Kalyke
E642774
Kalyke is a small, irregular, retrograde moon of Jupiter belonging to the planet’s distant outer group of natural satellites.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kalyke canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7099940 — 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: Kalyke Context triple: [Jovian satellite system, hasMember, Kalyke]
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A.
Kiloran
Kiloran is a small coastal settlement on the Scottish island of Colonsay, known for its scenic bay and sandy beach.
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B.
Damkina
Damkina is a Mesopotamian earth and mother goddess, best known as the consort of the god Enki (Ea) and mother of the Babylonian chief god Marduk.
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C.
Kykuit
Kykuit is a historic Rockefeller family estate and grand mansion known for its architecture, art collections, and landscaped gardens overlooking the Hudson River in New York.
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D.
Kueyen
Kueyen is one of the four 8.2-meter Unit Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope array operated by the European Southern Observatory on Cerro Paranal in Chile.
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E.
Helkant
Helkant is a small village in the Dutch municipality of Drimmelen in the province of North Brabant.
- 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: Kalyke Target entity description: Kalyke is a small, irregular, retrograde moon of Jupiter belonging to the planet’s distant outer group of natural satellites.
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A.
Kiloran
Kiloran is a small coastal settlement on the Scottish island of Colonsay, known for its scenic bay and sandy beach.
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B.
Damkina
Damkina is a Mesopotamian earth and mother goddess, best known as the consort of the god Enki (Ea) and mother of the Babylonian chief god Marduk.
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C.
Kykuit
Kykuit is a historic Rockefeller family estate and grand mansion known for its architecture, art collections, and landscaped gardens overlooking the Hudson River in New York.
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D.
Kueyen
Kueyen is one of the four 8.2-meter Unit Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope array operated by the European Southern Observatory on Cerro Paranal in Chile.
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E.
Helkant
Helkant is a small village in the Dutch municipality of Drimmelen in the province of North Brabant.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
moon of Jupiter
ⓘ
natural satellite ⓘ outer irregular satellite of Jupiter ⓘ retrograde satellite ⓘ |
| albedo | low ⓘ |
| approximateDiameter | 6.9 kilometers ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Jupiter’s outer irregular satellite population ⓘ |
| belongsToGroup | Carme group ⓘ |
| belongsToPlanet | Jupiter ⓘ |
| celestialBody | Jupiter ⓘ |
| discoveredBy |
David C. Jewitt
ⓘ
Jan T. Kleyna ⓘ Scott S. Sheppard ⓘ Yanga R. Fernandez ⓘ
linked to:
Yanga R. Fernández
|
| discoveryMethod | ground-based telescope observations ⓘ |
| discoverySite |
Mauna Kea Observatory (Hawaii)
ⓘ
linked to:
Mauna Kea Observatories
|
| discoveryYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| eccentricity | about 0.214 ⓘ |
| gravitationallyBoundTo | Jupiter ⓘ |
| groupInclinationRange | about 164 to 166 degrees ⓘ |
| groupOrbitalDirection | retrograde ⓘ |
| groupSemiMajorAxisRange | about 23 to 24 million kilometers from Jupiter ⓘ |
| hasOrbitalSense | opposite to Jupiter’s rotation ⓘ |
| inclination | about 166 degrees ⓘ |
| likelyComposition | carbon-rich material ⓘ |
| meanDistanceFromSun | about 5.2 astronomical units (via Jupiter’s orbit) ⓘ |
| meanRadius | about 3.45 kilometers ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Jovian satellite system
ⓘ
outer group of Jovian satellites ⓘ |
| mythologicalAssociation | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Kalyke from Greek mythology ⓘ |
| orbitalCharacter | irregular ⓘ |
| orbitalDirection | retrograde ⓘ |
| orbitalPeriod | about −721.0 days ⓘ |
| orbits | Jupiter ⓘ |
| parentPlanet | Jupiter ⓘ |
| provisionalDesignation | S/2000 J 2 ⓘ |
| rotationState | not well determined ⓘ |
| semiMajorAxis | about 23,181,000 kilometers ⓘ |
| shape | irregular ⓘ |
| solarSystemBody | outer Solar System ⓘ |
| spectralType | D-type (likely) ⓘ |
| surfaceType | dark ⓘ |
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: Kalyke Description of subject: Kalyke is a small, irregular, retrograde moon of Jupiter belonging to the planet’s distant outer group of natural satellites.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.