asteroid 1036 Ganymed
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Asteroid 1036 Ganymed is a large near-Earth Amor-type asteroid and the largest known near-Earth object, notable for its highly eccentric orbit and close approaches to Mars and Earth.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 1036 Ganymed | 1 |
| asteroid 1036 Ganymed canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T781603 — 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: asteroid 1036 Ganymed Context triple: [Walter Baade, discovered, asteroid 1036 Ganymed]
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A.
asteroid 944 Hidalgo
Asteroid 944 Hidalgo is a large, eccentric, comet-like minor planet that orbits between the inner and outer solar system, making it one of the first known centaur objects.
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B.
Gaspra
Gaspra is a seaside resort town on the southern coast of Crimea, known for its mild climate, beaches, and historic landmarks such as the Swallow's Nest castle.
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C.
Pallas
Pallas was a British Royal Navy frigate active during the American Revolutionary War, notably engaged in North Sea operations against French and American forces.
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D.
Ceres
Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and a dwarf planet composed primarily of rock and ice.
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E.
Komet
Komet was the nickname of the Messerschmitt Me 163, a German World War II rocket-powered interceptor aircraft known for its extraordinary speed and unconventional design.
- 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: asteroid 1036 Ganymed Target entity description: Asteroid 1036 Ganymed is a large near-Earth Amor-type asteroid and the largest known near-Earth object, notable for its highly eccentric orbit and close approaches to Mars and Earth.
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A.
asteroid 944 Hidalgo
Asteroid 944 Hidalgo is a large, eccentric, comet-like minor planet that orbits between the inner and outer solar system, making it one of the first known centaur objects.
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B.
Gaspra
Gaspra is a seaside resort town on the southern coast of Crimea, known for its mild climate, beaches, and historic landmarks such as the Swallow's Nest castle.
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C.
Pallas
Pallas was a British Royal Navy frigate active during the American Revolutionary War, notably engaged in North Sea operations against French and American forces.
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D.
Ceres
Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and a dwarf planet composed primarily of rock and ice.
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E.
Komet
Komet was the nickname of the Messerschmitt Me 163, a German World War II rocket-powered interceptor aircraft known for its extraordinary speed and unconventional design.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: asteroid 1036 Ganymed Description of subject: Asteroid 1036 Ganymed is a large near-Earth Amor-type asteroid and the largest known near-Earth object, notable for its highly eccentric orbit and close approaches to Mars and Earth.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
1036 Ganymed