dwarf planet Gonggong (candidate)
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Dwarf planet Gonggong (candidate) is a distant, icy trans-Neptunian object in the outer Solar System, notable for its large size, highly eccentric orbit, and status as a strong candidate for dwarf planet classification.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| dwarf planet Gonggong (candidate) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9591954 — 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: dwarf planet Gonggong (candidate) Context triple: [Kuiper Belt, contains, dwarf planet Gonggong (candidate)]
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A.
Sedna
Sedna is a distant, icy minor planet with an extremely elongated orbit that takes it far beyond the Kuiper Belt into the outermost reaches of the Solar System.
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B.
Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth
Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth is a distant, bilobed trans-Neptunian world famously visited and imaged in detail by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft after its Pluto flyby.
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C.
Pluto
Pluto is a distant, icy dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt known for its eccentric orbit and former status as the ninth planet of the Solar System.
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D.
Pluto
Pluto is Mickey Mouse’s loyal pet dog, a classic Disney cartoon character known for his playful, expressive, and mostly non-speaking role in animated films and shorts.
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E.
Pluto
Pluto is the Roman god of the underworld and wealth, often identified with the Greek god Hades.
- 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: dwarf planet Gonggong (candidate) Target entity description: Dwarf planet Gonggong (candidate) is a distant, icy trans-Neptunian object in the outer Solar System, notable for its large size, highly eccentric orbit, and status as a strong candidate for dwarf planet classification.
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A.
Sedna
Sedna is a distant, icy minor planet with an extremely elongated orbit that takes it far beyond the Kuiper Belt into the outermost reaches of the Solar System.
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B.
Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth
Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth is a distant, bilobed trans-Neptunian world famously visited and imaged in detail by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft after its Pluto flyby.
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C.
Pluto
Pluto is the Roman god of the underworld and wealth, often identified with the Greek god Hades.
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D.
Pluto
Pluto is a distant, icy dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt known for its eccentric orbit and former status as the ninth planet of the Solar System.
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E.
Pluto
Pluto is Mickey Mouse’s loyal pet dog, a classic Disney cartoon character known for his playful, expressive, and mostly non-speaking role in animated films and shorts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dwarf planet candidate
ⓘ
icy body ⓘ trans-Neptunian object ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Solar System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoveredAt | Palomar Observatory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoveredBy |
Chadwick A. Trujillo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David L. Rabinowitz NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott S. Sheppard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoveryDate | 2007-07-17 ⓘ |
| hasAlbedo | low to moderate ⓘ |
| hasAphelionDistance | about 101 AU ⓘ |
| hasDiameter | about 1200 km ⓘ |
| hasHighlyEccentricOrbit | true ⓘ |
| hasMass | on the order of 10^21 kg ⓘ |
| hasMinorPlanetNumber | 225088 ⓘ |
| hasMoon | Xiangliu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasObservationArc | multiple years ⓘ |
| hasOfficialName | Gonggong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOrbitalClass | scattered disc ⓘ |
| hasOrbitalInclination | about 30 degrees ⓘ |
| hasOrbitalPeriod | about 554 years ⓘ |
| hasOrbitalRegion | trans-Neptunian region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPerihelionDistance | about 33 AU ⓘ |
| hasProvisionalDesignation | 2007 OR10 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRotationPeriod | about 22 hours ⓘ |
| hasSatellite | Xiangliu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSemiMajorAxis | about 67 AU ⓘ |
| hasShape | approximately spherical ⓘ |
| hasSpectralType | red TNO spectrum ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceColor | very red ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceComposition |
methanol ice
ⓘ
water ice ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceTemperature | very low ⓘ |
| isDistantObject | true ⓘ |
| isDwarfPlanetCandidate | true ⓘ |
| isIcyBody | true ⓘ |
| isInResonanceCandidate | possible 3:10 resonance with Neptune ⓘ |
| isLargeForTNO | true ⓘ |
| isOneOfLargestTNOs | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kuiper belt region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
outer Solar System ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Gonggong (Chinese water god) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbits | Sun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasPreviouslyDesignated | 2007 OR10 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: dwarf planet Gonggong (candidate) Description of subject: Dwarf planet Gonggong (candidate) is a distant, icy trans-Neptunian object in the outer Solar System, notable for its large size, highly eccentric orbit, and status as a strong candidate for dwarf planet classification.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.