Scott crater
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Scott crater is a large impact feature located near the Moon’s south pole, named after the Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Scott crater canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9808327 — 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: Scott crater Context triple: [lunar south polar region, hasNotableCrater, Scott crater]
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A.
Aliamanu Crater
Aliamanu Crater is a tuff cone and volcanic crater on the island of Oʻahu in Hawaii, located inland near Honolulu and now largely surrounded by urban development and military housing.
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B.
Occator Crater
Occator Crater is a prominent impact crater on the dwarf planet Ceres, best known for its bright salt deposits that suggest past subsurface brine activity.
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C.
Yapoah Crater
Yapoah Crater is a cinder cone volcano in Oregon’s Cascade Range, located on the northern flank of the Three Sisters and known for its distinctive lava flows and hiking access via the Pacific Crest Trail.
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Olmoti Crater
Olmoti Crater is a highland volcanic caldera in northern Tanzania known for its scenic grasslands, Maasai pastoralist presence, and the Munge River waterfalls that descend into the Ngorongoro Crater.
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E.
Eagle Crater
Eagle Crater is a small impact crater on Mars that gained prominence as the landing site and initial exploration area of NASA’s Opportunity rover.
- 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: Scott crater Target entity description: Scott crater is a large impact feature located near the Moon’s south pole, named after the Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott.
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A.
Aliamanu Crater
Aliamanu Crater is a tuff cone and volcanic crater on the island of Oʻahu in Hawaii, located inland near Honolulu and now largely surrounded by urban development and military housing.
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B.
Occator Crater
Occator Crater is a prominent impact crater on the dwarf planet Ceres, best known for its bright salt deposits that suggest past subsurface brine activity.
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C.
Yapoah Crater
Yapoah Crater is a cinder cone volcano in Oregon’s Cascade Range, located on the northern flank of the Three Sisters and known for its distinctive lava flows and hiking access via the Pacific Crest Trail.
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D.
Olmoti Crater
Olmoti Crater is a highland volcanic caldera in northern Tanzania known for its scenic grasslands, Maasai pastoralist presence, and the Munge River waterfalls that descend into the Ngorongoro Crater.
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E.
Eagle Crater
Eagle Crater is a small impact crater on Mars that gained prominence as the landing site and initial exploration area of NASA’s Opportunity rover.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | lunar impact crater ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateSystem | selenographic coordinates ⓘ |
| hasCraterType | impact crater ⓘ |
| hasEnvironment | airless body ⓘ |
| hasEponymBirthYear | 1868 ⓘ |
| hasEponymCitizenship | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEponymDeathYear | 1912 ⓘ |
| hasEponymFullName | Robert Falcon Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEponymOccupation | Antarctic explorer ⓘ |
| hasFeatureClass | crater ⓘ |
| hasIlluminationCharacteristics | low sun-angle illumination for much of lunar day ⓘ |
| hasObservationWavelength |
infrared
ⓘ
radar ⓘ visible light ⓘ |
| hasOfficialStatus | approved IAU name ⓘ |
| hasScientificInterest |
impact cratering processes
ⓘ
lunar polar geology ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceBody | lunar highlands ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceProcess |
impact gardening
ⓘ
space weathering ⓘ |
| isCataloguedIn | International Astronomical Union lunar nomenclature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isInReferenceFrame | mean Earth / polar axis system ⓘ |
| isInRegion | lunar south polar region ⓘ |
| isObservedBy | lunar orbiters ⓘ |
| isOnLunarHemisphere | far southern hemisphere ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Moon’s south polar topography ⓘ |
| isVisibleFrom | lunar polar orbit ⓘ |
| locatedNear | lunar south pole ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Robert Falcon Scott 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: Scott crater Description of subject: Scott crater is a large impact feature located near the Moon’s south pole, named after the Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.