asteroid 5771 Somerville
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Asteroid 5771 Somerville is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Scottish science writer and polymath Mary Somerville.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| asteroid 5771 Somerville canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4532930 — 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 5771 Somerville Context triple: [Mary Somerville, hasHonorificNameIn, asteroid 5771 Somerville]
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A.
asteroid 5726 Rubin
Asteroid 5726 Rubin is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of pioneering American astronomer Vera Rubin, whose work on galaxy rotation curves provided key evidence for dark matter.
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B.
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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C.
Asteroid 51827 Laurelclark
Asteroid 51827 Laurelclark is a main-belt asteroid named in memory of NASA astronaut and physician Laurel B. Clark, who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
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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.
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.
- 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 5771 Somerville Target entity description: Asteroid 5771 Somerville is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Scottish science writer and polymath Mary Somerville.
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A.
asteroid 5726 Rubin
Asteroid 5726 Rubin is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of pioneering American astronomer Vera Rubin, whose work on galaxy rotation curves provided key evidence for dark matter.
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B.
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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C.
Asteroid 51827 Laurelclark
Asteroid 51827 Laurelclark is a main-belt asteroid named in memory of NASA astronaut and physician Laurel B. Clark, who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
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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.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
asteroid
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human ⓘ main-belt asteroid ⓘ minor planet ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Solar System ⓘ |
| celestialBodyType | asteroid ⓘ |
| citizenship | Scotland ⓘ |
| hasMinorPlanetNumber | 5771 ⓘ |
| locatedIn | main asteroid belt ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Mary Somerville ⓘ |
| occupation |
mathematician
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polymath ⓘ science writer ⓘ |
| orbits | Sun ⓘ |
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 5771 Somerville Description of subject: Asteroid 5771 Somerville is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Scottish science writer and polymath Mary Somerville.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.