Asteroid 1983 Bok
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Asteroid 1983 Bok is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Dutch-American astronomer Bart Bok, known for his work on the structure of the Milky Way and Bok globules.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Asteroid 1983 Bok canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22355471 — 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 1983 Bok Context triple: [Bart Bok, hasEponym, Asteroid 1983 Bok]
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A.
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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B.
asteroid 4179 Toutatis
Asteroid 4179 Toutatis is a near-Earth, tumbling, elongated asteroid known for its close approaches to Earth and detailed radar imaging that revealed its distinctive contact-binary shape.
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C.
asteroid 44 Nysa
Asteroid 44 Nysa is a large, bright main-belt asteroid and the namesake of the Nysian asteroid family, notable for its high albedo and mixed composition.
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D.
asteroid 298 Baptistina
Asteroid 298 Baptistina is a main-belt asteroid notable for its association with the Baptistina family, once hypothesized to be linked to the impactor that caused the dinosaurs’ extinction.
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E.
asteroid 39 Laetitia
Asteroid 39 Laetitia is a large, bright main-belt asteroid known for its relatively high albedo and early discovery in the 19th century.
- 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 1983 Bok Target entity description: Asteroid 1983 Bok is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Dutch-American astronomer Bart Bok, known for his work on the structure of the Milky Way and Bok globules.
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A.
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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B.
asteroid 4179 Toutatis
Asteroid 4179 Toutatis is a near-Earth, tumbling, elongated asteroid known for its close approaches to Earth and detailed radar imaging that revealed its distinctive contact-binary shape.
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C.
asteroid 44 Nysa
Asteroid 44 Nysa is a large, bright main-belt asteroid and the namesake of the Nysian asteroid family, notable for its high albedo and mixed composition.
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D.
asteroid 298 Baptistina
Asteroid 298 Baptistina is a main-belt asteroid notable for its association with the Baptistina family, once hypothesized to be linked to the impactor that caused the dinosaurs’ extinction.
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E.
asteroid 39 Laetitia
Asteroid 39 Laetitia is a large, bright main-belt asteroid known for its relatively high albedo and early discovery in the 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.