Galatea
E118791
Galatea is a small inner moon of Neptune known for its role in shaping the planet’s ring arcs through gravitational interactions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Galatea canonical | 19 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1000479 — 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: Galatea Context triple: [Neptune, moon, Galatea]
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A.
Galatea of the Spheres
Galatea of the Spheres is a 1952 surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí that depicts a fragmented, spherical representation of his wife Gala, reflecting his fascination with nuclear physics and mysticism.
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B.
The Triumph of Galatea
The Triumph of Galatea is a celebrated fresco by the Italian Renaissance master Raphael, depicting the sea nymph Galatea in a dynamic mythological seascape.
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C.
Calliope
Calliope is the Muse of epic poetry in Greek mythology, often depicted as the chief of the nine Muses and associated with eloquence and heroic verse.
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D.
Dædalus
Dædalus is a scholarly journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that features interdisciplinary essays on culture, science, public affairs, and the arts.
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E.
Telegony
Telegony is a lost ancient Greek epic poem, traditionally attributed to Eugammon of Cyrene, that continued the story of Odysseus and his son Telemachus after the events of Homer’s Odyssey.
- 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: Galatea Target entity description: Galatea is a small inner moon of Neptune known for its role in shaping the planet’s ring arcs through gravitational interactions.
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A.
Galatea of the Spheres
Galatea of the Spheres is a 1952 surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí that depicts a fragmented, spherical representation of his wife Gala, reflecting his fascination with nuclear physics and mysticism.
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B.
The Triumph of Galatea
The Triumph of Galatea is a celebrated fresco by the Italian Renaissance master Raphael, depicting the sea nymph Galatea in a dynamic mythological seascape.
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C.
Calliope
Calliope is the Muse of epic poetry in Greek mythology, often depicted as the chief of the nine Muses and associated with eloquence and heroic verse.
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D.
Dædalus
Dædalus is a scholarly journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that features interdisciplinary essays on culture, science, public affairs, and the arts.
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E.
Telegony
Telegony is a lost ancient Greek epic poem, traditionally attributed to Eugammon of Cyrene, that continued the story of Odysseus and his son Telemachus after the events of Homer’s Odyssey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
moon of Neptune
ⓘ
natural satellite ⓘ |
| albedo | low ⓘ |
| alternativeName | Neptune VI ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Neptune’s regular satellites ⓘ |
| belongsToPlanetarySystem |
Neptunian system
ⓘ
linked to:
Neptune system
|
| catalogDesignation | S/1989 N4 ⓘ |
| celestialBodyType | inner moon ⓘ |
| density_estimate | similar to other inner Neptunian moons ⓘ |
| discoveredBy |
Voyager 2 imaging team
ⓘ
linked to:
Voyager imaging team
|
| discoveredDuring |
Voyager 2 Neptune flyby
ⓘ
linked to:
Voyager 2
|
| discoveryDate | 1989-07-02 ⓘ |
| discoveryMethod | spacecraft imaging ⓘ |
| discoverySite | Voyager 2 ⓘ |
| escapeVelocity_km_per_s | ~0.07 ⓘ |
| gravitationallyInteractsWith | Adams ring ⓘ |
| influences | Neptune’s ring arcs ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Neptune’s inner satellite region ⓘ |
| maintains |
Adams ring arcs
ⓘ
linked to:
Adams ring
|
| mass_estimate | on the order of 2×10^18 kg ⓘ |
| meanDiameter_km | ~176 ⓘ |
| meanMotionResonance | co-rotation resonance with Adams ring arcs ⓘ |
| meanRadius_km | ~88 ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Galatea (sea nymph in Greek mythology)
ⓘ
linked to:
Galatea from Greek mythology
|
| neighboringMoons |
Despina
ⓘ
Larissa ⓘ Thalassa ⓘ |
| orbitalDirection | prograde ⓘ |
| orbitalDistanceFromNeptune_km | ~62000 ⓘ |
| orbitalEccentricity | very low ⓘ |
| orbitalInclination_degrees | ~0.03 ⓘ |
| orbitalPeriod_hours | ~10.3 ⓘ |
| orbitalResonanceWith | Adams ring arcs ⓘ |
| orbits | Neptune ⓘ |
| parentPlanet | Neptune ⓘ |
| partOf | Neptune’s inner moons ⓘ |
| roleInRingSystem | shepherd moon of Adams ring ⓘ |
| rotation | synchronous with its orbit ⓘ |
| semiMajorAxis_km | ~61953 ⓘ |
| shape | irregular ⓘ |
| spectralType | dark, likely water-ice rich with contaminants ⓘ |
| surfaceColor | dark ⓘ |
| surfaceFeatures |
heavily cratered
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likely fractured terrain ⓘ |
| synchronousWith | Neptune ⓘ |
| system | Neptune ring–moon system ⓘ |
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: Galatea Description of subject: Galatea is a small inner moon of Neptune known for its role in shaping the planet’s ring arcs through gravitational interactions.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.