C/1996 B2
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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.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| C/1996 B2 canonical | 4 |
| Comet Hyakutake | 3 |
| C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) | 2 |
| C/1995 Y1 (Hyakutake) | 1 |
| Comet Hyakutake (C/1996 B2) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T965175 — 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: C/1996 B2 Context triple: [Comet Hyakutake, officialName, C/1996 B2]
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A.
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.
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B.
Comet
Comet is one of Santa Claus’s traditional flying reindeer, often depicted as swift and spirited as he helps pull Santa’s sleigh on Christmas Eve.
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C.
Eris
Eris is a distant, icy dwarf planet in the outer reaches of the Solar System, notable for its size comparable to Pluto and its role in prompting the redefinition of planetary status.
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D.
Ursa Minor Beta
Ursa Minor Beta is a fictional planet in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, best known as the corporate home of the Guide itself.
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E.
Makemake
Makemake is a large, icy dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, known for its extremely cold surface and status as one of the most massive objects beyond Neptune.
- 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: C/1996 B2 Target entity description: 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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A.
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.
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B.
Comet
Comet is one of Santa Claus’s traditional flying reindeer, often depicted as swift and spirited as he helps pull Santa’s sleigh on Christmas Eve.
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C.
Eris
Eris is a distant, icy dwarf planet in the outer reaches of the Solar System, notable for its size comparable to Pluto and its role in prompting the redefinition of planetary status.
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D.
Ursa Minor Beta
Ursa Minor Beta is a fictional planet in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, best known as the corporate home of the Guide itself.
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E.
Makemake
Makemake is a large, icy dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, known for its extremely cold surface and status as one of the most massive objects beyond Neptune.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: C/1996 B2 Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Hyakutake
linked to: C/1996 B2
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