Iota Cancrids
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The Iota Cancrids are a minor annual meteor shower that appears to radiate from the constellation Cancer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iota Cancrids canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1206478 — 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: Iota Cancrids Context triple: [Cancer, meteorShower, Iota Cancrids]
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A.
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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B.
Coronis (Hyad)
Coronis is a star in the Hyades open cluster in the constellation Taurus.
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C.
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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D.
Iota
Iota is the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet, historically representing a short "i" sound and giving rise to the Latin letter I.
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E.
Coronis
Coronis is a figure in Greek mythology, a mortal woman associated with Apollo and known primarily as the mother of the healing god Asclepius.
- 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: Iota Cancrids Target entity description: The Iota Cancrids are a minor annual meteor shower that appears to radiate from the constellation Cancer.
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A.
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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B.
Coronis (Hyad)
Coronis is a star in the Hyades open cluster in the constellation Taurus.
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C.
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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D.
Iota
Iota is the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet, historically representing a short "i" sound and giving rise to the Latin letter I.
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E.
Coronis
Coronis is a figure in Greek mythology, a mortal woman associated with Apollo and known primarily as the mother of the healing god Asclepius.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
annual meteor shower
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meteor shower ⓘ |
| activityType | minor ⓘ |
| associatedConstellation | Cancer ⓘ |
| celestialCategory | meteoroid stream ⓘ |
| classification | minor shower in the meteor shower catalogues ⓘ |
| discoveryStatus | recognized minor shower ⓘ |
| hemisphereVisibility |
Northern Hemisphere
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Southern Hemisphere ⓘ |
| meteorAppearance | meteors appear to originate from Cancer ⓘ |
| meteoroidSource | cometary or asteroidal (uncertain) ⓘ |
| namingConvention | named after nearby star Iota Cancri in Cancer ⓘ |
| observationDifficulty | difficult to observe due to low rates ⓘ |
| observationMethod |
radio observation
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video observation ⓘ visual observation ⓘ |
| observationRequirement | dark, clear skies ⓘ |
| parentBody | unknown ⓘ |
| periodicity | recurs annually ⓘ |
| radiantConstellation | Cancer ⓘ |
| radiantDeclinationApprox | +28° ⓘ |
| radiantMotion | radiant appears fixed in Cancer ⓘ |
| radiantRightAscensionApprox | 08h ⓘ |
| skyLocation | near the ecliptic ⓘ |
| visibility | low zenithal hourly rate (ZHR) ⓘ |
| visibilityCondition | best seen after local midnight ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Iota Cancrids Description of subject: The Iota Cancrids are a minor annual meteor shower that appears to radiate from the constellation Cancer.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
constellation Cancer