HIP 17608
E140937
HIP 17608 is a star in the constellation Taurus, more commonly known as 23 Tauri, and is cataloged in the Hipparcos star catalog.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HIP 17608 canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1236591 — 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: HIP 17608 Context triple: [23 Tauri, hasCatalogDesignation, HIP 17608]
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A.
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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B.
Epsilon Eridani
Epsilon Eridani is a nearby young K-type main-sequence star in the constellation Eridanus, notable for its debris disk and status as a prominent target in exoplanet and SETI searches.
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C.
Betelgeuse Five
Betelgeuse Five is the fictional home planet of Zaphod Beeblebrox in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series.
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D.
Tau Ceti
Tau Ceti is a nearby Sun-like star in the constellation Cetus, notable for its stability, potential planetary system, and historical importance as an early target in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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E.
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.
- 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: HIP 17608 Target entity description: HIP 17608 is a star in the constellation Taurus, more commonly known as 23 Tauri, and is cataloged in the Hipparcos star catalog.
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A.
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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B.
Epsilon Eridani
Epsilon Eridani is a nearby young K-type main-sequence star in the constellation Eridanus, notable for its debris disk and status as a prominent target in exoplanet and SETI searches.
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C.
Betelgeuse Five
Betelgeuse Five is the fictional home planet of Zaphod Beeblebrox in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series.
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D.
Tau Ceti
Tau Ceti is a nearby Sun-like star in the constellation Cetus, notable for its stability, potential planetary system, and historical importance as an early target in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronomicalObject
ⓘ
star ⓘ |
| hasCatalog |
Hipparcos
ⓘ
linked to:
Hipparcos Catalogue
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| hasCatalogIdentifier | HIP 17608 ⓘ |
| hasDesignation |
23 Tauri
ⓘ
HIP 17608 ⓘ |
| hasEquatorialCoordinateSystem |
ICRS
ⓘ
linked to:
International Celestial Reference System
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| hasFlamsteedDesignation | 23 Tauri ⓘ |
| isInConstellation | Taurus ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Milky Way ⓘ |
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: HIP 17608 Description of subject: HIP 17608 is a star in the constellation Taurus, more commonly known as 23 Tauri, and is cataloged in the Hipparcos star catalog.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.