Taurus rocket
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The Taurus rocket is a small, solid-fueled American launch vehicle designed primarily to place satellites into low Earth orbit.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Minotaur-C | 1 |
| Taurus rocket canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9837729 — 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: Taurus rocket Context triple: [Orbital Sciences Corporation, developed, Taurus rocket]
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A.
Luna rocket
The Luna rocket was an early Soviet launch vehicle developed to send unmanned spacecraft to the Moon during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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B.
Vanguard rocket
The Vanguard rocket was an early American expendable launch vehicle developed in the 1950s to place the first U.S. satellites into orbit during the early years of the Space Race.
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C.
Proton rocket
The Proton rocket is a heavy-lift Russian expendable launch vehicle widely used to place large payloads, including space station modules and communications satellites, into orbit.
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D.
Zenit rocket
The Zenit rocket is a family of Ukrainian-designed, medium-lift launch vehicles originally developed in the Soviet era and used for both government and commercial satellite launches.
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E.
M-V rocket
The M-V rocket was a Japanese solid-fuel launch vehicle developed by JAXA (and its predecessors) primarily for launching scientific satellites and space probes, including deep-space missions like Hayabusa.
- 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: Taurus rocket Target entity description: The Taurus rocket is a small, solid-fueled American launch vehicle designed primarily to place satellites into low Earth orbit.
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A.
Luna rocket
The Luna rocket was an early Soviet launch vehicle developed to send unmanned spacecraft to the Moon during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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B.
Vanguard rocket
The Vanguard rocket was an early American expendable launch vehicle developed in the 1950s to place the first U.S. satellites into orbit during the early years of the Space Race.
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C.
Proton rocket
The Proton rocket is a heavy-lift Russian expendable launch vehicle widely used to place large payloads, including space station modules and communications satellites, into orbit.
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D.
Zenit rocket
The Zenit rocket is a family of Ukrainian-designed, medium-lift launch vehicles originally developed in the Soviet era and used for both government and commercial satellite launches.
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E.
M-V rocket
The M-V rocket was a Japanese solid-fuel launch vehicle developed by JAXA (and its predecessors) primarily for launching scientific satellites and space probes, including deep-space missions like Hayabusa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
expendable launch system
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orbital launch vehicle ⓘ solid-fueled rocket ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Taurus I
NERFINISHED
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Taurus II (early name for Antares) NERFINISHED ⓘ Taurus XL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| derivedFrom | Pegasus rocket NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designedForOrbitType | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| designGoal | low-cost small satellite access to orbit ⓘ |
| failureCause | payload fairing separation failure ⓘ |
| fairingType | payload fairing ⓘ |
| firstFlightDate | 1994-03-13 ⓘ |
| firstFlightMission | Taurus 001 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstLaunchCountry | United States GENERATED ⓘ |
| firstLaunchSite | Vandenberg Air Force Base NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstStage | Peacekeeper ICBM stage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstStageType | solid rocket motor ⓘ |
| fuelType | solid propellant ⓘ |
| laterManufacturer |
Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems
NERFINISHED
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Orbital ATK NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchCapability |
polar orbit launches
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sun-synchronous orbit launches ⓘ |
| launchConfiguration | ground-launched version of Pegasus ⓘ |
| launchEra |
1990s
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2000s ⓘ |
| launchMethod | ground launch from fixed pad ⓘ |
| launchServiceProvider | Orbital Sciences Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchSitesUsed |
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
NERFINISHED
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Kodiak Launch Complex NERFINISHED ⓘ Vandenberg Air Force Base NERFINISHED ⓘ Wallops Flight Facility NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchVehicleFamily |
Minotaur family
NERFINISHED
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Pegasus family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Orbital Sciences Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marketSegment |
commercial launches
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government launches ⓘ |
| notableFailure |
Glory mission loss in 2011
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OCO mission loss in 2009 ⓘ |
| numberOfStages | 4 ⓘ |
| operator | Orbital Sciences Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUse | satellite launch ⓘ |
| propulsionType | solid rocket motors ⓘ |
| retirementReason | multiple launch failures ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| successor | Minotaur-C NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typicalOrbit | sun-synchronous orbit ⓘ |
| typicalPayloadClass | small satellites ⓘ |
| upperStages | Pegasus rocket stages ⓘ |
| usesComponentFrom | LGM-118 Peacekeeper ICBM 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: Taurus rocket Description of subject: The Taurus rocket is a small, solid-fueled American launch vehicle designed primarily to place satellites into low Earth orbit.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Minotaur-C