RSS First Step
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RSS First Step is Blue Origin’s reusable New Shepard crew capsule designed to carry astronauts and research payloads on suborbital spaceflights.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| RSS First Step canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7113824 — 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: RSS First Step Context triple: [Flew on Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital flight on 2021-07-20, crewCompartment, RSS First Step]
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A.
RSS
RSS is a regional security alliance of Eastern Caribbean states focused on collective defense, maritime security, and disaster response coordination.
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B.
RSS
RSS is a right-wing, Hindu nationalist volunteer organization in India that serves as the ideological parent of several major political and social groups, including the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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C.
RSS
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a web feed format that allows users and applications to automatically receive updates from websites, blogs, and other online content sources.
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D.
Substack
Substack is an online publishing platform that enables writers and journalists to create paid or free subscription newsletters directly for their audiences.
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E.
RSS Advisory Board
The RSS Advisory Board is a group that maintains and clarifies the RSS web feed format specification and best practices for its use.
- 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: RSS First Step Target entity description: RSS First Step is Blue Origin’s reusable New Shepard crew capsule designed to carry astronauts and research payloads on suborbital spaceflights.
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A.
RSS
RSS is a regional security alliance of Eastern Caribbean states focused on collective defense, maritime security, and disaster response coordination.
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B.
RSS
RSS is a right-wing, Hindu nationalist volunteer organization in India that serves as the ideological parent of several major political and social groups, including the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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C.
RSS
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a web feed format that allows users and applications to automatically receive updates from websites, blogs, and other online content sources.
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D.
Substack
Substack is an online publishing platform that enables writers and journalists to create paid or free subscription newsletters directly for their audiences.
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E.
RSS Advisory Board
The RSS Advisory Board is a group that maintains and clarifies the RSS web feed format specification and best practices for its use.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crewed space capsule
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spacecraft ⓘ suborbital spacecraft ⓘ |
| belongsToProgram | New Shepard program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| carries |
commercial payloads
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scientific experiments ⓘ spaceflight participants ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| crewCapacity | 6 people (design capacity) ⓘ |
| designedTo |
carry astronauts
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carry research payloads ⓘ |
| flightRegime | suborbital ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
abort motor system
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crew seats ⓘ environmental control system ⓘ large windows for viewing ⓘ parachute landing system ⓘ pressurized cabin ⓘ |
| landingMethod | parachute-assisted touchdown ⓘ |
| launchProfile | vertical takeoff and vertical landing ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | New Shepard booster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Blue Origin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionProfile |
brief microgravity exposure
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suborbital ballistic trajectory ⓘ |
| namedBy | Blue Origin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | First Step refers to early human spaceflight steps with New Shepard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | Blue Origin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | New Shepard launch system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| propulsion | non-propelled capsule separated from booster ⓘ |
| reusability | reusable ⓘ |
| safetyDesign | launch escape capability ⓘ |
| spacecraftType | New Shepard crew capsule NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | operational ⓘ |
| usedFor |
microgravity research
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suborbital space tourism ⓘ technology demonstration ⓘ |
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: RSS First Step Description of subject: RSS First Step is Blue Origin’s reusable New Shepard crew capsule designed to carry astronauts and research payloads on suborbital spaceflights.
Referenced by (1)
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
→
crewCompartment
→
RSS First Step
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subject surface form:
Flew on Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital flight on 2021-07-20