Celsius (crater)
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Celsius (crater) is a lunar impact crater on the Moon’s near side, notable for its location in the rugged southern highlands.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Celsius (crater) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7650685 — 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: Celsius (crater) Context triple: [Anders Celsius, namedAfter, Celsius (crater)]
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A.
Fizeau crater
Fizeau crater is a large impact crater on the far side of the Moon, named in honor of French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Herschel crater
Herschel crater is a massive, prominent impact crater dominating one hemisphere of Saturn’s moon Mimas, giving the moon its characteristic “Death Star”-like appearance.
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E.
Pavlov crater
Pavlov crater is a large, heavily eroded impact crater on the Moon’s far side, located near the prominent Gagarin crater.
- 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: Celsius (crater) Target entity description: Celsius (crater) is a lunar impact crater on the Moon’s near side, notable for its location in the rugged southern highlands.
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A.
Fizeau crater
Fizeau crater is a large impact crater on the far side of the Moon, named in honor of French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Herschel crater
Herschel crater is a massive, prominent impact crater dominating one hemisphere of Saturn’s moon Mimas, giving the moon its characteristic “Death Star”-like appearance.
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E.
Pavlov crater
Pavlov crater is a large, heavily eroded impact crater on the Moon’s far side, located near the prominent Gagarin crater.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronomical object
ⓘ
lunar impact crater ⓘ |
| cataloguedIn |
IAU Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NASA Catalogue of Lunar Nomenclature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eponym | Anders Celsius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCentralPeak | no prominent central peak ⓘ |
| hasColongitude | ~351 ⓘ |
| hasDiameter | ~41 km ⓘ |
| hasGeologicalAge | likely Nectarian or pre-Nectarian ⓘ |
| hasInnerWall | terraced ⓘ |
| hasInteriorFloor |
irregular
ⓘ
relatively level ⓘ |
| hasNearbyCrater |
Curtius (crater)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gauricus (crater) NERFINISHED ⓘ Zagut (crater) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRimCondition |
eroded
ⓘ
worn ⓘ |
| hasSatelliteCrater |
Celsius A
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Celsius B NERFINISHED ⓘ Celsius C NERFINISHED ⓘ Celsius D NERFINISHED ⓘ Celsius E NERFINISHED ⓘ Celsius F NERFINISHED ⓘ Celsius G NERFINISHED ⓘ Celsius H NERFINISHED ⓘ Celsius K ⓘ Celsius L NERFINISHED ⓘ Celsius M NERFINISHED ⓘ Celsius N NERFINISHED ⓘ Celsius P NERFINISHED ⓘ Celsius R NERFINISHED ⓘ Celsius S NERFINISHED ⓘ Celsius T NERFINISHED ⓘ Celsius U NERFINISHED ⓘ Celsius V NERFINISHED ⓘ Celsius W NERFINISHED ⓘ Celsius X NERFINISHED ⓘ Celsius Y NERFINISHED ⓘ Celsius Z NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSelenographicLatitude | ~−33° ⓘ |
| hasSelenographicLongitude | ~−20° ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southern lunar highlands ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Moon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
lunar near side ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Anders Celsius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observedIn | Lunar Orbiter imagery ⓘ |
| quadrangle | Lunar farside-nearside boundary region (southern highlands) ⓘ |
| surfaceType | highland terrain ⓘ |
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: Celsius (crater) Description of subject: Celsius (crater) is a lunar impact crater on the Moon’s near side, notable for its location in the rugged southern highlands.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.