Ara
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Ara is a small southern sky constellation named after the altar, located near the Milky Way and visible primarily from the Southern Hemisphere.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ara canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4531787 — 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: Ara Context triple: [Corona Australis, borderedBy, Ara]
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A.
Ara
Ara is a historic city in the Indian state of Bihar, known for its role in the Indian independence movement and as the center of Bhojpur district.
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B.
Arka
Arka is a Polish sports club best known for its professional football team based in the port city of Gdynia.
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C.
Aris
Aris is a Greek professional football club based in Thessaloniki, known for its passionate fan base and long history in domestic competitions.
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D.
Aram
Aram is a common Armenian given name with deep historical and cultural significance in Armenian heritage.
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E.
Aryandes
Aryandes was an Achaemenid Persian official who served as the first satrap (governor) of Egypt under King Cambyses II and later Darius I.
- 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: Ara Target entity description: Ara is a small southern sky constellation named after the altar, located near the Milky Way and visible primarily from the Southern Hemisphere.
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A.
Ara
Ara is a historic city in the Indian state of Bihar, known for its role in the Indian independence movement and as the center of Bhojpur district.
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B.
Arka
Arka is a Polish sports club best known for its professional football team based in the port city of Gdynia.
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C.
Aris
Aris is a Greek professional football club based in Thessaloniki, known for its passionate fan base and long history in domestic competitions.
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D.
Aram
Aram is a common Armenian given name with deep historical and cultural significance in Armenian heritage.
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E.
Aryandes
Aryandes was an Achaemenid Persian official who served as the first satrap (governor) of Egypt under King Cambyses II and later Darius I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | constellation ⓘ |
| abbreviation | Ara ⓘ |
| areaSquareDegrees | 237 ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
48 Ptolemaic constellations
ⓘ
88 IAU constellations ⓘ |
| bestViewingMonth | July NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderingConstellation |
Apus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Norma NERFINISHED ⓘ Pavo NERFINISHED ⓘ Scorpius NERFINISHED ⓘ Telescopium NERFINISHED ⓘ Triangulum Australe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brightestStar | Beta Arae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brightestStarApparentMagnitude | 2.84 ⓘ |
| containsObjectType |
emission nebula
ⓘ
globular cluster ⓘ open cluster ⓘ |
| coordinateSystem | equatorial coordinate system ⓘ |
| declinationRange | −45° to −67° ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | known to Ptolemy ⓘ |
| eclipticCrosses | false ⓘ |
| genitiveForm | Arae ⓘ |
| hasMeteorShower | no major meteor shower ⓘ |
| hemisphere | Southern Hemisphere ⓘ |
| IAUConstellationCode | Ara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southern celestial hemisphere ⓘ |
| meaningOfName | altar ⓘ |
| milkyWayPassesThrough | true ⓘ |
| mythology | associated with altar of the gods in Greek mythology ⓘ |
| name | Ara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableDeepSkyObject |
NGC 6193
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NGC 6200 NERFINISHED ⓘ NGC 6352 NERFINISHED ⓘ NGC 6397 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableStar |
Alpha Arae
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gamma Arae NERFINISHED ⓘ Zeta Arae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfMainStars | 7 ⓘ |
| numberOfStarsWithPlanets | at least 1 ⓘ |
| quadrant | SQ3 ⓘ |
| rankByArea | 63 ⓘ |
| rightAscensionRange | 16h30m to 18h10m ⓘ |
| visibleBetweenLatitudes | +25° and −90° ⓘ |
| visibleFrom | Southern Hemisphere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| visibleInSeason | winter in Southern Hemisphere ⓘ |
| zodiacConstellation | false ⓘ |
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: Ara Description of subject: Ara is a small southern sky constellation named after the altar, located near the Milky Way and visible primarily from the Southern Hemisphere.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.