Epsilon Eridani b
E173438
Epsilon Eridani b is a nearby Jupiter-like exoplanet candidate orbiting the young K-type star Epsilon Eridani, making it one of the closest known potential exoplanets to Earth.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Epsilon Eridani b canonical | 2 |
| eps Eri b | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1528651 — 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: Epsilon Eridani b Context triple: [Epsilon Eridani, hasExoplanetCandidate, Epsilon Eridani b]
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Epsilon Eridani
Epsilon Eridani is a nearby young K-type main-sequence star in the constellation Eridanus, notable for its debris disk and status as a prominent target in exoplanet and SETI searches.
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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.
Epsilon Sagittarii
Epsilon Sagittarii is a prominent binary star system in the constellation Sagittarius, notable as one of its most luminous and easily visible stars.
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D.
Tau Ceti
Tau Ceti is a nearby Sun-like star in the constellation Cetus, notable for its stability, potential planetary system, and historical importance as an early target in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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E.
Udir
Udir is the commonly used abbreviation for the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training, the national authority responsible for implementing and overseeing Norway’s education policy.
- 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: Epsilon Eridani b Target entity description: Epsilon Eridani b is a nearby Jupiter-like exoplanet candidate orbiting the young K-type star Epsilon Eridani, making it one of the closest known potential exoplanets to Earth.
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A.
Epsilon Eridani
Epsilon Eridani is a nearby young K-type main-sequence star in the constellation Eridanus, notable for its debris disk and status as a prominent target in exoplanet and SETI searches.
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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.
Epsilon Sagittarii
Epsilon Sagittarii is a prominent binary star system in the constellation Sagittarius, notable as one of its most luminous and easily visible stars.
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D.
Tau Ceti
Tau Ceti is a nearby Sun-like star in the constellation Cetus, notable for its stability, potential planetary system, and historical importance as an early target in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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E.
Udir
Udir is the commonly used abbreviation for the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training, the national authority responsible for implementing and overseeing Norway’s education policy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Epsilon Eridani b Description of subject: Epsilon Eridani b is a nearby Jupiter-like exoplanet candidate orbiting the young K-type star Epsilon Eridani, making it one of the closest known potential exoplanets to Earth.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
eps Eri b