Canis Minor
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Canis Minor is a small constellation in the northern sky, best known for containing the bright star Procyon.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Canis Minor canonical | 8 |
| Procyon | 2 |
| Canis Minoris | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1206453 — 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: Canis Minor Context triple: [Cancer, borderedBy, Canis Minor]
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A.
Canis Major
Canis Major is a prominent southern sky constellation often associated with the "Great Dog" and containing Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.
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B.
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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C.
Microscopium
Microscopium is a small, faint constellation in the southern sky, representing a microscope and introduced in the 18th century by the astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille.
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D.
Monoceros
Monoceros is a faint constellation of the celestial equator known for containing several notable nebulae and star-forming regions, located between Orion and Hydra.
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E.
Nubecula Minor
Nubecula Minor is a nearby dwarf galaxy in the Local Group, visible from the Southern Hemisphere and notable as one of the closest galactic neighbors to the Milky Way.
- 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: Canis Minor Target entity description: Canis Minor is a small constellation in the northern sky, best known for containing the bright star Procyon.
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A.
Canis Major
Canis Major is a prominent southern sky constellation often associated with the "Great Dog" and containing Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.
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B.
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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C.
Microscopium
Microscopium is a small, faint constellation in the southern sky, representing a microscope and introduced in the 18th century by the astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille.
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D.
Monoceros
Monoceros is a faint constellation of the celestial equator known for containing several notable nebulae and star-forming regions, located between Orion and Hydra.
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E.
Nubecula Minor
Nubecula Minor is a nearby dwarf galaxy in the Local Group, visible from the Southern Hemisphere and notable as one of the closest galactic neighbors to the Milky Way.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Canis Minor Description of subject: Canis Minor is a small constellation in the northern sky, best known for containing the bright star Procyon.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
constellation Cancer
linked to: Canis Minor
linked to: Canis Minor
subject linked to:
Canis Minor
subject linked to:
Canis Minor
linked to: Canis Minor