asteroid 1949 Messina
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Asteroid 1949 Messina is a minor planet in the asteroid belt named after the Italian city of Messina.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| asteroid 1949 Messina canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10983120 — 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 1949 Messina Context triple: [Eugène Delporte, discovered, asteroid 1949 Messina]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
asteroid 1120 Cannonia
Asteroid 1120 Cannonia is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon, renowned for her pioneering work in stellar classification.
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D.
asteroid 1036 Ganymed
Asteroid 1036 Ganymed is a large near-Earth Amor-type asteroid and the largest known near-Earth object, notable for its highly eccentric orbit and close approaches to Mars and Earth.
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E.
asteroid Šteins
Asteroid Šteins is a small, diamond-shaped main-belt asteroid that was closely studied during a 2008 flyby by ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft.
- 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 1949 Messina Target entity description: Asteroid 1949 Messina is a minor planet in the asteroid belt named after the Italian city of Messina.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
asteroid 1120 Cannonia
Asteroid 1120 Cannonia is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon, renowned for her pioneering work in stellar classification.
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D.
asteroid 1036 Ganymed
Asteroid 1036 Ganymed is a large near-Earth Amor-type asteroid and the largest known near-Earth object, notable for its highly eccentric orbit and close approaches to Mars and Earth.
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E.
asteroid Šteins
Asteroid Šteins is a small, diamond-shaped main-belt asteroid that was closely studied during a 2008 flyby by ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
asteroid
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city ⓘ main-belt asteroid ⓘ minor planet ⓘ |
| celestialBodyType | asteroid ⓘ |
| country | Italy ⓘ |
| countryOfEponym | Italy ⓘ |
| hasDesignation | 1949 Messina ⓘ |
| hasMinorPlanetNumber | 1949 ⓘ |
| locatedIn | asteroid belt ⓘ |
| minorPlanetCategory | main belt ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Italian city of Messina
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Messina ⓘ |
| namedAfterType | city ⓘ |
| 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 1949 Messina Description of subject: Asteroid 1949 Messina is a minor planet in the asteroid belt named after the Italian city of Messina.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.