Corona Borealis

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Corona Borealis is a small but distinctive northern constellation known for its semicircular arc of stars, often associated in mythology with Ariadne’s crown.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Corona Borealis canonical 6
constellation Corona Borealis 2

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf astronomicalObject
constellation
abbreviation CrB
areaSquareDegrees 179
bestVisibleAt 22:00 local time in July
borderingConstellation Boötes NERFINISHED
Hercules NERFINISHED
Ophiuchus NERFINISHED
Serpens NERFINISHED
Serpens Caput NERFINISHED
brightestStar Alpha Coronae Borealis NERFINISHED
Alphecca NERFINISHED
brightestStarApparentMagnitude 2.21
brightestStarSpectralType A0V
celestialHemisphere northern celestial hemisphere
constellationFamily Hercules family
declination +31°
eclipticLongitudeRange ~220° to 240°
firstCataloguedBy Ptolemy NERFINISHED
galacticLatitudeRange +30° to +50°
genitive Coronae Borealis NERFINISHED
hasIAUBoundariesDefinedBy Eugène Delporte NERFINISHED
IAUApprovalYear 1922
IAUConstellation yes
locatedBetweenConstellations Boötes and Hercules NERFINISHED
mythologicalAssociation Ariadne NERFINISHED
Ariadne’s crown NERFINISHED
mythologicalTradition Greek mythology
nameMeaning Northern Crown NERFINISHED
notableDeepSkyObject Abell 2142 NERFINISHED
Corona Borealis Supercluster NERFINISHED
notableStar Beta Coronae Borealis NERFINISHED
Delta Coronae Borealis NERFINISHED
Epsilon Coronae Borealis NERFINISHED
Gamma Coronae Borealis NERFINISHED
Theta Coronae Borealis NERFINISHED
notableVariableStar R Coronae Borealis NERFINISHED
T Coronae Borealis NERFINISHED
numberOfBayerFlamsteedStars 24
numberOfBrightStars 1
numberOfMainStars 8
numberOfMessierObjects 0
numberOfNearbyStars 1
numberOfStarsBrighterThan4thMagnitude 6
numberOfStarsWithPlanets 3
rankByArea 73
rightAscension 15h 16m
shapeDescription semicircular arc of stars
symbolism the Northern Crown NERFINISHED
visibleBetweenLatitudes +90° to −50°

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: Corona Borealis
Description of subject: Corona Borealis is a small but distinctive northern constellation known for its semicircular arc of stars, often associated in mythology with Ariadne’s crown.

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ariadne constellation Corona Borealis
Ariadne crownTransformedInto Corona Borealis
Ophiuchus borderedBy Corona Borealis
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian depicts Corona Borealis
subject surface form: Bacchus and Ariadne
this entity surface form: constellation Corona Borealis
Ursa Major family hasMember Corona Borealis
Bacchus and Ariadne depicts Corona Borealis
this entity surface form: constellation Corona Borealis
Hercules borders Corona Borealis