Taurus–Littrow valley
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Taurus–Littrow valley is a geologically diverse lunar valley in the Moon’s Taurus Mountains that served as the landing and exploration site for NASA’s Apollo 17 mission.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2169238 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Taurus–Littrow valley Context triple: [Apollo 17, lunarLandingSite, Taurus–Littrow valley]
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Baade lunar crater
Baade lunar crater is a large impact feature on the Moon’s far side named in honor of German astronomer Walter Baade.
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Pavlov crater
Pavlov crater is a large, heavily eroded impact crater on the Moon’s far side, located near the prominent Gagarin crater.
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Mare Tranquillitatis
Mare Tranquillitatis is a lunar mare on the Moon’s near side, best known as the site of Apollo 11’s first crewed Moon landing.
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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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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.
- 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: Taurus–Littrow valley Target entity description: Taurus–Littrow valley is a geologically diverse lunar valley in the Moon’s Taurus Mountains that served as the landing and exploration site for NASA’s Apollo 17 mission.
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A.
Baade lunar crater
Baade lunar crater is a large impact feature on the Moon’s far side named in honor of German astronomer Walter Baade.
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B.
Pavlov crater
Pavlov crater is a large, heavily eroded impact crater on the Moon’s far side, located near the prominent Gagarin crater.
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C.
Mare Tranquillitatis
Mare Tranquillitatis is a lunar mare on the Moon’s near side, best known as the site of Apollo 11’s first crewed Moon landing.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
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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: Taurus–Littrow valley Description of subject: Taurus–Littrow valley is a geologically diverse lunar valley in the Moon’s Taurus Mountains that served as the landing and exploration site for NASA’s Apollo 17 mission.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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