Eddington A
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Eddington A is a small lunar impact crater located near the larger, partially flooded Eddington crater on the Moon’s near side.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eddington A canonical | 1 |
| Eddington B | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13051270 — 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: Eddington A Context triple: [Eddington crater, hasSatelliteCrater, Eddington A]
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A.
Eddington
Eddington is a surname most famously associated with Arthur Stanley Eddington, the influential English astrophysicist who helped confirm Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
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B.
Eddington number
The Eddington number is a dimensionless quantity in astrophysics that represents the maximum luminosity a star can have before radiation pressure overcomes gravitational attraction, leading to mass loss.
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C.
Eddington site
The Eddington site is a major University of Cambridge development that provides new academic, residential, and community facilities as part of the university’s northwest Cambridge expansion.
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D.
Arthur Stanley Eddington
Arthur Stanley Eddington was a pioneering 20th-century British astrophysicist and mathematician known for his work on general relativity, stellar structure, and the 1919 eclipse expedition that confirmed Einstein’s theory of gravity.
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E.
Hubert Anson Newton
Hubert Anson Newton was a 19th-century American mathematician and astronomer known for his work on meteors and for mentoring influential mathematicians such as E. H. Moore at Yale University.
- 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: Eddington A Target entity description: Eddington A is a small lunar impact crater located near the larger, partially flooded Eddington crater on the Moon’s near side.
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A.
Eddington
Eddington is a surname most famously associated with Arthur Stanley Eddington, the influential English astrophysicist who helped confirm Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
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B.
Eddington number
The Eddington number is a dimensionless quantity in astrophysics that represents the maximum luminosity a star can have before radiation pressure overcomes gravitational attraction, leading to mass loss.
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C.
Eddington site
The Eddington site is a major University of Cambridge development that provides new academic, residential, and community facilities as part of the university’s northwest Cambridge expansion.
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D.
Arthur Stanley Eddington
Arthur Stanley Eddington was a pioneering 20th-century British astrophysicist and mathematician known for his work on general relativity, stellar structure, and the 1919 eclipse expedition that confirmed Einstein’s theory of gravity.
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E.
Hubert Anson Newton
Hubert Anson Newton was a 19th-century American mathematician and astronomer known for his work on meteors and for mentoring influential mathematicians such as E. H. Moore at Yale University.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | lunar impact crater ⓘ |
| belongsToCategory | Craters on the Moon ⓘ |
| coordinateSystem | selenographic coordinates ⓘ |
| eponymSharedWith | Arthur Stanley Eddington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formationProcess | impact event ⓘ |
| governingNamingAuthority | International Astronomical Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCraterType | satellite crater ⓘ |
| hasLowAlbedo | true ⓘ |
| hasNameConvention | satellite crater lettering system ⓘ |
| hasNoAtmosphere | true ⓘ |
| hemisphere | western lunar hemisphere ⓘ |
| isAirlessBodyFeature | true ⓘ |
| isSatelliteOf | Eddington (lunar crater) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Oceanus Procellarum vicinity NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Eddington (lunar crater) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Moon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
near side of the Moon ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Eddington (lunar crater) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observationMethod | telescopic observation ⓘ |
| parentCraterCondition | partially flooded ⓘ |
| parentCraterType | walled plain ⓘ |
| relativeSize | small ⓘ |
| surfaceBody | lunar surface ⓘ |
| surfaceType | impact feature ⓘ |
| visibilityFromEarth | visible ⓘ |
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: Eddington A Description of subject: Eddington A is a small lunar impact crater located near the larger, partially flooded Eddington crater on 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:
Eddington B