Steinheim meteorite crater
E452596
The Steinheim meteorite crater is a well-preserved impact structure in southern Germany, formed by a meteorite collision during the Miocene and now a notable geological and tourist site.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steinheim meteorite crater canonical | 2 |
| Steinheim Basin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4562148 — 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: Steinheim meteorite crater Context triple: [Steinheim am Albuch, knownFor, Steinheim meteorite crater]
-
A.
Haughton impact crater
Haughton impact crater is a well-preserved meteorite impact structure on Canada’s Devon Island that serves as a key Mars-analog site for scientific research and astronaut training.
-
B.
Vredefort Dome
Vredefort Dome is the world’s largest and oldest known impact crater, located in South Africa and formed by a massive meteorite strike over two billion years ago.
-
C.
Kondratyuk crater
Kondratyuk crater is an impact crater on the far side of the Moon, named after Soviet engineer and spaceflight pioneer Yuri Kondratyuk.
-
D.
Fizeau crater
Fizeau crater is a large impact crater on the far side of the Moon, named in honor of French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau.
-
E.
Vernadsky crater
Vernadsky crater is a lunar impact crater named in honor of Russian-Ukrainian mineralogist and geochemist Vladimir Vernadsky.
- 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: Steinheim meteorite crater Target entity description: The Steinheim meteorite crater is a well-preserved impact structure in southern Germany, formed by a meteorite collision during the Miocene and now a notable geological and tourist site.
-
A.
Haughton impact crater
Haughton impact crater is a well-preserved meteorite impact structure on Canada’s Devon Island that serves as a key Mars-analog site for scientific research and astronaut training.
-
B.
Vredefort Dome
Vredefort Dome is the world’s largest and oldest known impact crater, located in South Africa and formed by a massive meteorite strike over two billion years ago.
-
C.
Kondratyuk crater
Kondratyuk crater is an impact crater on the far side of the Moon, named after Soviet engineer and spaceflight pioneer Yuri Kondratyuk.
-
D.
Fizeau crater
Fizeau crater is a large impact crater on the far side of the Moon, named in honor of French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau.
-
E.
Vernadsky crater
Vernadsky crater is a lunar impact crater named in honor of Russian-Ukrainian mineralogist and geochemist Vladimir Vernadsky.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geological formation
ⓘ
impact crater ⓘ meteorite crater ⓘ |
| age | Miocene ⓘ |
| belongsTo | European impact structures ⓘ |
| centralPeakName | Steinheimer Mittelberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
Miocene lake deposits
ⓘ
impact breccias ⓘ mollusc fossils ⓘ shocked quartz ⓘ suevite-like deposits ⓘ vertebrate fossils ⓘ |
| country | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diameter |
approximately 3.8 km
ⓘ
approximately 4 km ⓘ |
| discoveredAsImpactStructure | 20th century ⓘ |
| distanceTo | about 40 km from Nördlinger Ries crater ⓘ |
| formationProcess | meteorite impact ⓘ |
| geologicalAge | about 14.5 million years ⓘ |
| hasCentralPeak | true ⓘ |
| hasCentralUplift | true ⓘ |
| hasEducationalTrails | true ⓘ |
| hasMuseum | Steinheim meteorite crater museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVisitorCenter | true ⓘ |
| impactEnergy | several megatons of TNT equivalent ⓘ |
| impactingBody | stony meteorite (likely) ⓘ |
| impactStructureType | complex crater ⓘ |
| knownFor |
fossil-bearing sediments
ⓘ
well-exposed crater morphology ⓘ |
| languageOfName | German ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Baden-Württemberg
ⓘ
Steinheim am Albuch NERFINISHED ⓘ southern Germany ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Steinheim am Albuch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | Nördlinger Ries crater NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| overlainBy | lacustrine sediments ⓘ |
| partOf |
Nördlinger Ries–Steinheim double impact
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Swabian Jura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postImpactEnvironment | crater lake ⓘ |
| preservationState | well-preserved ⓘ |
| protectedStatus | nature reserve (parts) ⓘ |
| scientificSignificance |
key site for impact cratering studies in Europe
ⓘ
reference site for Miocene stratigraphy in southern Germany ⓘ |
| tourism | popular regional tourist destination ⓘ |
| usedFor |
geological research
ⓘ
paleontological research ⓘ |
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: Steinheim meteorite crater Description of subject: The Steinheim meteorite crater is a well-preserved impact structure in southern Germany, formed by a meteorite collision during the Miocene and now a notable geological and tourist site.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Steinheim Basin