Asellus Australis
E137798
Asellus Australis is a traditional star name referring to Delta Cancri, a prominent star in the constellation Cancer.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Asellus Australis canonical | 18 |
| Asellus Borealis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1206467 — 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: Asellus Australis Context triple: [Delta Cancri, traditionalName, Asellus Australis]
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A.
Sephanoides
Sephanoides is a small genus of South American hummingbirds that includes species such as the Juan Fernández firecrown.
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B.
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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C.
Alphitonia
Alphitonia is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs, commonly known as ash or soap trees, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Pacific and Asia.
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D.
Euthenia
Euthenia is a minor Greek goddess associated with prosperity, abundance, and material plenty.
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E.
Westerveld
Westerveld is a rural municipality in the Dutch province of Drenthe, known for its natural landscapes, historic villages, and prehistoric dolmens.
- 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: Asellus Australis Target entity description: Asellus Australis is a traditional star name referring to Delta Cancri, a prominent star in the constellation Cancer.
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A.
Sephanoides
Sephanoides is a small genus of South American hummingbirds that includes species such as the Juan Fernández firecrown.
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B.
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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C.
Alphitonia
Alphitonia is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs, commonly known as ash or soap trees, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Pacific and Asia.
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D.
Euthenia
Euthenia is a minor Greek goddess associated with prosperity, abundance, and material plenty.
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E.
Westerveld
Westerveld is a rural municipality in the Dutch province of Drenthe, known for its natural landscapes, historic villages, and prehistoric dolmens.
- 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: Asellus Australis Description of subject: Asellus Australis is a traditional star name referring to Delta Cancri, a prominent star in the constellation Cancer.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
constellation Cancer
subject linked to:
constellation Cancer
linked to: Asellus Australis
subject linked to:
HD 74442
subject linked to:
BD+18 2029