5668 Foucault (asteroid)
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5668 Foucault is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of French physicist Léon Foucault, known for his demonstration of Earth's rotation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 5668 Foucault (asteroid) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8803816 — 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: 5668 Foucault (asteroid) Context triple: [Léon Foucault, hasAstronomicalObjectNamedAfter, 5668 Foucault (asteroid)]
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A.
11757 Fizeau
11757 Fizeau is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of the French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau, known for his pioneering work on the speed of light.
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B.
Arago
Arago was a prominent 19th-century French physicist, astronomer, and politician known for his work on optics, electromagnetism, and the popularization of science.
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C.
asteroid 1605 Milankovitch
Asteroid 1605 Milankovitch is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Serbian mathematician and climatologist Milutin Milanković, known for his theory of ice age cycles driven by variations in Earth's orbit.
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D.
asteroid 1604 Tombaugh
Asteroid 1604 Tombaugh is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto.
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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: 5668 Foucault (asteroid) Target entity description: 5668 Foucault is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of French physicist Léon Foucault, known for his demonstration of Earth's rotation.
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A.
11757 Fizeau
11757 Fizeau is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of the French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau, known for his pioneering work on the speed of light.
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B.
Arago
Arago was a prominent 19th-century French physicist, astronomer, and politician known for his work on optics, electromagnetism, and the popularization of science.
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C.
asteroid 1605 Milankovitch
Asteroid 1605 Milankovitch is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Serbian mathematician and climatologist Milutin Milanković, known for his theory of ice age cycles driven by variations in Earth's orbit.
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D.
asteroid 1604 Tombaugh
Asteroid 1604 Tombaugh is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto.
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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 (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
asteroid
ⓘ
main-belt asteroid ⓘ |
| apsis | heliocentric ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Solar System ⓘ |
| belongsToAstronomicalPopulation | main-belt asteroids ⓘ |
| category | main-belt asteroids ⓘ |
| celestialBodyType | asteroid ⓘ |
| discovererNationality | unknown ⓘ |
| discoveryDate | unknown ⓘ |
| discoverySite | unknown ⓘ |
| hasEponym | Léon Foucault ⓘ |
| hasNamesakeFor | Foucault pendulum ⓘ |
| hasOrbitalRegion | main asteroid belt ⓘ |
| isInOrbitAround | Sun ⓘ |
| isMinorPlanet | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn | asteroid belt ⓘ |
| minorPlanetNumber | 5668 ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Léon Foucault ⓘ |
| namedAfterCountryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| namedAfterFor | demonstration of Earth’s rotation ⓘ |
| namedAfterFullName |
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault
ⓘ
linked to:
Léon Foucault
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| namedAfterOccupation | physicist ⓘ |
| orbits | Sun ⓘ |
| partOf | main asteroid belt ⓘ |
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: 5668 Foucault (asteroid) Description of subject: 5668 Foucault is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of French physicist Léon Foucault, known for his demonstration of Earth's rotation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.