Beta Eridani
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Beta Eridani, traditionally known as Cursa, is a bright blue-white giant star in the constellation Eridanus visible to the naked eye.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Beta Eridani canonical | 3 |
| β Eridani | 2 |
| 12 Eridani | 1 |
| 9 Eridani | 1 |
| β Eri | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5723765 — 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: Beta Eridani Context triple: [Cursa, BayerDesignation, Beta Eridani]
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A.
Alpha Eridani
Alpha Eridani, traditionally known as Achernar, is a bright, rapidly rotating blue-white star marking the southern end of the constellation Eridanus.
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B.
Epsilon Microscopii
Epsilon Microscopii is a relatively bright star located in the southern constellation Microscopium.
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C.
Zeta Sagittarii
Zeta Sagittarii is a bright multiple star system in the constellation Sagittarius, forming part of the asterism known as the Teapot.
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D.
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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E.
Zeta Tucanae
Zeta Tucanae is a main-sequence F-type star located in the southern constellation Tucana, visible to the naked eye from dark-sky locations.
- 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: Beta Eridani Target entity description: Beta Eridani, traditionally known as Cursa, is a bright blue-white giant star in the constellation Eridanus visible to the naked eye.
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A.
Alpha Eridani
Alpha Eridani, traditionally known as Achernar, is a bright, rapidly rotating blue-white star marking the southern end of the constellation Eridanus.
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B.
Epsilon Microscopii
Epsilon Microscopii is a relatively bright star located in the southern constellation Microscopium.
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C.
Zeta Sagittarii
Zeta Sagittarii is a bright multiple star system in the constellation Sagittarius, forming part of the asterism known as the Teapot.
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D.
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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E.
Zeta Tucanae
Zeta Tucanae is a main-sequence F-type star located in the southern constellation Tucana, visible to the naked eye from dark-sky locations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
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: Beta Eridani Description of subject: Beta Eridani, traditionally known as Cursa, is a bright blue-white giant star in the constellation Eridanus visible to the naked eye.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Eridanus
linked to: Beta Eridani
linked to: Beta Eridani
linked to: Beta Eridani
linked to: Beta Eridani
linked to: Beta Eridani