Rowland crater
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Rowland crater is a large, heavily eroded impact feature on the Moon’s far side, notable for its worn rim and location near the lunar north pole.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rowland crater canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13214863 — 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: Rowland crater Context triple: [Kirkwood crater, neighboringCrater, Rowland crater]
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A.
Aliamanu Crater
Aliamanu Crater is a tuff cone and volcanic crater on the island of Oʻahu in Hawaii, located inland near Honolulu and now largely surrounded by urban development and military housing.
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B.
Yapoah Crater
Yapoah Crater is a cinder cone volcano in Oregon’s Cascade Range, located on the northern flank of the Three Sisters and known for its distinctive lava flows and hiking access via the Pacific Crest Trail.
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C.
Victoria Crater
Victoria Crater is a large, scallop-edged impact crater on Mars that was extensively studied by NASA’s Opportunity rover for insights into the planet’s geologic and aqueous history.
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Shorty crater
Shorty crater is a small lunar impact crater in the Taurus–Littrow valley that was explored by the Apollo 17 astronauts and is notable as the site where orange volcanic soil was discovered.
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E.
Dolomieu Crater
Dolomieu Crater is the main summit caldera of the active Piton de la Fournaise volcano on Réunion Island, known for its frequent eruptions and dramatic collapses.
- 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: Rowland crater Target entity description: Rowland crater is a large, heavily eroded impact feature on the Moon’s far side, notable for its worn rim and location near the lunar north pole.
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A.
Aliamanu Crater
Aliamanu Crater is a tuff cone and volcanic crater on the island of Oʻahu in Hawaii, located inland near Honolulu and now largely surrounded by urban development and military housing.
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B.
Yapoah Crater
Yapoah Crater is a cinder cone volcano in Oregon’s Cascade Range, located on the northern flank of the Three Sisters and known for its distinctive lava flows and hiking access via the Pacific Crest Trail.
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C.
Victoria Crater
Victoria Crater is a large, scallop-edged impact crater on Mars that was extensively studied by NASA’s Opportunity rover for insights into the planet’s geologic and aqueous history.
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D.
Shorty crater
Shorty crater is a small lunar impact crater in the Taurus–Littrow valley that was explored by the Apollo 17 astronauts and is notable as the site where orange volcanic soil was discovered.
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E.
Dolomieu Crater
Dolomieu Crater is the main summit caldera of the active Piton de la Fournaise volcano on Réunion Island, known for its frequent eruptions and dramatic collapses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronomical object
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lunar impact crater ⓘ |
| coordinateSystem | selenographic coordinates ⓘ |
| diameter | approximately 173 km ⓘ |
| eponym |
Henry A. Rowland
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linked to:
Henry Augustus Rowland
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| hasColongitude | 180 ⓘ |
| hasCondition | heavily eroded ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
craterlets along rim and inner walls
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distorted rim ⓘ heavily cratered surroundings ⓘ interior floor marked by smaller craters ⓘ irregular outer wall ⓘ rugged interior ⓘ worn rim ⓘ |
| hasMorphology | walled plain ⓘ |
| hasSatelliteCrater |
Rowland A
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Rowland B ⓘ Rowland C ⓘ Rowland D ⓘ Rowland E ⓘ Rowland F ⓘ Rowland G ⓘ Rowland H ⓘ Rowland J ⓘ Rowland K ⓘ Rowland L ⓘ Rowland M ⓘ Rowland N ⓘ Rowland P ⓘ Rowland R ⓘ Rowland S ⓘ Rowland T ⓘ Rowland U ⓘ Rowland V ⓘ Rowland W ⓘ Rowland X ⓘ Rowland Y ⓘ Rowland Z ⓘ |
| isPartOf | lunar far-side highlands region ⓘ |
| locatedNear | lunar north pole ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Moon ⓘ |
| locatedOnSide | far side of the Moon ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Henry Augustus Rowland ⓘ |
| observedBy |
Apollo missions
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linked to:
Apollo program
Lunar Orbiter missions ⓘ
linked to:
Lunar Orbiter program
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| relativeAge | ancient impact structure ⓘ |
| surfaceType | heavily cratered highlands ⓘ |
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: Rowland crater Description of subject: Rowland crater is a large, heavily eroded impact feature on the Moon’s far side, notable for its worn rim and location near the lunar north pole.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.