓘ |
| wingspan | 23.79 m ⓘ |
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: OV-105 Description of subject: OV-105, better known as Space Shuttle Endeavour, was NASA’s fifth and final operational orbiter, built to replace Challenger and used for numerous missions including International Space Station assembly flights.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.