169P/NEAT
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169P/NEAT is a periodic comet in our solar system best known as the likely source of the Alpha Capricornid meteor shower.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 169P/NEAT canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10489179 — 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: 169P/NEAT Context triple: [Alpha Capricornids, parentBody, 169P/NEAT]
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A.
C/1996 B2
C/1996 B2 is the official designation of Comet Hyakutake, a bright long-period comet that passed unusually close to Earth in 1996 and became one of the most spectacular comets of the 20th century.
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B.
1998 KY26
1998 KY26 is a tiny, rapidly rotating near-Earth asteroid selected as the extended mission target for Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft.
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C.
1691 Oort
1691 Oort is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, renowned for his pioneering work on the structure of the Milky Way and the Oort cloud.
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D.
St. Judy's Comet
"St. Judy's Comet" is a gentle, lullaby-like folk song by Paul Simon, known for its soothing melody and reflective lyrics.
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E.
1604 Tombaugh
1604 Tombaugh is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto.
- 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: 169P/NEAT Target entity description: 169P/NEAT is a periodic comet in our solar system best known as the likely source of the Alpha Capricornid meteor shower.
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A.
C/1996 B2
C/1996 B2 is the official designation of Comet Hyakutake, a bright long-period comet that passed unusually close to Earth in 1996 and became one of the most spectacular comets of the 20th century.
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B.
1998 KY26
1998 KY26 is a tiny, rapidly rotating near-Earth asteroid selected as the extended mission target for Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft.
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C.
1691 Oort
1691 Oort is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, renowned for his pioneering work on the structure of the Milky Way and the Oort cloud.
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D.
St. Judy's Comet
"St. Judy's Comet" is a gentle, lullaby-like folk song by Paul Simon, known for its soothing melody and reflective lyrics.
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E.
1604 Tombaugh
1604 Tombaugh is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jupiter-family comet
ⓘ
Solar System object ⓘ periodic comet ⓘ |
| aphelionDistance | 4.60 AU ⓘ |
| argumentOfPerihelion | 252 degrees ⓘ |
| belongsToMeteorShower | Alpha Capricornids NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoveredBy |
NEAT survey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoveryDate | 2002-03-15 ⓘ |
| eccentricity | 0.77 ⓘ |
| epoch | 2008-05-14 ⓘ |
| hasAbsoluteMagnitude | 16.0 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Comet 169P/NEAT
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
P/2002 EX12 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCometDesignation | 169P/NEAT GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasCometNumber | 169 GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasDiscoveryCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDiscoverySite | Haleakala Observatory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMeteorShowerActivityPeakMonth |
early August
ⓘ
late July ⓘ |
| hasMeteorStream | Alpha Capricornid meteoroid stream NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNextPerihelionPassage | 2026 ⓘ |
| hasNucleusDiameter | ~4 km ⓘ |
| hasObservationType | optical ⓘ |
| hasOrbitalCategory | near-Earth object (dynamically related) ⓘ |
| hasOrbitalFamily | Jupiter-family comets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOrbitalResonanceInfluence | Jupiter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasParentMeteorShowerRadiantConstellation | Capricornus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPreviousPerihelionPassage |
2011
GENERATED
ⓘ
2016 GENERATED ⓘ 2021 GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasTisserandParameterWithRespectToJupiter | 2.9 ⓘ |
| inclination | 11.3 degrees ⓘ |
| isCataloguedAs | 169P ⓘ |
| isDynamicallyInfluencedBy |
Jupiter
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Saturn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isLikelyParentBodyOf | Alpha Capricornid meteor shower NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| longitudeOfAscendingNode | 301 degrees ⓘ |
| minimumOrbitIntersectionDistanceWithEarth | 0.18 AU ⓘ |
| orbitalPeriod | 4.2 years ⓘ |
| orbits | Sun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| perihelionDistance | 0.60 AU ⓘ |
| semiMajorAxis | 2.60 AU ⓘ |
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: 169P/NEAT Description of subject: 169P/NEAT is a periodic comet in our solar system best known as the likely source of the Alpha Capricornid meteor shower.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.