Halley (lunar crater)
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Halley (lunar crater) is a small impact crater on the Moon named after the English astronomer Edmond Halley, located near the lunar equator in the south-central region of the Moon’s near side.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Halley (Martian crater) | 1 |
| Halley (lunar crater) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9514976 — 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: Halley (lunar crater) Context triple: [Halley, sharesNameWith, Halley (lunar crater)]
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A.
Hale crater on the Moon
Hale crater on the Moon is a lunar impact crater named in honor of American solar astronomer George Ellery Hale.
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B.
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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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.
Hubble (lunar crater)
Hubble (lunar crater) is an impact crater on the Moon’s far side named in honor of American astronomer Edwin Hubble.
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E.
crater Langley on the Moon
Crater Langley on the Moon is a lunar impact crater named in honor of American astronomer and aviation pioneer Samuel Pierpont Langley.
- 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: Halley (lunar crater) Target entity description: Halley (lunar crater) is a small impact crater on the Moon named after the English astronomer Edmond Halley, located near the lunar equator in the south-central region of the Moon’s near side.
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A.
Hale crater on the Moon
Hale crater on the Moon is a lunar impact crater named in honor of American solar astronomer George Ellery Hale.
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B.
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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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.
Hubble (lunar crater)
Hubble (lunar crater) is an impact crater on the Moon’s far side named in honor of American astronomer Edwin Hubble.
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E.
crater Langley on the Moon
Crater Langley on the Moon is a lunar impact crater named in honor of American astronomer and aviation pioneer Samuel Pierpont Langley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronomical object
ⓘ
lunar impact crater ⓘ |
| belongsTo | lunar highlands ⓘ |
| catalogCode | IAU feature ID 2325 ⓘ |
| hasColongitude | 353 ⓘ |
| hasDepth | 1.4 km ⓘ |
| hasDiameter | 35 km ⓘ |
| hasEponym | Edmond Halley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIAUNameApprovalYear | 1935 ⓘ |
| hasInteriorFeature | few small craterlets ⓘ |
| hasInteriorFloor |
featureless
ⓘ
relatively level ⓘ |
| hasQuadrangle | LQ11 ⓘ |
| hasRimCondition | worn ⓘ |
| hasRimFeature | eroded outer wall ⓘ |
| hasSatelliteCrater |
Halley A
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Halley B NERFINISHED ⓘ Halley C NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSelenographicLatitude | −7.5 ⓘ |
| hasSelenographicLongitude | 8.0 ⓘ |
| hasShape | roughly circular ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceType | impact-scarred terrain ⓘ |
| isVisibleFrom | Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | south-central near side of the Moon ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Albategnius (lunar crater)
NERFINISHED
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Alphonsus (lunar crater) NERFINISHED ⓘ Hind (lunar crater) NERFINISHED ⓘ Hipparchus (lunar crater) NERFINISHED ⓘ Pitiscus (lunar crater) NERFINISHED ⓘ Ptolemaeus (lunar crater) NERFINISHED ⓘ lunar equator ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Moon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
lunar near side ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Edmond Halley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observedBy |
Apollo 16 mission
NERFINISHED
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Lunar Orbiter 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Halley (lunar crater) Description of subject: Halley (lunar crater) is a small impact crater on the Moon named after the English astronomer Edmond Halley, located near the lunar equator in the south-central region of the Moon’s near side.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Halley (Martian crater)