Seven Sisters
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Seven Sisters is the common name for the Pleiades, a prominent open star cluster in the constellation Taurus visible to the naked eye.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Seven Sisters canonical | 9 |
| the Seven Sisters, daughters of Atlas and Pleione | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T156721 — 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: Seven Sisters Context triple: [Pleiades, alsoKnownAs, Seven Sisters]
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A.
Seven Sisters
Seven Sisters is a famous row of colorful Victorian and Edwardian houses in San Francisco, often featured in photographs and films as an iconic city landmark.
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B.
The Five
The Five is a Fox News Channel weekday panel show where five co-hosts discuss current news, politics, and pop culture from a generally conservative perspective.
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C.
The Thorns
The Thorns are a professional women’s soccer team based in Portland, Oregon, competing in the National Women’s Soccer League and known for their passionate fanbase and strong on-field success.
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D.
Three Sisters
Three Sisters is a group of three prominent stratovolcanoes in the central Oregon Cascades, known for their distinctive clustered peaks and popular hiking and climbing terrain.
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E.
Yma Sumac
Yma Sumac was a renowned Peruvian soprano celebrated for her extraordinary vocal range and exoticized "Incan princess" persona in mid-20th-century popular and classical music.
- 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: Seven Sisters Target entity description: Seven Sisters is the common name for the Pleiades, a prominent open star cluster in the constellation Taurus visible to the naked eye.
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A.
Seven Sisters
Seven Sisters is a famous row of colorful Victorian and Edwardian houses in San Francisco, often featured in photographs and films as an iconic city landmark.
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B.
The Five
The Five is a Fox News Channel weekday panel show where five co-hosts discuss current news, politics, and pop culture from a generally conservative perspective.
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C.
The Thorns
The Thorns are a professional women’s soccer team based in Portland, Oregon, competing in the National Women’s Soccer League and known for their passionate fanbase and strong on-field success.
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D.
Three Sisters
Three Sisters is a group of three prominent stratovolcanoes in the central Oregon Cascades, known for their distinctive clustered peaks and popular hiking and climbing terrain.
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E.
Yma Sumac
Yma Sumac was a renowned Peruvian soprano celebrated for her extraordinary vocal range and exoticized "Incan princess" persona in mid-20th-century popular and classical music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronomical object
ⓘ
open star cluster ⓘ star cluster ⓘ |
| age | about 100 million years ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Pleiades ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | about 1.6 ⓘ |
| bestSeenIn | Northern Hemisphere winter ⓘ |
| catalogCode |
C 0344+240
ⓘ
Melotte 22 ⓘ |
| contains | over 1,000 confirmed members ⓘ |
| containsStar |
Alcyone
ⓘ
Atlas ⓘ
linked to:
Titan
Celaeno ⓘ Electra ⓘ Maia ⓘ Merope ⓘ Pleione ⓘ Sterope ⓘ Taygeta ⓘ |
| declination | +24° 07′ ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth |
about 136 parsecs
ⓘ
about 444 light-years ⓘ |
| dominantColor | blue ⓘ |
| hasAngularSize | about 110 arcminutes ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificanceIn |
Greek mythology
ⓘ
Japanese culture ⓘ Maori culture ⓘ Native American traditions ⓘ |
| hasFeature | reflection nebula ⓘ |
| hasMessierNumber | M45 ⓘ |
| hasMythologicalAssociation | seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione ⓘ |
| hasNGCNumber |
NGC 1432
ⓘ
NGC 1435 ⓘ
linked to:
NGC 1432
|
| hasProperMotion | common cluster motion ⓘ |
| isAsterismOf | seven prominent stars ⓘ |
| isBrightestOpenClusterIn | northern sky ⓘ |
| isGravitationallyBound | true ⓘ |
| isUsedFor |
calibration of distance scale in astronomy
ⓘ
studies of stellar evolution ⓘ |
| liesNearEcliptic | true ⓘ |
| locatedInConstellation | Taurus ⓘ |
| locatedInGalaxy | Milky Way ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Local Arm of the Milky Way
ⓘ
linked to:
Orion Arm
|
| observedSince | antiquity ⓘ |
| rightAscension | 03h 47m ⓘ |
| risesBefore | Orion ⓘ |
| spectralTypeDominant | B-type main-sequence stars ⓘ |
| visibleTo | naked eye ⓘ |
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: Seven Sisters Description of subject: Seven Sisters is the common name for the Pleiades, a prominent open star cluster in the constellation Taurus visible to the naked eye.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.