1691 Oort
E471608
1691 Oort is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, renowned for his pioneering work on the structure of the Milky Way and the Oort cloud.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 1691 Oort canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4814351 — 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: 1691 Oort Context triple: [Jan Oort, hasAsteroidNamedAfter, 1691 Oort]
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A.
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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B.
Silloo Bode
Silloo Bode was the wife of Indian Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw and a member of the Parsi community.
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C.
1590 Tsiolkovskaja
1590 Tsiolkovskaja is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Russian rocket scientist and spaceflight pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
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D.
Dibiasky comet
The Dibiasky comet is the fictional, Earth-destroying comet central to the plot of the satirical disaster film "Don't Look Up."
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E.
Jan Oort
Jan Oort was a Dutch astronomer renowned for his pioneering work on the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way and for proposing the existence of the distant cometary reservoir now known as the Oort cloud.
- 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: 1691 Oort Target entity description: 1691 Oort is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, renowned for his pioneering work on the structure of the Milky Way and the Oort cloud.
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A.
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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B.
Silloo Bode
Silloo Bode was the wife of Indian Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw and a member of the Parsi community.
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C.
1590 Tsiolkovskaja
1590 Tsiolkovskaja is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Russian rocket scientist and spaceflight pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
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D.
Dibiasky comet
The Dibiasky comet is the fictional, Earth-destroying comet central to the plot of the satirical disaster film "Don't Look Up."
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E.
Jan Oort
Jan Oort was a Dutch astronomer renowned for his pioneering work on the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way and for proposing the existence of the distant cometary reservoir now known as the Oort cloud.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
asteroid
ⓘ
main-belt asteroid ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Solar System ⓘ |
| celestialBodyType | minor planet ⓘ |
| discoveredIn | 20th century ⓘ |
| hasDesignation | 1691 Oort ⓘ |
| hasOrbitalRegion | main belt ⓘ |
| locatedIn | asteroid belt ⓘ |
| memberOf | minor planets of the inner Solar System ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Dutch astronomer Jan Oort
ⓘ
linked to:
Jan Oort
Jan Oort ⓘ |
| namedForWorkRelatedTo |
Oort cloud
ⓘ
structure of the Milky Way ⓘ |
| orbits | Sun ⓘ |
| partOf | main asteroid belt ⓘ |
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: 1691 Oort Description of subject: 1691 Oort is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, renowned for his pioneering work on the structure of the Milky Way and the Oort cloud.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.