moonshot factory
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Moonshot Factory is the nickname for X (formerly Google X), Alphabet Inc.’s research and development lab focused on ambitious, high-risk technological innovations intended to solve major global problems.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| moonshot factory canonical | 1 |
| the moonshot factory | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1634066 — 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: moonshot factory Context triple: [X Development LLC, motto, moonshot factory]
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A.
The Spaceship Company
The Spaceship Company is an aerospace manufacturing firm co-founded by Virgin Galactic to build and test suborbital spaceplanes and related spacecraft.
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B.
Redstone rocket
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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C.
Onex
Onex is a suburban municipality in western Switzerland located just outside the city of Geneva.
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D.
BFR
BFR, now known as SpaceX's Starship launch system, is a fully reusable, next-generation spacecraft and rocket designed for missions to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
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E.
Project Longshot
Project Longshot was a late-1980s NASA and U.S. Naval Academy concept study for an unmanned, nuclear-powered interstellar probe designed to travel to nearby stars such as Alpha Centauri.
- 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: moonshot factory Target entity description: Moonshot Factory is the nickname for X (formerly Google X), Alphabet Inc.’s research and development lab focused on ambitious, high-risk technological innovations intended to solve major global problems.
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A.
The Spaceship Company
The Spaceship Company is an aerospace manufacturing firm co-founded by Virgin Galactic to build and test suborbital spaceplanes and related spacecraft.
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B.
Redstone rocket
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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C.
Onex
Onex is a suburban municipality in western Switzerland located just outside the city of Geneva.
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D.
BFR
BFR, now known as SpaceX's Starship launch system, is a fully reusable, next-generation spacecraft and rocket designed for missions to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
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E.
Project Longshot
Project Longshot was a late-1980s NASA and U.S. Naval Academy concept study for an unmanned, nuclear-powered interstellar probe designed to travel to nearby stars such as Alpha Centauri.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Alphabet Inc. division
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innovation lab ⓘ research and development organization ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Google X
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X ⓘ X, the moonshot factory ⓘ |
| approach |
combining science and engineering
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fail-fast experimentation ⓘ rapid prototyping ⓘ |
| areaOfWork |
aerospace technology
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artificial intelligence ⓘ connectivity infrastructure ⓘ life sciences applications ⓘ renewable energy ⓘ robotics ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| focus |
breakthrough technologies
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high-risk technological innovations ⓘ long-term research projects ⓘ moonshot projects ⓘ solving major global problems ⓘ |
| formerParentOrganization |
Google
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surface form:
Google LLC
|
| hasNickName |
moonshot factory
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surface form:
the moonshot factory
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| hasProject |
Everyday Robots
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Google Glass ⓘ Loon ⓘ Makani ⓘ Mineral ⓘ Project Foghorn ⓘ Project Loon ⓘ
surface form:
Project Loon high-altitude balloons
Project Taara ⓘ Project Wing delivery drones ⓘ Tidal ⓘ Waymo ⓘ Wing ⓘ self-driving car project that became Waymo ⓘ |
| industry |
advanced technology development
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technology research ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| location | Mountain View, California, United States ⓘ |
| mission | to create radical new technologies to solve hard global problems ⓘ |
| notableOutput |
spin-out companies such as Loon
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spin-out companies such as Waymo ⓘ spin-out companies such as Wing ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Alphabet Inc. ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Alphabet Inc. ⓘ |
| partOf | Alphabet Inc. ⓘ |
| subsidiaryOf | Alphabet Inc. ⓘ |
| website | https://x.company ⓘ |
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: moonshot factory Description of subject: Moonshot Factory is the nickname for X (formerly Google X), Alphabet Inc.’s research and development lab focused on ambitious, high-risk technological innovations intended to solve major global problems.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Moonshot Factory
this entity surface form:
the moonshot factory