Sally Ride (Lunar Crater)
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Sally Ride is a lunar impact crater named in honor of astronaut and physicist Sally K. Ride, the first American woman in space.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sally Ride (Lunar Crater) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T356528 — 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: Sally Ride (Lunar Crater) Context triple: [Sally K. Ride, honorificEponym, Sally Ride (Lunar Crater)]
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A.
Sally Ride EarthKAM
Sally Ride EarthKAM is an educational NASA program that lets students request and study photographs of Earth taken from a camera aboard the International Space Station.
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B.
Sally Ride Science
Sally Ride Science is an education company and outreach organization dedicated to promoting STEM literacy and inspiring young people—especially girls—to pursue science, technology, engineering, and math careers.
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C.
Sally K. Ride
Sally K. Ride was an American physicist and astronaut who became the first American woman in space and later served on high-level investigative panels into NASA shuttle disasters.
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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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Alliluyeva
Alliluyeva is a Russian surname most notably borne by Nadezhda Alliluyeva, the second wife of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
- 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: Sally Ride (Lunar Crater) Target entity description: Sally Ride is a lunar impact crater named in honor of astronaut and physicist Sally K. Ride, the first American woman in space.
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A.
Sally Ride EarthKAM
Sally Ride EarthKAM is an educational NASA program that lets students request and study photographs of Earth taken from a camera aboard the International Space Station.
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B.
Sally Ride Science
Sally Ride Science is an education company and outreach organization dedicated to promoting STEM literacy and inspiring young people—especially girls—to pursue science, technology, engineering, and math careers.
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C.
Sally K. Ride
Sally K. Ride was an American physicist and astronaut who became the first American woman in space and later served on high-level investigative panels into NASA shuttle disasters.
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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.
Alliluyeva
Alliluyeva is a Russian surname most notably borne by Nadezhda Alliluyeva, the second wife of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | lunar impact crater ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Solar System ⓘ |
| belongsToSystem | Earth–Moon system ⓘ |
| celestialBodyType | impact crater ⓘ |
| classification | impact structure ⓘ |
| eponymCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| eponymField |
science
ⓘ
space exploration ⓘ |
| eponymNotability | first American woman in space ⓘ |
| eponymOccupation |
astronaut
ⓘ
physicist ⓘ |
| featureCategory | lunar crater ⓘ |
| hasEponymGender | female ⓘ |
| hasNameLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasOfficialStatus | approved lunar nomenclature ⓘ |
| honors | Sally K. Ride ⓘ |
| isExtraterrestrial | true ⓘ |
| isNamedFeatureOf | Moon ⓘ |
| locatedIn | lunar far side ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Moon ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Sally K. Ride ⓘ |
| namedBy | International Astronomical Union ⓘ |
| orbitsWith | Earth ⓘ |
| partOf | lunar topography ⓘ |
| surface | lunar surface ⓘ |
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: Sally Ride (Lunar Crater) Description of subject: Sally Ride is a lunar impact crater named in honor of astronaut and physicist Sally K. Ride, the first American woman in space.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.