Gagarin (walled plain)
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Gagarin (walled plain) is a large lunar impact feature on the Moon’s far side, named after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gagarin (lunar crater) | 6 |
| Gagarin (walled plain) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8624129 — 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: Gagarin (walled plain) Context triple: [Sikorsky (crater), locatedNear, Gagarin (walled plain)]
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A.
Gusev crater
Gusev crater is a large impact crater on Mars that was explored by NASA’s Spirit rover in search of past water-related geological activity.
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B.
Chaplygin crater
Chaplygin crater is an impact crater on the Moon’s far side, notable for its heavily eroded rim and location near the large walled plain Gagarin.
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C.
Pavlov crater
Pavlov crater is a large, heavily eroded impact crater on the Moon’s far side, located near the prominent Gagarin crater.
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D.
Vernadsky crater
Vernadsky crater is a lunar impact crater named in honor of Russian-Ukrainian mineralogist and geochemist Vladimir Vernadsky.
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E.
Zeta Plain
Zeta Plain is a lowland geographical region in central Montenegro known for its fertile agricultural land surrounding the capital city, Podgorica.
- 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: Gagarin (walled plain) Target entity description: Gagarin (walled plain) is a large lunar impact feature on the Moon’s far side, named after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
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A.
Gusev crater
Gusev crater is a large impact crater on Mars that was explored by NASA’s Spirit rover in search of past water-related geological activity.
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B.
Chaplygin crater
Chaplygin crater is an impact crater on the Moon’s far side, notable for its heavily eroded rim and location near the large walled plain Gagarin.
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C.
Pavlov crater
Pavlov crater is a large, heavily eroded impact crater on the Moon’s far side, located near the prominent Gagarin crater.
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D.
Vernadsky crater
Vernadsky crater is a lunar impact crater named in honor of Russian-Ukrainian mineralogist and geochemist Vladimir Vernadsky.
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E.
Zeta Plain
Zeta Plain is a lowland geographical region in central Montenegro known for its fertile agricultural land surrounding the capital city, Podgorica.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lunar impact crater
ⓘ
lunar surface feature ⓘ walled plain ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Moon’s far-side cratering system ⓘ |
| celestialBody | Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featureType | impact feature ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateSystem | selenographic coordinates ⓘ |
| hasCraterType | impact crater ⓘ |
| hasDiscoveryMethod | lunar imaging ⓘ |
| hasEnvironment |
airless
ⓘ
vacuum ⓘ |
| hasEponym | Yuri Gagarin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLocationRelativeToEarth | far side ⓘ |
| hasName | Gagarin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryIlluminationSource | Sun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasQualifier | walled plain ⓘ |
| hasScientificInterest |
impact cratering studies
ⓘ
lunar geology ⓘ |
| hasSurface | lunar regolith ⓘ |
| isA | large lunar impact feature ⓘ |
| isInReferenceFrame | selenocentric ⓘ |
| isNamedBy | International Astronomical Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | lunar highlands region ⓘ |
| isVisibleFromEarth | no ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Moon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
far side of the Moon ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Yuri Gagarin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbitsWith | Moon around Earth ⓘ |
| partOf | lunar far-side terrain ⓘ |
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: Gagarin (walled plain) Description of subject: Gagarin (walled plain) is a large lunar impact feature on the Moon’s far side, named after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sikorsky (crater)
this entity surface form:
Gagarin (lunar crater)
this entity surface form:
Gagarin (lunar crater)
this entity surface form:
Gagarin (lunar crater)
this entity surface form:
Gagarin (lunar crater)
this entity surface form:
Gagarin (lunar crater)
this entity surface form:
Gagarin (lunar crater)