asteroid 1944 Wirt
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Asteroid 1944 Wirt is a minor planet in our solar system named in honor of astronomer Carl Wirtanen.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| asteroid 1944 Wirt canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10983115 — 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: asteroid 1944 Wirt Context triple: [Eugène Delporte, discovered, asteroid 1944 Wirt]
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A.
asteroid 944 Hidalgo
Asteroid 944 Hidalgo is a large, eccentric, comet-like minor planet that orbits between the inner and outer solar system, making it one of the first known centaur objects.
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B.
Asteroid 1762 Russell
Asteroid 1762 Russell is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronomer Henry Norris Russell, known for his work on stellar classification and the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.
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C.
asteroid 1501 Baade
Asteroid 1501 Baade is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of the German astronomer Walter Baade, known for his work on stellar populations and the scale of the universe.
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D.
asteroid 1000 Piazzia
Asteroid 1000 Piazzia is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, the discoverer of Ceres.
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E.
asteroid 1604 Tombaugh
Asteroid 1604 Tombaugh is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto.
- 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: asteroid 1944 Wirt Target entity description: Asteroid 1944 Wirt is a minor planet in our solar system named in honor of astronomer Carl Wirtanen.
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A.
asteroid 944 Hidalgo
Asteroid 944 Hidalgo is a large, eccentric, comet-like minor planet that orbits between the inner and outer solar system, making it one of the first known centaur objects.
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B.
Asteroid 1762 Russell
Asteroid 1762 Russell is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronomer Henry Norris Russell, known for his work on stellar classification and the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.
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C.
asteroid 1501 Baade
Asteroid 1501 Baade is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of the German astronomer Walter Baade, known for his work on stellar populations and the scale of the universe.
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D.
asteroid 1000 Piazzia
Asteroid 1000 Piazzia is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, the discoverer of Ceres.
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E.
asteroid 1604 Tombaugh
Asteroid 1604 Tombaugh is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
asteroid
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main-belt asteroid ⓘ minor planet ⓘ |
| celestialBodyCategory |
asteroid
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minor planet ⓘ |
| discoverer | Carl A. Wirtanen ⓘ |
| minorPlanetCenterDesignation | 1944 Wirt ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Carl A. Wirtanen
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astronomer ⓘ |
| orbits | Sun ⓘ |
| partOf | Solar System ⓘ |
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: asteroid 1944 Wirt Description of subject: Asteroid 1944 Wirt is a minor planet in our solar system named in honor of astronomer Carl Wirtanen.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.