Vela
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Vela is a southern sky constellation known for containing the Vela Supernova Remnant and several bright stars, and was once part of the larger ancient constellation Argo Navis.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vela canonical | 11 |
| VelaMolecularRidge | 1 |
| VelaPulsar | 1 |
| VelaX-1 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2721292 — 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: Vela Context triple: [Southern Ring Nebula, constellation, Vela]
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A.
Telescopium
Telescopium is a small, faint southern constellation introduced in the 18th century and named after the telescope.
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B.
Crux Australis
Crux Australis is the Latin name for the Southern Cross, a prominent constellation in the southern sky used historically for navigation and featured on several national flags.
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C.
Piscis Austrinus
Piscis Austrinus is a southern constellation traditionally depicted as a fish and best known for containing the bright star Fomalhaut.
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D.
Cetus
Cetus is a large constellation in the equatorial region of the sky, often associated with a mythological sea monster or whale in Greek mythology.
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E.
Corona Australis
Corona Australis is a small, southern constellation near the Milky Way, notable for its distinctive arc of stars and associated dark molecular cloud complex rich in star formation.
- 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: Vela Target entity description: Vela is a southern sky constellation known for containing the Vela Supernova Remnant and several bright stars, and was once part of the larger ancient constellation Argo Navis.
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A.
Telescopium
Telescopium is a small, faint southern constellation introduced in the 18th century and named after the telescope.
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B.
Crux Australis
Crux Australis is the Latin name for the Southern Cross, a prominent constellation in the southern sky used historically for navigation and featured on several national flags.
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C.
Piscis Austrinus
Piscis Austrinus is a southern constellation traditionally depicted as a fish and best known for containing the bright star Fomalhaut.
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D.
Cetus
Cetus is a large constellation in the equatorial region of the sky, often associated with a mythological sea monster or whale in Greek mythology.
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E.
Corona Australis
Corona Australis is a small, southern constellation near the Milky Way, notable for its distinctive arc of stars and associated dark molecular cloud complex rich in star formation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronomicalObject
ⓘ
constellation ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
ship Argo
ⓘ
surface form:
mythologicalShipArgo
|
| belongsTo |
IAU 88 modern constellations list
ⓘ
surface form:
IAU88ModernConstellations
|
| bestSeenInMonth | March ⓘ |
| borders |
Antlia
ⓘ
Carina ⓘ Centaurus ⓘ Puppis ⓘ Antlia ⓘ
surface form:
Pyxis
Sagittarius ⓘ |
| contains |
DeltaVelorum
ⓘ
Gamma2Velorum ⓘ GammaVelorum ⓘ GumNebula ⓘ HD77581 ⓘ IC2391 ⓘ IC2395 ⓘ IC2621 ⓘ KappaVelorum ⓘ MuVelorum ⓘ NGC2547 ⓘ NGC2670 ⓘ NGC 3132 ⓘ
surface form:
NGC3132
NGC3201 ⓘ PhiVelorum ⓘ PsiVelorum ⓘ RCW38 ⓘ VelaSupernovaRemnant ⓘ
surface form:
VelaJuniorSupernovaRemnant
Vela self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
VelaMolecularRidge
Vela self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
VelaPulsar
VelaSupernovaRemnant ⓘ VelaX ⓘ Vela self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
VelaX-1
|
| hasAbbreviation | Vel ⓘ |
| hasArea | approximately500SquareDegrees ⓘ |
| hasBrightestStar | Gamma2Velorum ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateSystem | equatorialCoordinateSystem ⓘ |
| hasDeclinationRange | approximatelyMinus37DegreesToMinus57Degrees ⓘ |
| hasGenitiveForm | Velorum ⓘ |
| hasRightAscensionRange | approximately07h00mTo11h00m ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southernCelestialHemisphere ⓘ |
| namedAfter | shipSails ⓘ |
| partOf | ArgoNavis ⓘ |
| rankedByArea | 32ndLargestConstellation ⓘ |
| separatedFrom | ArgoNavis ⓘ |
| visibleIn |
autumnSouthernHemisphere
ⓘ
springSouthernHemisphere ⓘ |
| wasPartOf |
Vela constellation
ⓘ
surface form:
ancientConstellationArgoNavis
|
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: Vela Description of subject: Vela is a southern sky constellation known for containing the Vela Supernova Remnant and several bright stars, and was once part of the larger ancient constellation Argo Navis.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Carina
subject surface form:
Carina