HD 178428
E918829
HD 178428 is a distant star that was selected as one of the targets for the 1999 Cosmic Call interstellar radio message.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11317400 — 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: HD 178428 Context triple: [Cosmic Call 1999, targetedStarSystem, HD 178428]
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A.
HD 108248
HD 108248 is the Henry Draper Catalogue designation for Alpha Crucis, the brightest star in the Southern Cross constellation.
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B.
HD 207098
HD 207098 is a bright multiple star system in the constellation Capricornus, best known as the primary component of the star Delta Capricorni.
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C.
HD 215497
HD 215497 is a star located in the constellation Tucana, known to host at least one exoplanet.
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D.
HD 74442
HD 74442 is a star in the constellation Cancer, better known by its traditional name Asellus Australis.
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E.
HD 74442
HD 74442 is a star in the constellation Cancer, known as Delta Cancri, which serves as an important reference point in stellar catalogs.
- 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: HD 178428 Target entity description: HD 178428 is a distant star that was selected as one of the targets for the 1999 Cosmic Call interstellar radio message.
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A.
HD 108248
HD 108248 is the Henry Draper Catalogue designation for Alpha Crucis, the brightest star in the Southern Cross constellation.
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B.
HD 207098
HD 207098 is a bright multiple star system in the constellation Capricornus, best known as the primary component of the star Delta Capricorni.
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C.
HD 215497
HD 215497 is a star located in the constellation Tucana, known to host at least one exoplanet.
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D.
HD 74442
HD 74442 is a star in the constellation Cancer, better known by its traditional name Asellus Australis.
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E.
HD 74442
HD 74442 is a star in the constellation Cancer, known as Delta Cancri, which serves as an important reference point in stellar catalogs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
CosmicCallTarget
ⓘ
astronomicalObject ⓘ star ⓘ |
| hasCatalog | Henry Draper Catalogue ⓘ |
| hasCatalogDesignation | HD 178428 ⓘ |
| hasObservationType |
opticalStar
ⓘ
radioTarget ⓘ |
| hasRole | interstellarMessageTarget ⓘ |
| isDescribedAs | distant star ⓘ |
| isInEpoch | J2000 ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Milky Way ⓘ |
| wasTargetOf |
Cosmic Call 1999
ⓘ
linked to:
Cosmic Call
Cosmic Call interstellar radio message ⓘ
linked to:
Cosmic Call
|
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: HD 178428 Description of subject: HD 178428 is a distant star that was selected as one of the targets for the 1999 Cosmic Call interstellar radio message.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.