Standard Cygnus
E405629
Standard Cygnus is a cargo spacecraft configuration used by Northrop Grumman to deliver supplies and equipment to the International Space Station under NASA’s commercial resupply services.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Standard Cygnus canonical | 2 |
| Cygnus Enhanced | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4014545 — 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: Standard Cygnus Context triple: [Cygnus spacecraft, hasVariant, Standard Cygnus]
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A.
CYG
CYG is the abbreviation commonly used for the Commonwealth Youth Games, an international multi-sport event for young athletes from Commonwealth nations.
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B.
Nimbus
Nimbus is a lightweight, resource-efficient Ethereum consensus client designed to run on a wide range of devices, including low-power and embedded hardware.
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C.
Tyro
Tyro is a figure from Greek mythology, known as the mother of the twins Pelias and Neleus by the god Poseidon.
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D.
Yle Vega
Yle Vega is a Finnish Swedish-language radio channel operated by the national public broadcaster Yleisradio (Yle), offering news, culture, and entertainment programming.
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E.
Nebula
Nebula is a cybernetically enhanced alien assassin and former daughter of Thanos who becomes a key member of the Guardians of the Galaxy in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- 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: Standard Cygnus Target entity description: Standard Cygnus is a cargo spacecraft configuration used by Northrop Grumman to deliver supplies and equipment to the International Space Station under NASA’s commercial resupply services.
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A.
CYG
CYG is the abbreviation commonly used for the Commonwealth Youth Games, an international multi-sport event for young athletes from Commonwealth nations.
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B.
Nimbus
Nimbus is a lightweight, resource-efficient Ethereum consensus client designed to run on a wide range of devices, including low-power and embedded hardware.
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C.
Tyro
Tyro is a figure from Greek mythology, known as the mother of the twins Pelias and Neleus by the god Poseidon.
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D.
Yle Vega
Yle Vega is a Finnish Swedish-language radio channel operated by the national public broadcaster Yleisradio (Yle), offering news, culture, and entertainment programming.
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E.
Nebula
Nebula is a cybernetically enhanced alien assassin and former daughter of Thanos who becomes a key member of the Guardians of the Galaxy in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cargo spacecraft configuration
ⓘ
uncrewed spacecraft ⓘ |
| agencyPartner | NASA ⓘ |
| belongsToProgram |
Cygnus CRS program
ⓘ
linked to:
CRS-2
|
| berthingPort | Harmony module nadir port ⓘ |
| captureMethod | Canadarm2 robotic arm capture ⓘ |
| cargoType |
crew supplies
ⓘ
hardware and spare parts ⓘ pressurized cargo ⓘ scientific experiments ⓘ |
| configurationType | Standard configuration ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| customer | NASA ⓘ |
| destination | International Space Station ⓘ |
| disposalMethod | destructive reentry ⓘ |
| enteredService | 2013 ⓘ |
| firstISSVisit | Orb-D1 demonstration mission ⓘ |
| firstOperationalMission | Orb-1 ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Enhanced Cygnus
ⓘ
linked to:
Cygnus spacecraft
|
| hasComponent |
Pressurized Cargo Module
ⓘ
Service Module ⓘ |
| launchComplex | Pad 0A ⓘ |
| launchSite | Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport ⓘ |
| launchVehicle |
Antares 100 series
ⓘ
linked to:
Antares 120
Antares 120 series ⓘ
linked to:
Antares 120
|
| manufacturer | Northrop Grumman ⓘ |
| missionDurationType | short-term ISS logistics support ⓘ |
| missionProfile | rendezvous and berthing with the ISS ⓘ |
| missionRole | ISS logistics spacecraft ⓘ |
| operator |
Northrop Grumman
ⓘ
Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems ⓘ
linked to:
Northrop Grumman
Orbital ATK ⓘ |
| orbitType | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Cygnus demonstration spacecraft
ⓘ
linked to:
Cygnus spacecraft
|
| pressurizedModuleSupplier |
Thales Alenia Space
ⓘ
linked to:
Thales Alenia Space Italia
|
| pressurizedModuleType | PCM (Pressurized Cargo Module) ⓘ |
| primaryFunction | pressurized cargo transport ⓘ |
| program |
Commercial Resupply Services
ⓘ
linked to:
Commercial Resupply Services (CRS)
|
| programType | public–private partnership ⓘ |
| serviceModuleSupplier | Orbital Sciences Corporation ⓘ |
| spacecraftFamily | Cygnus spacecraft ⓘ |
| status | retired configuration ⓘ |
| successorConfiguration | Enhanced Cygnus configuration ⓘ |
| targetOrbit | ISS orbit ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cargo resupply missions
ⓘ
delivery of equipment to the International Space Station ⓘ delivery of supplies to the International Space Station ⓘ |
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: Standard Cygnus Description of subject: Standard Cygnus is a cargo spacecraft configuration used by Northrop Grumman to deliver supplies and equipment to the International Space Station under NASA’s commercial resupply services.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Standard Cygnus