Le Verrier (Martian crater)
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Le Verrier is an impact crater on Mars named in honor of the 19th-century French mathematician and astronomer Urbain Le Verrier.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Le Verrier (Martian crater) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5259794 — 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: Le Verrier (Martian crater) Context triple: [Urbain Le Verrier, hasCraterNamedAfter, Le Verrier (Martian crater)]
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A.
Le Verrier (lunar crater)
Le Verrier is a small lunar impact crater on the Moon’s near side, named in honor of French mathematician and astronomer Urbain Le Verrier.
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B.
Martian crater Piazzi
Martian crater Piazzi is an impact crater on Mars named in honor of Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, discoverer of the dwarf planet Ceres.
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C.
Fizeau crater
Fizeau crater is a large impact crater on the far side of the Moon, named in honor of French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau.
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D.
Ernst Mach crater
Ernst Mach crater is a large impact crater on the Moon’s far side named in honor of the Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach.
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E.
Levi-Civita crater
Levi-Civita crater is a large, heavily eroded impact crater on the Moon’s far side, named after Italian mathematician Tullio Levi-Civita.
- 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: Le Verrier (Martian crater) Target entity description: Le Verrier is an impact crater on Mars named in honor of the 19th-century French mathematician and astronomer Urbain Le Verrier.
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A.
Le Verrier (lunar crater)
Le Verrier is a small lunar impact crater on the Moon’s near side, named in honor of French mathematician and astronomer Urbain Le Verrier.
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B.
Martian crater Piazzi
Martian crater Piazzi is an impact crater on Mars named in honor of Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, discoverer of the dwarf planet Ceres.
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C.
Fizeau crater
Fizeau crater is a large impact crater on the far side of the Moon, named in honor of French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau.
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D.
Ernst Mach crater
Ernst Mach crater is a large impact crater on the Moon’s far side named in honor of the Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach.
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E.
Levi-Civita crater
Levi-Civita crater is a large, heavily eroded impact crater on the Moon’s far side, named after Italian mathematician Tullio Levi-Civita.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Martian crater
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impact crater ⓘ |
| belongsToCategory |
Craters on Mars
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Impact craters of the Solar System ⓘ |
| celestialBody | Mars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featureClass | crater ⓘ |
| featureType | impact crater ⓘ |
| hasAstronomicalContext | planetary geology of Mars ⓘ |
| hasEponym | Urbain Le Verrier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEponymFullName | Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNameLanguage | French ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | impact event ⓘ |
| hasPlanet | Mars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceFeatureType | crater ⓘ |
| honors | Urbain Le Verrier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isNamedCraterOn | Mars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isOnWorld | Mars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Mars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
19th-century scientist
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French astronomer ⓘ French mathematician ⓘ Urbain Le Verrier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedForOccupation |
astronomer
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mathematician ⓘ |
| partOf | surface of Mars ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Le Verrier (Martian crater) Description of subject: Le Verrier is an impact crater on Mars named in honor of the 19th-century French mathematician and astronomer Urbain Le Verrier.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.