Sikorsky crater
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Sikorsky crater is an impact crater on the Moon located near the large walled plain Gagarin on the lunar far side.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sikorsky crater canonical | 1 |
| Sikorsky crater system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1825530 — 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: Sikorsky crater Context triple: [Gagarin crater, neighboringCrater, Sikorsky crater]
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A.
Crater
Crater is a historic district and port area in the city of Aden, Yemen, known for its location within an ancient volcanic crater and its role as a commercial and administrative center.
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B.
Occator Crater
Occator Crater is a prominent impact crater on the dwarf planet Ceres, best known for its bright salt deposits that suggest past subsurface brine activity.
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C.
Jezero Crater
Jezero Crater is an ancient impact basin on Mars that once hosted a lake and river delta, making it a prime site for studying past habitability and searching for signs of ancient life.
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D.
Schwarzschild crater
Schwarzschild crater is a large impact crater on the far side of the Moon, notable for its heavily eroded rim and complex interior features.
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E.
Decorah crater
Decorah crater is a buried meteorite impact structure located beneath the city of Decorah in northeastern Iowa.
- 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: Sikorsky crater Target entity description: Sikorsky crater is an impact crater on the Moon located near the large walled plain Gagarin on the lunar far side.
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A.
Crater
Crater is a historic district and port area in the city of Aden, Yemen, known for its location within an ancient volcanic crater and its role as a commercial and administrative center.
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B.
Occator Crater
Occator Crater is a prominent impact crater on the dwarf planet Ceres, best known for its bright salt deposits that suggest past subsurface brine activity.
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C.
Jezero Crater
Jezero Crater is an ancient impact basin on Mars that once hosted a lake and river delta, making it a prime site for studying past habitability and searching for signs of ancient life.
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D.
Schwarzschild crater
Schwarzschild crater is a large impact crater on the far side of the Moon, notable for its heavily eroded rim and complex interior features.
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E.
Decorah crater
Decorah crater is a buried meteorite impact structure located beneath the city of Decorah in northeastern Iowa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronomical object
ⓘ
lunar impact crater ⓘ |
| belongsToCategory |
Impact craters on the Moon
ⓘ
Lunar far side features ⓘ |
| cataloguedIn |
International Astronomical Union nomenclature
ⓘ
linked to:
IAU lunar nomenclature
|
| coordinateSystem | selenographic coordinates ⓘ |
| eponym | Igor Sikorsky ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
eroded rim
ⓘ
interior floor with irregularities ⓘ overlapping smaller craters on rim ⓘ worn outer wall ⓘ |
| hasGeologicalOrigin | impact event ⓘ |
| hasInteriorCondition | relatively level floor with small craters ⓘ |
| hasMorphology | walled plain-like structure ⓘ |
| hasRimCondition | heavily worn ⓘ |
| hasSatelliteCrater |
Sikorsky Q
ⓘ
Sikorsky R ⓘ
linked to:
Sikorsky Q
Sikorsky S ⓘ
linked to:
Sikorsky Q
Sikorsky T ⓘ
linked to:
Sikorsky Q
Sikorsky U ⓘ Sikorsky V ⓘ Sikorsky W ⓘ Sikorsky X ⓘ Sikorsky Y ⓘ Sikorsky Z ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Gagarin (crater)
ⓘ
linked to:
Gagarin crater on the Moon
Gagarin (walled plain) ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Moon ⓘ |
| locatedOnSideOfMoon | far side ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Igor Sikorsky ⓘ |
| namedBy | International Astronomical Union ⓘ |
| namedForOccupationOfEponym | aviation pioneer ⓘ |
| observedBy |
Apollo missions (far-side imaging)
ⓘ
Lunar Orbiter missions ⓘ |
| orbitsBody |
Earth (indirectly, as part of Moon)
ⓘ
linked to:
Earth–Moon system
|
| partOf | lunar far-side crater population ⓘ |
| surfaceType | lunar 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: Sikorsky crater Description of subject: Sikorsky crater is an impact crater on the Moon located near the large walled plain Gagarin on the lunar far side.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Gagarin crater on the Moon
linked to: Sikorsky crater