Circinus
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Circinus is a small, faint constellation in the southern sky, located near the Southern Cross and representing a drafting compass.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Circinus canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8716904 — 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: Circinus Context triple: [Crux, borderedBy, Circinus]
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A.
Puppis
Puppis is a southern constellation representing the stern of the mythological ship Argo Navis, notable for its rich fields of stars and nebulae in the Milky Way.
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B.
Corona Australis
Corona Australis is a small, southern constellation near the Milky Way, notable for its distinctive arc of stars and associated dark molecular cloud complex rich in star formation.
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C.
Microscopium
Microscopium is a small, faint constellation in the southern sky, representing a microscope and introduced in the 18th century by the astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille.
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D.
Corona Borealis
Corona Borealis is a small but distinctive northern constellation known for its semicircular arc of stars, often associated in mythology with Ariadne’s crown.
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E.
Reticulum
Reticulum is a small, faint southern constellation named after a reticle or net, located near the Large Magellanic Cloud.
- 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: Circinus Target entity description: Circinus is a small, faint constellation in the southern sky, located near the Southern Cross and representing a drafting compass.
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A.
Puppis
Puppis is a southern constellation representing the stern of the mythological ship Argo Navis, notable for its rich fields of stars and nebulae in the Milky Way.
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B.
Corona Australis
Corona Australis is a small, southern constellation near the Milky Way, notable for its distinctive arc of stars and associated dark molecular cloud complex rich in star formation.
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C.
Microscopium
Microscopium is a small, faint constellation in the southern sky, representing a microscope and introduced in the 18th century by the astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille.
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D.
Corona Borealis
Corona Borealis is a small but distinctive northern constellation known for its semicircular arc of stars, often associated in mythology with Ariadne’s crown.
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E.
Reticulum
Reticulum is a small, faint southern constellation named after a reticle or net, located near the Large Magellanic Cloud.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Circinus Description of subject: Circinus is a small, faint constellation in the southern sky, located near the Southern Cross and representing a drafting compass.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Lupus constellation
subject linked to:
Lupus constellation
subject linked to:
Crux constellation