Sinope
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Sinope is an irregular, retrograde moon of Jupiter with a distant, eccentric orbit and a likely captured origin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sinope canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7099948 — 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: Sinope Context triple: [Jovian satellite system, hasMember, Sinope]
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A.
Sinop
Sinop is a historic port city on Turkey’s Black Sea coast, long valued for its strategic harbor and role in regional trade and defense.
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B.
Anaklia
Anaklia is a small Georgian Black Sea resort town known for its beaches, modern seaside promenade, and proximity to the Kolkheti wetlands.
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C.
Comana Pontica
Comana Pontica was an ancient town in the region of Pontus (in modern-day Turkey), known as a religious center and later as the place where John Chrysostom died in exile.
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D.
Sevastopolskaya
Sevastopolskaya is a Moscow Metro station serving the Serpukhovsko–Timiryazevskaya Line in the city’s southern part.
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E.
Olbia Pontica
Olbia Pontica was an ancient Greek colony and important Black Sea port city located near the mouth of the Southern Bug River in what is now Ukraine.
- 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: Sinope Target entity description: Sinope is an irregular, retrograde moon of Jupiter with a distant, eccentric orbit and a likely captured origin.
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A.
Sinop
Sinop is a historic port city on Turkey’s Black Sea coast, long valued for its strategic harbor and role in regional trade and defense.
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B.
Anaklia
Anaklia is a small Georgian Black Sea resort town known for its beaches, modern seaside promenade, and proximity to the Kolkheti wetlands.
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C.
Comana Pontica
Comana Pontica was an ancient town in the region of Pontus (in modern-day Turkey), known as a religious center and later as the place where John Chrysostom died in exile.
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D.
Sevastopolskaya
Sevastopolskaya is a Moscow Metro station serving the Serpukhovsko–Timiryazevskaya Line in the city’s southern part.
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E.
Olbia Pontica
Olbia Pontica was an ancient Greek colony and important Black Sea port city located near the mouth of the Southern Bug River in what is now Ukraine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
moon of Jupiter
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natural satellite ⓘ retrograde satellite ⓘ |
| albedo | low ⓘ |
| alternativeDesignation | Jupiter IX ⓘ |
| apoapsisRelativeToJupiter | very large ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
Pasiphae group
ⓘ
outer irregular satellites of Jupiter ⓘ |
| belongsToDynamicalClass | outer retrograde Jovian satellite ⓘ |
| belongsToPlanetarySystem | Solar System ⓘ |
| celestialBody | moon ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | Seth Barnes Nicholson ⓘ |
| discoveryLocation | Lick Observatory ⓘ |
| discoveryMethod | telescopic observation ⓘ |
| discoveryYear | 1914 ⓘ |
| escapeVelocity | very low ⓘ |
| gravitationallyBoundTo | Jupiter ⓘ |
| groupClassification | Pasiphae group irregular satellite ⓘ |
| hasAtmosphere | no significant atmosphere detected ⓘ |
| likelyOrigin |
captured asteroid
ⓘ
captured object ⓘ |
| mass | very small compared to major Galilean moons ⓘ |
| meanDiameter | approximately 38 km ⓘ |
| meanRadius | approximately 19 km ⓘ |
| memberOf | Jovian satellite system ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Sinope (figure in Greek mythology) ⓘ |
| observedBy |
ground-based telescopes
ⓘ
space-based telescopes ⓘ |
| orbitalDirection | retrograde ⓘ |
| orbitalDistanceFromJupiter | distant ⓘ |
| orbitalEccentricity | high ⓘ |
| orbitalInclination | high ⓘ |
| orbitalPeriod | about 2 Earth years ⓘ |
| orbitalStability | long-term irregular satellite orbit ⓘ |
| orbits | Jupiter ⓘ |
| periapsisRelativeToJupiter | large ⓘ |
| rotation | prograde with respect to its own axis ⓘ |
| satelliteOrderAroundJupiter | ninth discovered moon of Jupiter ⓘ |
| semiMajorAxis | approximately 24 million km from Jupiter ⓘ |
| shape | irregular ⓘ |
| spectralType | D-type (asteroid-like) ⓘ |
| surfaceColor | reddish ⓘ |
| surfaceComposition | likely carbon-rich ⓘ |
| surfaceFeatures | impact-cratered ⓘ |
| tidalInteractionWithJupiter | weak ⓘ |
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: Sinope Description of subject: Sinope is an irregular, retrograde moon of Jupiter with a distant, eccentric orbit and a likely captured origin.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.