McNair crater on the Moon
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McNair crater on the Moon is a lunar impact crater named in honor of astronaut and physicist Ronald McNair, one of the crew members who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| McNair crater on the Moon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1835962 — 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: McNair crater on the Moon Context triple: [Ronald McNair, honorificEponym, McNair crater on the Moon]
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A.
Copernicus Crater on the Moon
Copernicus Crater on the Moon is a prominent, relatively young lunar impact crater in the Moon’s eastern Oceanus Procellarum region, named in honor of the Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
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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.
Hale crater on the Moon
Hale crater on the Moon is a lunar impact crater named in honor of American solar astronomer George Ellery Hale.
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D.
Gagarin crater on the Moon
Gagarin crater on the Moon is a large lunar impact crater on the Moon’s far side named in honor of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space.
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E.
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.
- 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: McNair crater on the Moon Target entity description: McNair crater on the Moon is a lunar impact crater named in honor of astronaut and physicist Ronald McNair, one of the crew members who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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A.
Copernicus Crater on the Moon
Copernicus Crater on the Moon is a prominent, relatively young lunar impact crater in the Moon’s eastern Oceanus Procellarum region, named in honor of the Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
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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.
Hale crater on the Moon
Hale crater on the Moon is a lunar impact crater named in honor of American solar astronomer George Ellery Hale.
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D.
Gagarin crater on the Moon
Gagarin crater on the Moon is a large lunar impact crater on the Moon’s far side named in honor of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
impact crater on the Moon
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lunar impact crater ⓘ |
| category |
Craters on the Moon
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Lunar surface features named after astronauts ⓘ |
| celestialBody | Moon ⓘ |
| commemorates | crew of STS-51-L ⓘ |
| coordinateSystem | selenographic coordinates ⓘ |
| eponym | Ronald McNair ⓘ |
| featureType | crater ⓘ |
| hasNameStatus | IAU-approved ⓘ |
| hasProperName | McNair ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceType | lunar highlands ⓘ |
| honors | Ronald McNair ⓘ |
| isPartOf | lunar cratering record ⓘ |
| locatedIn | lunar far side ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Moon ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Ronald McNair ⓘ |
| namedForEvent | Space Shuttle Challenger disaster ⓘ |
| namedForOccupation |
astronaut
ⓘ
physicist ⓘ |
| namedForSpacecraft | Space Shuttle Challenger ⓘ |
| namedForYearOfEvent | 1986 ⓘ |
| namingAuthority | International Astronomical Union ⓘ |
| relatedEvent |
STS-51-L
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surface form:
STS-51-L mission
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| relatedTo |
Ronald McNair
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surface form:
Ronald McNair (person)
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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
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Input
Subject: McNair crater on the Moon Description of subject: McNair crater on the Moon is a lunar impact crater named in honor of astronaut and physicist Ronald McNair, one of the crew members who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.