Ariane upper stage
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The Ariane upper stage is the final rocket stage of the European Ariane launch vehicles, responsible for performing orbital insertion and precise payload deployment into space.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ariane 5 ESC-A upper stage | 1 |
| Ariane upper stage canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12174611 — 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: Ariane upper stage Context triple: [HM7B, usedOnStage, Ariane upper stage]
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A.
Ariane 2
Ariane 2 was a European expendable launch vehicle developed by the European Space Agency as part of the Ariane family, used in the 1980s primarily to place satellites into geostationary transfer orbit.
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B.
Centaur upper stage
The Centaur upper stage is a high-energy rocket stage developed by the United States that pioneered the use of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellants to boost payloads from low Earth orbit to higher orbits and interplanetary trajectories.
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C.
Ariane 5
Ariane 5 is a European heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by the European Space Agency and Arianespace, widely used to deploy satellites and space telescopes into orbit.
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D.
Ariane 1
Ariane 1 was the first operational European expendable launch vehicle, developed by the European Space Agency to provide independent access to space for commercial and scientific payloads.
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E.
Ariane 4
Ariane 4 was a highly successful European expendable launch vehicle that became the workhorse of Arianespace in the late 20th century, widely used for commercial satellite 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: Ariane upper stage Target entity description: The Ariane upper stage is the final rocket stage of the European Ariane launch vehicles, responsible for performing orbital insertion and precise payload deployment into space.
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A.
Ariane 2
Ariane 2 was a European expendable launch vehicle developed by the European Space Agency as part of the Ariane family, used in the 1980s primarily to place satellites into geostationary transfer orbit.
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B.
Centaur upper stage
The Centaur upper stage is a high-energy rocket stage developed by the United States that pioneered the use of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellants to boost payloads from low Earth orbit to higher orbits and interplanetary trajectories.
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C.
Ariane 5
Ariane 5 is a European heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by the European Space Agency and Arianespace, widely used to deploy satellites and space telescopes into orbit.
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D.
Ariane 1
Ariane 1 was the first operational European expendable launch vehicle, developed by the European Space Agency to provide independent access to space for commercial and scientific payloads.
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E.
Ariane 4
Ariane 4 was a highly successful European expendable launch vehicle that became the workhorse of Arianespace in the late 20th century, widely used for commercial satellite launches.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ariane upper stage