Scout rocket
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The Scout rocket was a small, solid-fueled American launch vehicle developed during the early space age to place scientific satellites into low Earth orbit.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scout rocket canonical | 9 |
| Scout launch vehicle | 1 |
| Scout launch vehicle family | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8520722 — 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: Scout rocket Context triple: [SAS-2, launchVehicle, Scout rocket]
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A.
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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B.
Falcon 9 rocket
The Falcon 9 rocket is a partially reusable, two-stage orbital launch vehicle developed by SpaceX that has revolutionized commercial spaceflight through frequent, cost-effective missions and routine booster landings.
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C.
Redstone rocket
The Redstone rocket was an early American ballistic missile adapted by NASA as a reliable launch vehicle for the first crewed Mercury spaceflights.
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D.
Atlas rocket
The Atlas rocket was an American expendable launch vehicle originally developed as an intercontinental ballistic missile and later adapted to launch early crewed spacecraft, including NASA’s Mercury missions.
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E.
Delta rocket
The Delta rocket is a family of American expendable launch vehicles developed to reliably place a wide range of civilian, military, and scientific payloads into orbit.
- 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: Scout rocket Target entity description: The Scout rocket was a small, solid-fueled American launch vehicle developed during the early space age to place scientific satellites into low Earth orbit.
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A.
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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B.
Falcon 9 rocket
The Falcon 9 rocket is a partially reusable, two-stage orbital launch vehicle developed by SpaceX that has revolutionized commercial spaceflight through frequent, cost-effective missions and routine booster landings.
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C.
Redstone rocket
The Redstone rocket was an early American ballistic missile adapted by NASA as a reliable launch vehicle for the first crewed Mercury spaceflights.
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D.
Atlas rocket
The Atlas rocket was an American expendable launch vehicle originally developed as an intercontinental ballistic missile and later adapted to launch early crewed spacecraft, including NASA’s Mercury missions.
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E.
Delta rocket
The Delta rocket is a family of American expendable launch vehicles developed to reliably place a wide range of civilian, military, and scientific payloads into orbit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
expendable launch system
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small-lift launch vehicle ⓘ solid-fueled rocket ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| developer |
NASA Langley Research Center
ⓘ
linked to:
Langley Research Center
U.S. Air Force ⓘ
linked to:
United States Air Force
U.S. Navy ⓘ
linked to:
United States Navy
|
| diameter | approximately 1.14 meters ⓘ |
| family |
Scout launch vehicle family
ⓘ
linked to:
Scout rocket
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| firstFlightDate | 1960-09-02 ⓘ |
| firstFlightLocation | Wallops Flight Facility ⓘ |
| height | approximately 23 meters ⓘ |
| lastFlightDate | 1994-05-09 ⓘ |
| launchSitesUsed |
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
ⓘ
linked to:
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Kodiak Launch Complex ⓘ San Marco platform ⓘ Vandenberg Air Force Base ⓘ
linked to:
Vandenberg Space Force Base
Wallops Flight Facility ⓘ |
| launchSuccessRate | approximately 87 percent ⓘ |
| manufacturer | NASA ⓘ |
| massAtLiftoff | approximately 17,000 kilograms ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
designed for relatively low-cost access to space for small payloads
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first orbital launch vehicle to use only solid propellant stages ⓘ |
| numberOfStages | 4 ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
NASA
ⓘ
U.S. Air Force ⓘ
linked to:
United States Air Force
U.S. Navy ⓘ
linked to:
United States Navy
|
| orbitType | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| payloadToLEO | approximately 210 kilograms ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
orbital launch of scientific satellites
ⓘ
technology demonstration missions ⓘ |
| propellantType | solid propellant ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| successfulLaunches | 103 ⓘ |
| totalLaunches | 118 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
international cooperative missions
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military technology experiments ⓘ scientific research satellites ⓘ university payloads ⓘ |
| variant |
Scout A
ⓘ
Scout B ⓘ Scout C ⓘ Scout D ⓘ Scout G ⓘ
linked to:
Scout B
Scout G-1 ⓘ Scout G-1A ⓘ Scout G-2 ⓘ Scout G-3 ⓘ Scout X-1 ⓘ Scout X-2 ⓘ Scout X-3 ⓘ Scout X-4 ⓘ |
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: Scout rocket Description of subject: The Scout rocket was a small, solid-fueled American launch vehicle developed during the early space age to place scientific satellites into low Earth orbit.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Scout rocket
linked to: Scout rocket