asteroid 3356 Resnik
E206458
Asteroid 3356 Resnik is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronaut Judith Resnik, who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| asteroid 3356 Resnik canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1853831 — 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: asteroid 3356 Resnik Context triple: [Judith Resnik, memorial, asteroid 3356 Resnik]
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A.
Ilan Ramon
Ilan Ramon was the first Israeli astronaut, a payload specialist on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107.
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B.
Sally Ride (Lunar Crater)
Sally Ride is a lunar impact crater named in honor of astronaut and physicist Sally K. Ride, the first American woman in space.
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C.
asteroid 1501 Baade
Asteroid 1501 Baade is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of the German astronomer Walter Baade, known for his work on stellar populations and the scale of the universe.
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D.
Ellison Onizuka
Ellison Onizuka was an American astronaut and aerospace engineer who became the first Asian American and first person of Japanese ancestry to fly in space.
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E.
asteroid 944 Hidalgo
Asteroid 944 Hidalgo is a large, eccentric, comet-like minor planet that orbits between the inner and outer solar system, making it one of the first known centaur objects.
- 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: asteroid 3356 Resnik Target entity description: Asteroid 3356 Resnik is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronaut Judith Resnik, who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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A.
Ilan Ramon
Ilan Ramon was the first Israeli astronaut, a payload specialist on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107.
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B.
Sally Ride (Lunar Crater)
Sally Ride is a lunar impact crater named in honor of astronaut and physicist Sally K. Ride, the first American woman in space.
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C.
asteroid 1501 Baade
Asteroid 1501 Baade is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of the German astronomer Walter Baade, known for his work on stellar populations and the scale of the universe.
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D.
Ellison Onizuka
Ellison Onizuka was an American astronaut and aerospace engineer who became the first Asian American and first person of Japanese ancestry to fly in space.
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E.
asteroid 944 Hidalgo
Asteroid 944 Hidalgo is a large, eccentric, comet-like minor planet that orbits between the inner and outer solar system, making it one of the first known centaur objects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
asteroid
ⓘ
main-belt asteroid ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Space Shuttle Challenger disaster ⓘ |
| belongsTo | main asteroid belt ⓘ |
| celestialBodyType | minor planet ⓘ |
| commemorates | Judith Resnik ⓘ |
| countryOfHonoree |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| honoreeAffiliation | NASA ⓘ |
| honoreeOccupation | astronaut ⓘ |
| locatedIn | asteroid belt ⓘ |
| minorPlanetNumber | 3356 ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Judith A. Resnik
ⓘ
linked to:
Judith Resnik
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| namedInHonorOf |
American astronaut Judith Resnik
ⓘ
linked to:
Judith Resnik
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| orbits | Sun ⓘ |
| partOf | population of main-belt asteroids ⓘ |
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: asteroid 3356 Resnik Description of subject: Asteroid 3356 Resnik is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronaut Judith Resnik, who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.