β Herculis
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β Herculis is a bright binary star system in the constellation Hercules, commonly known by its traditional name Kornephoros.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| β Herculis canonical | 4 |
| Beta Herculis | 2 |
| 27 Herculis | 1 |
| β Her | 1 |
| β Herculis A | 1 |
| β Herculis B | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11376977 — 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: β Herculis Context triple: [Hercules, hasBrightestStar, β Herculis]
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A.
Beta Scuti
Beta Scuti is a prominent giant star in the constellation Scutum, notable as one of its brightest members.
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B.
η Herculis
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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C.
Epsilon Scuti
Epsilon Scuti is a relatively faint star located in the small southern constellation Scutum.
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D.
Eta Canis Majoris
Eta Canis Majoris, also known as Aludra, is a luminous blue supergiant star in the constellation Canis Major and one of its brightest members.
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E.
Beta Crucis
Beta Crucis, also known as Mimosa, is a bright blue giant star in the Southern Cross constellation and one of the most prominent navigational stars in the southern sky.
- 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: β Herculis Target entity description: β Herculis is a bright binary star system in the constellation Hercules, commonly known by its traditional name Kornephoros.
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A.
Beta Scuti
Beta Scuti is a prominent giant star in the constellation Scutum, notable as one of its brightest members.
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B.
η Herculis
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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C.
Epsilon Scuti
Epsilon Scuti is a relatively faint star located in the small southern constellation Scutum.
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D.
Eta Canis Majoris
Eta Canis Majoris, also known as Aludra, is a luminous blue supergiant star in the constellation Canis Major and one of its brightest members.
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E.
Beta Crucis
Beta Crucis, also known as Mimosa, is a bright blue giant star in the Southern Cross constellation and one of the most prominent navigational stars in the southern sky.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: β Herculis Description of subject: β Herculis is a bright binary star system in the constellation Hercules, commonly known by its traditional name Kornephoros.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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β Herculis
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