Gliese 244
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Gliese 244 is the Gliese Catalogue designation for Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky located in the constellation Canis Major.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gliese 244 canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8141130 — 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: Gliese 244 Context triple: [Sirius, hasGlieseDesignation, Gliese 244]
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A.
Gliese 144
Gliese 144 is a nearby main-sequence star in the constellation Eridanus, notable for its inclusion in catalogs of stars close to the Sun.
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B.
Gliese 71
Gliese 71 is a nearby Sun-like star in the constellation Cetus that serves as the host star for the exoplanet Tau Ceti e.
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C.
HIP 44127
HIP 44127 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Alpha Cancri, a multiple star system in the constellation Cancer.
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D.
Gamma Eridani
Gamma Eridani, traditionally known as Zaurak, is a red giant star in the constellation Eridanus visible to the naked eye.
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E.
HIP 59747
HIP 59747 is the catalog designation for Delta Crucis, a bright blue-white giant star in the Southern Cross constellation.
- 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: Gliese 244 Target entity description: Gliese 244 is the Gliese Catalogue designation for Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky located in the constellation Canis Major.
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A.
Gliese 144
Gliese 144 is a nearby main-sequence star in the constellation Eridanus, notable for its inclusion in catalogs of stars close to the Sun.
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B.
Gliese 71
Gliese 71 is a nearby Sun-like star in the constellation Cetus that serves as the host star for the exoplanet Tau Ceti e.
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C.
HIP 44127
HIP 44127 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Alpha Cancri, a multiple star system in the constellation Cancer.
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D.
Gamma Eridani
Gamma Eridani, traditionally known as Zaurak, is a red giant star in the constellation Eridanus visible to the naked eye.
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E.
HIP 59747
HIP 59747 is the catalog designation for Delta Crucis, a bright blue-white giant star in the Southern Cross constellation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Gliese 244 Description of subject: Gliese 244 is the Gliese Catalogue designation for Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky located in the constellation Canis Major.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.