11757 Fizeau
E202556
11757 Fizeau is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of the French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau, known for his pioneering work on the speed of light.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 11757 Fizeau canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1811630 — 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: 11757 Fizeau Context triple: [Hippolyte Fizeau, hasAstronomicalObjectNamedAfter, 11757 Fizeau]
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A.
Arago
Arago was a prominent 19th-century French physicist, astronomer, and politician known for his work on optics, electromagnetism, and the popularization of science.
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B.
704 Hauser
704 Hauser is a short-lived 1990s American sitcom that revisits the iconic Bunker family house with a new, politically reversed Black family in residence.
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C.
Anton von Zach
Anton von Zach was an Austrian general and staff officer best known for his role in the Napoleonic Wars, particularly during the Italian campaigns.
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D.
Laurent Cassegrain
Laurent Cassegrain was a 17th-century French Catholic priest and scientist credited with inventing the Cassegrain reflecting telescope design.
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E.
Friedrich Bessel
Friedrich Bessel was a German astronomer and mathematician renowned for his precise measurements of stellar positions and distances, including the first reliable determination of a star’s parallax.
- 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: 11757 Fizeau Target entity description: 11757 Fizeau is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of the French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau, known for his pioneering work on the speed of light.
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A.
Arago
Arago was a prominent 19th-century French physicist, astronomer, and politician known for his work on optics, electromagnetism, and the popularization of science.
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B.
704 Hauser
704 Hauser is a short-lived 1990s American sitcom that revisits the iconic Bunker family house with a new, politically reversed Black family in residence.
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C.
Anton von Zach
Anton von Zach was an Austrian general and staff officer best known for his role in the Napoleonic Wars, particularly during the Italian campaigns.
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D.
Laurent Cassegrain
Laurent Cassegrain was a 17th-century French Catholic priest and scientist credited with inventing the Cassegrain reflecting telescope design.
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E.
Friedrich Bessel
Friedrich Bessel was a German astronomer and mathematician renowned for his precise measurements of stellar positions and distances, including the first reliable determination of a star’s parallax.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
asteroid
ⓘ
main-belt asteroid ⓘ physicist ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Solar System ⓘ |
| category | main-belt asteroid ⓘ |
| celestialBodyType | minor planet ⓘ |
| citizenship | France ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | physics ⓘ |
| hasDesignation | 11757 Fizeau self-link ⓘ |
| hasName | 11757 Fizeau self-link ⓘ |
| honors | Hippolyte Fizeau ⓘ |
| knownFor | measurement of the speed of light ⓘ |
| locatedIn | asteroid belt ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Hippolyte Fizeau
ⓘ
surface form:
French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau
Hippolyte Fizeau ⓘ |
| namedForWorkOn | speed of light ⓘ |
| orbitalRegion | inner Solar System ⓘ |
| orbits | Sun ⓘ |
| partOf | main asteroid belt ⓘ |
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: 11757 Fizeau Description of subject: 11757 Fizeau is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of the French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau, known for his pioneering work on the speed of light.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.