Historia Coelestis Britannica
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Historia Coelestis Britannica is a landmark star catalog compiled in the early 18th century that systematically recorded the positions of thousands of stars and laid foundations for modern observational astronomy.
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| Historia Coelestis Britannica canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14589521 — 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: Historia Coelestis Britannica Context triple: [John Flamsteed, knownFor, Historia Coelestis Britannica]
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Institutio astronomica
Institutio astronomica is a 17th-century introductory astronomy textbook by Pierre Gassendi that helped popularize and systematize contemporary astronomical knowledge in a humanist, educational format.
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De institutione astronomica
De institutione astronomica is a late antique Latin treatise on astronomy by the philosopher Boethius, presenting classical cosmological and astronomical knowledge to a medieval scholarly audience.
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C.
Cosmographiae Introductio
Cosmographiae Introductio is a 1507 Latin cosmography book, best known for introducing and popularizing the name "America" for the newly discovered Western Hemisphere.
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D.
Atlas Maior, sive Cosmographia Blaviana
Atlas Maior, sive Cosmographia Blaviana is a monumental 17th-century world atlas by Joan Blaeu, renowned for its richly detailed maps and lavish baroque cartography.
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E.
Fundamenta Astronomiae
Fundamenta Astronomiae is a foundational 19th-century astronomical catalog by Friedrich Bessel that provided highly accurate star positions and proper motions, significantly advancing astrometry.
- 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: Historia Coelestis Britannica Target entity description: Historia Coelestis Britannica is a landmark star catalog compiled in the early 18th century that systematically recorded the positions of thousands of stars and laid foundations for modern observational astronomy.
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A.
Institutio astronomica
Institutio astronomica is a 17th-century introductory astronomy textbook by Pierre Gassendi that helped popularize and systematize contemporary astronomical knowledge in a humanist, educational format.
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B.
De institutione astronomica
De institutione astronomica is a late antique Latin treatise on astronomy by the philosopher Boethius, presenting classical cosmological and astronomical knowledge to a medieval scholarly audience.
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C.
Cosmographiae Introductio
Cosmographiae Introductio is a 1507 Latin cosmography book, best known for introducing and popularizing the name "America" for the newly discovered Western Hemisphere.
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D.
Atlas Maior, sive Cosmographia Blaviana
Atlas Maior, sive Cosmographia Blaviana is a monumental 17th-century world atlas by Joan Blaeu, renowned for its richly detailed maps and lavish baroque cartography.
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E.
Fundamenta Astronomiae
Fundamenta Astronomiae is a foundational 19th-century astronomical catalog by Friedrich Bessel that provided highly accurate star positions and proper motions, significantly advancing astrometry.
- F. None of above. chosen
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