Corona Australis
E106313
Corona Australis is a small, southern constellation near the Milky Way, notable for its distinctive arc of stars and associated dark molecular cloud complex rich in star formation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Corona Australis canonical | 5 |
| Coronae Australis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T869257 — 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: Corona Australis Context triple: [Sagittarius, borderingConstellation, Corona Australis]
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A.
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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B.
Cygnis Insignis
Cygnis Insignis is the Latin motto of Western Australia, traditionally translated as “Distinguished by the Swan” and referring to the state’s emblematic black swan.
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C.
Serpens Cauda
Serpens Cauda is the eastern "tail" section of the split constellation Serpens, a faint star pattern lying along the Milky Way in the northern sky.
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D.
Telescopium
Telescopium is a small, faint southern constellation introduced in the 18th century and named after the telescope.
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E.
Sagittarius
Sagittarius is a prominent zodiac constellation in the southern sky, often depicted as an archer and notable for containing the direction of the Milky Way’s center.
- 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: Corona Australis Target entity description: Corona Australis is a small, southern constellation near the Milky Way, notable for its distinctive arc of stars and associated dark molecular cloud complex rich in star formation.
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A.
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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B.
Cygnis Insignis
Cygnis Insignis is the Latin motto of Western Australia, traditionally translated as “Distinguished by the Swan” and referring to the state’s emblematic black swan.
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C.
Serpens Cauda
Serpens Cauda is the eastern "tail" section of the split constellation Serpens, a faint star pattern lying along the Milky Way in the northern sky.
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D.
Telescopium
Telescopium is a small, faint southern constellation introduced in the 18th century and named after the telescope.
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E.
Sagittarius
Sagittarius is a prominent zodiac constellation in the southern sky, often depicted as an archer and notable for containing the direction of the Milky Way’s center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Corona Australis Description of subject: Corona Australis is a small, southern constellation near the Milky Way, notable for its distinctive arc of stars and associated dark molecular cloud complex rich in star formation.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Coronae Australis