HIP 62434
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HIP 62434 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Mimosa, a bright blue-white giant star in the Southern Cross constellation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HIP 62434 canonical | 8 |
| HIP 62434 B | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8730831 — 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: HIP 62434 Context triple: [Mimosa, hasHipparcosNumber, HIP 62434]
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A.
HIP 62434
HIP 62434 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Beta Crucis, a bright blue giant star in the Southern Cross constellation.
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B.
HIP 40526
HIP 40526 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Altarf, a prominent star in the constellation Cancer.
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C.
HIP 61084
HIP 61084 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Epsilon Crucis, a bright giant star in the Southern Cross constellation.
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D.
HIP 44066
HIP 44066 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Acubens, a multiple star system in the constellation Cancer that serves as one of its primary named stars.
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E.
HIP 61173
HIP 61173 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Gamma Crucis, a bright red giant star in the constellation Crux.
- 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: HIP 62434 Target entity description: HIP 62434 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Mimosa, a bright blue-white giant star in the Southern Cross constellation.
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A.
HIP 62434
HIP 62434 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Beta Crucis, a bright blue giant star in the Southern Cross constellation.
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B.
HIP 40526
HIP 40526 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Altarf, a prominent star in the constellation Cancer.
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C.
HIP 61084
HIP 61084 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Epsilon Crucis, a bright giant star in the Southern Cross constellation.
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D.
HIP 44066
HIP 44066 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Acubens, a multiple star system in the constellation Cancer that serves as one of its primary named stars.
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E.
HIP 61173
HIP 61173 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Gamma Crucis, a bright red giant star in the constellation Crux.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
HipparcosCatalogStar
ⓘ
star ⓘ |
| age | about 8 million years ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Beta Crucis
ⓘ
Mimosa ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | 1.25 ⓘ |
| bayerDesignation |
β Crucis
ⓘ
linked to:
Beta Crucis
|
| bayerRank | beta ⓘ |
| belongsToAsterism |
SouthernCrossAsterism
ⓘ
linked to:
Crux constellation
|
| catalogDesignation |
CD−59 4474
ⓘ
CPD−59 4470 ⓘ HD 111123 ⓘ HIP 62434 ⓘ HR 4853 ⓘ SAO 240019 ⓘ |
| color | blue-white ⓘ |
| constellation | Crux ⓘ |
| declination | −59° 41′ 19″ ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth |
about 320 light-years
ⓘ
about 98 parsecs ⓘ |
| dominantFusionProcess | CNOcycle ⓘ |
| effectiveTemperature | about 27,000 K ⓘ |
| epoch | J2000.0 ⓘ |
| equatorialCoordinateSystem |
ICRS
ⓘ
linked to:
International Celestial Reference System
|
| galacticPopulation | thinDisk ⓘ |
| hasCompanion | spectroscopicCompanion ⓘ |
| hasPulsations | nonradialPulsations ⓘ |
| heliumLines | strong ⓘ |
| isComponentOf | multipleStarSystem ⓘ |
| isOneOf |
brightestStarsInCrux
ⓘ
brightestStarsInNightSky ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Southern Cross ⓘ |
| luminosity | about 34,000 times solarLuminosity ⓘ |
| luminosityClass | III ⓘ |
| mass | about 16 solarMasses ⓘ |
| metallicity | near-solar ⓘ |
| parallax | 10.16 mas ⓘ |
| properMotionDec | −13.75 mas/yr ⓘ |
| properMotionRA | −36.09 mas/yr ⓘ |
| pulsationPeriod | about 4.6 hours ⓘ |
| radialVelocity | +15 km/s ⓘ |
| radius | about 8.4 solarRadii ⓘ |
| rightAscension | 12h 47m 43.3s ⓘ |
| spectralClass | B ⓘ |
| spectralType | B0.5 III ⓘ |
| variableType | Beta Cephei variable ⓘ |
| visibleFrom |
SouthernHemisphere
ⓘ
lowNorthernLatitudes ⓘ |
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: HIP 62434 Description of subject: HIP 62434 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Mimosa, a bright blue-white giant star in the Southern Cross constellation.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: HIP 62434