HR 8278
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HR 8278 is a bright, nearby A-type main-sequence star in the constellation Cygnus, commonly known by the traditional name Deneb.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HR 8278 canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10489064 — 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: HR 8278 Context triple: [Deneb Algedi, catalogDesignation, HR 8278]
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A.
HIP 60718
HIP 60718 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Alpha Crucis, the brightest star in the Southern Cross constellation.
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B.
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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C.
HIP 26727
HIP 26727 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Alnitak, a bright multiple star system forming the easternmost star of Orion’s Belt.
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D.
58 Orionis
58 Orionis is a star in the constellation Orion, cataloged in the Flamsteed system and located near the prominent red supergiant Betelgeuse.
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E.
HIP 17608
HIP 17608 is a star in the constellation Taurus, more commonly known as 23 Tauri, and is cataloged in the Hipparcos star catalog.
- 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: HR 8278 Target entity description: HR 8278 is a bright, nearby A-type main-sequence star in the constellation Cygnus, commonly known by the traditional name Deneb.
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A.
HIP 60718
HIP 60718 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Alpha Crucis, the brightest star in the Southern Cross constellation.
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B.
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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C.
HIP 26727
HIP 26727 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Alnitak, a bright multiple star system forming the easternmost star of Orion’s Belt.
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D.
58 Orionis
58 Orionis is a star in the constellation Orion, cataloged in the Flamsteed system and located near the prominent red supergiant Betelgeuse.
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E.
HIP 17608
HIP 17608 is a star in the constellation Taurus, more commonly known as 23 Tauri, and is cataloged in the Hipparcos star catalog.
- 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: HR 8278 Description of subject: HR 8278 is a bright, nearby A-type main-sequence star in the constellation Cygnus, commonly known by the traditional name Deneb.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.