Sponde
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Sponde is a small, irregular, retrograde moon of Jupiter belonging to the planet’s outer group of distant natural satellites.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sponde canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7099943 — 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: Sponde Context triple: [Jovian satellite system, hasMember, Sponde]
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A.
Panopeus
Panopeus was an ancient town in central Greece, in the region of Phocis, known from Greek mythology and classical literature.
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B.
Sileni
Sileni are mythological woodland spirits or companions of Dionysus in Greek mythology, often depicted as older, drunken satyrs associated with revelry and rustic wisdom.
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C.
Teseida
Teseida is an Italian epic poem by Giovanni Boccaccio that recounts the chivalric and romantic struggles of two knights who fall in love with the same woman.
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D.
Polyhymnia
Polyhymnia is the Muse in Greek mythology associated especially with sacred hymns, divine music, and religious poetry.
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E.
Ὑπερμνήστρα
Ὑπερμνήστρα is a figure from Greek mythology, one of the Danaids known for sparing her husband Lynceus and thus defying her father's command to kill him.
- 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: Sponde Target entity description: Sponde is a small, irregular, retrograde moon of Jupiter belonging to the planet’s outer group of distant natural satellites.
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A.
Panopeus
Panopeus was an ancient town in central Greece, in the region of Phocis, known from Greek mythology and classical literature.
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B.
Sileni
Sileni are mythological woodland spirits or companions of Dionysus in Greek mythology, often depicted as older, drunken satyrs associated with revelry and rustic wisdom.
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C.
Teseida
Teseida is an Italian epic poem by Giovanni Boccaccio that recounts the chivalric and romantic struggles of two knights who fall in love with the same woman.
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D.
Polyhymnia
Polyhymnia is the Muse in Greek mythology associated especially with sacred hymns, divine music, and religious poetry.
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E.
Ὑπερμνήστρα
Ὑπερμνήστρα is a figure from Greek mythology, one of the Danaids known for sparing her husband Lynceus and thus defying her father's command to kill him.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
moon of Jupiter
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natural satellite ⓘ retrograde satellite ⓘ |
| absoluteMagnitude | approximately 16.2 ⓘ |
| albedo | approximately 0.04 ⓘ |
| belongsTo | outer group of Jovian satellites ⓘ |
| belongsToDynamicalClass | retrograde irregular Jovian satellite ⓘ |
| belongsToPlanetarySystem |
Jovian system
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Solar System ⓘ |
| cataloguedAs | Jupiter XLVI ⓘ |
| density | assumed similar to dark outer irregular satellites ⓘ |
| discoveredBy |
Brian G. Marsden
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David C. Jewitt ⓘ Jan T. Kleyna ⓘ Scott S. Sheppard ⓘ |
| discoveryMethod | ground-based telescope observations ⓘ |
| discoverySite | Mauna Kea Observatories ⓘ |
| discoveryYear | 2001 ⓘ |
| distanceFromJupiterRange | about 22 to 25 million km (Pasiphae group range) ⓘ |
| eccentricity | approximately 0.443 ⓘ |
| groupOrbitalCharacteristics | Pasiphae group: retrograde, distant, eccentric orbits ⓘ |
| hasNo |
known atmosphere
ⓘ
known geological activity ⓘ |
| inclination | approximately 154° to the ecliptic ⓘ |
| mass | very low, estimated from size and assumed density ⓘ |
| meanDiameter | approximately 2 km ⓘ |
| meanRadius | approximately 1 km ⓘ |
| memberOf | Pasiphae group ⓘ |
| nameApprovedYear | 2003 ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Sponde (a Horae in Greek mythology)
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Sponde, a goddess associated with libations and offerings ⓘ |
| namingAuthority | International Astronomical Union ⓘ |
| orbitalDirection | retrograde ⓘ |
| orbitalFamily | Jupiter’s outer retrograde satellite swarm ⓘ |
| orbitalPeriod | approximately −771.6 days ⓘ |
| orbits | Jupiter ⓘ |
| origin | likely captured object from outer Solar System or asteroid belt ⓘ |
| provisionalDesignation | S/2001 J 5 ⓘ |
| rotationState | likely tidally un-synchronized ⓘ |
| satelliteOf | Jupiter ⓘ |
| semiMajorAxis | approximately 24,253,000 km ⓘ |
| shape | irregular ⓘ |
| spectralType | assumed dark, non-icy body ⓘ |
| stability | dynamically stable over long timescales as irregular satellite ⓘ |
| surfaceComposition | likely carbon-rich, similar to C-type asteroids ⓘ |
| visibility | requires large professional telescopes ⓘ |
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: Sponde Description of subject: Sponde is a small, irregular, retrograde moon of Jupiter belonging to the planet’s outer group of distant natural satellites.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.