23 Tauri (star traditionally named Merope)
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23 Tauri, traditionally named Merope, is a blue-white B-type subgiant star in the Pleiades open star cluster in the constellation Taurus.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 23 Tauri (star traditionally named Merope) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T206979 — 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: 23 Tauri (star traditionally named Merope) Context triple: [Merope, cataloguedAsStar, 23 Tauri (star traditionally named Merope)]
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A.
Alcyone
Alcyone is one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology, a daughter of the Titan Atlas and often associated with the star cluster of the same name.
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Pleiades
The Pleiades are a famous open star cluster in the constellation Taurus, often known as the Seven Sisters in Greek mythology.
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C.
Celaeno
Celaeno is one of the Pleiad nymphs in Greek mythology, a daughter of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione.
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D.
Orion
Orion is a prominent constellation in the night sky, easily recognized by its three-star belt and associated in many cultures with the figure of a hunter.
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E.
Hyades
The Hyades are a sisterhood of nymphs in Greek mythology, best known for their association with rain and their representation as a prominent open star cluster in the constellation Taurus.
- 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: 23 Tauri (star traditionally named Merope) Target entity description: 23 Tauri, traditionally named Merope, is a blue-white B-type subgiant star in the Pleiades open star cluster in the constellation Taurus.
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A.
Alcyone
Alcyone is one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology, a daughter of the Titan Atlas and often associated with the star cluster of the same name.
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B.
Pleiades
The Pleiades are a famous open star cluster in the constellation Taurus, often known as the Seven Sisters in Greek mythology.
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C.
Celaeno
Celaeno is one of the Pleiad nymphs in Greek mythology, a daughter of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione.
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D.
Orion
Orion is a prominent constellation in the night sky, easily recognized by its three-star belt and associated in many cultures with the figure of a hunter.
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E.
Hyades
The Hyades are a sisterhood of nymphs in Greek mythology, best known for their association with rain and their representation as a prominent open star cluster in the constellation Taurus.
- 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: 23 Tauri (star traditionally named Merope) Description of subject: 23 Tauri, traditionally named Merope, is a blue-white B-type subgiant star in the Pleiades open star cluster in the constellation Taurus.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.