Delta Cancri
E141267
Delta Cancri is a prominent star in the constellation Cancer, known as Asellus Australis and used as a reference point near the Beehive Cluster in the night sky.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Delta Cancri canonical | 15 |
| δ Cancri | 6 |
| 43 Cancri | 2 |
| Delta Cnc | 2 |
| δ Cnc | 2 |
| Delta Cancri system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1206466 — 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: Delta Cancri Context triple: [Cancer, notableStar, Delta Cancri]
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A.
Alpha Cancri
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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B.
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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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.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Delta Cancri Target entity description: Delta Cancri is a prominent star in the constellation Cancer, known as Asellus Australis and used as a reference point near the Beehive Cluster in the night sky.
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A.
Alpha Cancri
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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B.
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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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.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Delta Cancri Description of subject: Delta Cancri is a prominent star in the constellation Cancer, known as Asellus Australis and used as a reference point near the Beehive Cluster in the night sky.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
constellation Cancer
linked to: Delta Cancri
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subject linked to:
Aselli (the Donkeys)
linked to: Delta Cancri
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subject linked to:
BD+18 2029
linked to: Delta Cancri