Dactyl
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Dactyl is a small natural satellite orbiting the asteroid 243 Ida, notable as the first confirmed moon of an asteroid ever discovered.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dactyl canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3740911 — 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: Dactyl Context triple: [Galileo spacecraft, discovered, Dactyl]
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A.
Glyphotes
Glyphotes is a little-known genus of tree squirrels within the subfamily Callosciurinae, which comprises various colorful and arboreal Asian squirrel species.
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B.
Didyme
Didyme is a minor character in the Twilight series, known as a former Volturi vampire and the mate of Marcus whose death deeply affected him.
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C.
Calliope
Calliope is the Muse of epic poetry in Greek mythology, often depicted as the chief of the nine Muses and associated with eloquence and heroic verse.
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D.
Phylacus
Phylacus is a figure from Greek mythology known as a leader of the Magnetes, a Thessalian people mentioned in epic tradition.
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E.
Cleinias
Cleinias is a young Athenian nobleman who serves as the central interlocutor and philosophical pupil of Socrates in Plato’s dialogue *Euthydemus*.
- 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: Dactyl Target entity description: Dactyl is a small natural satellite orbiting the asteroid 243 Ida, notable as the first confirmed moon of an asteroid ever discovered.
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A.
Glyphotes
Glyphotes is a little-known genus of tree squirrels within the subfamily Callosciurinae, which comprises various colorful and arboreal Asian squirrel species.
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B.
Didyme
Didyme is a minor character in the Twilight series, known as a former Volturi vampire and the mate of Marcus whose death deeply affected him.
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C.
Calliope
Calliope is the Muse of epic poetry in Greek mythology, often depicted as the chief of the nine Muses and associated with eloquence and heroic verse.
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D.
Phylacus
Phylacus is a figure from Greek mythology known as a leader of the Magnetes, a Thessalian people mentioned in epic tradition.
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E.
Cleinias
Cleinias is a young Athenian nobleman who serves as the central interlocutor and philosophical pupil of Socrates in Plato’s dialogue *Euthydemus*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Dactyl Description of subject: Dactyl is a small natural satellite orbiting the asteroid 243 Ida, notable as the first confirmed moon of an asteroid ever discovered.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.