Marc W. Buie
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Marc W. Buie is an American astronomer known for his discoveries and detailed studies of Kuiper Belt objects and other small bodies in the outer Solar System.
All labels observed (1)
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| Marc W. Buie canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18458223 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marc W. Buie Context triple: [28978 Ixion, discoveredBy, Marc W. Buie]
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A.
Mark R. Showalter
Mark R. Showalter is an American planetary astronomer known for discovering several moons and rings in the outer solar system and for his work on planetary ring dynamics.
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B.
David J. Tholen
David J. Tholen is an American astronomer known for his work in planetary science and the discovery and characterization of small bodies and ring systems in the Solar System.
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C.
Scott S. Sheppard
Scott S. Sheppard is an American astronomer known for discovering numerous small moons of the outer planets and distant objects in the Solar System.
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D.
Robert J. Cenker
Robert J. Cenker is an American aerospace engineer and former RCA engineer who flew as a payload specialist on NASA's Space Shuttle mission STS-61-C in 1986.
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E.
David C. Jewitt
David C. Jewitt is a British-American astronomer best known for co-discovering the first Kuiper Belt object beyond Pluto, helping to reveal the Kuiper Belt as a major component of the solar system.
- 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: Marc W. Buie Target entity description: Marc W. Buie is an American astronomer known for his discoveries and detailed studies of Kuiper Belt objects and other small bodies in the outer Solar System.
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A.
Mark R. Showalter
Mark R. Showalter is an American planetary astronomer known for discovering several moons and rings in the outer solar system and for his work on planetary ring dynamics.
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B.
David J. Tholen
David J. Tholen is an American astronomer known for his work in planetary science and the discovery and characterization of small bodies and ring systems in the Solar System.
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C.
Scott S. Sheppard
Scott S. Sheppard is an American astronomer known for discovering numerous small moons of the outer planets and distant objects in the Solar System.
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D.
Robert J. Cenker
Robert J. Cenker is an American aerospace engineer and former RCA engineer who flew as a payload specialist on NASA's Space Shuttle mission STS-61-C in 1986.
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E.
David C. Jewitt
David C. Jewitt is a British-American astronomer best known for co-discovering the first Kuiper Belt object beyond Pluto, helping to reveal the Kuiper Belt as a major component of the solar system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.