Vernadsky crater
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Vernadsky crater is a lunar impact crater named in honor of Russian-Ukrainian mineralogist and geochemist Vladimir Vernadsky.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Vernadsky crater canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3975382 — 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: Vernadsky crater Context triple: [Vladimir Vernadsky, hasHonorificName, Vernadsky crater]
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A.
Sechenov crater
Sechenov crater is an impact crater on the Moon located near the large Gagarin crater on the lunar far side.
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B.
Chaplygin crater
Chaplygin crater is an impact crater on the Moon’s far side, notable for its heavily eroded rim and location near the large walled plain Gagarin.
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C.
Fizeau crater
Fizeau crater is a large impact crater on the far side of the Moon, named in honor of French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau.
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D.
Kondratyuk crater
Kondratyuk crater is an impact crater on the far side of the Moon, named after Soviet engineer and spaceflight pioneer Yuri Kondratyuk.
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E.
Pavlov crater
Pavlov crater is a large, heavily eroded impact crater on the Moon’s far side, located near the prominent Gagarin crater.
- 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: Vernadsky crater Target entity description: Vernadsky crater is a lunar impact crater named in honor of Russian-Ukrainian mineralogist and geochemist Vladimir Vernadsky.
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A.
Sechenov crater
Sechenov crater is an impact crater on the Moon located near the large Gagarin crater on the lunar far side.
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B.
Chaplygin crater
Chaplygin crater is an impact crater on the Moon’s far side, notable for its heavily eroded rim and location near the large walled plain Gagarin.
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C.
Fizeau crater
Fizeau crater is a large impact crater on the far side of the Moon, named in honor of French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau.
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D.
Kondratyuk crater
Kondratyuk crater is an impact crater on the far side of the Moon, named after Soviet engineer and spaceflight pioneer Yuri Kondratyuk.
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E.
Pavlov crater
Pavlov crater is a large, heavily eroded impact crater on the Moon’s far side, located near the prominent Gagarin crater.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | lunar impact crater ⓘ |
| celestialBodyType | crater ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateSystem | selenographic coordinates ⓘ |
| hasEponym | Vladimir Vernadsky ⓘ |
| hasEponymCitizenship |
Russian
ⓘ
Ukrainian ⓘ |
| hasEponymOccupation |
geochemist
ⓘ
mineralogist ⓘ |
| hasNameLanguage |
English
ⓘ
Russian ⓘ |
| hasOfficialStatus | IAU-approved name ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceType | impact feature ⓘ |
| isNamedForField |
geochemistry
ⓘ
mineralogy ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Moon’s impact crater population ⓘ |
| locatedIn | lunar far side ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Moon ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Vladimir Vernadsky ⓘ |
| orbits | Earth ⓘ |
| partOf | lunar surface ⓘ |
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: Vernadsky crater Description of subject: Vernadsky crater is a lunar impact crater named in honor of Russian-Ukrainian mineralogist and geochemist Vladimir Vernadsky.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.