asteroid Šteins
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Asteroid Šteins is a small, diamond-shaped main-belt asteroid that was closely studied during a 2008 flyby by ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| (2867) Šteins | 1 |
| 2867 Šteins | 1 |
| asteroid 2867 Šteins | 1 |
| asteroid Šteins canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2726435 — 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 Šteins Context triple: [Rosetta mission, performedFlyby, asteroid Šteins]
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A.
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.
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B.
asteroid 1036 Ganymed
Asteroid 1036 Ganymed is a large near-Earth Amor-type asteroid and the largest known near-Earth object, notable for its highly eccentric orbit and close approaches to Mars and Earth.
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C.
Asteroid 1762 Russell
Asteroid 1762 Russell is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronomer Henry Norris Russell, known for his work on stellar classification and the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.
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D.
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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E.
Gaspra
Gaspra is a seaside resort town on the southern coast of Crimea, known for its mild climate, beaches, and historic landmarks such as the Swallow's Nest castle.
- 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 Šteins Target entity description: Asteroid Šteins is a small, diamond-shaped main-belt asteroid that was closely studied during a 2008 flyby by ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft.
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A.
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.
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B.
asteroid 1036 Ganymed
Asteroid 1036 Ganymed is a large near-Earth Amor-type asteroid and the largest known near-Earth object, notable for its highly eccentric orbit and close approaches to Mars and Earth.
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C.
Asteroid 1762 Russell
Asteroid 1762 Russell is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronomer Henry Norris Russell, known for his work on stellar classification and the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.
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D.
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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E.
Gaspra
Gaspra is a seaside resort town on the southern coast of Crimea, known for its mild climate, beaches, and historic landmarks such as the Swallow's Nest castle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
E-type asteroid
ⓘ
asteroid ⓘ main-belt asteroid ⓘ |
| absoluteMagnitude | about 13.2 ⓘ |
| albedo | high ⓘ |
| alternativeDesignation |
1969 VC
ⓘ
1979 YM9 ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Solar System ⓘ |
| belongsToDynamicalClass | non-family main-belt background asteroid ⓘ |
| bodyType | minor planet ⓘ |
| closestApproachSpacecraft | Rosetta ⓘ |
| composition | highly reflective, enstatite-rich material ⓘ |
| diameter | about 5.3 km ⓘ |
| discoverer | Nikolai Chernykh ⓘ |
| discoveryDate | 1979-11-04 ⓘ |
| discoverySite | Crimea–Nauchnij ⓘ |
| eccentricity | about 0.145 ⓘ |
| explorationPurpose | target for Rosetta flyby ⓘ |
| flybyAgency | European Space Agency ⓘ |
| flybyDate | 2008-09-05 ⓘ |
| flybyDistance | about 800 km ⓘ |
| hasShapeModel | derived from Rosetta imaging ⓘ |
| inclination | about 9.9 degrees ⓘ |
| lightcurveAmplitude | large ⓘ |
| locatedIn | main asteroid belt ⓘ |
| mpcDesignation |
2867 Šteins
ⓘ
linked to:
asteroid Šteins
|
| namedAfter | Karlis Šteins ⓘ |
| notableCrater | large crater near south pole ⓘ |
| numberingAuthority |
Minor Planet Center
ⓘ
linked to:
Minor Planet Center database
|
| orbitalPeriod | about 3.6 years ⓘ |
| orbitalRegion | inner main belt ⓘ |
| poleOrientation | constrained by Rosetta observations ⓘ |
| rotationPeriod | about 6.05 hours ⓘ |
| rotationSense | prograde ⓘ |
| semiMajorAxis | about 2.36 AU ⓘ |
| shape | diamond-shaped ⓘ |
| spectralType | E ⓘ |
| surfaceAppearance | heavily cratered ⓘ |
| visitedBy | Rosetta ⓘ |
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 Šteins Description of subject: Asteroid Šteins is a small, diamond-shaped main-belt asteroid that was closely studied during a 2008 flyby by ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Rosetta (on earlier Ariane 5 variant family)
linked to: asteroid Šteins
subject linked to:
asteroid Šteins
linked to: asteroid Šteins
linked to: asteroid Šteins