Taurus II
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Taurus II, later renamed Antares, is an orbital launch vehicle developed by Northrop Grumman (originally Orbital Sciences) primarily to deliver cargo to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services program.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Taurus II canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6431760 — 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: Taurus II Context triple: [Antares launch vehicle, alternativeName, Taurus II]
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A.
Titan IIIE
Titan IIIE was a U.S. expendable launch vehicle variant of the Titan III family, equipped with a Centaur upper stage and used in the 1970s to send deep-space probes such as Voyager 1 on interplanetary trajectories.
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B.
Centauro II
The Centauro II is a modern Italian 8x8 wheeled tank destroyer/armored fighting vehicle featuring enhanced firepower, protection, and mobility compared to its predecessor.
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C.
Titan IIID
Titan IIID was an American expendable launch vehicle developed from the Titan III family, primarily used by the U.S. Air Force in the 1970s and 1980s to place heavy reconnaissance and military satellites into low Earth orbit.
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D.
Titan III
Titan III was a family of American expendable launch vehicles developed during the Cold War era to support heavy military and civilian payloads into Earth orbit and beyond.
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E.
Atlas II
Atlas II was an American expendable launch vehicle family developed by General Dynamics and later Lockheed Martin, used primarily in the 1990s to launch commercial and military satellites into orbit.
- 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: Taurus II Target entity description: Taurus II, later renamed Antares, is an orbital launch vehicle developed by Northrop Grumman (originally Orbital Sciences) primarily to deliver cargo to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services program.
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A.
Titan IIIE
Titan IIIE was a U.S. expendable launch vehicle variant of the Titan III family, equipped with a Centaur upper stage and used in the 1970s to send deep-space probes such as Voyager 1 on interplanetary trajectories.
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B.
Centauro II
The Centauro II is a modern Italian 8x8 wheeled tank destroyer/armored fighting vehicle featuring enhanced firepower, protection, and mobility compared to its predecessor.
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C.
Titan IIID
Titan IIID was an American expendable launch vehicle developed from the Titan III family, primarily used by the U.S. Air Force in the 1970s and 1980s to place heavy reconnaissance and military satellites into low Earth orbit.
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D.
Titan III
Titan III was a family of American expendable launch vehicles developed during the Cold War era to support heavy military and civilian payloads into Earth orbit and beyond.
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E.
Atlas II
Atlas II was an American expendable launch vehicle family developed by General Dynamics and later Lockheed Martin, used primarily in the 1990s to launch commercial and military satellites into orbit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
expendable launch system
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medium-lift launch vehicle ⓘ orbital launch vehicle ⓘ |
| alternativeName | Antares 100 series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| developedBy |
Northrop Grumman
NERFINISHED
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Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems NERFINISHED ⓘ Orbital ATK NERFINISHED ⓘ Orbital Sciences Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| family | Antares launch vehicle family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstStageEngine |
AJ26
NERFINISHED
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RD-181 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstStagePropellant |
RP-1 kerosene
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liquid oxygen ⓘ |
| laterRenamedAs | Antares NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchCapability | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| launchConfiguration | two-stage configuration ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0A
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wallops Flight Facility NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Orbital ATK NERFINISHED ⓘ Orbital Sciences Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marketedBy |
Northrop Grumman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Orbital ATK NERFINISHED ⓘ Orbital Sciences Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator |
Northrop Grumman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Orbital ATK NERFINISHED ⓘ Orbital Sciences Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| payload | Cygnus spacecraft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryMission | cargo resupply to the International Space Station ⓘ |
| program | Commercial Orbital Transportation Services NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| propulsionType |
liquid-fueled first stage
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solid-fueled upper stage ⓘ |
| secondStageType | solid rocket motor ⓘ |
| secondStageVariant |
Castor 30
NERFINISHED
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Castor 30A NERFINISHED ⓘ Castor 30B NERFINISHED ⓘ Castor 30XL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | renamed Antares ⓘ |
| targetOrbit | International Space Station orbit ⓘ |
| usedFor | NASA cargo missions ⓘ |
| usedUnderProgram | NASA Commercial Resupply Services NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Taurus II Description of subject: Taurus II, later renamed Antares, is an orbital launch vehicle developed by Northrop Grumman (originally Orbital Sciences) primarily to deliver cargo to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services program.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.