HD 168454
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HD 168454 is the Henry Draper Catalogue designation for Kaus Australis, the bright primary star in the constellation Sagittarius.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HD 168454 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4619084 — 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: HD 168454 Context triple: [Kaus Australis, hasCatalogIdentifier, HD 168454]
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A.
Epsilon Eridani b
Epsilon Eridani b is a nearby Jupiter-like exoplanet candidate orbiting the young K-type star Epsilon Eridani, making it one of the closest known potential exoplanets to Earth.
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B.
HD 29139
HD 29139 is the bright orange giant star Aldebaran, the prominent "eye" of the constellation Taurus and one of the brightest stars in the night sky.
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C.
Epsilon Eridani
Epsilon Eridani is a nearby young K-type main-sequence star in the constellation Eridanus, notable for its debris disk and status as a prominent target in exoplanet and SETI searches.
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D.
HD 23480
HD 23480 is a bright B-type main-sequence star in the constellation Taurus, visible to the naked eye and cataloged under multiple stellar designations including 23 Tauri.
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E.
WASP-96
WASP-96 is a Sun-like star in the constellation Phoenix known for hosting the exoplanet WASP-96b, one of the first exoplanets whose atmosphere was characterized in detail by the James Webb Space Telescope.
- 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: HD 168454 Target entity description: HD 168454 is the Henry Draper Catalogue designation for Kaus Australis, the bright primary star in the constellation Sagittarius.
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A.
Epsilon Eridani b
Epsilon Eridani b is a nearby Jupiter-like exoplanet candidate orbiting the young K-type star Epsilon Eridani, making it one of the closest known potential exoplanets to Earth.
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B.
HD 29139
HD 29139 is the bright orange giant star Aldebaran, the prominent "eye" of the constellation Taurus and one of the brightest stars in the night sky.
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C.
Epsilon Eridani
Epsilon Eridani is a nearby young K-type main-sequence star in the constellation Eridanus, notable for its debris disk and status as a prominent target in exoplanet and SETI searches.
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D.
HD 23480
HD 23480 is a bright B-type main-sequence star in the constellation Taurus, visible to the naked eye and cataloged under multiple stellar designations including 23 Tauri.
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E.
WASP-96
WASP-96 is a Sun-like star in the constellation Phoenix known for hosting the exoplanet WASP-96b, one of the first exoplanets whose atmosphere was characterized in detail by the James Webb Space Telescope.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronomicalObject
ⓘ
star ⓘ |
| hasAge | about 220 million years ⓘ |
| hasApparentMagnitudeB | 1.76 ⓘ |
| hasApparentMagnitudeV | 1.79 ⓘ |
| hasBayerDesignation | Epsilon Sagittarii NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBDDesignation | BD−34 12235 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasColorIndexBminusV | −0.03 ⓘ |
| hasColorIndexUminusB | −0.10 ⓘ |
| hasCompanionAngularSeparation | about 2.4 arcseconds ⓘ |
| hasCompanionMagnitude | about 7.4 ⓘ |
| hasCompanionStar | Epsilon Sagittarii B NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasConstellationAbbreviation | Sgr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDeclination | −34° 23′ (approx) ⓘ |
| hasDesignation | Kaus Australis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDistanceFromEarth |
about 145 light-years
ⓘ
about 44.5 parsecs ⓘ |
| hasEffectiveTemperature | about 9600 K ⓘ |
| hasEquatorialCoordinateSystem | J2000 ⓘ |
| hasFlamsteedDesignation | 20 Sagittarii NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGalacticLatitude | −11.38 degrees (approx) ⓘ |
| hasGalacticLongitude | 6.40 degrees (approx) ⓘ |
| hasHenryDraperDesignation | HD 168454 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHipparcosDesignation | HIP 89931 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHRDesignation | HR 6869 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLuminosity | about 375 times solarLuminosity ⓘ |
| hasMass | about 3.5 solarMasses ⓘ |
| hasMultiplicity | binaryStarSystem ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | Arabic phrase meaning "southern part of the bow" ⓘ |
| hasParallax | 22.43 milliarcseconds ⓘ |
| hasProperMotionDec | −185.95 mas/yr ⓘ |
| hasProperMotionRA | +44.05 mas/yr ⓘ |
| hasRadialVelocity | −11 km/s ⓘ |
| hasRadius | about 6 solarRadii ⓘ |
| hasRightAscension | 18h 24m 10s (approx) ⓘ |
| hasRotationalVelocity | 236 km/s ⓘ |
| hasSAODesignation | SAO 209384 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpectralType | B9.5 III ⓘ |
| hasStellarClassification | giantStar ⓘ |
| hasVariableStarType | noneKnown ⓘ |
| isBrightestStarInConstellation | Sagittarius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCataloguedIn |
Bright Star Catalogue
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Henry Draper Catalogue NERFINISHED ⓘ Hipparcos Catalogue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOfAsterism | Teapot of Sagittarius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPrimaryComponentOf | Epsilon Sagittarii star system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isVisibleToNakedEye | true ⓘ |
| locatedInConstellation | Sagittarius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: HD 168454 Description of subject: HD 168454 is the Henry Draper Catalogue designation for Kaus Australis, the bright primary star in the constellation Sagittarius.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.