Cygnus spacecraft
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The Cygnus spacecraft is an uncrewed commercial cargo vehicle developed by Northrop Grumman to deliver supplies and scientific equipment to the International Space Station.
All labels observed (13)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T679648 — 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: Cygnus spacecraft Context triple: [International Space Station program, usesSpacecraft, Cygnus spacecraft]
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A.
Orion spacecraft
The Orion spacecraft is NASA’s next-generation crewed space vehicle designed to carry astronauts beyond low Earth orbit on deep-space missions, including journeys to the Moon and eventually Mars.
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B.
Dragon spacecraft
The Dragon spacecraft is SpaceX’s reusable cargo and crew capsule designed to transport supplies and astronauts between Earth and the International Space Station and other orbital destinations.
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C.
Soyuz spacecraft
The Soyuz spacecraft is a long-serving Russian crewed vehicle used to transport astronauts and cosmonauts to and from low Earth orbit, including the International Space Station.
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D.
Starliner spacecraft
The Starliner spacecraft is Boeing’s crewed space capsule designed to transport astronauts to and from low Earth orbit, including missions to the International Space Station.
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Voskhod spacecraft
The Voskhod spacecraft was a Soviet crewed space capsule that succeeded Vostok and enabled milestones such as the first multi-person crewed mission and the first spacewalk during the early space race.
- 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: Cygnus spacecraft Target entity description: The Cygnus spacecraft is an uncrewed commercial cargo vehicle developed by Northrop Grumman to deliver supplies and scientific equipment to the International Space Station.
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A.
Orion spacecraft
The Orion spacecraft is NASA’s next-generation crewed space vehicle designed to carry astronauts beyond low Earth orbit on deep-space missions, including journeys to the Moon and eventually Mars.
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B.
Dragon spacecraft
The Dragon spacecraft is SpaceX’s reusable cargo and crew capsule designed to transport supplies and astronauts between Earth and the International Space Station and other orbital destinations.
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C.
Soyuz spacecraft
The Soyuz spacecraft is a long-serving Russian crewed vehicle used to transport astronauts and cosmonauts to and from low Earth orbit, including the International Space Station.
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D.
Starliner spacecraft
The Starliner spacecraft is Boeing’s crewed space capsule designed to transport astronauts to and from low Earth orbit, including missions to the International Space Station.
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E.
Voskhod spacecraft
The Voskhod spacecraft was a Soviet crewed space capsule that succeeded Vostok and enabled milestones such as the first multi-person crewed mission and the first spacewalk during the early space race.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial resupply spacecraft
ⓘ
uncrewed cargo spacecraft ⓘ |
| approachPort | Harmony nadir port ⓘ |
| canPerform |
ISS reboost maneuvers
ⓘ
disposal of waste from ISS ⓘ |
| cargoType |
pressurized cargo
ⓘ
unpressurized cargo (limited capability) ⓘ |
| configuration | service module and pressurized cargo module ⓘ |
| contractType | fixed-price commercial resupply ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crewCapacity | 0 ⓘ |
| customer | NASA ⓘ |
| developer | Northrop Grumman ⓘ |
| disposable | true ⓘ |
| dockingMethod | berthing via Canadarm2 ⓘ |
| endOfMission | destructive reentry ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 2013-09-18 ⓘ |
| firstMissionName |
Cygnus spacecraft
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Cygnus Orb-D1
|
| firstOperationalMissionName | Orb-1 ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Cygnus spacecraft
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Enhanced Cygnus
Standard Cygnus ⓘ |
| launchVehicle |
Antares launch vehicle
ⓘ
surface form:
Antares rocket
Atlas V ⓘ
surface form:
Atlas V rocket
Falcon 9 rocket ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Northrop Grumman ⓘ |
| missionDestination | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| missionType | uncrewed cargo resupply ⓘ |
| namedAfter | constellation Cygnus ⓘ |
| operator | Northrop Grumman ⓘ |
| orbitRegime | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| powerSource | solar arrays ⓘ |
| pressurizedCargoModuleSupplier |
Thales Alenia Space Italia
ⓘ
surface form:
Thales Alenia Space
|
| previousDeveloper |
Northrop Grumman Space Technology
ⓘ
surface form:
Orbital ATK
Orbital Sciences Corporation ⓘ |
| primaryMission | cargo resupply to the International Space Station ⓘ |
| program |
Commercial Resupply Services (CRS)
ⓘ
surface form:
Commercial Resupply Services
Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) ⓘ
surface form:
Commercial Resupply Services 2
|
| propulsionType | chemical propulsion ⓘ |
| reusability | non-reusable ⓘ |
| serviceModuleOrigin | Orbital Sciences design ⓘ |
| spaceAgencyPartner | NASA ⓘ |
| status | operational ⓘ |
| successorCompany |
Northrop Grumman Space Technology
ⓘ
surface form:
Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems
|
| target |
International Space Station program
ⓘ
surface form:
International Space Station
|
| typicalMissionDuration | about 3 months berthed to ISS ⓘ |
| usedFor |
delivery of crew supplies to ISS
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delivery of food to ISS ⓘ delivery of scientific experiments to ISS ⓘ delivery of spare parts to ISS ⓘ technology demonstration payloads ⓘ |
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: Cygnus spacecraft Description of subject: The Cygnus spacecraft is an uncrewed commercial cargo vehicle developed by Northrop Grumman to deliver supplies and scientific equipment to the International Space Station.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cygnus cargo spacecraft
this entity surface form:
Orbital Cygnus
this entity surface form:
Cygnus Orb-D1
this entity surface form:
Enhanced Cygnus
this entity surface form:
Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft (via Antares)
this entity surface form:
Cygnus cargo spacecraft
this entity surface form:
Cygnus cargo spacecraft
this entity surface form:
Cygnus ISS cargo vehicle
this entity surface form:
Orbital Sciences Cygnus cargo spacecraft
this entity surface form:
Orbital Sciences Cygnus
subject surface form:
Commercial Resupply Services
this entity surface form:
Orbital ATK Cygnus
this entity surface form:
Northrop Grumman Cygnus
this entity surface form:
Cygnus spacecraft bus
this entity surface form:
Cygnus demonstration spacecraft
this entity surface form:
Enhanced Cygnus