Hyades
E4628
The Hyades are a sisterhood of nymphs in Greek mythology, best known for their association with rain and their representation as a prominent open star cluster in the constellation Taurus.
All labels observed (23)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T34877 — 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: Hyades Context triple: [Atlas, children, Hyades]
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A.
Pleiades
The Pleiades are a famous open star cluster in the constellation Taurus, often known as the Seven Sisters in Greek mythology.
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B.
Milky Way
The Milky Way is the barred spiral galaxy that contains our Solar System and hundreds of billions of other stars.
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C.
Yma Sumac
Yma Sumac was a renowned Peruvian soprano celebrated for her extraordinary vocal range and exoticized "Incan princess" persona in mid-20th-century popular and classical music.
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D.
McClintock
McClintock is a surname most notably associated with Barbara McClintock, the pioneering American cytogeneticist and Nobel Prize laureate recognized for her discovery of genetic transposition.
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E.
Trinity
The Trinity is the central Christian doctrine that God exists as one divine being in three distinct, co-equal persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
- 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: Hyades Target entity description: The Hyades are a sisterhood of nymphs in Greek mythology, best known for their association with rain and their representation as a prominent open star cluster in the constellation Taurus.
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A.
Pleiades
The Pleiades are a famous open star cluster in the constellation Taurus, often known as the Seven Sisters in Greek mythology.
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B.
Milky Way
The Milky Way is the barred spiral galaxy that contains our Solar System and hundreds of billions of other stars.
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C.
Yma Sumac
Yma Sumac was a renowned Peruvian soprano celebrated for her extraordinary vocal range and exoticized "Incan princess" persona in mid-20th-century popular and classical music.
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D.
McClintock
McClintock is a surname most notably associated with Barbara McClintock, the pioneering American cytogeneticist and Nobel Prize laureate recognized for her discovery of genetic transposition.
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E.
Trinity
The Trinity is the central Christian doctrine that God exists as one divine being in three distinct, co-equal persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Greek mythological figures
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nymphs ⓘ star cluster ⓘ |
| age | about 625 million years (astronomical cluster) ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Dionysus
ⓘ
Taurus ⓘ
surface form:
Taurus (constellation)
Zeus ⓘ rain ⓘ storms ⓘ |
| astronomicalType | open cluster ⓘ |
| brightness | brightest open cluster in the sky as seen from Earth ⓘ |
| catalogDesignation |
Hyades
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Caldwell 41
Hyades self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Melotte 25
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| celestialLocation |
Taurus
ⓘ
surface form:
Taurus (constellation)
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| countryOfOrigin |
Greek Antiquity
ⓘ
surface form:
Ancient Greece
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| culturalSignificance |
used for navigation in various seafaring cultures
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used in ancient times for weather prediction ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth | about 153 light-years ⓘ |
| etymology | name traditionally linked to Greek word for rain ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Aesyle (Hyad)
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Ambrosia (Hyad) ⓘ Coronis (Hyad) ⓘ Dione ⓘ
surface form:
Dione (Hyad)
Eudora (Hyad) ⓘ Pedile (Hyad) ⓘ Phaesyle (Hyad) ⓘ Polyxo (Hyad) ⓘ Thyone (Hyad) ⓘ |
| hasMythologicalConsequence | transformed into a star cluster ⓘ |
| hasMythologicalEvent | grieved the death of their brother Hyas ⓘ |
| hasMythologicalRole |
bringers of rain
ⓘ
nurses of Dionysus ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Nymphs of Dodona (in some traditions)
ⓘ
Oceanids ⓘ
surface form:
Oceanids (in some traditions)
|
| namedAfter | Hyas ⓘ |
| notableStar | Aldebaran (foreground star, not a member) ⓘ |
| observedSince | antiquity ⓘ |
| parent | Atlas ⓘ |
| partOf | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| relatedConstellation |
Orion
ⓘ
Pleiades star cluster in Taurus ⓘ |
| representedBy | open star cluster in Taurus ⓘ |
| shape | V-shaped cluster outlining the head of Taurus ⓘ |
| sibling |
Hyas
ⓘ
Pleiades ⓘ |
| subclassOf | rain nymphs ⓘ |
| visibleFrom |
Northern Hemisphere
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Southern Hemisphere ⓘ |
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: Hyades Description of subject: The Hyades are a sisterhood of nymphs in Greek mythology, best known for their association with rain and their representation as a prominent open star cluster in the constellation Taurus.
Referenced by (69)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Atlas
this entity surface form:
Melotte 25
this entity surface form:
Caldwell 41
subject surface form:
Pedile
subject surface form:
Pedile
this entity surface form:
Hyades open cluster
subject surface form:
Pedile
subject surface form:
Pedile
this entity surface form:
Hyades is the nearest prominent open star cluster to Earth
subject surface form:
Pedile
this entity surface form:
Hyades star cluster pattern in Taurus
subject surface form:
Aldebaran
this entity surface form:
Hyades star cluster
subject surface form:
Aldebaran
this entity surface form:
Hyades star cluster
this entity surface form:
Hyades star cluster
this entity surface form:
Hyades open cluster
this entity surface form:
Hyades star cluster
this entity surface form:
Hyades open cluster
this entity surface form:
Hyades star cluster
this entity surface form:
Hyades star cluster
this entity surface form:
Hyades, the nearest prominent open star cluster to Earth
this entity surface form:
Hyades moving group
this entity surface form:
Hyades core region
this entity surface form:
Hyades star cluster
subject surface form:
Phaesyle
subject surface form:
Phaesyle
this entity surface form:
Hyades star cluster
this entity surface form:
Hyades open cluster
this entity surface form:
Hyades open cluster
this entity surface form:
Hyades star cluster
this entity surface form:
Hyades open cluster in Taurus
subject surface form:
Aesyle
subject surface form:
Aesyle
this entity surface form:
Hyades star cluster
subject surface form:
Aesyle
this entity surface form:
Hyades asterism in Taurus
subject surface form:
Aesyle
this entity surface form:
Hyades open cluster
this entity surface form:
Hyades star cluster