Ophiuchus
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Ophiuchus is a large equatorial constellation often depicted as a serpent-bearer and sometimes referred to as the "13th sign" of the zodiac.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ophiuchus canonical | 9 |
| Ophiuchi | 1 |
| Ophiuchus constellation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T869259 — 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: Ophiuchus Context triple: [Sagittarius, borderingConstellation, Ophiuchus]
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A.
Scorpius
Scorpius is a prominent zodiac constellation in the southern sky, easily recognized by its curved "scorpion's tail" and bright red supergiant star Antares.
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B.
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.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Ophiuchus Target entity description: Ophiuchus is a large equatorial constellation often depicted as a serpent-bearer and sometimes referred to as the "13th sign" of the zodiac.
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A.
Scorpius
Scorpius is a prominent zodiac constellation in the southern sky, easily recognized by its curved "scorpion's tail" and bright red supergiant star Antares.
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B.
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.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Ophiuchus Description of subject: Ophiuchus is a large equatorial constellation often depicted as a serpent-bearer and sometimes referred to as the "13th sign" of the zodiac.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ophiuchus constellation
subject surface form:
Rasalhague
subject surface form:
Barnard's Star
subject surface form:
Scutum