Eridanus
E126210
Eridanus is a long, winding constellation in the southern sky often depicted as a celestial river.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eridanus canonical | 9 |
| banks of the river Eridanus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1092396 — 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: Eridanus Context triple: [Orion, borderedBy, Eridanus]
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A.
Urana
Urana is a small rural town in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia, known for its agricultural surroundings and historic country character.
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B.
Eudora (Hyad)
Eudora (Hyad) is a star that forms part of the Hyades, the nearest prominent open star cluster to Earth in the constellation Taurus.
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C.
Serpens Cauda
Serpens Cauda is the eastern "tail" section of the split constellation Serpens, a faint star pattern lying along the Milky Way in the northern sky.
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D.
Hyas
Hyas is a figure in Greek mythology, often associated with the Hyades as their brother and linked to myths explaining the origin of certain constellations or rain-bringing stars.
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E.
Orion
Orion is a prominent constellation in the night sky, easily recognized by its three-star belt and associated in many cultures with the figure of a hunter.
- 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: Eridanus Target entity description: Eridanus is a long, winding constellation in the southern sky often depicted as a celestial river.
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A.
Urana
Urana is a small rural town in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia, known for its agricultural surroundings and historic country character.
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B.
Eudora (Hyad)
Eudora (Hyad) is a star that forms part of the Hyades, the nearest prominent open star cluster to Earth in the constellation Taurus.
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C.
Serpens Cauda
Serpens Cauda is the eastern "tail" section of the split constellation Serpens, a faint star pattern lying along the Milky Way in the northern sky.
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D.
Hyas
Hyas is a figure in Greek mythology, often associated with the Hyades as their brother and linked to myths explaining the origin of certain constellations or rain-bringing stars.
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E.
Orion
Orion is a prominent constellation in the night sky, easily recognized by its three-star belt and associated in many cultures with the figure of a hunter.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Eridanus Description of subject: Eridanus is a long, winding constellation in the southern sky often depicted as a celestial river.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.