Douglas G. Currie
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Douglas G. Currie is an astronomer best known for discovering Calypso, one of Saturn’s small Trojan moons.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Douglas G. Currie canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7408943 — 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: Douglas G. Currie Context triple: [Calypso, discoveredBy, Douglas G. Currie]
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A.
Douglas L. Meyer
Douglas L. Meyer is a theatrical producer best known for his work on the hit 2001 Broadway musical "The Producers."
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B.
Douglas J. Foskett
Douglas J. Foskett was a British librarian and information scientist known for his influential work in library classification and information retrieval.
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C.
Craig A. Stough
Craig A. Stough is an American local government leader who serves as the mayor of Sylvania, Ohio.
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D.
Douglas S. Cramer
Douglas S. Cramer was an American television and film producer best known for his work on popular series such as "Dynasty," "The Love Boat," and "Wonder Woman."
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E.
David C. Plummer
David C. Plummer is a computer scientist best known for authoring the ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) specification and contributing to early Internet networking standards.
- 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: Douglas G. Currie Target entity description: Douglas G. Currie is an astronomer best known for discovering Calypso, one of Saturn’s small Trojan moons.
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A.
Douglas L. Meyer
Douglas L. Meyer is a theatrical producer best known for his work on the hit 2001 Broadway musical "The Producers."
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B.
Douglas J. Foskett
Douglas J. Foskett was a British librarian and information scientist known for his influential work in library classification and information retrieval.
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C.
Craig A. Stough
Craig A. Stough is an American local government leader who serves as the mayor of Sylvania, Ohio.
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D.
Douglas S. Cramer
Douglas S. Cramer was an American television and film producer best known for his work on popular series such as "Dynasty," "The Love Boat," and "Wonder Woman."
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E.
David C. Plummer
David C. Plummer is a computer scientist best known for authoring the ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) specification and contributing to early Internet networking standards.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Trojan moon
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astronomer ⓘ natural satellite ⓘ |
| discovered | Calypso (moon) ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
astronomy
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planetary science ⓘ |
| hasDiscovered | at least one natural satellite of Saturn ⓘ |
| knownFor | discovery of Saturnian moon Calypso ⓘ |
| notableFor | discovering one of Saturn’s small Trojan moons ⓘ |
| notableWork | discovery of Calypso (moon) ⓘ |
| orbits | Saturn ⓘ |
| trojanOf | Tethys ⓘ |
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: Douglas G. Currie Description of subject: Douglas G. Currie is an astronomer best known for discovering Calypso, one of Saturn’s small Trojan moons.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.