Tombaugh (lunar crater)
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Tombaugh (lunar crater) is an impact crater on the Moon named in honor of American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tombaugh (lunar crater) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4943083 — 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: Tombaugh (lunar crater) Context triple: [Clyde Tombaugh, hasLunarCraterNamedAfter, Tombaugh (lunar crater)]
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A.
Baade lunar crater
Baade lunar crater is a large impact feature on the Moon’s far side named in honor of German astronomer Walter Baade.
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B.
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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C.
Pavlov crater
Pavlov crater is a large, heavily eroded impact crater on the Moon’s far side, located near the prominent Gagarin crater.
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D.
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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E.
Russell lunar crater
Russell is a large, heavily eroded lunar impact crater located near the western limb of the Moon.
- 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: Tombaugh (lunar crater) Target entity description: Tombaugh (lunar crater) is an impact crater on the Moon named in honor of American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto.
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A.
Baade lunar crater
Baade lunar crater is a large impact feature on the Moon’s far side named in honor of German astronomer Walter Baade.
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B.
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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C.
Pavlov crater
Pavlov crater is a large, heavily eroded impact crater on the Moon’s far side, located near the prominent Gagarin crater.
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D.
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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E.
Russell lunar crater
Russell is a large, heavily eroded lunar impact crater located near the western limb of the Moon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | lunar impact crater ⓘ |
| belongsToCategory |
Far side of the Moon
ⓘ
Impact craters on the Moon ⓘ |
| discovererOfEponym | Pluto ⓘ |
| eponym | Clyde Tombaugh ⓘ |
| eponymKnownFor | discovery of Pluto ⓘ |
| eponymNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasCelestialBody | Moon ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateSystem | selenographic coordinates ⓘ |
| hasEnvironment |
airless
ⓘ
vacuum ⓘ |
| hasEponymOccupation | astronomer ⓘ |
| hasFeatureType | impact crater ⓘ |
| hasGravity | low lunar gravity ⓘ |
| hasIllumination | varies with lunar phase ⓘ |
| hasName |
Tombaugh
ⓘ
linked to:
Clyde Tombaugh
|
| hasOfficialStatus | IAU-approved lunar nomenclature ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | impact event ⓘ |
| honors |
American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh
ⓘ
linked to:
Clyde Tombaugh
|
| isA | lunar crater ⓘ |
| isNamedFeatureOf |
International Astronomical Union lunar nomenclature
ⓘ
linked to:
IAU lunar nomenclature
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| isObservedBy |
lunar orbiters
ⓘ
spacecraft imaging ⓘ |
| isPartOf | lunar surface ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Moon
ⓘ
lunar far side ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Clyde Tombaugh ⓘ |
| orbitsWithBody | Earth via the Moon ⓘ |
| surfaceMaterial | lunar regolith ⓘ |
| surfaceType | lunar highlands ⓘ |
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: Tombaugh (lunar crater) Description of subject: Tombaugh (lunar crater) is an impact crater on the Moon named in honor of American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.