Sol
E19953
Sol is the Sun, the G-type main-sequence star at the center of our solar system that provides Earth with light and heat.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sol canonical | 10 |
| SOL | 1 |
| Sol system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T156227 — 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: Sol Context triple: [Sun, hasLatinName, Sol]
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A.
Lee
Lee is a given name shared by numerous individuals across different cultures and professions.
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B.
Ray
Ray is a masculine given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often as a short form of Raymond.
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C.
Diego
Diego is a given name of Spanish origin commonly used in Spanish-speaking countries and beyond.
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D.
S.J.
S.J. is the standard post-nominal abbreviation used to designate members of the Catholic religious order known as the Society of Jesus, or the Jesuits.
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E.
Jack
Jack is a common masculine given name, often used as a familiar form of John and widely featured in English-language literature and popular culture.
- 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: Sol Target entity description: Sol is the Sun, the G-type main-sequence star at the center of our solar system that provides Earth with light and heat.
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A.
Lee
Lee is a given name shared by numerous individuals across different cultures and professions.
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B.
Ray
Ray is a masculine given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often as a short form of Raymond.
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C.
Diego
Diego is a given name of Spanish origin commonly used in Spanish-speaking countries and beyond.
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D.
S.J.
S.J. is the standard post-nominal abbreviation used to designate members of the Catholic religious order known as the Society of Jesus, or the Jesuits.
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E.
Jack
Jack is a common masculine given name, often used as a familiar form of John and widely featured in English-language literature and popular culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (82)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
G-type main-sequence star
ⓘ
Sun ⓘ astronomical object ⓘ star ⓘ yellow dwarf ⓘ |
| absoluteMagnitude_V | 4.83 ⓘ |
| age_years | approximately 4.6e9 ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitude_V | −26.74 ⓘ |
| averageDistanceToEarth_km | 149600000 ⓘ |
| compositionByMass_HeavierElements_percent | about 2 ⓘ |
| compositionByMass_Helium_percent | about 25 ⓘ |
| compositionByMass_Hydrogen_percent | about 73 ⓘ |
| coreTemperature_K | approximately 1.5e7 ⓘ |
| diameter_km | 1391400 ⓘ |
| distanceToEarth | approximately 1 astronomical unit ⓘ |
| dominantFusionProcess | proton–proton chain ⓘ |
| emits |
infrared radiation
ⓘ
solar wind ⓘ ultraviolet radiation ⓘ visible light ⓘ |
| enables | life on Earth ⓘ |
| energySource | nuclear fusion ⓘ |
| equatorialCircumference_km | 4379000 ⓘ |
| escapeVelocity_kmPerS | 617.7 ⓘ |
| futureEvolution |
will become a red giant
ⓘ
will end as a white dwarf core remnant ⓘ |
| governs |
Earth’s climate
ⓘ
Earth’s day–night cycle ⓘ Earth’s seasons ⓘ |
| gravitationallyBinds |
Earth
ⓘ
Jupiter ⓘ Kuiper Belt objects ⓘ
surface form:
Kuiper belt objects
Mars ⓘ Mercury ⓘ Neptune ⓘ Oort cloud objects ⓘ Saturn ⓘ Uranus ⓘ Venus ⓘ asteroids ⓘ comets ⓘ dwarf planets ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
coronal mass ejection
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solar flare ⓘ solar prominences ⓘ sunspot ⓘ |
| hasLayer |
chromosphere
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convective zone ⓘ core ⓘ corona ⓘ photosphere ⓘ radiative zone ⓘ |
| hasMeanEarthInsolation_WPerM2 | about 1361 ⓘ |
| hasOtherName |
Helios
ⓘ
Sol ⓘ Sol (Latin) ⓘ Sun ⓘ
surface form:
the Sun
|
| hasSolarCycle_length_years | about 11 ⓘ |
| isCenterOf | Solar System ⓘ |
| isObservedBy |
ground-based solar observatories
ⓘ
space-based solar observatories ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Local Bubble
ⓘ
Local Interstellar Cloud ⓘ Milky Way ⓘ Orion Arm ⓘ Solar System ⓘ |
| luminosity_W | 3.828e26 ⓘ |
| mass_kg | 1.9885e30 ⓘ |
| massRelativeToEarth | approximately 333000 ⓘ |
| meanDensity_gPerCm3 | 1.408 ⓘ |
| metallicity_Z | approximately 0.0134 ⓘ |
| orbits | Milky Way ⓘ |
| photosphereTemperature_K | 5778 ⓘ |
| provides |
heat to Earth
ⓘ
light to Earth ⓘ |
| radius_km | 695700 ⓘ |
| rotationPeriodAtEquator_days | about 25 ⓘ |
| rotationPeriodAtPoles_days | about 35 ⓘ |
| rotationType | differential rotation ⓘ |
| spectralType | G2V ⓘ |
| surfaceArea_km2 | 6.09e12 ⓘ |
| volume_km3 | 1.41e18 ⓘ |
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: Sol Description of subject: Sol is the Sun, the G-type main-sequence star at the center of our solar system that provides Earth with light and heat.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Gordian III
this entity surface form:
SOL
this entity surface form:
Sol system
subject surface form:
Obelisk of Montecitorio