η Herculis
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η Herculis is a bright giant star in the constellation Hercules, visible to the naked eye and used as a reference point near the globular cluster M13.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| η Herculis canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11317272 — 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: η Herculis Context triple: [NGC 6205, locatedNearOnSky, η Herculis]
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A.
Gamma Muscae
Gamma Muscae is a bright B-type giant star in the southern constellation Musca, visible to the naked eye and notable as one of the constellation’s primary stellar members.
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B.
Alpha Telescopii
Alpha Telescopii is a blue-white giant star that serves as the primary luminary of the southern constellation Telescopium.
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C.
Beta Muscae
Beta Muscae is a bright blue-white multiple star system in the southern constellation Musca, visible to the naked eye in the southern sky.
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D.
Delta Muscae
Delta Muscae is a binary star system in the southern constellation Musca, visible to the naked eye and notable as one of the brighter stars in that region of the sky.
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E.
Eta Serpentis
Eta Serpentis is a bright K-type giant star located in the tail region of the constellation Serpens.
- 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: η Herculis Target entity description: η Herculis is a bright giant star in the constellation Hercules, visible to the naked eye and used as a reference point near the globular cluster M13.
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A.
Gamma Muscae
Gamma Muscae is a bright B-type giant star in the southern constellation Musca, visible to the naked eye and notable as one of the constellation’s primary stellar members.
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B.
Alpha Telescopii
Alpha Telescopii is a blue-white giant star that serves as the primary luminary of the southern constellation Telescopium.
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C.
Beta Muscae
Beta Muscae is a bright blue-white multiple star system in the southern constellation Musca, visible to the naked eye in the southern sky.
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D.
Delta Muscae
Delta Muscae is a binary star system in the southern constellation Musca, visible to the naked eye and notable as one of the brighter stars in that region of the sky.
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E.
Eta Serpentis
Eta Serpentis is a bright K-type giant star located in the tail region of the constellation Serpens.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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: η Herculis Description of subject: η Herculis is a bright giant star in the constellation Hercules, visible to the naked eye and used as a reference point near the globular cluster M13.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.