MPC database
E393183
The MPC database is the central catalog maintained by the Minor Planet Center that records observational and orbital data for asteroids, comets, and other small Solar System bodies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MPC database canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3839736 — 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: MPC database Context triple: [1036 Ganymed, isCataloguedIn, MPC database]
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A.
MPC
MPC is the commonly used abbreviation for the Monetary Policy Committee, the body responsible for setting key interest rates and guiding monetary policy in several countries, including the United Kingdom.
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B.
ISO 10383 MIC database
The ISO 10383 MIC database is an international registry that assigns and maintains standardized Market Identifier Codes (MICs) for securities and derivatives trading venues and related entities worldwide.
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C.
MCP
MCP is a comprehensive regulatory framework in Massachusetts that governs the assessment and cleanup of contaminated sites to protect public health and the environment.
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D.
MPS
MPS is a leading German research institute specializing in the study of the Sun and the solar system, operating under the Max Planck Society.
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E.
MPS
MPS is a language workbench and integrated development environment by JetBrains designed for creating and working with domain-specific languages using projectional editing.
- 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: MPC database Target entity description: The MPC database is the central catalog maintained by the Minor Planet Center that records observational and orbital data for asteroids, comets, and other small Solar System bodies.
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A.
MPC
MPC is the commonly used abbreviation for the Monetary Policy Committee, the body responsible for setting key interest rates and guiding monetary policy in several countries, including the United Kingdom.
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B.
ISO 10383 MIC database
The ISO 10383 MIC database is an international registry that assigns and maintains standardized Market Identifier Codes (MICs) for securities and derivatives trading venues and related entities worldwide.
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C.
MCP
MCP is a comprehensive regulatory framework in Massachusetts that governs the assessment and cleanup of contaminated sites to protect public health and the environment.
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D.
MPS
MPS is a leading German research institute specializing in the study of the Sun and the solar system, operating under the Max Planck Society.
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E.
MPS
MPS is a language workbench and integrated development environment by JetBrains designed for creating and working with domain-specific languages using projectional editing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronomical database
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minor planet catalog ⓘ |
| access | online ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
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surface form:
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
International Astronomical Union ⓘ |
| centralCatalogFor |
comets
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minor planets ⓘ other small Solar System bodies ⓘ |
| contains |
astrometric observations of small Solar System bodies
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comet designations ⓘ discovery circumstances of comets ⓘ discovery circumstances of minor planets ⓘ minor planet designations ⓘ orbital elements of small Solar System bodies ⓘ photometric observations of small Solar System bodies ⓘ |
| dataType |
discovery metadata
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identification data ⓘ observational data ⓘ orbital data ⓘ |
| domain |
astronomy
ⓘ
planetary science ⓘ |
| includes |
Jupiter-family comets
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long-period comets ⓘ main-belt asteroids ⓘ near-Earth objects ⓘ trans-Neptunian objects ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Minor Planet Center database
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surface form:
Minor Planet Center
|
| purpose |
centralized cataloging of small Solar System body data
ⓘ
support of international minor planet and comet tracking ⓘ |
| records |
asteroid observational data
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asteroid orbital data ⓘ comet observational data ⓘ comet orbital data ⓘ data on other small Solar System bodies ⓘ |
| scope | small Solar System bodies ⓘ |
| supports |
follow-up observations
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impact risk assessment ⓘ object identification ⓘ orbit determination ⓘ |
| updated | continuously ⓘ |
| usedBy |
amateur astronomers
ⓘ
planetary defense researchers ⓘ professional astronomers ⓘ space agencies ⓘ |
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: MPC database Description of subject: The MPC database is the central catalog maintained by the Minor Planet Center that records observational and orbital data for asteroids, comets, and other small Solar System bodies.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
1036 Ganymed