3112 Airy
E753777
3112 Airy is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of the 19th-century British astronomer George Biddell Airy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 3112 Airy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8712640 — 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: 3112 Airy Context triple: [George Biddell Airy, hasAsteroidNamedAfter, 3112 Airy]
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A.
Michell
Michell is a given name and surname that functions as a variant spelling of Mitchell.
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B.
Silloo Bode
Silloo Bode was the wife of Indian Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw and a member of the Parsi community.
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C.
Cassin
Cassin is a French surname most notably borne by René Cassin, a Nobel Peace Prize–winning jurist and co-author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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D.
Hyacinthia
Hyacinthia was an important ancient Spartan religious festival held in honor of the hero Hyacinthus and the god Apollo, featuring mourning rites followed by celebrations.
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E.
1604 Tombaugh
1604 Tombaugh is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto.
- 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: 3112 Airy Target entity description: 3112 Airy is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of the 19th-century British astronomer George Biddell Airy.
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A.
Michell
Michell is a given name and surname that functions as a variant spelling of Mitchell.
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B.
Silloo Bode
Silloo Bode was the wife of Indian Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw and a member of the Parsi community.
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C.
Cassin
Cassin is a French surname most notably borne by René Cassin, a Nobel Peace Prize–winning jurist and co-author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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D.
Hyacinthia
Hyacinthia was an important ancient Spartan religious festival held in honor of the hero Hyacinthus and the god Apollo, featuring mourning rites followed by celebrations.
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E.
1604 Tombaugh
1604 Tombaugh is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
asteroid
ⓘ
astronomer ⓘ main-belt asteroid ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Solar System ⓘ |
| celestialBodyType | minor planet ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasOrbitalRegion | main asteroid belt ⓘ |
| locatedIn | asteroid belt ⓘ |
| minorPlanetNumber | 3112 ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
19th-century British astronomer George Biddell Airy
ⓘ
George Biddell Airy ⓘ
linked to:
Sir George Airy
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| occupation | astronomer ⓘ |
| orbits | Sun ⓘ |
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: 3112 Airy Description of subject: 3112 Airy is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of the 19th-century British astronomer George Biddell Airy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Sir George Airy