BE-7 engine
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The BE-7 engine is Blue Origin’s high-performance liquid hydrogen–liquid oxygen rocket engine designed primarily to power lunar landers such as the company’s Blue Moon vehicle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| BE-7 engine canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7113583 — 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: BE-7 engine Context triple: [Blue Origin, develops, BE-7 engine]
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A.
BE-4 engine
The BE-4 engine is Blue Origin’s next-generation, liquefied natural gas–fueled rocket engine designed to power heavy-lift launch vehicles such as New Glenn and United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan.
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NK-33 engine
The NK-33 engine is a Soviet-era high-performance liquid-fuel rocket engine originally developed for the N1 lunar rocket program, known for its efficiency and thrust-to-weight ratio.
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C.
RS-68 engine
The RS-68 engine is a powerful liquid-fueled rocket engine used primarily on the Delta IV launch vehicle, known for its high thrust and simplified design for cost-effective heavy-lift missions.
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D.
BE-3 engine
The BE-3 engine is a liquid hydrogen–liquid oxygen rocket engine developed by Blue Origin, best known for powering the company’s New Shepard suborbital launch vehicle.
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E.
RD-107
RD-107 is a Soviet-designed liquid-fueled rocket engine, best known for powering the first stages of early R-7 family launch vehicles used in historic missions like Sputnik and Vostok.
- 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: BE-7 engine Target entity description: The BE-7 engine is Blue Origin’s high-performance liquid hydrogen–liquid oxygen rocket engine designed primarily to power lunar landers such as the company’s Blue Moon vehicle.
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A.
BE-4 engine
The BE-4 engine is Blue Origin’s next-generation, liquefied natural gas–fueled rocket engine designed to power heavy-lift launch vehicles such as New Glenn and United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan.
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B.
NK-33 engine
The NK-33 engine is a Soviet-era high-performance liquid-fuel rocket engine originally developed for the N1 lunar rocket program, known for its efficiency and thrust-to-weight ratio.
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C.
RS-68 engine
The RS-68 engine is a powerful liquid-fueled rocket engine used primarily on the Delta IV launch vehicle, known for its high thrust and simplified design for cost-effective heavy-lift missions.
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D.
BE-3 engine
The BE-3 engine is a liquid hydrogen–liquid oxygen rocket engine developed by Blue Origin, best known for powering the company’s New Shepard suborbital launch vehicle.
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E.
RD-107
RD-107 is a Soviet-designed liquid-fueled rocket engine, best known for powering the first stages of early R-7 family launch vehicles used in historic missions like Sputnik and Vostok.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
liquid rocket engine
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rocket engine ⓘ |
| application |
lunar descent stage
ⓘ
lunar landing missions ⓘ |
| associatedCompany | Blue Origin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedProgram | Blue Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| customer | NASA (for Human Landing System via Blue Origin team) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cycleType | expander cycle ⓘ |
| designedForBody | Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designedForEnvironment | vacuum ⓘ |
| designedForLanding | soft landing on the Moon ⓘ |
| designedForPrecision | precision lunar landing ⓘ |
| designGoal |
high efficiency in vacuum
ⓘ
high performance ⓘ |
| developer | Blue Origin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| engineFamily | BE-series engines ⓘ |
| environment | space ⓘ |
| firstTestFireDate | 2019 ⓘ |
| fuel | liquid hydrogen ⓘ |
| intendedUse | lunar lander propulsion ⓘ |
| intendedVehicle | Blue Moon lunar lander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Blue Moon lander propulsion system ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Blue Origin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionPhase |
powered descent
ⓘ
terminal landing phase ⓘ |
| oxidizer | liquid oxygen ⓘ |
| oxidizerType | liquid oxygen ⓘ |
| primaryRole | descent propulsion ⓘ |
| propellant |
liquid hydrogen
ⓘ
liquid oxygen ⓘ |
| propellantCombination | LOX/LH2 ⓘ |
| propellantFeedSystem | turbopump-fed ⓘ |
| propellantState | cryogenic ⓘ |
| propellantType | liquid hydrogen ⓘ |
| reusability | designed for multiple restarts ⓘ |
| status | under development ⓘ |
| supports | Blue Origin National Team Human Landing System concept NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetMarket | lunar missions ⓘ |
| throttleCapability | deep throttling ⓘ |
| thrustVacuum |
approximately 10 kN
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approximately 2,300 lbf ⓘ |
| thrustVectorControl | gimbaled nozzle ⓘ |
| uses | hydrogen expander cycle technology ⓘ |
| usesGimbaling | yes ⓘ |
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: BE-7 engine Description of subject: The BE-7 engine is Blue Origin’s high-performance liquid hydrogen–liquid oxygen rocket engine designed primarily to power lunar landers such as the company’s Blue Moon vehicle.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.