Ursa Minor
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Ursa Minor is a small northern constellation best known for containing Polaris, the current North Star, and forming the Little Dipper asterism.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ursa Minor canonical | 19 |
| Little Dipper | 2 |
| Ursa Minor constellation | 1 |
| Ursa Minor constellation asterism Little Dipper | 1 |
| Ursa Minor constellation region | 1 |
| Ursa Minor region of the sky | 1 |
| Ursae Minoris | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5683803 — 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: Ursa Minor Context triple: [Ursa Minor Dwarf Galaxy, locatedInConstellation, Ursa Minor]
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A.
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.
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B.
Canis Minor
Canis Minor is a small constellation in the northern sky, best known for containing the bright star Procyon.
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C.
Corona Borealis
Corona Borealis is a small but distinctive northern constellation known for its semicircular arc of stars, often associated in mythology with Ariadne’s crown.
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D.
Microscopium
Microscopium is a small, faint constellation in the southern sky, representing a microscope and introduced in the 18th century by the astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille.
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E.
Reticulum
Reticulum is a small, faint southern constellation named after a reticle or net, located near the Large Magellanic Cloud.
- 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: Ursa Minor Target entity description: Ursa Minor is a small northern constellation best known for containing Polaris, the current North Star, and forming the Little Dipper asterism.
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A.
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.
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B.
Canis Minor
Canis Minor is a small constellation in the northern sky, best known for containing the bright star Procyon.
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C.
Corona Borealis
Corona Borealis is a small but distinctive northern constellation known for its semicircular arc of stars, often associated in mythology with Ariadne’s crown.
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D.
Microscopium
Microscopium is a small, faint constellation in the southern sky, representing a microscope and introduced in the 18th century by the astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille.
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E.
Reticulum
Reticulum is a small, faint southern constellation named after a reticle or net, located near the Large Magellanic Cloud.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (66)
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: Ursa Minor Description of subject: Ursa Minor is a small northern constellation best known for containing Polaris, the current North Star, and forming the Little Dipper asterism.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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A. G. Wilson
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