Antares
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Antares is a bright red supergiant star, one of the largest and most luminous visible to the naked eye, located in the constellation Scorpius.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Antares canonical | 7 |
| Antares B | 1 |
| Antares star | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4835375 — 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: Antares Context triple: [Scorpius, containsStar, Antares]
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A.
Antares
Antares was the Lunar Module used in NASA’s Apollo 14 mission to land astronauts on the Moon in 1971.
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B.
Orion
Orion is a coastal municipality in the province of Bataan in the Philippines, known for its historical significance and proximity to Manila Bay.
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C.
Orion
Orion is a prominent constellation in the night sky, easily recognized by its three-star belt and associated in many cultures with the figure of a hunter.
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D.
Orion
Orion is an American film production and distribution company known for releasing acclaimed movies such as "The Silence of the Lambs," "Amadeus," and "Dances with Wolves."
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E.
Astra
Astra is a prominent Asian work, likely a creative or literary piece, recognized for its cultural and artistic significance within Asia.
- 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: Antares Target entity description: Antares is a bright red supergiant star, one of the largest and most luminous visible to the naked eye, located in the constellation Scorpius.
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A.
Antares
Antares was the Lunar Module used in NASA’s Apollo 14 mission to land astronauts on the Moon in 1971.
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B.
Orion
Orion is a coastal municipality in the province of Bataan in the Philippines, known for its historical significance and proximity to Manila Bay.
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C.
Orion
Orion is a prominent constellation in the night sky, easily recognized by its three-star belt and associated in many cultures with the figure of a hunter.
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D.
Orion
Orion is an American film production and distribution company known for releasing acclaimed movies such as "The Silence of the Lambs," "Amadeus," and "Dances with Wolves."
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E.
Astra
Astra is a prominent Asian work, likely a creative or literary piece, recognized for its cultural and artistic significance within Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
celestial object
ⓘ
main-sequence star ⓘ red supergiant star ⓘ star ⓘ |
| age | about 11 million years ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitude | about 1.0 ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeRange | +0.6 to +1.6 ⓘ |
| bayerDesignation |
α Scorpii
ⓘ
linked to:
Alpha Scorpii
|
| belongsTo | Milky Way ⓘ |
| binarySystemType | wide binary ⓘ |
| color |
bluish-white
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red ⓘ |
| constellation | Scorpius ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | associated with the heart of the scorpion in many cultures ⓘ |
| declination | −26° 25′ 55″ ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth |
about 170 parsecs
ⓘ
about 550 light-years ⓘ |
| effectiveTemperature | about 3,500 K ⓘ |
| equatorialCoordinatesEpoch | J2000 ⓘ |
| evolutionaryStage | late-stage massive star ⓘ |
| flamsteedDesignation | 21 Scorpii ⓘ |
| futureEvolution | will explode as a core-collapse supernova ⓘ |
| galacticLatitude | about +15° ⓘ |
| galacticLongitude | about 351° ⓘ |
| galacticPopulation | Population I star ⓘ |
| hasCompanion |
Antares B
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linked to:
Antares
|
| hasExtendedAtmosphere | true ⓘ |
| hasStellarWind | strong stellar wind ⓘ |
| isBrightestStarOf | Scorpius ⓘ |
| isReferenceStarFor | Scorpius constellation shape ⓘ |
| isVisibleToNakedEye | true ⓘ |
| luminosity | about 75,000 times solar luminosity ⓘ |
| mass | about 11 solar masses ⓘ |
| nameEtymology | from Greek meaning 'rival of Ares' or 'like Mars' ⓘ |
| otherName |
Alpha Scorpii
ⓘ
Cor Scorpii ⓘ Heart of the Scorpion ⓘ α Scorpii ⓘ
linked to:
Alpha Scorpii
|
| parallax | about 5.9 mas ⓘ |
| properMotionDec | −23.21 mas/yr ⓘ |
| properMotionRA | −10.16 mas/yr ⓘ |
| radialVelocity | about −3 km/s ⓘ |
| radius |
about 3 AU
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about 680 solar radii ⓘ |
| rankByBrightnessInNightSky | among the brightest stars visible to the naked eye ⓘ |
| rightAscension | 16h 29m 24s ⓘ |
| spectralType |
B2.5V
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M1.5Iab-Ib ⓘ |
| variableType | slow irregular variable ⓘ |
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: Antares Description of subject: Antares is a bright red supergiant star, one of the largest and most luminous visible to the naked eye, located in the constellation Scorpius.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.