asteroid 1501 Baade
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Asteroid 1501 Baade is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of the German astronomer Walter Baade, known for his work on stellar populations and the scale of the universe.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| asteroid 1501 Baade canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T781618 — 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: asteroid 1501 Baade Context triple: [Walter Baade, hasEponym, asteroid 1501 Baade]
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A.
asteroid 1036 Ganymed
Asteroid 1036 Ganymed is a large near-Earth Amor-type asteroid and the largest known near-Earth object, notable for its highly eccentric orbit and close approaches to Mars and Earth.
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B.
asteroid 944 Hidalgo
Asteroid 944 Hidalgo is a large, eccentric, comet-like minor planet that orbits between the inner and outer solar system, making it one of the first known centaur objects.
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C.
Komet
Komet was the nickname of the Messerschmitt Me 163, a German World War II rocket-powered interceptor aircraft known for its extraordinary speed and unconventional design.
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D.
Gaspra
Gaspra is a seaside resort town on the southern coast of Crimea, known for its mild climate, beaches, and historic landmarks such as the Swallow's Nest castle.
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E.
Ceres
Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and a dwarf planet composed primarily of rock and ice.
- 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: asteroid 1501 Baade Target entity description: Asteroid 1501 Baade is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of the German astronomer Walter Baade, known for his work on stellar populations and the scale of the universe.
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A.
asteroid 1036 Ganymed
Asteroid 1036 Ganymed is a large near-Earth Amor-type asteroid and the largest known near-Earth object, notable for its highly eccentric orbit and close approaches to Mars and Earth.
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B.
asteroid 944 Hidalgo
Asteroid 944 Hidalgo is a large, eccentric, comet-like minor planet that orbits between the inner and outer solar system, making it one of the first known centaur objects.
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C.
Komet
Komet was the nickname of the Messerschmitt Me 163, a German World War II rocket-powered interceptor aircraft known for its extraordinary speed and unconventional design.
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D.
Gaspra
Gaspra is a seaside resort town on the southern coast of Crimea, known for its mild climate, beaches, and historic landmarks such as the Swallow's Nest castle.
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E.
Ceres
Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and a dwarf planet composed primarily of rock and ice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
asteroid
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astronomer ⓘ main-belt asteroid ⓘ |
| belongsTo | main asteroid belt ⓘ |
| celestialBodyCategory | minor planet ⓘ |
| citizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | astronomy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
work on stellar populations
ⓘ
work on the scale of the universe ⓘ |
| locatedIn | asteroid belt ⓘ |
| minorPlanetNumber | 1501 ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Walter Baade ⓘ |
| namedForOccupation | 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: asteroid 1501 Baade Description of subject: Asteroid 1501 Baade is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of the German astronomer Walter Baade, known for his work on stellar populations and the scale of the universe.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.