HD 23480
E142036
HD 23480 is a bright B-type main-sequence star in the constellation Taurus, visible to the naked eye and cataloged under multiple stellar designations including 23 Tauri.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HD 23480 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1236590 — 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 23480 Context triple: [23 Tauri, hasCatalogDesignation, HD 23480]
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A.
HD 29139
HD 29139 is the bright orange giant star Aldebaran, the prominent "eye" of the constellation Taurus and one of the brightest stars in the night sky.
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B.
Aldebaran planetary system
The Aldebaran planetary system is a stellar system centered on the bright orange giant star Aldebaran, located in the constellation Taurus and known to host at least one candidate exoplanet.
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C.
HIP 21421
HIP 21421 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Aldebaran, the bright orange giant star that marks the eye of the constellation Taurus.
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D.
Andromeda XIV
Andromeda XIV is a faint dwarf spheroidal galaxy that orbits the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) as one of its satellite galaxies within the Local Group.
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E.
Ursa Minor Beta
Ursa Minor Beta is a fictional planet in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, best known as the corporate home of the Guide itself.
- 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 23480 Target entity description: HD 23480 is a bright B-type main-sequence star in the constellation Taurus, visible to the naked eye and cataloged under multiple stellar designations including 23 Tauri.
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A.
HD 29139
HD 29139 is the bright orange giant star Aldebaran, the prominent "eye" of the constellation Taurus and one of the brightest stars in the night sky.
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B.
Aldebaran planetary system
The Aldebaran planetary system is a stellar system centered on the bright orange giant star Aldebaran, located in the constellation Taurus and known to host at least one candidate exoplanet.
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C.
HIP 21421
HIP 21421 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Aldebaran, the bright orange giant star that marks the eye of the constellation Taurus.
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D.
Andromeda XIV
Andromeda XIV is a faint dwarf spheroidal galaxy that orbits the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) as one of its satellite galaxies within the Local Group.
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E.
Ursa Minor Beta
Ursa Minor Beta is a fictional planet in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, best known as the corporate home of the Guide itself.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 23480 Description of subject: HD 23480 is a bright B-type main-sequence star in the constellation Taurus, visible to the naked eye and cataloged under multiple stellar designations including 23 Tauri.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
23 Tauri