Blue Origin Launch Site One
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Blue Origin Launch Site One is the company’s private suborbital launch facility near Van Horn, Texas, used for New Shepard crewed and uncrewed spaceflights.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blue Origin Launch Site One canonical | 4 |
| Launch Site One | 2 |
| New Shepard launch pad | 2 |
| Blue Origin West Texas Launch Site | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7113795 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blue Origin Launch Site One Context triple: [Flew on Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital flight on 2021-07-20, launchSite, Blue Origin Launch Site One]
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A.
Blue Origin
Blue Origin is a private American aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company focused on developing reusable rockets and advancing commercial space travel.
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B.
Launch Pad 36B
Launch Pad 36B is one of the historic launch pads at Cape Canaveral used primarily for Atlas rocket launches during the early years of the U.S. space program.
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C.
Space Launch Complex 6
Space Launch Complex 6 is a major launch facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base historically used for polar-orbit and military space missions, including Delta IV launches.
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D.
Launch Pad 36A
Launch Pad 36A is one of the historic launch pads at Cape Canaveral used primarily for Atlas rocket launches during the early years of the U.S. space program.
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E.
Space Launch Complex 8
Space Launch Complex 8 is a launch facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California primarily used for small orbital and suborbital rocket launches.
- 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: Blue Origin Launch Site One Target entity description: Blue Origin Launch Site One is the company’s private suborbital launch facility near Van Horn, Texas, used for New Shepard crewed and uncrewed spaceflights.
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A.
Blue Origin
Blue Origin is a private American aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company focused on developing reusable rockets and advancing commercial space travel.
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B.
Launch Pad 36B
Launch Pad 36B is one of the historic launch pads at Cape Canaveral used primarily for Atlas rocket launches during the early years of the U.S. space program.
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C.
Space Launch Complex 6
Space Launch Complex 6 is a major launch facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base historically used for polar-orbit and military space missions, including Delta IV launches.
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D.
Launch Pad 36A
Launch Pad 36A is one of the historic launch pads at Cape Canaveral used primarily for Atlas rocket launches during the early years of the U.S. space program.
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E.
Space Launch Complex 8
Space Launch Complex 8 is a launch facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California primarily used for small orbital and suborbital rocket launches.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
rocket launch site
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spaceport ⓘ suborbital launch site ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| hasFacility |
crew preparation facilities
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ground support equipment ⓘ integration facilities ⓘ mission control center ⓘ |
| hasLaunchPad |
New Shepard launch pad
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linked to:
Blue Origin Launch Site One
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| hasRunway | landing area for New Shepard booster ⓘ |
| launchAzimuth | suborbital trajectories ⓘ |
| launchesVehicle | New Shepard ⓘ |
| launchType | vertical takeoff, vertical landing ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Texas ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Van Horn, Texas ⓘ |
| nearbyCity |
Van Horn
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linked to:
Van Horn, Texas
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| notUsedFor | orbital launches ⓘ |
| operator | Blue Origin ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Blue Origin ⓘ |
| partOf |
Blue Origin West Texas launch complex
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linked to:
Launch Site One in West Texas
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| primaryUser |
Blue Origin New Shepard program
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linked to:
New Shepard
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| region | West Texas ⓘ |
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| status | active ⓘ |
| supportsMissionType |
suborbital human spaceflight
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suborbital research missions ⓘ |
| usedBy |
commercial spaceflight customers
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payload customers of New Shepard ⓘ research institutions ⓘ |
| usedFor |
New Shepard launches
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crewed suborbital flights ⓘ microgravity research flights ⓘ space tourism flights ⓘ uncrewed suborbital flights ⓘ |
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: Blue Origin Launch Site One Description of subject: Blue Origin Launch Site One is the company’s private suborbital launch facility near Van Horn, Texas, used for New Shepard crewed and uncrewed spaceflights.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Flew on Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital flight on 2021-07-20
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launchSite
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Blue Origin Launch Site One
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subject linked to:
flew on Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital flight on 2021-07-20
linked to: Blue Origin Launch Site One
linked to: Blue Origin Launch Site One
linked to: Blue Origin Launch Site One
linked to: Blue Origin Launch Site One
linked to: Blue Origin Launch Site One