asteroid 10387 Bepicolombo
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Asteroid 10387 Bepicolombo is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Italian mathematician and space scientist Giuseppe "Bepi" Colombo, known for his pioneering work in celestial mechanics and space mission trajectories.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| asteroid 10387 Bepicolombo canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13553509 — 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 10387 Bepicolombo Context triple: [Giuseppe Colombo, hasHonor, asteroid 10387 Bepicolombo]
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A.
asteroid 1005 Arago
Asteroid 1005 Arago is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of the 19th-century French astronomer and physicist François Arago.
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B.
asteroid 1000 Piazzia
Asteroid 1000 Piazzia is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, the discoverer of Ceres.
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C.
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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D.
asteroid 1501 Baade
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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E.
asteroid 1274 Delportia
Asteroid 1274 Delportia is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Belgian astronomer Eugène Delporte, known for his prolific discovery of minor planets.
- 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 10387 Bepicolombo Target entity description: Asteroid 10387 Bepicolombo is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Italian mathematician and space scientist Giuseppe "Bepi" Colombo, known for his pioneering work in celestial mechanics and space mission trajectories.
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A.
asteroid 1005 Arago
Asteroid 1005 Arago is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of the 19th-century French astronomer and physicist François Arago.
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B.
asteroid 1000 Piazzia
Asteroid 1000 Piazzia is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, the discoverer of Ceres.
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C.
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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D.
asteroid 1501 Baade
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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E.
asteroid 1274 Delportia
Asteroid 1274 Delportia is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Belgian astronomer Eugène Delporte, known for his prolific discovery of minor planets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
asteroid
ⓘ
human ⓘ main-belt asteroid ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Solar System ⓘ |
| celestialBodyType | asteroid ⓘ |
| knownFor |
celestial mechanics
ⓘ
space mission trajectory design ⓘ |
| locatedIn | asteroid belt ⓘ |
| minorPlanetNumber | 10387 ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Bepi Colombo
ⓘ
linked to:
BepiColombo mission
Giuseppe "Bepi" Colombo ⓘ
linked to:
Giuseppe Colombo
Giuseppe Colombo ⓘ |
| namedForContribution | space mission trajectories ⓘ |
| namedForField | celestial mechanics ⓘ |
| namedForOccupation |
mathematician
ⓘ
space scientist ⓘ |
| occupation |
mathematician
ⓘ
space scientist ⓘ |
| 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: asteroid 10387 Bepicolombo Description of subject: Asteroid 10387 Bepicolombo is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Italian mathematician and space scientist Giuseppe "Bepi" Colombo, known for his pioneering work in celestial mechanics and space mission trajectories.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.