Ursa Minor Beta
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Ursa Minor Beta is a fictional planet in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, best known as the corporate home of the Guide itself.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ursa Minor Beta canonical | 3 |
| Ursa Minor star system (fictional) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T671298 — 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: Ursa Minor Beta Context triple: [The Guide, headquartersOfPublisher, Ursa Minor Beta]
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A.
Hyas
Hyas is a figure in Greek mythology, often associated with the Hyades as their brother and linked to myths explaining the origin of certain constellations or rain-bringing stars.
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B.
Coronis
Coronis is a figure in Greek mythology, a mortal woman associated with Apollo and known primarily as the mother of the healing god Asclepius.
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C.
Coronis (Hyad)
Coronis is a star in the Hyades open cluster in the constellation Taurus.
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D.
Alcyone
Alcyone is one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology, a daughter of the Titan Atlas and often associated with the star cluster of the same name.
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E.
Pleione
Pleione is a nymph in Greek mythology, best known as the mother of the Pleiades.
- 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: Ursa Minor Beta Target entity description: Ursa Minor Beta is a fictional planet in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, best known as the corporate home of the Guide itself.
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A.
Hyas
Hyas is a figure in Greek mythology, often associated with the Hyades as their brother and linked to myths explaining the origin of certain constellations or rain-bringing stars.
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B.
Coronis
Coronis is a figure in Greek mythology, a mortal woman associated with Apollo and known primarily as the mother of the healing god Asclepius.
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C.
Coronis (Hyad)
Coronis is a star in the Hyades open cluster in the constellation Taurus.
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D.
Alcyone
Alcyone is one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology, a daughter of the Titan Atlas and often associated with the star cluster of the same name.
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E.
Pleione
Pleione is a nymph in Greek mythology, best known as the mother of the Pleiades.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional planet
ⓘ
location in fiction ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
ⓘ
surface form:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
|
| countryOfOriginOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Douglas Adams ⓘ |
| describedAs | glitzy and commercialized in the novels ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | comic science fiction ⓘ |
| hasCanonicalStatus | part of the primary Hitchhiker's Guide canon ⓘ |
| hasFictionalStatus | fictional ⓘ |
| hasFictionalTechnology | advanced publishing and information systems for the Guide ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
corporate offices of the Guide editors and staff
ⓘ
tourist-oriented commercial development (in-universe) ⓘ |
| hasNotableInhabitant |
Megadodo Publications staff
ⓘ
employees of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (in-universe) ⓘ |
| hasOrganization |
Megadodo Publications
ⓘ
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ⓘ
surface form:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (in-universe company)
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| inspiredBy | corporate office culture (real-world concept) ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkAppearedIn | English ⓘ |
| medium |
novel
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radio series ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the corporate home of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ⓘ |
| partOf |
Ursa Minor Beta
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Ursa Minor star system (fictional)
|
| roleInWork | headquarters planet of the Guide ⓘ |
| universe |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
ⓘ
surface form:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy universe
|
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: Ursa Minor Beta Description of subject: Ursa Minor Beta is a fictional planet in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, best known as the corporate home of the Guide itself.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ursa Minor star system (fictional)