S/1989 N 6
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S/1989 N 6 is the provisional designation for Naiad, one of Neptune’s small inner moons discovered in Voyager 2 images.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| S/1989 N 6 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5259726 — 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: S/1989 N 6 Context triple: [Naiad, provisionalDesignation, S/1989 N 6]
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A.
S/1989 N4
S/1989 N4 is the provisional designation of Galatea, one of Neptune’s inner moons discovered in 1989.
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B.
S/1899 S 1
S/1899 S 1 is the provisional discovery designation originally assigned to Phoebe, one of Saturn’s irregular outer moons.
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C.
S/2000 J 9
S/2000 J 9 is the provisional designation for Taygete, a small retrograde irregular moon of Jupiter discovered in 2000.
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D.
Saturn IX
Saturn IX, officially named Phoebe, is an irregular, retrograde outer moon of Saturn believed to be a captured object from the outer Solar System.
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E.
1998 KY26
1998 KY26 is a tiny, rapidly rotating near-Earth asteroid selected as the extended mission target for Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft.
- 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: S/1989 N 6 Target entity description: S/1989 N 6 is the provisional designation for Naiad, one of Neptune’s small inner moons discovered in Voyager 2 images.
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A.
S/1989 N4
S/1989 N4 is the provisional designation of Galatea, one of Neptune’s inner moons discovered in 1989.
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B.
S/1899 S 1
S/1899 S 1 is the provisional discovery designation originally assigned to Phoebe, one of Saturn’s irregular outer moons.
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C.
S/2000 J 9
S/2000 J 9 is the provisional designation for Taygete, a small retrograde irregular moon of Jupiter discovered in 2000.
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D.
Saturn IX
Saturn IX, officially named Phoebe, is an irregular, retrograde outer moon of Saturn believed to be a captured object from the outer Solar System.
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E.
1998 KY26
1998 KY26 is a tiny, rapidly rotating near-Earth asteroid selected as the extended mission target for Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
inner moon
ⓘ
moon of Neptune ⓘ natural satellite ⓘ |
| belongsToPlanetarySystem | Neptune system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoveredBy |
Voyager 2
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Voyager 2 imaging team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoveredInYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| discoveryMethod | spacecraft imaging ⓘ |
| hasAlbedo | 0.07 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Neptune III Naiad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasApproximateDiameter_km | 66 ⓘ |
| hasApproximateMeanRadius_km | 33 ⓘ |
| hasApproximateSemiMajorAxis_km | 48227 ⓘ |
| hasDiscoveryImageSource | Voyager 2 narrow-angle camera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDiscoveryStatus | discovered in Voyager 2 images ⓘ |
| hasDynamicalRelationship | in orbital resonance with Thalassa ⓘ |
| hasIAUDesignation | Neptune III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOrbitalDirection | prograde ⓘ |
| hasOrbitalEccentricity | 0.0003 ⓘ |
| hasOrbitalInclination_degrees | 4.7 ⓘ |
| hasOrbitalPeriod_days | 0.294 ⓘ |
| hasPermanentName | Naiad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProvisionalDesignation | S/1989 N 6 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRotationState | synchronous with its orbital period ⓘ |
| hasShape | irregular ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceComposition | likely water ice with dark material ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceFeatures | no major features resolved in Voyager 2 images ⓘ |
| isCloseTo | Thalassa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isInnerSatelliteOf | Neptune NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | inner Neptunian satellite group ⓘ |
| isSmallerThan |
Proteus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Triton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Naiads from Greek mythology ⓘ |
| orbits | Neptune NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: S/1989 N 6 Description of subject: S/1989 N 6 is the provisional designation for Naiad, one of Neptune’s small inner moons discovered in Voyager 2 images.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.