Titan IVB/Centaur
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Titan IVB/Centaur was a heavy-lift U.S. expendable launch vehicle configuration that combined the Titan IVB rocket with a Centaur upper stage to send large payloads, such as the Cassini–Huygens spacecraft, on deep-space missions.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Titan IV-Centaur | 1 |
| Titan IV/Centaur | 1 |
| Titan IVB/Centaur canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1811496 — 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: Titan IVB/Centaur Context triple: [Cassini–Huygens, launchVehicle, Titan IVB/Centaur]
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A.
Titan IIIE-Centaur
Titan IIIE-Centaur was a U.S. expendable launch vehicle that combined a Titan III booster with a high-energy Centaur upper stage to send deep-space probes such as Voyager 2 on interplanetary trajectories.
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B.
Vulcan Centaur
Vulcan Centaur is United Launch Alliance’s next-generation, two-stage heavy-lift rocket designed to replace Atlas V and Delta IV for a wide range of commercial, government, and deep-space missions.
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C.
Titan IIIC
Titan IIIC was a U.S. Air Force heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle used primarily in the 1960s and 1970s to place military and experimental payloads into orbit.
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D.
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.
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E.
Quaoar
Quaoar is a large, distant trans-Neptunian object in the Kuiper Belt, notable for its nearly circular orbit and for having a small moon named Weywot.
- 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: Titan IVB/Centaur Target entity description: Titan IVB/Centaur was a heavy-lift U.S. expendable launch vehicle configuration that combined the Titan IVB rocket with a Centaur upper stage to send large payloads, such as the Cassini–Huygens spacecraft, on deep-space missions.
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A.
Titan IIIE-Centaur
Titan IIIE-Centaur was a U.S. expendable launch vehicle that combined a Titan III booster with a high-energy Centaur upper stage to send deep-space probes such as Voyager 2 on interplanetary trajectories.
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B.
Vulcan Centaur
Vulcan Centaur is United Launch Alliance’s next-generation, two-stage heavy-lift rocket designed to replace Atlas V and Delta IV for a wide range of commercial, government, and deep-space missions.
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C.
Titan IIIC
Titan IIIC was a U.S. Air Force heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle used primarily in the 1960s and 1970s to place military and experimental payloads into orbit.
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D.
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.
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E.
Quaoar
Quaoar is a large, distant trans-Neptunian object in the Kuiper Belt, notable for its nearly circular orbit and for having a small moon named Weywot.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
expendable launch vehicle configuration
ⓘ
heavy-lift launch vehicle ⓘ |
| capability | interplanetary injection ⓘ |
| configuration | two solid rocket boosters plus liquid-fueled core plus Centaur upper stage ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| customerForCassini–Huygens | NASA ⓘ |
| designFeature | high-energy cryogenic upper stage ⓘ |
| developedFrom |
Titan IV/Centaur
ⓘ
linked to:
Titan IVB/Centaur
|
| era | 1990s ⓘ |
| family | Titan rocket family ⓘ |
| launchCapability |
heavy payloads to geostationary transfer orbit
ⓘ
planetary trajectories ⓘ |
| launchOfCassini–Huygens | 15 October 1997 ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Cape Canaveral Air Station Space Launch Complex 40
ⓘ
Cape Canaveral Air Station Space Launch Complex 41 ⓘ
linked to:
Cape Canaveral LC-41
Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex 4E ⓘ
linked to:
Space Launch Complex 4
|
| launchSiteOfCassini–Huygens | Cape Canaveral Air Station Space Launch Complex 40 ⓘ |
| launchVehicleFamily | Titan IV ⓘ |
| launchVehicleRole |
interplanetary science missions
ⓘ
national security payloads ⓘ |
| lowerStage |
Titan IVB
ⓘ
linked to:
Titan IV
|
| manufacturer |
Lockheed Martin
ⓘ
Martin Marietta ⓘ |
| missionTypeForCassini–Huygens | Saturn orbiter and Titan lander ⓘ |
| notablePayload | Cassini–Huygens ⓘ |
| operator | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
deep-space missions
ⓘ
high-energy Earth orbit missions ⓘ |
| program |
Titan IV program
ⓘ
linked to:
Titan IV launch vehicle
|
| propellantTypeCoreStage |
Aerozine 50
ⓘ
dinitrogen tetroxide ⓘ |
| propellantTypeFirstStage | solid rocket propellant ⓘ |
| propellantTypeUpperStage |
liquid hydrogen
ⓘ
liquid oxygen ⓘ |
| retirementReason | replacement by Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program ⓘ |
| stageCount | 3 ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| successor |
Atlas V
ⓘ
Delta IV Heavy ⓘ |
| upperStage | Centaur ⓘ |
| upperStageDeveloper |
Convair
ⓘ
General Dynamics ⓘ |
| upperStageEngineType | RL10 ⓘ |
| upperStageLaterManufacturer | Lockheed Martin ⓘ |
| upperStageVariant | Centaur T ⓘ |
| usedBy |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
ⓘ
linked to:
NASA
United States Air Force ⓘ |
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: Titan IVB/Centaur Description of subject: Titan IVB/Centaur was a heavy-lift U.S. expendable launch vehicle configuration that combined the Titan IVB rocket with a Centaur upper stage to send large payloads, such as the Cassini–Huygens spacecraft, on deep-space missions.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Titan IVB/Centaur
linked to: Titan IVB/Centaur