Alpha Cancri
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Alpha Cancri is a multiple-star system in the constellation Cancer, visible to the naked eye and known for its close stellar pairing.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alpha Cancri canonical | 15 |
| α Cancri | 8 |
| Alpha Cancri A | 2 |
| Alpha Cancri B | 2 |
| Alpha Cancri star system | 1 |
| Alpha Cancri system | 1 |
| Alpha Cnc | 1 |
| α Cnc | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1206464 — 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: Alpha Cancri Context triple: [Cancer, notableStar, Alpha Cancri]
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A.
Beta Cancri
Beta Cancri is a prominent orange giant star in the constellation Cancer, notable as one of its most luminous and easily visible members.
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B.
Canopus
Canopus was an ancient Egyptian coastal city near modern-day Alexandria, known as a major religious center and sanctuary dedicated to the goddess Isis.
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C.
Epsilon Sagittarii
Epsilon Sagittarii is a prominent binary star system in the constellation Sagittarius, notable as one of its most luminous and easily visible stars.
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D.
Coronis (Hyad)
Coronis is a star in the Hyades open cluster in the constellation Taurus.
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E.
Cygnis Insignis
Cygnis Insignis is the Latin motto of Western Australia, traditionally translated as “Distinguished by the Swan” and referring to the state’s emblematic black swan.
- 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: Alpha Cancri Target entity description: Alpha Cancri is a multiple-star system in the constellation Cancer, visible to the naked eye and known for its close stellar pairing.
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A.
Beta Cancri
Beta Cancri is a prominent orange giant star in the constellation Cancer, notable as one of its most luminous and easily visible members.
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B.
Canopus
Canopus was an ancient Egyptian coastal city near modern-day Alexandria, known as a major religious center and sanctuary dedicated to the goddess Isis.
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C.
Epsilon Sagittarii
Epsilon Sagittarii is a prominent binary star system in the constellation Sagittarius, notable as one of its most luminous and easily visible stars.
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D.
Coronis (Hyad)
Coronis is a star in the Hyades open cluster in the constellation Taurus.
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E.
Cygnis Insignis
Cygnis Insignis is the Latin motto of Western Australia, traditionally translated as “Distinguished by the Swan” and referring to the state’s emblematic black swan.
- 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: Alpha Cancri Description of subject: Alpha Cancri is a multiple-star system in the constellation Cancer, visible to the naked eye and known for its close stellar pairing.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
constellation Cancer
linked to: Alpha Cancri
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subject linked to:
HR 3569
linked to: Alpha Cancri
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linked to: Alpha Cancri
linked to: Alpha Cancri
subject linked to:
BD+12 1919
linked to: Alpha Cancri
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linked to: Alpha Cancri