Menkib
E459033
Menkib is a hot, massive blue supergiant star in the constellation Perseus, notable as one of the brightest and most luminous stars in its region of the Milky Way.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Menkib canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4617633 — 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: Menkib Context triple: [Perseus OB2 association, hasMember, Menkib]
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A.
Mutasa
Mutasa is a town located in Zimbabwe’s eastern Manicaland Province, known for its rural communities and proximity to the Eastern Highlands.
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B.
Qudus
Qudus is an Arabic term meaning "The Most Holy," often used as one of the names or attributes of God in Islamic tradition.
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C.
Hadibu
Hadibu is the main town and administrative center of the Yemeni island of Socotra in the Arabian Sea.
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D.
Datooga
Datooga is a Southern Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Datooga people of north-central Tanzania.
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E.
Kuteb
Kuteb are an indigenous ethnic group primarily inhabiting parts of present-day Taraba State in eastern Nigeria, known for their distinct language and traditional cultural practices.
- 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: Menkib Target entity description: Menkib is a hot, massive blue supergiant star in the constellation Perseus, notable as one of the brightest and most luminous stars in its region of the Milky Way.
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A.
Mutasa
Mutasa is a town located in Zimbabwe’s eastern Manicaland Province, known for its rural communities and proximity to the Eastern Highlands.
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B.
Qudus
Qudus is an Arabic term meaning "The Most Holy," often used as one of the names or attributes of God in Islamic tradition.
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C.
Hadibu
Hadibu is the main town and administrative center of the Yemeni island of Socotra in the Arabian Sea.
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D.
Datooga
Datooga is a Southern Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Datooga people of north-central Tanzania.
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E.
Kuteb
Kuteb are an indigenous ethnic group primarily inhabiting parts of present-day Taraba State in eastern Nigeria, known for their distinct language and traditional cultural practices.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blue supergiant star
ⓘ
massive star ⓘ star ⓘ variable star ⓘ |
| absoluteMagnitudeV | about −5.6 ⓘ |
| age_Myr | about 5 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Xi Persei
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
ξ Persei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | 4.04 ⓘ |
| belongsToAssociation | Perseus OB2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| catalogDesignation |
BD+35 755
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
HD 24912 NERFINISHED ⓘ HIP 18614 NERFINISHED ⓘ HR 1203 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorIndexBMinusV | −0.21 ⓘ |
| constellation | Perseus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| declination | +35° 47′ 28″ ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth_ly | about 1800 ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth_pc | about 550 ⓘ |
| effectiveTemperature_K | about 35000 ⓘ |
| epoch | J2000 ⓘ |
| evolutionaryStage | post-main-sequence massive star ⓘ |
| futureEvolution | likely core-collapse supernova ⓘ |
| galacticPopulation | Population I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOpticalCompanion | true ⓘ |
| hasStellarWind | true ⓘ |
| isAmong |
brightest stars in Perseus
ⓘ
most luminous O-type stars visible to naked eye ⓘ |
| isRunawayStar | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Milky Way ⓘ |
| luminosity_solarLuminosity | over 250000 ⓘ |
| luminosityClass | III ⓘ |
| mass_solarMass | about 40 ⓘ |
| metallicity_FeH | approximately solar ⓘ |
| observedIn |
X-ray wavelengths
ⓘ
optical wavelengths ⓘ ultraviolet wavelengths ⓘ |
| opticalCompanionType | line-of-sight companion, not gravitationally bound ⓘ |
| radialVelocity_kmPerS | about +58 ⓘ |
| radius_solarRadius | about 14 ⓘ |
| rightAscension | 03h 58m 57s ⓘ |
| rotationalVelocity_kmPerS | about 200 ⓘ |
| runawayOrigin | Perseus OB2 association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spectralClass | O-type ⓘ |
| spectralType | O7.5III(n)((f)) ⓘ |
| stellarWindType | strong radiatively driven wind ⓘ |
| surfaceGravity_logg | about 3.5 ⓘ |
| variableType | slowly pulsating O-type star ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: Menkib Description of subject: Menkib is a hot, massive blue supergiant star in the constellation Perseus, notable as one of the brightest and most luminous stars in its region of the Milky Way.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.