Hevelius crater
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Hevelius crater is a large, ancient impact crater on the Moon’s near side, notable for its worn rim and relatively flat, lava-flooded floor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hevelius crater canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13051277 — 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: Hevelius crater Context triple: [Eddington crater, locatedNear, Hevelius crater]
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A.
Struve crater
Struve crater is a large, eroded lunar impact crater located near the Moon’s western limb, notable for its worn rim and partial flooding by basaltic lava.
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B.
Ernst Mach crater
Ernst Mach crater is a large impact crater on the Moon’s far side named in honor of the Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach.
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C.
Levi-Civita crater
Levi-Civita crater is a large, heavily eroded impact crater on the Moon’s far side, named after Italian mathematician Tullio Levi-Civita.
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Fra Mauro crater
Fra Mauro crater is a heavily eroded lunar impact crater on the Moon’s near side, best known for lending its name to the Fra Mauro formation and the intended Apollo 13 landing site.
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E.
Pavlov crater
Pavlov crater is a large, heavily eroded impact crater on the Moon’s far side, located near the prominent Gagarin crater.
- 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: Hevelius crater Target entity description: Hevelius crater is a large, ancient impact crater on the Moon’s near side, notable for its worn rim and relatively flat, lava-flooded floor.
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A.
Struve crater
Struve crater is a large, eroded lunar impact crater located near the Moon’s western limb, notable for its worn rim and partial flooding by basaltic lava.
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B.
Ernst Mach crater
Ernst Mach crater is a large impact crater on the Moon’s far side named in honor of the Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach.
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C.
Levi-Civita crater
Levi-Civita crater is a large, heavily eroded impact crater on the Moon’s far side, named after Italian mathematician Tullio Levi-Civita.
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Fra Mauro crater
Fra Mauro crater is a heavily eroded lunar impact crater on the Moon’s near side, best known for lending its name to the Fra Mauro formation and the intended Apollo 13 landing site.
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E.
Pavlov crater
Pavlov crater is a large, heavily eroded impact crater on the Moon’s far side, located near the prominent Gagarin crater.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | lunar impact crater ⓘ |
| cataloguedIn | International Astronomical Union lunar nomenclature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colongitude | 67 ⓘ |
| condition | worn rim ⓘ |
| diameter | approximately 106 km ⓘ |
| eponym | Johannes Hevelius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| floorCharacteristic |
lava-flooded
ⓘ
relatively flat ⓘ |
| formationProcess | impact event ⓘ |
| geologicalAge | ancient ⓘ |
| hasAlbedo | low albedo floor ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
central ridge
ⓘ
eroded outer rim ⓘ low inner walls ⓘ rille system on floor ⓘ |
| hasSatelliteCrater |
Hevelius A
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hevelius B NERFINISHED ⓘ Hevelius C NERFINISHED ⓘ Hevelius D NERFINISHED ⓘ Hevelius E NERFINISHED ⓘ Hevelius F NERFINISHED ⓘ Hevelius G NERFINISHED ⓘ Hevelius H NERFINISHED ⓘ Hevelius K NERFINISHED ⓘ Hevelius L NERFINISHED ⓘ Hevelius M NERFINISHED ⓘ Hevelius N NERFINISHED ⓘ Hevelius P NERFINISHED ⓘ Hevelius R NERFINISHED ⓘ Hevelius S NERFINISHED ⓘ Hevelius T NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| interiorCharacteristic | fractured floor ⓘ |
| locatedOn | near side of the Moon ⓘ |
| location | Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Johannes Hevelius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near |
Cavalerius crater
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Grimaldi crater NERFINISHED ⓘ Krafft crater NERFINISHED ⓘ Lohrmann crater NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observedIn | Earth-based telescopic observations ⓘ |
| quadrant | western lunar near side ⓘ |
| rimCharacteristic | heavily eroded ⓘ |
| shape | roughly circular ⓘ |
| surfaceMaterial | basaltic lava infill ⓘ |
| surfaceType | mare-like floor ⓘ |
| visibilityFromEarth | favorable at low illumination angles ⓘ |
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: Hevelius crater Description of subject: Hevelius crater is a large, ancient impact crater on the Moon’s near side, notable for its worn rim and relatively flat, lava-flooded floor.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.