Stargazer (L-1011 carrier aircraft)
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Stargazer is a modified Lockheed L-1011 TriStar airliner used by Orbital Sciences (later Northrop Grumman) as an airborne launch platform for Pegasus rockets.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stargazer (L-1011 carrier aircraft) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8673490 — 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.
Target entity: Stargazer (L-1011 carrier aircraft) Context triple: [Cosmic Girl, similarTo, Stargazer (L-1011 carrier aircraft)]
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Northrop Grumman C-2 Greyhound
The Northrop Grumman C-2 Greyhound is a twin‑engine, high‑wing cargo aircraft used by the U.S. Navy primarily for carrier onboard delivery (COD) missions, transporting personnel, mail, and supplies to and from aircraft carriers.
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Lockheed S-3 Viking
The Lockheed S-3 Viking is a twin-engine, carrier-based U.S. Navy aircraft primarily used for anti-submarine warfare, sea surveillance, and later aerial refueling and transport roles.
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Grumman E-2C Hawkeye
The Grumman E-2C Hawkeye is a carrier-capable airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft featuring a distinctive rotating radar dome, used by several navies and air forces for long-range surveillance and battle management.
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White Knight carrier aircraft
The White Knight carrier aircraft is a high-altitude, twin-turbojet mothership developed by Scaled Composites to air-launch the SpaceShipOne suborbital spacecraft during the Ansari X Prize program.
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E.
CV-11
CV-11 is the hull classification symbol for USS Intrepid, a famed World War II-era Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy now preserved as a museum ship in New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Stargazer (L-1011 carrier aircraft) Target entity description: Stargazer is a modified Lockheed L-1011 TriStar airliner used by Orbital Sciences (later Northrop Grumman) as an airborne launch platform for Pegasus rockets.
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A.
Northrop Grumman C-2 Greyhound
The Northrop Grumman C-2 Greyhound is a twin‑engine, high‑wing cargo aircraft used by the U.S. Navy primarily for carrier onboard delivery (COD) missions, transporting personnel, mail, and supplies to and from aircraft carriers.
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B.
Lockheed S-3 Viking
The Lockheed S-3 Viking is a twin-engine, carrier-based U.S. Navy aircraft primarily used for anti-submarine warfare, sea surveillance, and later aerial refueling and transport roles.
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C.
Grumman E-2C Hawkeye
The Grumman E-2C Hawkeye is a carrier-capable airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft featuring a distinctive rotating radar dome, used by several navies and air forces for long-range surveillance and battle management.
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D.
White Knight carrier aircraft
The White Knight carrier aircraft is a high-altitude, twin-turbojet mothership developed by Scaled Composites to air-launch the SpaceShipOne suborbital spacecraft during the Ansari X Prize program.
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E.
CV-11
CV-11 is the hull classification symbol for USS Intrepid, a famed World War II-era Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy now preserved as a museum ship in New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Pegasus rocket carrier aircraft
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air launch carrier aircraft ⓘ modified Lockheed L-1011 TriStar ⓘ |
| aircraftType | Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| airframeOrigin |
delivered originally to Air Canada as a passenger airliner
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ex-Air Canada L-1011 ⓘ |
| basedOn | Lockheed L-1011 TriStar airliner design NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capability | carrying Pegasus rocket under the fuselage ⓘ |
| category |
aircraft used in space launch
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carrier aircraft for orbital launch vehicles ⓘ |
| configuration | trijet ⓘ |
| conversionBy | Orbital Sciences Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfRegistration | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| engineType | Rolls-Royce RB211 turbofan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchAltitude | approximately 12,000 meters ⓘ |
| launchCustomer |
NASA
NERFINISHED
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U.S. Department of Defense NERFINISHED ⓘ commercial satellite operators ⓘ |
| launchLocation | over the ocean ⓘ |
| launchMethod | air launch from high altitude ⓘ |
| launchVehicleCarried |
Pegasus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pegasus XL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Lockheed Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | the constellation theme "Stargazer" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the last operational L-1011 TriStar aircraft
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supporting numerous Pegasus launches ⓘ |
| operator |
Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems
NERFINISHED
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Orbital ATK NERFINISHED ⓘ Orbital Sciences Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| registration | N140SC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
airborne launch platform
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carrier aircraft ⓘ |
| status | operational for Pegasus launches into the 2010s ⓘ |
| tailNumber | N140SC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
air launch of Pegasus rockets
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launching small satellites into orbit ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Stargazer (L-1011 carrier aircraft) Description of subject: Stargazer is a modified Lockheed L-1011 TriStar airliner used by Orbital Sciences (later Northrop Grumman) as an airborne launch platform for Pegasus rockets.
Referenced by (1)
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