Poynting crater
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Poynting crater is a large, heavily eroded impact crater on the far side of the Moon, named after British physicist John Henry Poynting.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Poynting crater canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10036703 — 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: Poynting crater Context triple: [Levi-Civita crater, neighboringFeature, Poynting crater]
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A.
Shoemaker crater
Shoemaker crater is a permanently shadowed impact crater near the Moon’s south pole, notable for its extreme cold and potential deposits of water ice.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Roche crater
Roche crater is a prominent impact feature on Mars’s moon Phobos, named after the French astronomer Édouard Roche.
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E.
Aitken crater
Aitken crater is a large impact crater on the Moon’s far side, best known as part of the immense South Pole–Aitken basin, one of the largest and oldest impact structures in the Solar System.
- 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: Poynting crater Target entity description: Poynting crater is a large, heavily eroded impact crater on the far side of the Moon, named after British physicist John Henry Poynting.
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A.
Shoemaker crater
Shoemaker crater is a permanently shadowed impact crater near the Moon’s south pole, notable for its extreme cold and potential deposits of water ice.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Roche crater
Roche crater is a prominent impact feature on Mars’s moon Phobos, named after the French astronomer Édouard Roche.
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E.
Aitken crater
Aitken crater is a large impact crater on the Moon’s far side, best known as part of the immense South Pole–Aitken basin, one of the largest and oldest impact structures in the Solar System.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | lunar impact crater ⓘ |
| colongitude | 164 ⓘ |
| condition | heavily eroded ⓘ |
| diameter | 128 km ⓘ |
| eponym | John Henry Poynting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geologicalAge | pre-Nectarian or Nectarian (heavily eroded) ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
distorted rim
ⓘ
irregular inner wall ⓘ relatively level interior floor ⓘ small craterlets along rim ⓘ small craterlets on interior floor ⓘ worn outer rim ⓘ |
| hasSatelliteCrater |
Poynting A
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Poynting B NERFINISHED ⓘ Poynting C NERFINISHED ⓘ Poynting D NERFINISHED ⓘ Poynting E NERFINISHED ⓘ Poynting F NERFINISHED ⓘ Poynting G NERFINISHED ⓘ Poynting H NERFINISHED ⓘ Poynting K NERFINISHED ⓘ Poynting L NERFINISHED ⓘ Poynting M NERFINISHED ⓘ Poynting N NERFINISHED ⓘ Poynting P NERFINISHED ⓘ Poynting Q NERFINISHED ⓘ Poynting R NERFINISHED ⓘ Poynting S NERFINISHED ⓘ Poynting T NERFINISHED ⓘ Poynting U NERFINISHED ⓘ Poynting V NERFINISHED ⓘ Poynting W NERFINISHED ⓘ Poynting X NERFINISHED ⓘ Poynting Y NERFINISHED ⓘ Poynting Z NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Moon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
far side of the Moon ⓘ |
| namedAfter | John Henry Poynting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedBy | International Astronomical Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| neighboringCrater |
Fersman crater
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
H. G. Wells crater NERFINISHED ⓘ Kapitza crater NERFINISHED ⓘ Paschen crater NERFINISHED ⓘ Zwicky crater NERFINISHED ⓘ van Rhijn crater NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| quadrant | lunar far-side northern hemisphere ⓘ |
| shape | roughly circular ⓘ |
| 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: Poynting crater Description of subject: Poynting crater is a large, heavily eroded impact crater on the far side of the Moon, named after British physicist John Henry Poynting.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.