Ørsted (crater on the Moon)

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lunar impact crater

Ørsted is a lunar impact crater named in honor of Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted, located near the Moon’s northern limb.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Ørsted (crater)	45
Ørsted (lunar crater)	21
Ørsted (crater on the Moon) canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2037028 — 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: Ørsted (crater on the Moon)
Context triple: [Hans Christian Ørsted, hasHonorificName, Ørsted (crater on the Moon)]

A. crater Resnik on the Moon
Crater Resnik on the Moon is a lunar impact crater named in honor of astronaut Judith Resnik, one of the crew members who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
B. McNair crater on the Moon
McNair crater on the Moon is a lunar impact crater named in honor of astronaut and physicist Ronald McNair, one of the crew members who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
C. Copernicus Crater on the Moon
Copernicus Crater on the Moon is a prominent, relatively young lunar impact crater in the Moon’s eastern Oceanus Procellarum region, named in honor of the Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
D. Hale crater on the Moon
Hale crater on the Moon is a lunar impact crater named in honor of American solar astronomer George Ellery Hale.
E. Gagarin crater on the Moon
Gagarin crater on the Moon is a large lunar impact crater on the Moon’s far side named in honor of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space.
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: Ørsted (crater on the Moon)
Target entity description: Ørsted is a lunar impact crater named in honor of Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted, located near the Moon’s northern limb.

A. crater Resnik on the Moon
Crater Resnik on the Moon is a lunar impact crater named in honor of astronaut Judith Resnik, one of the crew members who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
B. McNair crater on the Moon
McNair crater on the Moon is a lunar impact crater named in honor of astronaut and physicist Ronald McNair, one of the crew members who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
C. Copernicus Crater on the Moon
Copernicus Crater on the Moon is a prominent, relatively young lunar impact crater in the Moon’s eastern Oceanus Procellarum region, named in honor of the Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
D. Hale crater on the Moon
Hale crater on the Moon is a lunar impact crater named in honor of American solar astronomer George Ellery Hale.
E. Gagarin crater on the Moon
Gagarin crater on the Moon is a large lunar impact crater on the Moon’s far side named in honor of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	lunar impact crater ⓘ
belongsTo	lunar nomenclature system ⓘ
eponym	Hans Christian Ørsted ⓘ
featureType	IAU lunar crater ⓘ
hasCoordinateSystem	selenographic coordinates ⓘ
hasFeature	eroded walls ⓘ worn rim ⓘ
hasInterior	few small craterlets ⓘ relatively level floor ⓘ
hasObservation	imaged by Clementine mission ⓘ imaged by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ⓘ photographed by Lunar Orbiter missions ⓘ
hasOfficialName	Ørsted ⓘ linked to: Ørsted A
hasSatelliteCrater	Ørsted A ⓘ Ørsted B ⓘ Ørsted C ⓘ Ørsted D ⓘ Ørsted E ⓘ Ørsted F ⓘ Ørsted G ⓘ Ørsted H ⓘ Ørsted K ⓘ Ørsted L ⓘ Ørsted M ⓘ Ørsted N ⓘ Ørsted P ⓘ Ørsted Q ⓘ Ørsted R ⓘ Ørsted S ⓘ Ørsted T ⓘ Ørsted U ⓘ Ørsted V ⓘ Ørsted W ⓘ Ørsted X ⓘ Ørsted Y ⓘ Ørsted Z ⓘ
hasShape	roughly circular ⓘ
honors	Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted ⓘ linked to: Hans Christian Ørsted
isVisibleFrom	Earth ⓘ
languageOfName	Danish ⓘ
locatedIn	lunar near side ⓘ
locatedNear	Moon’s northern limb ⓘ
locatedOn	Moon ⓘ
namedAfter	Hans Christian Ørsted ⓘ
namedBy	International Astronomical Union ⓘ
surfaceType	lunar highlands ⓘ
visibility	foreshortened due to limb location ⓘ

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