ATV spacecraft
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The ATV spacecraft was an automated European cargo vehicle designed to resupply and reboost the International Space Station.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Automated Transfer Vehicle | 5 |
| ATV spacecraft canonical | 2 |
| ATV-1 Jules Verne | 2 |
| ATV cargo spacecraft | 1 |
| ATV-1 | 1 |
| ATV-2 Johannes Kepler mission | 1 |
| ATV-3 Edoardo Amaldi (Automated Transfer Vehicle) | 1 |
| ATV-4 Albert Einstein mission | 1 |
| ATV-5 Georges Lemaître | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T679650 — 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: ATV spacecraft Context triple: [International Space Station program, usesSpacecraft, ATV spacecraft]
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A.
Orion spacecraft
The Orion spacecraft is NASA’s next-generation crewed space vehicle designed to carry astronauts beyond low Earth orbit on deep-space missions, including journeys to the Moon and eventually Mars.
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B.
Cygnus spacecraft
The Cygnus spacecraft is an uncrewed commercial cargo vehicle developed by Northrop Grumman to deliver supplies and scientific equipment to the International Space Station.
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C.
Dragon spacecraft
The Dragon spacecraft is SpaceX’s reusable cargo and crew capsule designed to transport supplies and astronauts between Earth and the International Space Station and other orbital destinations.
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D.
LC-39B
LC-39B is a launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center that has supported major crewed and uncrewed space missions, including Space Shuttle flights and later Space Launch System operations.
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Space Transportation System
Space Transportation System is the formal name for NASA’s Space Shuttle program, which developed and operated reusable spacecraft for human spaceflight and orbital missions from 1981 to 2011.
- 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: ATV spacecraft Target entity description: The ATV spacecraft was an automated European cargo vehicle designed to resupply and reboost the International Space Station.
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A.
Orion spacecraft
The Orion spacecraft is NASA’s next-generation crewed space vehicle designed to carry astronauts beyond low Earth orbit on deep-space missions, including journeys to the Moon and eventually Mars.
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B.
Cygnus spacecraft
The Cygnus spacecraft is an uncrewed commercial cargo vehicle developed by Northrop Grumman to deliver supplies and scientific equipment to the International Space Station.
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C.
Dragon spacecraft
The Dragon spacecraft is SpaceX’s reusable cargo and crew capsule designed to transport supplies and astronauts between Earth and the International Space Station and other orbital destinations.
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D.
LC-39B
LC-39B is a launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center that has supported major crewed and uncrewed space missions, including Space Shuttle flights and later Space Launch System operations.
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E.
Space Transportation System
Space Transportation System is the formal name for NASA’s Space Shuttle program, which developed and operated reusable spacecraft for human spaceflight and orbital missions from 1981 to 2011.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
automated transfer vehicle
ⓘ
space station resupply vehicle ⓘ uncrewed cargo spacecraft ⓘ |
| agencyProgram | European Automated Transfer Vehicle program ⓘ |
| cargoType |
air
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experiments ⓘ oxygen ⓘ pressurized cargo ⓘ propellant ⓘ spare parts ⓘ unpressurized cargo ⓘ water ⓘ |
| controlCenter | ATV Control Centre Toulouse ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | European Union ⓘ |
| deorbitCapability | ISS waste disposal ⓘ |
| developer | European Space Agency ⓘ |
| dockingPort | Russian Service Module Zvezda aft port ⓘ |
| dockingSystem | Russian probe-and-drogue system ⓘ |
| firstFlight | 2008 ⓘ |
| firstMissionName |
ATV-1 Jules Verne
ⓘ
linked to:
ATV spacecraft
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| guidanceType | autonomous rendezvous and docking ⓘ |
| lastFlight | 2014 ⓘ |
| lastMissionName |
ATV-5 Georges Lemaître
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linked to:
ATV spacecraft
|
| launchSite | Guiana Space Centre ⓘ |
| launchVehicle |
Ariane 5 ES
ⓘ
linked to:
Ariane 5
|
| manufacturer |
Airbus Defence and Space
ⓘ
linked to:
Airbus
|
| massAtLaunch | about 20000 kilograms ⓘ |
| missionProfile |
attached operations at ISS
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autonomous rendezvous with ISS ⓘ controlled destructive reentry ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Albert Einstein (ATV-4)
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Edoardo Amaldi (ATV-3) ⓘ
linked to:
Edoardo Amaldi
Georges Lemaître (ATV-5) ⓘ
linked to:
Giuseppe Colombo
Johannes Kepler (ATV-2) ⓘ Jules Verne (ATV-1) ⓘ |
| numberOfFlights | 5 ⓘ |
| operator | European Space Agency ⓘ |
| powerSource | solar arrays ⓘ |
| pressurizedVolume | about 45 cubic metres ⓘ |
| primaryMission |
reboost the International Space Station
ⓘ
resupply the International Space Station ⓘ |
| program | International Space Station resupply program ⓘ |
| propulsionType | chemical propulsion ⓘ |
| reboostCapability | ISS orbit raising ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| successor |
European Service Module for Orion (technology heritage)
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linked to:
European Service Module
|
| successRate | 100 percent ⓘ |
| target |
International Space Station
ⓘ
linked to:
International Space Station program
|
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: ATV spacecraft Description of subject: The ATV spacecraft was an automated European cargo vehicle designed to resupply and reboost the International Space Station.
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