Crater
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Crater is a small constellation in the southern sky, traditionally depicted as a cup or goblet in Greek mythology.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Crater canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10489280 — 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: Crater Context triple: [Ptolemy’s 48 constellations, includesConstellation, Crater]
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A.
Crater
Crater is a historic district and port area in the city of Aden, Yemen, known for its location within an ancient volcanic crater and its role as a commercial and administrative center.
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B.
Crater
Crater is the commonly used name for the Civil War engagement known as the Battle of the Crater, a disastrous Union assault during the Siege of Petersburg in 1864.
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C.
El Elegante crater
El Elegante crater is a large, nearly circular maar volcanic crater in the Pinacate volcanic field of northwestern Mexico, noted for its dramatic rim and desert landscape.
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D.
S P Crater
S P Crater is a well-preserved cinder cone volcano in northern Arizona, notable for its prominent shape and associated lava flows within the San Francisco volcanic region.
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E.
Diamond Craters
Diamond Craters is a volcanic field in eastern Oregon known for its diverse and well-preserved basaltic lava flows, craters, and other volcanic landforms.
- 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: Crater Target entity description: Crater is a small constellation in the southern sky, traditionally depicted as a cup or goblet in Greek mythology.
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A.
Crater
Crater is a historic district and port area in the city of Aden, Yemen, known for its location within an ancient volcanic crater and its role as a commercial and administrative center.
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B.
Crater
Crater is the commonly used name for the Civil War engagement known as the Battle of the Crater, a disastrous Union assault during the Siege of Petersburg in 1864.
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C.
El Elegante crater
El Elegante crater is a large, nearly circular maar volcanic crater in the Pinacate volcanic field of northwestern Mexico, noted for its dramatic rim and desert landscape.
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D.
S P Crater
S P Crater is a well-preserved cinder cone volcano in northern Arizona, notable for its prominent shape and associated lava flows within the San Francisco volcanic region.
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E.
Diamond Craters
Diamond Craters is a volcanic field in eastern Oregon known for its diverse and well-preserved basaltic lava flows, craters, and other volcanic landforms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | constellation ⓘ |
| abbreviation | Crt ⓘ |
| areaSquareDegrees | 282 ⓘ |
| belongsToIAUConstellationList | true ⓘ |
| bestViewingMonth | April ⓘ |
| borderingConstellation |
Corvus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hydra NERFINISHED ⓘ Leo NERFINISHED ⓘ Sextans NERFINISHED ⓘ Virgo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brightestStar | Delta Crateris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brightestStarAlternativeName | Labrum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brightestStarApparentMagnitude | 3.56 ⓘ |
| cataloguedBy | Ptolemy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constellationFamily | Hercules family ⓘ |
| containsTypeOfObject |
barred spiral galaxy
ⓘ
spiral galaxy ⓘ |
| declinationRange | −6° to −25° ⓘ |
| eclipticCrossing | no ⓘ |
| genitiveName | Crateris ⓘ |
| hasIAUThreeLetterAbbreviation | Crt ⓘ |
| hasMythologicalTheme | vessel for wine or water ⓘ |
| hemisphere | southern celestial hemisphere ⓘ |
| IAUApprovalYear | 1922 ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southern sky ⓘ |
| milkyWayPassesThrough | no ⓘ |
| mythologicalAssociation |
cup carried by the crow Corvus
ⓘ
cup of the god Apollo ⓘ |
| name | Crater NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableDeepSkyObject |
NGC 3511
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NGC 3513 NERFINISHED ⓘ NGC 3887 NERFINISHED ⓘ NGC 3981 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableStar |
Alpha Crateris
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Beta Crateris NERFINISHED ⓘ Gamma Crateris NERFINISHED ⓘ Zeta Crateris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfStarsBrighterThan3_0mag | 0 GENERATED ⓘ |
| rankByArea | 53 ⓘ |
| rightAscensionRange | 10h40m to 11h50m ⓘ |
| symbolism |
cup
ⓘ
goblet ⓘ |
| traditionalOrigin | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| visibleAtLatitudesBetween | +65 and −90 ⓘ |
| visibleInEveningSkyIn |
autumn (Southern Hemisphere)
ⓘ
spring (Northern Hemisphere) ⓘ |
| zodiacConstellation | false ⓘ |
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: Crater Description of subject: Crater is a small constellation in the southern sky, traditionally depicted as a cup or goblet in Greek mythology.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.