3 Crucis
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3 Crucis is a bright star in the southern constellation Crux, visible to the naked eye and cataloged in multiple stellar designation systems.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 3 Crucis canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6599824 — 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: 3 Crucis Context triple: [Gamma Crucis, FlamsteedDesignation, 3 Crucis]
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A.
3 Crucis
3 Crucis is a bright blue giant star in the constellation Crux, better known by its Bayer designation Beta Crucis and as one of the prominent stars of the Southern Cross.
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B.
Gamma Crucis
Gamma Crucis is a bright red giant star in the constellation Crux, prominently visible as one of the main stars forming the Southern Cross.
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C.
Epsilon Crucis
Epsilon Crucis is a bright star in the Southern Cross constellation, prominently featured on the Australian national flag.
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D.
Delta Crucis
Delta Crucis is a bright blue-white giant star in the Southern Cross constellation, prominently featured on the Australian national flag.
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E.
Crucis
Crucis is the Latin genitive form used in star names within the Southern Cross (Crux) constellation, indicating a star “of the Cross.”
- 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: 3 Crucis Target entity description: 3 Crucis is a bright star in the southern constellation Crux, visible to the naked eye and cataloged in multiple stellar designation systems.
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A.
3 Crucis
3 Crucis is a bright blue giant star in the constellation Crux, better known by its Bayer designation Beta Crucis and as one of the prominent stars of the Southern Cross.
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B.
Gamma Crucis
Gamma Crucis is a bright red giant star in the constellation Crux, prominently visible as one of the main stars forming the Southern Cross.
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C.
Epsilon Crucis
Epsilon Crucis is a bright star in the Southern Cross constellation, prominently featured on the Australian national flag.
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D.
Delta Crucis
Delta Crucis is a bright blue-white giant star in the Southern Cross constellation, prominently featured on the Australian national flag.
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E.
Crucis
Crucis is the Latin genitive form used in star names within the Southern Cross (Crux) constellation, indicating a star “of the Cross.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | star ⓘ |
| age_Myr | tensOfMillions ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | 4.99 ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
MilkyWay
ⓘ
linked to:
Milky Way
|
| catalogDesignation |
3 Cru
ⓘ
linked to:
Cru
CD−58 4035 ⓘ CPD−58 3940 ⓘ HD 104841 ⓘ HIP 58867 ⓘ HR 4608 ⓘ SAO 239221 ⓘ |
| color | blueWhite ⓘ |
| colorIndexBminusV | −0.16 ⓘ |
| constellation | Crux ⓘ |
| declination | −60° ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth_ly | ~370 ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth_pc | ~113 ⓘ |
| effectiveTemperature_K | ~18000 ⓘ |
| energySource | coreHydrogenFusion ⓘ |
| equatorialCoordinateSystem | J2000 ⓘ |
| evolutionaryStage | mainSequence ⓘ |
| galacticPopulation | thinDisk ⓘ |
| hasProperMotion | true ⓘ |
| hemisphereVisibility | southernHemisphere ⓘ |
| isComponentOf | CruxConstellationAsterismRegion ⓘ |
| isInGalacticQuadrant | southernSky ⓘ |
| luminosity_solar | ~900 ⓘ |
| mass_solar | ~6 ⓘ |
| parallax_mas | ~8.8 ⓘ |
| radialVelocity_kmPerSec | ~+9 ⓘ |
| radius_solar | ~3.5 ⓘ |
| rightAscension | 11h 59m ⓘ |
| rotationalVelocity_kmPerSec | ~150 ⓘ |
| spectralType |
B-type
ⓘ
B3V ⓘ |
| visibility | nakedEyeVisible ⓘ |
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: 3 Crucis Description of subject: 3 Crucis is a bright star in the southern constellation Crux, visible to the naked eye and cataloged in multiple stellar designation systems.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.