Mare Crisium
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Mare Crisium is a prominent, isolated lunar mare on the Moon’s near side, easily visible from Earth as a dark, circular basaltic plain.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mare Crisium canonical | 6 |
| Mare Crisium region | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6042804 — 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: Mare Crisium Context triple: [Mare Tranquillitatis, boundedBy, Mare Crisium]
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A.
Mare Serenitatis
Mare Serenitatis is a large lunar mare, or basaltic plain, on the Moon’s near side, easily visible from Earth as a dark, circular feature formed by ancient volcanic activity.
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B.
Mare Tranquillitatis
Mare Tranquillitatis is a lunar mare on the Moon’s near side, best known as the site of Apollo 11’s first crewed Moon landing.
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C.
Mare Nectaris
Mare Nectaris is a small, circular lunar mare formed by an ancient impact basin on the Moon’s near side, known for its smooth basaltic plains and role in mapping the Moon’s geological history.
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D.
Mare Imbrium
Mare Imbrium is a vast, dark lunar mare formed by ancient volcanic activity, prominent on the Moon’s near side and notable as the landing site of several Apollo missions.
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E.
Mare Fecunditatis
Mare Fecunditatis is a large lunar mare on the Moon’s near side, characterized by its dark basaltic plains formed from ancient volcanic activity.
- 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: Mare Crisium Target entity description: Mare Crisium is a prominent, isolated lunar mare on the Moon’s near side, easily visible from Earth as a dark, circular basaltic plain.
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A.
Mare Serenitatis
Mare Serenitatis is a large lunar mare, or basaltic plain, on the Moon’s near side, easily visible from Earth as a dark, circular feature formed by ancient volcanic activity.
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B.
Mare Tranquillitatis
Mare Tranquillitatis is a lunar mare on the Moon’s near side, best known as the site of Apollo 11’s first crewed Moon landing.
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C.
Mare Nectaris
Mare Nectaris is a small, circular lunar mare formed by an ancient impact basin on the Moon’s near side, known for its smooth basaltic plains and role in mapping the Moon’s geological history.
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D.
Mare Imbrium
Mare Imbrium is a vast, dark lunar mare formed by ancient volcanic activity, prominent on the Moon’s near side and notable as the landing site of several Apollo missions.
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E.
Mare Fecunditatis
Mare Fecunditatis is a large lunar mare on the Moon’s near side, characterized by its dark basaltic plains formed from ancient volcanic activity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basaltic plain
ⓘ
lunar mare ⓘ |
| boundedBy | ring of highlands ⓘ |
| celestialBody | Moon ⓘ |
| formedBy | large impact event ⓘ |
| hasAlbedo | low ⓘ |
| hasArea | approximately 176,000 square kilometers ⓘ |
| hasBasinAge | Nectarian ⓘ |
| hasCoordinates | about 17° North 59° East selenographic ⓘ |
| hasDiameter | approximately 555 km ⓘ |
| hasEjectaFeature | ray system from Proclus crater ⓘ |
| hasGeologicAge | mostly Imbrian ⓘ |
| hasMeanElevation | lower than surrounding highlands ⓘ |
| hasNameMeaning | Sea of Crises ⓘ |
| hasNearbyCrater |
Burckhardt
ⓘ
linked to:
Johann Karl Burckhardt
Cleomedes ⓘ Condorcet ⓘ Eimmart ⓘ Lick ⓘ Macrobius ⓘ Peirce ⓘ Picard ⓘ Proclus ⓘ Yerkes ⓘ |
| hasOrbitalImageryFrom |
Apollo missions
ⓘ
linked to:
Apollo program
Lunar Orbiter missions ⓘ
linked to:
Lunar Orbiter program
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ⓘ |
| hasRimFeature |
Promontorium Agarum
ⓘ
Promontorium Olivium ⓘ |
| hasShape | roughly circular ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceComposition | basaltic lava flows ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceFeature |
ghost craters
ⓘ
low-relief lava plains ⓘ wrinkle ridges ⓘ |
| isEasilyRecognizableIn | naked-eye views of the Moon ⓘ |
| isIsolatedFrom | other large lunar maria ⓘ |
| isTargetOf | lunar geological studies ⓘ |
| isVisibleFrom | Earth ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Moon
ⓘ
near side of the Moon ⓘ |
| nameAdoptedInCentury | 17th century ⓘ |
| namedIn | Latin ⓘ |
| nameGivenBy | Giovanni Battista Riccioli ⓘ |
| observedBy | early telescopic astronomers ⓘ |
| partOf | lunar nearside maria ⓘ |
| surfaceModifiedBy | volcanic flooding ⓘ |
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: Mare Crisium Description of subject: Mare Crisium is a prominent, isolated lunar mare on the Moon’s near side, easily visible from Earth as a dark, circular basaltic plain.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.