New Shepard booster
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The New Shepard booster is Blue Origin’s reusable suborbital rocket stage designed to carry a crew capsule to the edge of space and return for vertical powered landings.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New Shepard booster canonical | 1 |
| New Shepard booster 4 (NS4) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7113789 — 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: New Shepard booster Context triple: [Flew on Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital flight on 2021-07-20, launchVehicle, New Shepard booster]
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A.
Super Heavy booster
The Super Heavy booster is SpaceX’s massive first-stage rocket designed to provide the primary lift for the fully reusable Starship launch system.
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B.
Falcon 9 first stage booster B1064
Falcon 9 first stage booster B1064 is a reusable SpaceX rocket booster that has flown multiple missions, including classified launches for the U.S. Space Force.
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C.
Falcon 9 rocket
The Falcon 9 rocket is a partially reusable, two-stage orbital launch vehicle developed by SpaceX that has revolutionized commercial spaceflight through frequent, cost-effective missions and routine booster landings.
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D.
Falcon 9 first stage booster B1065
Falcon 9 first stage booster B1065 is a reusable SpaceX rocket booster that has flown national security missions for the U.S. Space Force, including the USSF-67 launch.
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E.
Starship upper stage
The Starship upper stage is the fully reusable spacecraft component of SpaceX’s Starship launch system, designed to carry crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
- 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: New Shepard booster Target entity description: The New Shepard booster is Blue Origin’s reusable suborbital rocket stage designed to carry a crew capsule to the edge of space and return for vertical powered landings.
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A.
Super Heavy booster
The Super Heavy booster is SpaceX’s massive first-stage rocket designed to provide the primary lift for the fully reusable Starship launch system.
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B.
Falcon 9 first stage booster B1064
Falcon 9 first stage booster B1064 is a reusable SpaceX rocket booster that has flown multiple missions, including classified launches for the U.S. Space Force.
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C.
Falcon 9 rocket
The Falcon 9 rocket is a partially reusable, two-stage orbital launch vehicle developed by SpaceX that has revolutionized commercial spaceflight through frequent, cost-effective missions and routine booster landings.
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D.
Falcon 9 first stage booster B1065
Falcon 9 first stage booster B1065 is a reusable SpaceX rocket booster that has flown national security missions for the U.S. Space Force, including the USSF-67 launch.
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E.
Starship upper stage
The Starship upper stage is the fully reusable spacecraft component of SpaceX’s Starship launch system, designed to carry crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
reusable suborbital rocket stage
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rocket booster ⓘ |
| capsuleCarried | New Shepard crew capsule NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| crewCapacityWithCapsule | up to six people ⓘ |
| designGoal |
rapid reusability
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reduced launch costs for suborbital missions ⓘ |
| engineManufacturer | Blue Origin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| engineType | BE-3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| environment | suborbital space environment ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 2015 ⓘ |
| firstSuccessfulVerticalLanding | 2015-11-23 ⓘ |
| flightControl | aerodynamic fins and thrust vector control ⓘ |
| flightDuration | approximately 10 to 11 minutes per mission ⓘ |
| flightEnvironment | high dynamic pressure during ascent and descent ⓘ |
| flightProfileApogee |
above Kármán line
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over 100 kilometers altitude ⓘ |
| fuelType | cryogenic propellants ⓘ |
| guidanceSystem | autonomous guidance and control ⓘ |
| landingGear | deployable landing legs ⓘ |
| landingMethod | retro-propulsion ⓘ |
| landingProfile | vertical powered landing ⓘ |
| landingSite | designated landing pad near launch site ⓘ |
| launchConfiguration | single-stage booster with crew capsule on top ⓘ |
| launchProfile | vertical takeoff ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Blue Origin West Texas Launch Site
NERFINISHED
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Corn Ranch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchSiteLocation | near Van Horn, Texas ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Blue Origin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| market | commercial suborbital flights ⓘ |
| missionType | suborbital spaceflight ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Alan Shepard (via New Shepard system name) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | Blue Origin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| oxidizer | liquid oxygen ⓘ |
| partOf | New Shepard launch system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
microgravity research
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space tourism ⓘ |
| program | New Shepard program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| propellantType | liquid hydrogen ⓘ |
| propulsionType | liquid-fueled rocket engine ⓘ |
| reusability | designed for vertical takeoff and vertical landing ⓘ |
| reusabilityFeature | multiple flights per booster ⓘ |
| safetyFeature | separate crew capsule with escape capability (system-level) ⓘ |
| separationEvent | separates from crew capsule near apogee ⓘ |
| status | operational ⓘ |
| thrustSource | single BE-3 engine ⓘ |
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: New Shepard booster Description of subject: The New Shepard booster is Blue Origin’s reusable suborbital rocket stage designed to carry a crew capsule to the edge of space and return for vertical powered landings.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
flew on Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital flight on 2021-07-20
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launchVehicle
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New Shepard booster
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subject surface form:
Flew on Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital flight on 2021-07-20
flew on Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital flight on 2021-07-20
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boosterName
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New Shepard booster
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subject surface form:
Flew on Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital flight on 2021-07-20
this entity surface form:
New Shepard booster 4 (NS4)