Thebe
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Thebe is a small inner moon of Jupiter that orbits close to the planet and helps form part of its faint ring system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thebe canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7099922 — 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: Thebe Context triple: [Jovian satellite system, hasMember, Thebe]
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A.
Tirzah
Tirzah was an ancient city in the northern Kingdom of Israel that served as an early royal residence and political center before the capital moved to Samaria.
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B.
Katisha
Katisha is a formidable, older noblewoman and comic villainess in Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta "The Mikado," known for her dramatic presence and unrequited love for Nanki-Poo.
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C.
Tamyen
Tamyen is an extinct Ohlone (Costanoan) Native American language once spoken in the Santa Clara Valley region of California.
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D.
Maatkare
Maatkare was the throne name of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut, one of the most powerful and prominent female rulers of the New Kingdom.
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E.
Thena
Thena is a key character in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s novel "The Water Dancer," serving as a powerful figure within the story’s exploration of slavery, memory, and resistance.
- 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: Thebe Target entity description: Thebe is a small inner moon of Jupiter that orbits close to the planet and helps form part of its faint ring system.
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A.
Tirzah
Tirzah was an ancient city in the northern Kingdom of Israel that served as an early royal residence and political center before the capital moved to Samaria.
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B.
Katisha
Katisha is a formidable, older noblewoman and comic villainess in Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta "The Mikado," known for her dramatic presence and unrequited love for Nanki-Poo.
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C.
Tamyen
Tamyen is an extinct Ohlone (Costanoan) Native American language once spoken in the Santa Clara Valley region of California.
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D.
Maatkare
Maatkare was the throne name of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut, one of the most powerful and prominent female rulers of the New Kingdom.
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E.
Thena
Thena is a key character in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s novel "The Water Dancer," serving as a powerful figure within the story’s exploration of slavery, memory, and resistance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
moon of Jupiter
ⓘ
natural satellite ⓘ |
| albedo | low ⓘ |
| approximateDimensions | 116 × 98 × 84 km ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Jupiter gossamer rings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Solar System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToGroup | inner moons of Jupiter ⓘ |
| belongsToPlanetarySystem | Jupiter system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| celestialBodyType | inner moon ⓘ |
| contributesDustTo | Thebe gossamer ring NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | Stephen P. Synnott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoveredUsing | Voyager 1 images ⓘ |
| discoveryDate | 1979 ⓘ |
| escapeVelocity | ~25 m/s ⓘ |
| helpsForm | Jupiter faint ring system ⓘ |
| innerNeighbor |
Adrastea
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Metis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| largestCrater | Zethus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| largestCraterDiameter | ~40 km ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Jupiter’s equatorial plane
ⓘ
outer Solar System ⓘ |
| meanDensity | ~3 g/cm³ ⓘ |
| meanRadius | ~49 km ⓘ |
| mythologicalAssociation | Zeus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Thebe (nymph in Greek mythology) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| neighboringInnerMoon | Amalthea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observedBy |
Galileo spacecraft
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Voyager 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ Voyager 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialName | Thebe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbitalDistanceFromJupiter | ~3.11 Jupiter radii ⓘ |
| orbitalEccentricity | ~0.018 ⓘ |
| orbitalInclination | ~1.1° to Jupiter equator ⓘ |
| orbitalPeriod |
~0.6745 days
ⓘ
~16.19 hours ⓘ |
| orbits | Jupiter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Jovian satellite system ⓘ |
| primary | Jupiter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| provisionalDesignation | S/1979 J 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relativePosition | orbits outside Amalthea ⓘ |
| ringSourceMechanism | impact-ejected dust ⓘ |
| rotation | synchronous with its orbit ⓘ |
| semiMajorAxis | ~221,900 km ⓘ |
| shape | irregular ⓘ |
| surfaceColor | dark reddish ⓘ |
| surfaceFeatures | heavily cratered ⓘ |
| surfaceGravity | very low ⓘ |
| tidallyLockedTo | Jupiter 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: Thebe Description of subject: Thebe is a small inner moon of Jupiter that orbits close to the planet and helps form part of its faint ring system.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.