Ocean of Storms
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Ocean of Storms is a vast lunar mare on the Moon’s near side, notable as the landing region of several Apollo missions and characterized by its dark basaltic plains.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ocean of Storms canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2330336 — 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: Ocean of Storms Context triple: [Apollo 12, landingSite, Ocean of Storms]
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A.
The Toll of the Sea
The Toll of the Sea is a 1922 silent drama film, one of the earliest Hollywood movies shot in Technicolor, featuring Anna May Wong in her first leading role.
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B.
Maelstrom
Maelstrom was a former boat ride attraction in Epcot’s World Showcase at Walt Disney World, themed around Norwegian culture, mythology, and seafaring adventures.
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C.
Wind of the Sea
Wind of the Sea is the English translation of the Welsh name "Gwynt y Môr," used for one of the world’s larger offshore wind farms located off the coast of North Wales.
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D.
Tongue of the Ocean
Tongue of the Ocean is a deep, U-shaped submarine trench in the Bahamas known for its steep walls, great depth, and use as a site for underwater acoustic research.
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E.
The Storm
"The Storm" is a short story by American author Kate Chopin that explores themes of passion, infidelity, and female desire in the context of a brief extramarital encounter during a Louisiana thunderstorm.
- 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: Ocean of Storms Target entity description: Ocean of Storms is a vast lunar mare on the Moon’s near side, notable as the landing region of several Apollo missions and characterized by its dark basaltic plains.
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A.
The Toll of the Sea
The Toll of the Sea is a 1922 silent drama film, one of the earliest Hollywood movies shot in Technicolor, featuring Anna May Wong in her first leading role.
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B.
Maelstrom
Maelstrom was a former boat ride attraction in Epcot’s World Showcase at Walt Disney World, themed around Norwegian culture, mythology, and seafaring adventures.
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C.
Wind of the Sea
Wind of the Sea is the English translation of the Welsh name "Gwynt y Môr," used for one of the world’s larger offshore wind farms located off the coast of North Wales.
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D.
Tongue of the Ocean
Tongue of the Ocean is a deep, U-shaped submarine trench in the Bahamas known for its steep walls, great depth, and use as a site for underwater acoustic research.
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E.
The Storm
"The Storm" is a short story by American author Kate Chopin that explores themes of passion, infidelity, and female desire in the context of a brief extramarital encounter during a Louisiana thunderstorm.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lunar geological feature
ⓘ
lunar mare ⓘ region on the Moon ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Oceanus Procellarum ⓘ |
| appearance | dark ⓘ |
| astronomicalBody | Moon ⓘ |
| belongsTo | near side maria province ⓘ |
| celestialBodyType | mare ⓘ |
| composition | basalt ⓘ |
| coordinateSystem | selenographic coordinates ⓘ |
| exploredBy |
Apollo 12
ⓘ
surface form:
Apollo 12 mission
Surveyor 3 landing site ⓘ
surface form:
Surveyor 3 spacecraft
|
| featureType | mare ⓘ |
| formedDuring | Imbrian period ⓘ |
| geologicalOrigin | ancient volcanic activity ⓘ |
| hasAlbedo | low albedo region ⓘ |
| hasLandingSite |
Apollo 12 landing site
ⓘ
Surveyor 3 landing site ⓘ |
| hasScientificInterestIn |
impact and volcanic history of the Moon
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lunar volcanism ⓘ mare basalt composition ⓘ |
| isDarkerThan | lunar highlands ⓘ |
| isMappedIn | lunar atlases ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Moon’s volcanic plains ⓘ |
| isTargetOf | lunar geological studies ⓘ |
| isVisibleDuring | most lunar phases when on near side ⓘ |
| isYoungerThan | most lunar highlands ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Moon ⓘ |
| locatedOnSide | near side of the Moon ⓘ |
| nameInEnglish | Ocean of Storms self-link ⓘ |
| nameInLatin | Oceanus Procellarum ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | Ocean of Storms self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Apollo mission landing region
ⓘ
dark basaltic plains ⓘ large extent compared to other lunar maria ⓘ |
| observedBy | telescopes on Earth ⓘ |
| partOf | lunar nearside maria ⓘ |
| surfaceType |
basaltic plain
ⓘ
lunar mare basalt ⓘ |
| visibleFrom | Earth ⓘ |
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: Ocean of Storms Description of subject: Ocean of Storms is a vast lunar mare on the Moon’s near side, notable as the landing region of several Apollo missions and characterized by its dark basaltic plains.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.