asteroid 5383 Leavitt
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Asteroid 5383 Leavitt is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt, whose work on Cepheid variable stars enabled the measurement of cosmic distances.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| asteroid 5383 Leavitt canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6146152 — 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 5383 Leavitt Context triple: [Henrietta Swan Leavitt, hasNamesake, asteroid 5383 Leavitt]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
asteroid 2839 Annette
Asteroid 2839 Annette is a main-belt asteroid named "Annette," discovered by American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto.
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D.
asteroid 1000 Piazzia
Asteroid 1000 Piazzia is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, the discoverer of Ceres.
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E.
asteroid 3356 Resnik
Asteroid 3356 Resnik is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronaut Judith Resnik, who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
- 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 5383 Leavitt Target entity description: Asteroid 5383 Leavitt is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt, whose work on Cepheid variable stars enabled the measurement of cosmic distances.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
asteroid 2839 Annette
Asteroid 2839 Annette is a main-belt asteroid named "Annette," discovered by American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto.
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D.
asteroid 1000 Piazzia
Asteroid 1000 Piazzia is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, the discoverer of Ceres.
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E.
asteroid 3356 Resnik
Asteroid 3356 Resnik is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronaut Judith Resnik, who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
asteroid
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astronomer ⓘ main-belt asteroid ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | astronomy ⓘ |
| hasMinorPlanetNumber | 5383 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
period–luminosity relation for Cepheid variables
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study of Cepheid variable stars ⓘ |
| locatedIn | asteroid belt ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Henrietta Swan Leavitt ⓘ |
| partOf | Solar System ⓘ |
| significantContribution | enabled measurement of cosmic distances via Cepheid variables ⓘ |
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 5383 Leavitt Description of subject: Asteroid 5383 Leavitt is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt, whose work on Cepheid variable stars enabled the measurement of cosmic distances.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.