HIP 89931
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HIP 89931 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Kaus Australis, the brightest star in the constellation Sagittarius.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HIP 89931 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4619085 — 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: HIP 89931 Context triple: [Kaus Australis, hasCatalogIdentifier, HIP 89931]
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A.
Hix
Hix is a small town in the historical region of Cerdanya in the eastern Pyrenees, within present-day France.
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B.
PA 819
PA 819 is a state highway in Pennsylvania that runs generally north–south through Westmoreland and Fayette counties, connecting several small communities and local routes.
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C.
Hi-Hatz
Hi-Hatz is a violent local drug dealer and gang leader who serves as the primary human antagonist in the British sci-fi film "Attack the Block."
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D.
Piriform
Piriform is a software company best known for creating the PC optimization tool CCleaner and related system utility applications.
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E.
APAS-89
APAS-89 is a Soviet/Russian and American-compatible androgynous docking system used for spacecraft rendezvous and docking, notably on the Mir space station and later on the Space Shuttle–Mir and ISS programs.
- 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: HIP 89931 Target entity description: HIP 89931 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Kaus Australis, the brightest star in the constellation Sagittarius.
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A.
Hix
Hix is a small town in the historical region of Cerdanya in the eastern Pyrenees, within present-day France.
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B.
PA 819
PA 819 is a state highway in Pennsylvania that runs generally north–south through Westmoreland and Fayette counties, connecting several small communities and local routes.
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C.
Hi-Hatz
Hi-Hatz is a violent local drug dealer and gang leader who serves as the primary human antagonist in the British sci-fi film "Attack the Block."
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D.
Piriform
Piriform is a software company best known for creating the PC optimization tool CCleaner and related system utility applications.
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E.
APAS-89
APAS-89 is a Soviet/Russian and American-compatible androgynous docking system used for spacecraft rendezvous and docking, notably on the Mir space station and later on the Space Shuttle–Mir and ISS programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hipparcos catalog star
ⓘ
astronomical object ⓘ star ⓘ |
| absoluteMagnitudeV | −1.4 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Epsilon Sagittarii
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kaus Australis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| angularSeparationFromCompanion | about 2.4 arcseconds ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | 1.79 ⓘ |
| bayerDesignation | Epsilon Sagittarii NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToConstellationAsterism | Teapot of Sagittarius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| catalogDesignation | HIP 89931 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorIndexBMinusV | −0.02 ⓘ |
| companionApparentMagnitude | about 7.4 ⓘ |
| constellation | Sagittarius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| declination | −34° 23′ 04″ ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth |
about 145 light-years
ⓘ
about 44.5 parsecs ⓘ |
| effectiveTemperature | about 9600 K ⓘ |
| equatorialCoordinateEpoch | J2000.0 ⓘ |
| evolutionaryStage | giant star ⓘ |
| flamsteedDesignation | 20 Sagittarii NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| galacticLatitude | −10.7° ⓘ |
| galacticLongitude | 6.0° ⓘ |
| galacticPopulation | thin disk ⓘ |
| hasCompanion | Epsilon Sagittarii B NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| HDDesignation | HD 165135 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hemisphereVisibility | southern sky ⓘ |
| HRDesignation | HR 6746 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isBrightestStarIn | Sagittarius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| listedInCatalog |
Henry Draper Catalogue
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hipparcos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| luminosity | about 350 times solar luminosity ⓘ |
| mass | about 3.5 solar masses ⓘ |
| metallicityFeH | approximately solar ⓘ |
| multiplicity | binary star system ⓘ |
| nameEtymology | from Arabic meaning "southern bow" ⓘ |
| parallax | 22.4 mas ⓘ |
| properMotionDec | −184 mas/yr ⓘ |
| properMotionRA | +44 mas/yr ⓘ |
| radialVelocity | −19 km/s ⓘ |
| radius | about 6 solar radii ⓘ |
| rightAscension | 18h 24m 10.3s ⓘ |
| rotationalVelocity | 236 km/s ⓘ |
| SIMBADIdentifier | HIP 89931 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spectralType | B9.5 III ⓘ |
| traditionalName | Kaus Australis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| visibleToNakedEye | true ⓘ |
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: HIP 89931 Description of subject: HIP 89931 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Kaus Australis, the brightest star in the constellation Sagittarius.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.