crater Somerville on the Moon
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Crater Somerville on the Moon is an impact crater named in honor of Scottish science writer and polymath Mary Somerville, recognizing her contributions to mathematics and astronomy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| crater Somerville on the Moon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4532929 — 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: crater Somerville on the Moon Context triple: [Mary Somerville, hasHonorificNameIn, crater Somerville on the Moon]
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A.
crater Swope on the Moon
Crater Swope on the Moon is a lunar impact crater named in honor of American astronomer Henrietta Hill Swope, recognized for her work on variable stars and distance measurements in astronomy.
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B.
crater Langley on the Moon
Crater Langley on the Moon is a lunar impact crater named in honor of American astronomer and aviation pioneer Samuel Pierpont Langley.
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C.
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.
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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- 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: crater Somerville on the Moon Target entity description: Crater Somerville on the Moon is an impact crater named in honor of Scottish science writer and polymath Mary Somerville, recognizing her contributions to mathematics and astronomy.
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A.
crater Swope on the Moon
Crater Swope on the Moon is a lunar impact crater named in honor of American astronomer Henrietta Hill Swope, recognized for her work on variable stars and distance measurements in astronomy.
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B.
crater Langley on the Moon
Crater Langley on the Moon is a lunar impact crater named in honor of American astronomer and aviation pioneer Samuel Pierpont Langley.
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C.
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.
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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | lunar impact crater ⓘ |
| associatedWithDiscipline |
astronomy
ⓘ
planetary science ⓘ |
| category | Lunar craters ⓘ |
| celestialBodyType | satellite surface feature ⓘ |
| eponym | Mary Somerville ⓘ |
| featureType | impact crater ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateSystem | selenographic coordinates ⓘ |
| hasEponymField |
astronomy
ⓘ
mathematics ⓘ |
| hasEponymOccupation |
polymath
ⓘ
science writer ⓘ |
| hasNameLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasOfficialStatus | IAU-approved name ⓘ |
| honours | Mary Somerville ⓘ |
| isNamedBy | International Astronomical Union ⓘ |
| isPartOf | lunar surface ⓘ |
| locatedIn | lunar far side ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Moon ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Mary Somerville ⓘ |
| orbitsWithPrimary | Earth ⓘ |
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: crater Somerville on the Moon Description of subject: Crater Somerville on the Moon is an impact crater named in honor of Scottish science writer and polymath Mary Somerville, recognizing her contributions to mathematics and astronomy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.