Seven Sisters
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Seven Sisters is the common name for the Pleiades, a prominent open star cluster in the constellation Taurus visible to the naked eye.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Seven Sisters canonical | 5 |
| the Seven Sisters, daughters of Atlas and Pleione | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronomical object
ⓘ
open star cluster ⓘ star cluster ⓘ |
| age | about 100 million years ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Pleiades ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | about 1.6 ⓘ |
| bestSeenIn | Northern Hemisphere winter ⓘ |
| catalogCode |
C 0344+240
ⓘ
Melotte 22 ⓘ |
| contains | over 1,000 confirmed members ⓘ |
| containsStar |
Alcyone
ⓘ
Titan ⓘ
surface form:
Atlas
Celaeno ⓘ Electra ⓘ Maia ⓘ Merope ⓘ Pleione ⓘ Sterope ⓘ Taygeta ⓘ |
| declination | +24° 07′ ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth |
about 136 parsecs
ⓘ
about 444 light-years ⓘ |
| dominantColor | blue ⓘ |
| hasAngularSize | about 110 arcminutes ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificanceIn |
Greek mythology
ⓘ
Japanese culture ⓘ Maori culture ⓘ Native American traditions ⓘ |
| hasFeature | reflection nebula ⓘ |
| hasMessierNumber | M45 ⓘ |
| hasMythologicalAssociation | seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione ⓘ |
| hasNGCNumber |
NGC 1432
ⓘ
NGC 1432 ⓘ
surface form:
NGC 1435
|
| hasProperMotion | common cluster motion ⓘ |
| isAsterismOf | seven prominent stars ⓘ |
| isBrightestOpenClusterIn | northern sky ⓘ |
| isGravitationallyBound | true ⓘ |
| isUsedFor |
calibration of distance scale in astronomy
ⓘ
studies of stellar evolution ⓘ |
| liesNearEcliptic | true ⓘ |
| locatedInConstellation | Taurus ⓘ |
| locatedInGalaxy | Milky Way ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Orion Arm
ⓘ
surface form:
Local Arm of the Milky Way
|
| observedSince | antiquity ⓘ |
| rightAscension | 03h 47m ⓘ |
| risesBefore | Orion ⓘ |
| spectralTypeDominant | B-type main-sequence stars ⓘ |
| visibleTo | naked eye ⓘ |
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: Seven Sisters Description of subject: Seven Sisters is the common name for the Pleiades, a prominent open star cluster in the constellation Taurus visible to the naked eye.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
the Seven Sisters, daughters of Atlas and Pleione