Pickering (lunar crater)
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Pickering (lunar crater) is a small, relatively young impact crater on the Moon named in honor of American astronomer William Henry Pickering.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pickering (lunar crater) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10903182 — 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: Pickering (lunar crater) Context triple: [William Henry Pickering, hasLunarCraterNamedAfter, Pickering (lunar crater)]
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A.
Russell lunar crater
Russell is a large, heavily eroded lunar impact crater located near the western limb of the Moon.
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B.
Baade lunar crater
Baade lunar crater is a large impact feature on the Moon’s far side named in honor of German astronomer Walter Baade.
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C.
McNair crater on the Moon
McNair crater on the Moon is a lunar impact crater named in honor of astronaut and physicist Ronald McNair, one of the crew members who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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D.
Murchison crater (Moon)
Murchison crater (Moon) is a large, ancient impact crater on the Moon’s near side, notable for its heavily eroded walls and partially flooded floor.
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E.
Poynting crater
Poynting crater is a large, heavily eroded impact crater on the far side of the Moon, named after British physicist John Henry Poynting.
- 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: Pickering (lunar crater) Target entity description: Pickering (lunar crater) is a small, relatively young impact crater on the Moon named in honor of American astronomer William Henry Pickering.
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A.
Russell lunar crater
Russell is a large, heavily eroded lunar impact crater located near the western limb of the Moon.
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B.
Baade lunar crater
Baade lunar crater is a large impact feature on the Moon’s far side named in honor of German astronomer Walter Baade.
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C.
McNair crater on the Moon
McNair crater on the Moon is a lunar impact crater named in honor of astronaut and physicist Ronald McNair, one of the crew members who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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D.
Murchison crater (Moon)
Murchison crater (Moon) is a large, ancient impact crater on the Moon’s near side, notable for its heavily eroded walls and partially flooded floor.
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E.
Poynting crater
Poynting crater is a large, heavily eroded impact crater on the far side of the Moon, named after British physicist John Henry Poynting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
impact crater on the Moon
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lunar impact crater ⓘ |
| belongsTo | lunar cratering record ⓘ |
| cataloguedIn | International Astronomical Union nomenclature ⓘ |
| coordinateSystem | selenographic coordinates ⓘ |
| eponymNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasAlbedo | high-albedo ejecta ⓘ |
| hasCondition | relatively uneroded rim ⓘ |
| hasEjecta | bright ejecta blanket ⓘ |
| hasEponymRole | astronomer ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
sharp rim
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well-defined rim ⓘ |
| hasGeologicAge | Copernican system ⓘ |
| hasInterior | relatively featureless floor ⓘ |
| hasMorphology | circular crater ⓘ |
| hasRaySystem | yes ⓘ |
| hasRelativeAge | young ⓘ |
| hasSize | small ⓘ |
| isVisibleFrom | Earth ⓘ |
| locatedIn | lunar near side ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Mare Tranquillitatis
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crater Dionysius ⓘ crater Taruntius ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Moon ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
American astronomer William Henry Pickering
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linked to:
William Henry Pickering
William Henry Pickering ⓘ |
| observationMethod | telescopic observation ⓘ |
| observedBy |
Apollo missions
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linked to:
Apollo program
lunar orbiters ⓘ |
| surfaceType | lunar highlands region ⓘ |
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: Pickering (lunar crater) Description of subject: Pickering (lunar crater) is a small, relatively young impact crater on the Moon named in honor of American astronomer William Henry Pickering.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.