Sea of Showers
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Sea of Showers is the English name for Mare Imbrium, one of the Moon’s largest and most prominent dark basaltic plains formed by ancient volcanic activity.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sea of Showers canonical | 2 |
| Sea of Rains | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10501590 — 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: Sea of Showers Context triple: [Mare Imbrium, latinNameMeaning, Sea of Showers]
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A.
Ocean of Storms
Ocean of Storms is a vast lunar mare on the Moon’s near side, notable as the landing region of several Apollo missions and characterized by its dark basaltic plains.
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B.
Shivering Sea
The Shivering Sea is a frigid, northern ocean in the world of *A Song of Ice and Fire* that lies beyond the eastern and northern coasts of Westeros and Essos.
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C.
A Teardrop to the Sea
A Teardrop to the Sea is a song by Bon Jovi from their 2015 album "Burning Bridges."
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D.
Swallowed in the Sea
"Swallowed in the Sea" is a song by the British rock band Coldplay, known for its atmospheric sound and emotional, introspective lyrics.
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E.
The Unchanging Sea
The Unchanging Sea is a 1910 silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, notable as an early example of narrative cinema and for starring actress Linda Arvidson.
- 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: Sea of Showers Target entity description: Sea of Showers is the English name for Mare Imbrium, one of the Moon’s largest and most prominent dark basaltic plains formed by ancient volcanic activity.
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A.
Ocean of Storms
Ocean of Storms is a vast lunar mare on the Moon’s near side, notable as the landing region of several Apollo missions and characterized by its dark basaltic plains.
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B.
Shivering Sea
The Shivering Sea is a frigid, northern ocean in the world of *A Song of Ice and Fire* that lies beyond the eastern and northern coasts of Westeros and Essos.
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C.
A Teardrop to the Sea
A Teardrop to the Sea is a song by Bon Jovi from their 2015 album "Burning Bridges."
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D.
Swallowed in the Sea
"Swallowed in the Sea" is a song by the British rock band Coldplay, known for its atmospheric sound and emotional, introspective lyrics.
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E.
The Unchanging Sea
The Unchanging Sea is a 1910 silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, notable as an early example of narrative cinema and for starring actress Linda Arvidson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronomical feature
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basaltic plain ⓘ impact basin ⓘ lunar mare ⓘ surface feature of the Moon ⓘ |
| albedo |
low
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low ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Mare Imbrium ⓘ |
| englishName | Sea of Showers ⓘ |
| formationProcess |
lava flooding of an impact basin
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lava flooding of an impact basin ⓘ |
| formedBy | ancient volcanic activity ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
lunar nearside maria
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lunar nearside maria ⓘ |
| isVisibleFrom |
Earth
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Earth ⓘ |
| languageOfName |
English
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Latin ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
near side of the Moon
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near side of the Moon ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Moon
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Moon ⓘ |
| namedAfter | imagery of rain or showers at sea ⓘ |
| namedBy | Giovanni Battista Riccioli ⓘ |
| namingCentury | 17th century ⓘ |
| notableFor |
large circular outline
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large circular outline ⓘ prominent feature in lunar cartography ⓘ prominent feature in lunar cartography ⓘ |
| observedWith |
naked eye
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naked eye ⓘ telescope ⓘ telescope ⓘ |
| partOf |
Moon’s maria system
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Moon’s maria system ⓘ |
| relativeSize |
one of the Moon’s largest maria
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one of the Moon’s largest maria ⓘ |
| surfaceComposition |
basalt
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basalt ⓘ |
| visualAppearance |
dark plain
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dark plain ⓘ |
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: Sea of Showers Description of subject: Sea of Showers is the English name for Mare Imbrium, one of the Moon’s largest and most prominent dark basaltic plains formed by ancient volcanic activity.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.