Telesto

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Telesto is a small Trojan moon of Saturn that shares Tethys’s orbit, residing at one of its stable Lagrange points.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Telesto canonical 3
Telesto (mythology) 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Trojan moon
astronomical object
moon of Saturn
natural satellite
albedo high
belongsTo Saturnian system
surface form: Saturnian moons
belongsToPlanetarySystem Saturnian system
catalogDesignation Saturn XIII
celestialBodyOf Saturn
coOrbitalWith Calypso
Tethys
craterDensity low
diameter_km 24.8
discoveredBy Bradford A. Smith NERFINISHED
Harold J. Reitsema
John W. Fountain
Stephen M. Larson
discoveredUsing ground-based telescope
discoveryDate 1980-04-08
discoverySite Earth-based observatories
discoveryYear 1980
exploredBy Cassini–Huygens
flybyBy Cassini–Huygens
surface form: Cassini spacecraft
gravitationalBindingTo Saturn
isPartOf Solar System
LagrangePointType L4
locatedAt leading L4 Lagrange point of Tethys
meanDensity_g_per_cm3 approximately 0.5
meanRadius_km 12.4
memberOf Tethys Trojan group
namedAfter Telesto self-linksurface differs
surface form: Telesto (mythology)

Telesto, a sea nymph in Greek mythology
orbitalEccentricity low
orbitalInclination_deg 1.2
orbitalPeriod_days 1.8878
orbitalResonanceWith Tethys
orbits Saturn
parentPlanet Saturn
provisionalDesignation S/1980 S 13
rotationPeriod synchronous with orbital period
semiMajorAxis_km 294660
shape irregular
sharesOrbitWith Tethys
surfaceColor bright
surfaceComposition water ice
surfaceFeatureType smooth
synchronousRotationWith Saturn

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: Telesto
Description of subject: Telesto is a small Trojan moon of Saturn that shares Tethys’s orbit, residing at one of its stable Lagrange points.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tethys hasCoOrbitalMoon Telesto
Tethys trojanMoonOf Telesto
Telesto namedAfter Telesto self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Telesto (mythology)
Calypso coOrbitalWith Telesto