Delta III
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Delta III was an American expendable launch vehicle developed in the late 1990s as an upgraded, higher-capacity member of the Delta rocket family, intended primarily for launching communications satellites to geostationary orbit.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Delta III canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8264586 — 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: Delta III Context triple: [Delta rocket, hasVariant, Delta III]
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A.
Delta IV
Delta IV is an expendable heavy-lift launch vehicle family developed by Boeing and operated by United Launch Alliance for launching military, government, and commercial payloads into orbit.
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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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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.
Atlas III
Atlas III was an American expendable launch vehicle developed by Lockheed Martin as an intermediate step between the Atlas II and Atlas V rockets, featuring a Russian RD-180 engine and used primarily for commercial and military satellite launches in the early 2000s.
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E.
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.
- 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: Delta III Target entity description: Delta III was an American expendable launch vehicle developed in the late 1990s as an upgraded, higher-capacity member of the Delta rocket family, intended primarily for launching communications satellites to geostationary orbit.
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A.
Delta IV
Delta IV is an expendable heavy-lift launch vehicle family developed by Boeing and operated by United Launch Alliance for launching military, government, and commercial payloads into orbit.
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B.
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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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.
Atlas III
Atlas III was an American expendable launch vehicle developed by Lockheed Martin as an intermediate step between the Atlas II and Atlas V rockets, featuring a Russian RD-180 engine and used primarily for commercial and military satellite launches in the early 2000s.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
expendable launch vehicle
ⓘ
orbital launch vehicle ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Delta 8930 configuration ⓘ |
| configuration | two-stage rocket with optional third stage ⓘ |
| coreStageEngine | RS-27A NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| designFeature |
more powerful solid rocket boosters
ⓘ
new cryogenic upper stage ⓘ stretched first stage ⓘ |
| designGoal | higher capacity than Delta II ⓘ |
| developedInPeriod | late 1990s ⓘ |
| diameter | 4 meters ⓘ |
| era | post–Cold War space launchers ⓘ |
| failedLaunches | 2 ⓘ |
| fairingDiameter | 4 meters ⓘ |
| firstFlightDate | 1998-08-26 ⓘ |
| firstLaunchOutcome | failure ⓘ |
| firstLaunchPayload | Galaxy 10 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gtoPayloadCapacity | approximately 3,800 kilograms ⓘ |
| height | about 38.7 meters ⓘ |
| intendedOrbit | geostationary transfer orbit ⓘ |
| intendedUse | launching communications satellites ⓘ |
| lastFlightDate | 2000-08-23 ⓘ |
| launchFamilyPredecessor | Delta II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchSite | Cape Canaveral Air Station Space Launch Complex 17B NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchVehicleFamily | Delta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
Boeing
ⓘ
McDonnell Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfSolidBoosters | 9 ⓘ |
| operator | Boeing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Delta rocket family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| propellantTypeFirstStage | RP-1/LOX ⓘ |
| propellantTypeUpperStage | liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen ⓘ |
| retirementReason | poor reliability record ⓘ |
| secondLaunchOutcome | failure ⓘ |
| secondLaunchPayload | Orion 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| solidBoostersType | GEM-46 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| successfulLaunches | 1 ⓘ |
| successor | Delta IV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| thirdLaunchOutcome | partial failure ⓘ |
| thirdLaunchPayload | BSAT-2b NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| totalLaunches | 3 ⓘ |
| upperStageEngine | RL10B-2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy | commercial satellite operators ⓘ |
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: Delta III Description of subject: Delta III was an American expendable launch vehicle developed in the late 1990s as an upgraded, higher-capacity member of the Delta rocket family, intended primarily for launching communications satellites to geostationary orbit.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.