Great Red Spot
E110981
The Great Red Spot is a gigantic, long-lived anticyclonic storm in Jupiter’s atmosphere, notable for its reddish color and size larger than Earth.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Great Red Spot canonical | 2 |
| Jupiter Great Red Spot | 1 |
| Jupiter’s Great Red Spot | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T942702 — 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: Great Red Spot Context triple: [Jupiter, hasFeature, Great Red Spot]
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A.
Caloris Basin
Caloris Basin is one of the largest and youngest impact basins in the Solar System, forming a prominent multi-ringed geological feature on the planet Mercury.
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B.
Gale Crater
Gale Crater is a large impact crater on Mars that has been extensively explored for its layered geological history and past habitability clues.
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C.
Aurora Borealis
Aurora Borealis is a famous 1865 landscape painting by American artist Frederic Edwin Church that dramatically depicts the northern lights over an Arctic scene.
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D.
Aeolis
Aeolis was an ancient Greek coastal region in western Asia Minor and nearby islands, traditionally associated with Aeolian Greek settlements and culture.
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E.
Io
Io is a figure from Greek mythology, a mortal woman loved by Zeus and tormented by Hera, whose wanderings and suffering are famously recounted in Aeschylus’ tragedy "Prometheus Bound."
- 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: Great Red Spot Target entity description: The Great Red Spot is a gigantic, long-lived anticyclonic storm in Jupiter’s atmosphere, notable for its reddish color and size larger than Earth.
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A.
Caloris Basin
Caloris Basin is one of the largest and youngest impact basins in the Solar System, forming a prominent multi-ringed geological feature on the planet Mercury.
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B.
Gale Crater
Gale Crater is a large impact crater on Mars that has been extensively explored for its layered geological history and past habitability clues.
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C.
Aurora Borealis
Aurora Borealis is a famous 1865 landscape painting by American artist Frederic Edwin Church that dramatically depicts the northern lights over an Arctic scene.
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D.
Aeolis
Aeolis was an ancient Greek coastal region in western Asia Minor and nearby islands, traditionally associated with Aeolian Greek settlements and culture.
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E.
Io
Io is a figure from Greek mythology, a mortal woman loved by Zeus and tormented by Hera, whose wanderings and suffering are famously recounted in Aeschylus’ tragedy "Prometheus Bound."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anticyclonic storm
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atmospheric feature ⓘ planetary storm ⓘ |
| category | feature of Jupiter ⓘ |
| color |
red
ⓘ
reddish ⓘ |
| diameter |
about 16,000 kilometers
ⓘ
larger than Earth ⓘ |
| discoveredBy |
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
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Robert Hooke ⓘ |
| discoveryDate | 17th century ⓘ |
| discoveryMethod | telescopic observation ⓘ |
| firstObservationYear |
1664
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1665 ⓘ |
| latitude | approximately 22 degrees south ⓘ |
| lifetime |
at least 150 years
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possibly over 300 years ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
South Tropical Zone of Jupiter
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atmosphere of Jupiter ⓘ southern hemisphere of Jupiter ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Jupiter ⓘ |
| notableFor |
distinct red color
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gigantic size ⓘ long-lived nature ⓘ |
| observedBy |
Cassini–Huygens
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surface form:
Cassini spacecraft
Galileo spacecraft ⓘ Hubble Space Telescope ⓘ Juno spacecraft ⓘ New Horizons ⓘ
surface form:
New Horizons spacecraft
Pioneer 10 ⓘ Pioneer 11 ⓘ Voyager 1 ⓘ Voyager 2 ⓘ ground-based telescopes ⓘ |
| orbitalBody | Jupiter ⓘ |
| partOf |
Jovian weather system
ⓘ
Jupiter’s cloud bands ⓘ |
| rotationDirection | counterclockwise (as seen from above Jupiter’s south pole) ⓘ |
| rotationPeriod |
about 14 Jovian days
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about 6 Earth days ⓘ |
| shape | oval ⓘ |
| sizeTrend | shrinking over recent decades ⓘ |
| stormType | high-pressure system ⓘ |
| temperature | colder than surrounding cloud tops ⓘ |
| verticalStructure | extends high above surrounding clouds ⓘ |
| vorticity | anticyclonic ⓘ |
| windSpeed |
up to about 270 mph
ⓘ
up to about 430 km/h ⓘ |
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: Great Red Spot Description of subject: The Great Red Spot is a gigantic, long-lived anticyclonic storm in Jupiter’s atmosphere, notable for its reddish color and size larger than Earth.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jupiter Great Red Spot
subject surface form:
Microwave Radiometer
this entity surface form:
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot