87 Tauri
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87 Tauri is a star in the constellation Taurus, cataloged in the Hipparcos star catalog as HIP 21421.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 87 Tauri canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6287285 — 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: 87 Tauri Context triple: [HIP 21421, flamsteedDesignation, 87 Tauri]
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A.
87 Tauri
87 Tauri is a star in the constellation Taurus, known as the Flamsteed-designated counterpart of the bright giant Aldebaran.
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B.
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.
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C.
Theta Eridani
Theta Eridani is a bright binary star system in the constellation Eridanus, visible to the naked eye and often used as a reference point in the southern sky.
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D.
Tau Canis Majoris
Tau Canis Majoris is a very luminous, massive blue-white multiple star system located in the constellation Canis Major and is one of the brightest members of the open cluster NGC 2362.
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E.
Rho Tucanae
Rho Tucanae is a star located in the southern constellation Tucana.
- 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: 87 Tauri Target entity description: 87 Tauri is a star in the constellation Taurus, cataloged in the Hipparcos star catalog as HIP 21421.
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A.
87 Tauri
87 Tauri is a star in the constellation Taurus, known as the Flamsteed-designated counterpart of the bright giant Aldebaran.
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B.
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.
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C.
Theta Eridani
Theta Eridani is a bright binary star system in the constellation Eridanus, visible to the naked eye and often used as a reference point in the southern sky.
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D.
Tau Canis Majoris
Tau Canis Majoris is a very luminous, massive blue-white multiple star system located in the constellation Canis Major and is one of the brightest members of the open cluster NGC 2362.
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E.
Rho Tucanae
Rho Tucanae is a star located in the southern constellation Tucana.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: 87 Tauri Description of subject: 87 Tauri is a star in the constellation Taurus, cataloged in the Hipparcos star catalog as HIP 21421.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.