Orbital ATK
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Orbital ATK was an American aerospace and defense company known for producing rockets, spacecraft, and advanced defense systems before being acquired by Northrop Grumman.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Orbital ATK canonical | 23 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9837749 — 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: Orbital ATK Context triple: [Orbital Sciences Corporation, mergedInto, Orbital ATK]
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A.
Orbital Sciences Corporation
Orbital Sciences Corporation was an American aerospace company known for developing and launching satellites, rockets, and space systems for commercial, military, and scientific customers.
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B.
Northrop Grumman Space Technology
Northrop Grumman Space Technology was a major aerospace and defense division of Northrop Grumman specializing in space systems, satellites, and related technologies.
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C.
Astra Space
Astra Space is an American aerospace company focused on developing small, cost-effective launch vehicles to provide frequent, flexible access to low Earth orbit for small satellites.
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D.
United Launch Alliance
United Launch Alliance is an American aerospace company that provides launch services for government and commercial customers, operating rockets such as Atlas V, Delta IV, and Vulcan.
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E.
Ball Aerospace
Ball Aerospace is an American aerospace company known for designing and building advanced space systems, instruments, and components for NASA, the U.S. military, and commercial customers.
- 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: Orbital ATK Target entity description: Orbital ATK was an American aerospace and defense company known for producing rockets, spacecraft, and advanced defense systems before being acquired by Northrop Grumman.
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A.
Orbital Sciences Corporation
Orbital Sciences Corporation was an American aerospace company known for developing and launching satellites, rockets, and space systems for commercial, military, and scientific customers.
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B.
Northrop Grumman Space Technology
Northrop Grumman Space Technology was a major aerospace and defense division of Northrop Grumman specializing in space systems, satellites, and related technologies.
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C.
Astra Space
Astra Space is an American aerospace company focused on developing small, cost-effective launch vehicles to provide frequent, flexible access to low Earth orbit for small satellites.
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D.
United Launch Alliance
United Launch Alliance is an American aerospace company that provides launch services for government and commercial customers, operating rockets such as Atlas V, Delta IV, and Vulcan.
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E.
Ball Aerospace
Ball Aerospace is an American aerospace company known for designing and building advanced space systems, instruments, and components for NASA, the U.S. military, and commercial customers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aerospace and defense company
ⓘ
public company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Northrop Grumman ⓘ |
| acquisitionAnnouncedOn | 2017-09-18 ⓘ |
| acquisitionCompletedOn | 2018-06-06 ⓘ |
| ceasedToExistAsIndependentCompanyOn | 2018-06-06 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| customer |
NASA
ⓘ
U.S. Department of Defense ⓘ
linked to:
Department of Defense
commercial satellite operators ⓘ |
| dateFounded | 2015-02-09 ⓘ |
| formedByMergerOf |
Alliant Techsystems
ⓘ
Orbital Sciences Corporation ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Dulles, Virginia
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| industry |
aerospace
ⓘ
defense ⓘ space systems ⓘ |
| majorProduct |
Antares rocket
ⓘ
linked to:
Antares launch vehicle
Cygnus spacecraft ⓘ Minotaur rocket family ⓘ Pegasus rocket ⓘ
linked to:
Pegasus rocket family
|
| notableFacility |
Dulles, Virginia satellite manufacturing facilities
ⓘ
rocket motor production plants in Utah ⓘ |
| notableProgram | International Space Station cargo missions with Cygnus ⓘ |
| numberOfEmployees | approximately 13000 ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Northrop Grumman ⓘ |
| participatedInProgram |
Commercial Resupply Services
ⓘ
linked to:
Commercial Resupply Services (CRS)
|
| predecessor |
Alliant Techsystems Defense and Space segments
ⓘ
linked to:
Alliant Techsystems
Orbital Sciences Corporation ⓘ |
| product |
ammunition
ⓘ
composite structures ⓘ launch vehicles ⓘ missile defense systems ⓘ precision weapons ⓘ rockets ⓘ satellites ⓘ space components ⓘ spacecraft ⓘ |
| providedService | cargo resupply to the International Space Station ⓘ |
| specialization |
defense electronics
ⓘ
small and medium-class space launch vehicles ⓘ solid rocket motors ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| successor |
Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems
ⓘ
linked to:
Northrop Grumman
|
| tickerSymbol | OA ⓘ |
| website | https://www.orbitalatk.com ⓘ |
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: Orbital ATK Description of subject: Orbital ATK was an American aerospace and defense company known for producing rockets, spacecraft, and advanced defense systems before being acquired by Northrop Grumman.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.