De nova stella
E453405
De nova stella is Tycho Brahe’s seminal 1573 treatise in which he meticulously documented and analyzed the supernova of 1572, challenging the Aristotelian view of an unchanging celestial realm.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| De nova stella canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4566508 — 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: De nova stella Context triple: [SN 1572, documentedInWorkByTychoBrahe, De nova stella]
-
A.
The Astronomer
"The Astronomer" is a 17th-century painting by Dutch master Johannes Vermeer depicting a scholar studying the heavens in a meticulously rendered interior scene.
-
B.
The Evening Star
The Evening Star was the original name of the major Canadian daily newspaper now known as the Toronto Star.
-
C.
The Evening Star
The Evening Star is a 1996 American comedy-drama film that serves as a sequel to Terms of Endearment, continuing the story of Aurora Greenway and her family.
-
D.
Caesar’s comet
Caesar’s comet is the bright celestial phenomenon of 44 BC that was interpreted by Romans as a sign of Julius Caesar’s deification and became a powerful political and religious symbol in the early Roman Empire.
-
E.
The Tragedy of the Moon
The Tragedy of the Moon is a collection of science essays by Isaac Asimov that explores astronomy, the Moon, and broader scientific and philosophical themes for a general audience.
- 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: De nova stella Target entity description: De nova stella is Tycho Brahe’s seminal 1573 treatise in which he meticulously documented and analyzed the supernova of 1572, challenging the Aristotelian view of an unchanging celestial realm.
-
A.
The Astronomer
"The Astronomer" is a 17th-century painting by Dutch master Johannes Vermeer depicting a scholar studying the heavens in a meticulously rendered interior scene.
-
B.
The Evening Star
The Evening Star was the original name of the major Canadian daily newspaper now known as the Toronto Star.
-
C.
The Evening Star
The Evening Star is a 1996 American comedy-drama film that serves as a sequel to Terms of Endearment, continuing the story of Aurora Greenway and her family.
-
D.
Caesar’s comet
Caesar’s comet is the bright celestial phenomenon of 44 BC that was interpreted by Romans as a sign of Julius Caesar’s deification and became a powerful political and religious symbol in the early Roman Empire.
-
E.
The Tragedy of the Moon
The Tragedy of the Moon is a collection of science essays by Isaac Asimov that explores astronomy, the Moon, and broader scientific and philosophical themes for a general audience.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronomical treatise
ⓘ
scientific work ⓘ |
| analyzes | parallax of the new star ⓘ |
| associatedPerson | Tycho Brahe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithConstellation | Cassiopeia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Tycho Brahe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| challenges |
Aristotelian cosmology
ⓘ
doctrine of immutable heavens ⓘ |
| concludes |
new star is beyond the Moon
ⓘ
new star is in the realm of fixed stars ⓘ |
| contains |
positional tables
ⓘ
star charts ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Denmark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describes | SN 1572 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| documents |
apparent magnitude of the 1572 supernova
ⓘ
brightness changes of the 1572 supernova ⓘ color changes of the 1572 supernova ⓘ |
| era | 16th century ⓘ |
| field |
astronomy
ⓘ
astrophysics ⓘ |
| genre | observational astronomy ⓘ |
| hasAuthorRole | Tycho Brahe as observer ⓘ |
| hasForm | printed book ⓘ |
| hasLatinTitle | De nova stella NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSignificance |
important step toward modern cosmology
ⓘ
key evidence against Aristotelian immutability of the heavens ⓘ milestone in precision astronomical observation ⓘ |
| historicalContext | pre-telescopic astronomy ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Scientific Revolution
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
early modern astronomy ⓘ later cosmological models ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
new star in Cassiopeia
ⓘ
supernova of 1572 ⓘ |
| observationalSiteMentioned | Hven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | Copenhagen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1573 ⓘ |
| relatedEvent | appearance of a new star in Cassiopeia in 1572 ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Astronomiae instauratae progymnasmata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supports | celestial changeability ⓘ |
| timeOfWriting | 1572–1573 ⓘ |
| translatedTitle | On the New Star ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
positional measurements of stars
ⓘ
systematic astronomical observation ⓘ |
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: De nova stella Description of subject: De nova stella is Tycho Brahe’s seminal 1573 treatise in which he meticulously documented and analyzed the supernova of 1572, challenging the Aristotelian view of an unchanging celestial realm.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.