Scorpius

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Scorpius is a prominent zodiac constellation in the southern sky, easily recognized by its curved "scorpion's tail" and bright red supergiant star Antares.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Scorpius canonical 9
Scorpii 1
Scorpius constellation 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf constellation
zodiac constellation
approximateAreaSquareDegrees 497
areaRank 33rd largest constellation
associatedMythology Greek mythology
associatedZodiacSign Scorpio
belongsToFamily Heracleidae
surface form: Hercules family

Zodiac constellations
borderedByConstellation Ara
Corona Australis
Libra
Lupus
Norma
Ophiuchus
Sagittarius
constellationOf zodiac
containsAsterism curved scorpion’s tail
head of the scorpion
containsDeepSkyObject Butterfly Cluster
Messier 4
Messier 6
Messier 6
surface form: Messier 7

Messier 80
NGC 6231
Ptolemy Cluster
containsStar Antares
Dschubba
Jabbah
Lesath
Sargas
Shaula
containsVariableStar Antares
containsXRaySource Scorpius X-1
declinationRange approximately −10° to −45°
hasBrightestStar Antares
hasGenitiveForm Scorpius self-linksurface differs
surface form: Scorpii
hasIAUAbbreviation Sco
hasIAUConstellationBoundaryDefinitionYear 1930
locatedIn southern celestial hemisphere
mythologicalRole scorpion that killed Orion
oppositeConstellation Orion
recognizedBy International Astronomical Union
rightAscensionRange approximately 15h to 17h
symbolizes scorpion
visibleBestIn July
visibleFromLatitudeNorthTo about +40°
visibleFromLatitudeSouthTo about −90°
visibleIn evening sky of northern summer
evening sky of southern winter
zodiacSignOrder eighth

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: Scorpius
Description of subject: Scorpius is a prominent zodiac constellation in the southern sky, easily recognized by its curved "scorpion's tail" and bright red supergiant star Antares.

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Corona Australis borderedBy Scorpius
Gould Belt encompasses Scorpius
this entity surface form: Scorpius constellation
Scorpius hasGenitiveForm Scorpius self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Scorpii
Ophiuchus borderedBy Scorpius
Ursa Major family hasMember Scorpius