Crux
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Crux is a prominent constellation in the southern sky, commonly known as the Southern Cross and used historically for navigation in the Southern Hemisphere.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Crux canonical | 28 |
| crux quadrata | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1840757 — 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: Crux Context triple: [Southern Cross, hasName, Crux]
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A.
Annals
Annals is a major historical work by the Roman historian Tacitus that chronicles the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus to the reign of Nero.
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B.
The Zetetic
The Zetetic was the original title of the magazine now known as Skeptical Inquirer, an early publication devoted to critical examination of paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
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C.
Argosy magazine
Argosy magazine was a long-running American pulp and men's adventure periodical known for sensational stories and features that helped popularize mysteries like the Bermuda Triangle.
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D.
Fiat Lux
Fiat Lux is a Latin phrase meaning "Let there be light," used as the inspirational motto of the University of California, Berkeley.
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E.
Météores
Météores is one of the scientific essays by René Descartes, accompanying his Discours de la méthode and focusing on the study of meteorological and atmospheric phenomena.
- 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: Crux Target entity description: Crux is a prominent constellation in the southern sky, commonly known as the Southern Cross and used historically for navigation in the Southern Hemisphere.
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A.
Annals
Annals is a major historical work by the Roman historian Tacitus that chronicles the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus to the reign of Nero.
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B.
The Zetetic
The Zetetic was the original title of the magazine now known as Skeptical Inquirer, an early publication devoted to critical examination of paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
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C.
Argosy magazine
Argosy magazine was a long-running American pulp and men's adventure periodical known for sensational stories and features that helped popularize mysteries like the Bermuda Triangle.
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D.
Fiat Lux
Fiat Lux is a Latin phrase meaning "Let there be light," used as the inspirational motto of the University of California, Berkeley.
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E.
Locus
Locus is a long-running and influential science fiction and fantasy magazine that serves as a key source of news, reviews, and commentary for the speculative fiction community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
constellation
ⓘ
open star cluster ⓘ star ⓘ star ⓘ star ⓘ star ⓘ star ⓘ |
| abbreviation | Cru ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Southern Cross ⓘ |
| asterism | Southern Cross ⓘ |
| belongsTo | southern celestial hemisphere ⓘ |
| bestViewingMonth | May ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Centaurus
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Circinus ⓘ Musca ⓘ |
| canBeUsedToFind | south celestial pole ⓘ |
| containsBrightStar |
Alpha Crucis
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surface form:
Acrux
Delta Crucis ⓘ Epsilon Crucis ⓘ Gamma Crucis ⓘ
surface form:
Gacrux
Mimosa ⓘ |
| containsDeepSkyObject |
Jewel Box cluster
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surface form:
Jewel Box Cluster
|
| culturalSignificance | important symbol in Southern Hemisphere cultures ⓘ |
| declinationRange | approximately −55° to −65° ⓘ |
| genitiveForm | Crucis ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfMainStars | 5 ⓘ |
| hasSymbol | Crux self-link ⓘ |
| hemisphereVisibility | best visible in Southern Hemisphere autumn ⓘ |
| historicalUse | navigation by southern sailors ⓘ |
| isOn |
Australian national flag
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surface form:
flag of Australia
flag of Brazil ⓘ Flag of Mercosur ⓘ
surface form:
flag of Mercosur
flag of New Guinea ⓘ Flag of New Zealand ⓘ
surface form:
flag of New Zealand
flag of Papua New Guinea ⓘ flag of Samoa ⓘ |
| isOneOf | 88 modern constellations ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Crux
self-linksurface differs
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Crux self-linksurface differs ⓘ Crux self-linksurface differs ⓘ Crux self-linksurface differs ⓘ Crux self-linksurface differs ⓘ Crux self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| liesIn | Milky Way ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southern sky ⓘ |
| notVisibleFromLatitudesNorthOf | approximately 30°N ⓘ |
| rightAscensionRange | approximately 12h to 13h ⓘ |
| usedFor | celestial navigation ⓘ |
| visibleFromLatitudesSouthOf | approximately 25°N ⓘ |
| visibleIn | Southern Hemisphere ⓘ |
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: Crux Description of subject: Crux is a prominent constellation in the southern sky, commonly known as the Southern Cross and used historically for navigation in the Southern Hemisphere.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
crux quadrata
subject surface form:
Southern Cross
subject surface form:
Southern Cross