Ares I
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Ares I was a planned NASA crew launch vehicle under the Constellation program, designed to carry astronauts to low Earth orbit and support future missions to the Moon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ares I canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7492076 — 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: Ares I Context triple: [Ares I-X, launchVehicleConceptTested, Ares I]
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A.
Ares V (cancelled)
Ares V was a planned but ultimately cancelled heavy-lift launch vehicle under NASA’s Constellation program, intended to support human missions beyond low Earth orbit.
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B.
LC-39A
LC-39A is a historic launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, used for Apollo Moon missions, Space Shuttle flights, and later commercial launches including SpaceX Falcon rockets.
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C.
LC-39B
LC-39B is a launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center that has supported major crewed and uncrewed space missions, including Space Shuttle flights and later Space Launch System operations.
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D.
Saturn IB
Saturn IB was a two-stage American launch vehicle used by NASA in the 1960s and early 1970s to test Apollo spacecraft in Earth orbit and support missions such as Apollo–Soyuz.
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E.
Saturn V
Saturn V was a powerful American heavy-lift launch vehicle used during the Apollo and Skylab programs to send astronauts and payloads into space, including missions to the Moon.
- 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: Ares I Target entity description: Ares I was a planned NASA crew launch vehicle under the Constellation program, designed to carry astronauts to low Earth orbit and support future missions to the Moon.
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A.
Ares V (cancelled)
Ares V was a planned but ultimately cancelled heavy-lift launch vehicle under NASA’s Constellation program, intended to support human missions beyond low Earth orbit.
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B.
LC-39A
LC-39A is a historic launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, used for Apollo Moon missions, Space Shuttle flights, and later commercial launches including SpaceX Falcon rockets.
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C.
LC-39B
LC-39B is a launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center that has supported major crewed and uncrewed space missions, including Space Shuttle flights and later Space Launch System operations.
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D.
Saturn IB
Saturn IB was a two-stage American launch vehicle used by NASA in the 1960s and early 1970s to test Apollo spacecraft in Earth orbit and support missions such as Apollo–Soyuz.
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E.
Saturn V
Saturn V was a powerful American heavy-lift launch vehicle used during the Apollo and Skylab programs to send astronauts and payloads into space, including missions to the Moon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crew launch vehicle
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expendable launch vehicle ⓘ rocket ⓘ suborbital test flight ⓘ |
| agencyProgramManager | NASA Exploration Systems Mission Directorate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Crew Launch Vehicle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| announced | 2005 ⓘ |
| cancellationDate | 2010 ⓘ |
| cancellationReason | Constellation program termination ⓘ |
| configuration | two-stage in-line rocket ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| crewCapacityPlanned | up to 6 astronauts ⓘ |
| designer | NASA Marshall Space Flight Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developmentStart | mid-2000s ⓘ |
| firstStageOrigin | Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstStageSegments | 5-segment solid rocket booster ⓘ |
| firstStageType | solid rocket booster ⓘ |
| guidanceSystem | inertial guidance ⓘ |
| intendedReplacementFor | Space Shuttle for crew transport ⓘ |
| intendedUse |
crew transport to low Earth orbit
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support for lunar missions ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2009-10-28 ⓘ |
| launchEscapeSystem | Orion launch abort system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchSite | Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchSitePlanned | Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionProfile | launch Orion to low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| partOf | Constellation program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| payload | Orion crew exploration vehicle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plannedFirstCrewedFlight | 2010s ⓘ |
| programCancelledBy | Obama administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| programGoal |
enable future Mars missions
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return humans to the Moon ⓘ |
| propulsionType | solid and liquid propulsion ⓘ |
| relatedProgram | Orion program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedVehicle | Ares V NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| safetyGoal | improved crew safety over Space Shuttle ⓘ |
| secondStagePropellant |
liquid hydrogen
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liquid oxygen ⓘ |
| secondStageType | liquid-fueled upper stage ⓘ |
| status | cancelled ⓘ |
| successor | Space Launch System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetOrbit | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| technologyHeritage |
Apollo-era Saturn upper stages
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Space Shuttle solid rocket boosters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| testFlight | Ares I-X NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| upperStageEngine | J-2X 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: Ares I Description of subject: Ares I was a planned NASA crew launch vehicle under the Constellation program, designed to carry astronauts to low Earth orbit and support future missions to the Moon.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ares I-X
subject surface form:
Ares I-X
subject surface form:
Ares V