Ariane 5
E302053
Ariane 5 is a European heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by the European Space Agency and Arianespace, widely used to deploy satellites and space telescopes into orbit.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ariane 5 canonical | 37 |
| Ariane 501 | 2 |
| Ariane 5 ES | 1 |
| Ariane 5 heavy-lift launch vehicle | 1 |
| Ariane 5 program | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2706220 — 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: Ariane 5 Context triple: [FGS/NIRISS, launchVehicle, Ariane 5]
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A.
Ariane 5 ECA
Ariane 5 ECA is a heavy-lift European expendable launch vehicle variant renowned for launching major payloads such as the James Webb Space Telescope.
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B.
Ariane 5 G
Ariane 5 G is an early variant of the European Ariane 5 heavy-lift launch vehicle, used primarily to place satellites into geostationary transfer orbit.
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C.
Ariane 6
Ariane 6 is a next-generation European heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by the European Space Agency to provide more cost-effective and flexible access to space for commercial and institutional missions.
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D.
Ariane launch vehicle programme
The Ariane launch vehicle programme is a series of European expendable rockets developed to provide independent and reliable access to space for commercial, scientific, and governmental payloads.
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E.
H-IIA launch vehicle
The H-IIA launch vehicle is a Japanese expendable rocket system used primarily for satellite deployment and space exploration missions.
- 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: Ariane 5 Target entity description: Ariane 5 is a European heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by the European Space Agency and Arianespace, widely used to deploy satellites and space telescopes into orbit.
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A.
Ariane 5 ECA
Ariane 5 ECA is a heavy-lift European expendable launch vehicle variant renowned for launching major payloads such as the James Webb Space Telescope.
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B.
Ariane 5 G
Ariane 5 G is an early variant of the European Ariane 5 heavy-lift launch vehicle, used primarily to place satellites into geostationary transfer orbit.
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C.
Ariane 6
Ariane 6 is a next-generation European heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by the European Space Agency to provide more cost-effective and flexible access to space for commercial and institutional missions.
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D.
Ariane launch vehicle programme
The Ariane launch vehicle programme is a series of European expendable rockets developed to provide independent and reliable access to space for commercial, scientific, and governmental payloads.
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E.
H-IIA launch vehicle
The H-IIA launch vehicle is a Japanese expendable rocket system used primarily for satellite deployment and space exploration missions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
expendable launch system
ⓘ
heavy-lift launch vehicle ⓘ launch vehicle ⓘ |
| configurationVariant |
Ariane 5 ECA
ⓘ
surface form:
Ariane 5ECA
Ariane 5 ES ⓘ
surface form:
Ariane 5ES
Ariane 5 G ⓘ
surface form:
Ariane 5G
Ariane 5 G ⓘ
surface form:
Ariane 5G+
Ariane 5 G ⓘ
surface form:
Ariane 5GS
|
| countryOfOrigin | Europe ⓘ |
| developer |
CNES
ⓘ
surface form:
Centre National d’Études Spatiales
European Space Agency ⓘ |
| diameter | 5.4 m ⓘ |
| fairingDiameter | 5.4 m ⓘ |
| fairingHeight | about 17 m ⓘ |
| firstFlightDate | 1996-06-04 ⓘ |
| firstSuccessfulFlightDate | 1997-10-30 ⓘ |
| guidanceSystem | inertial guidance system ⓘ |
| height | 52 m ⓘ |
| launchesFailed | 3 ⓘ |
| launchesPartialFailure | 2 ⓘ |
| launchesSuccessful | 112 ⓘ |
| launchesTotal | 117 ⓘ |
| launchFrequencyPeak | several launches per year ⓘ |
| launchOfJamesWebbSpaceTelescopeDate | 2021-12-25 ⓘ |
| launchPad | ELA-3 ⓘ |
| launchSite | Guiana Space Centre ⓘ |
| liftoffMass | about 780000 kg ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Arianespace ⓘ |
| marketRole | flagship launcher of Arianespace ⓘ |
| notableFailure | maiden flight failure on 1996-06-04 ⓘ |
| notablePayload |
ATV spacecraft
ⓘ
surface form:
Automated Transfer Vehicle
BepiColombo mission ⓘ James Webb Space Telescope ⓘ Rosetta ⓘ
surface form:
Rosetta spacecraft
|
| numberOfBoosters | 2 ⓘ |
| operator | Arianespace ⓘ |
| payloadToGTO | about 10000 kg ⓘ |
| payloadToLEO | about 21000 kg ⓘ |
| predecessor | Ariane 4 ⓘ |
| primaryMissionType |
commercial satellite launch
ⓘ
interplanetary mission launch ⓘ scientific spacecraft launch ⓘ |
| propellantTypeBoosters | solid propellant ⓘ |
| propellantTypeFirstStage | cryogenic liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen ⓘ |
| propellantTypeUpperStage | cryogenic liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen ⓘ |
| retirementDate | 2023-07-05 ⓘ |
| stages | 2 ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| successor | Ariane 6 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Lagrange point missions
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geostationary transfer orbit missions ⓘ low Earth orbit missions ⓘ |
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: Ariane 5 Description of subject: Ariane 5 is a European heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by the European Space Agency and Arianespace, widely used to deploy satellites and space telescopes into orbit.
Referenced by (42)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ariane 5 ES
subject surface form:
Anik C2
this entity surface form:
Ariane 5 heavy-lift launch vehicle
subject surface form:
Rosetta
this entity surface form:
Ariane 5 program
subject surface form:
Guiana Space Centre
this entity surface form:
Ariane 501
this entity surface form:
Ariane 501