Lesser Dog
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Lesser Dog is the English name for Canis Minor, a small constellation in the northern sky best known for containing the bright star Procyon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lesser Dog canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6174933 — 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: Lesser Dog Context triple: [Canis Minor, englishName, Lesser Dog]
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A.
Black Dogs
"Black Dogs" is a 1992 novel by Ian McEwan that explores the aftermath of World War II and the clash between rationalism and spiritual belief through the story of a troubled marriage.
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B.
The Dogs
The Dogs is a nickname commonly used for sports teams or groups whose mascots or identities are associated with dogs, often evoking toughness and loyalty.
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C.
White Dog
White Dog is a crime novel in the Jack Irish series by Australian author Peter Temple, featuring the Melbourne lawyer and debt-collector embroiled in a complex investigation.
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D.
Big Dog
Big Dog is the nickname of Tony Pérez, the Hall of Fame Cuban-American first baseman best known as a key run producer for the Cincinnati Reds’ “Big Red Machine” teams of the 1970s.
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E.
Heart of a Dog
Heart of a Dog is a satirical science fiction novella by Mikhail Bulgakov that critiques Soviet society through the story of a stray dog transformed into a human.
- 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: Lesser Dog Target entity description: Lesser Dog is the English name for Canis Minor, a small constellation in the northern sky best known for containing the bright star Procyon.
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A.
Black Dogs
"Black Dogs" is a 1992 novel by Ian McEwan that explores the aftermath of World War II and the clash between rationalism and spiritual belief through the story of a troubled marriage.
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B.
The Dogs
The Dogs is a nickname commonly used for sports teams or groups whose mascots or identities are associated with dogs, often evoking toughness and loyalty.
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C.
White Dog
White Dog is a crime novel in the Jack Irish series by Australian author Peter Temple, featuring the Melbourne lawyer and debt-collector embroiled in a complex investigation.
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D.
Big Dog
Big Dog is the nickname of Tony Pérez, the Hall of Fame Cuban-American first baseman best known as a key run producer for the Cincinnati Reds’ “Big Red Machine” teams of the 1970s.
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E.
Heart of a Dog
Heart of a Dog is a satirical science fiction novella by Mikhail Bulgakov that critiques Soviet society through the story of a stray dog transformed into a human.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
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: Lesser Dog Description of subject: Lesser Dog is the English name for Canis Minor, a small constellation in the northern sky best known for containing the bright star Procyon.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.