Ampère (crater)
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Ampère (crater) is a lunar impact crater named in honor of French physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ampère (crater) canonical | 1 |
| Ampère (lunar crater) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1380640 — 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: Ampère (crater) Context triple: [André-Marie Ampère, eponymOf, Ampère (crater)]
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A.
Ernst Mach crater
Ernst Mach crater is a large impact crater on the Moon’s far side named in honor of the Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach.
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B.
Baade lunar crater
Baade lunar crater is a large impact feature on the Moon’s far side named in honor of German astronomer Walter Baade.
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C.
Occator Crater
Occator Crater is a prominent impact crater on the dwarf planet Ceres, best known for its bright salt deposits that suggest past subsurface brine activity.
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D.
Athis-Mons
Athis-Mons is a suburban commune in the southern outskirts of Paris, France, known for its proximity to major transport hubs and its location along the Seine and Orge rivers.
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E.
Schwarzschild crater
Schwarzschild crater is a large impact crater on the far side of the Moon, notable for its heavily eroded rim and complex interior features.
- 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: Ampère (crater) Target entity description: Ampère (crater) is a lunar impact crater named in honor of French physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère.
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A.
Ernst Mach crater
Ernst Mach crater is a large impact crater on the Moon’s far side named in honor of the Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach.
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B.
Baade lunar crater
Baade lunar crater is a large impact feature on the Moon’s far side named in honor of German astronomer Walter Baade.
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C.
Occator Crater
Occator Crater is a prominent impact crater on the dwarf planet Ceres, best known for its bright salt deposits that suggest past subsurface brine activity.
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D.
Athis-Mons
Athis-Mons is a suburban commune in the southern outskirts of Paris, France, known for its proximity to major transport hubs and its location along the Seine and Orge rivers.
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E.
Schwarzschild crater
Schwarzschild crater is a large impact crater on the far side of the Moon, notable for its heavily eroded rim and complex interior features.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | lunar impact crater ⓘ |
| celestialBodyType | lunar crater ⓘ |
| eponym | André-Marie Ampère ⓘ |
| hasFeatureType | impact crater ⓘ |
| hasNameLanguage | French ⓘ |
| honorsCountry | France ⓘ |
| honorsOccupation |
mathematician
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physicist ⓘ |
| isInSystem | Earth–Moon system ⓘ |
| locatedIn | lunar near side ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Moon ⓘ |
| namedAfter | André-Marie Ampère ⓘ |
| namedBy | International Astronomical Union ⓘ |
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: Ampère (crater) Description of subject: Ampère (crater) is a lunar impact crater named in honor of French physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ampère (lunar crater)