BD−34 12223
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BD−34 12223 is a stellar catalog designation corresponding to Kaus Australis, the brightest star in the constellation Sagittarius.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| BD−34 12223 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4619087 — 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: BD−34 12223 Context triple: [Kaus Australis, hasCatalogIdentifier, BD−34 12223]
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A.
Ursa Minor Beta
Ursa Minor Beta is a fictional planet in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, best known as the corporate home of the Guide itself.
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B.
Baade K
Baade K is a small lunar impact crater that forms one of the satellite craters surrounding the larger crater Baade on the Moon’s surface.
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C.
Baade V
Baade V is a small lunar impact crater that forms one of the satellite craters surrounding the larger Baade crater on the Moon’s surface.
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D.
Baade S
Baade S is a small lunar impact crater that forms a satellite feature of the larger crater Baade on the Moon’s surface.
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E.
Baade N
Baade N is a small lunar impact crater that forms one of the satellite craters surrounding the larger Baade crater on the Moon’s surface.
- 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: BD−34 12223 Target entity description: BD−34 12223 is a stellar catalog designation corresponding to Kaus Australis, the brightest star in the constellation Sagittarius.
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A.
Ursa Minor Beta
Ursa Minor Beta is a fictional planet in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, best known as the corporate home of the Guide itself.
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B.
Baade K
Baade K is a small lunar impact crater that forms one of the satellite craters surrounding the larger crater Baade on the Moon’s surface.
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C.
Baade V
Baade V is a small lunar impact crater that forms one of the satellite craters surrounding the larger Baade crater on the Moon’s surface.
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D.
Baade S
Baade S is a small lunar impact crater that forms a satellite feature of the larger crater Baade on the Moon’s surface.
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E.
Baade N
Baade N is a small lunar impact crater that forms one of the satellite craters surrounding the larger Baade crater on the Moon’s surface.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronomicalObject
ⓘ
star ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Epsilon Sagittarii
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kaus Australis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | 1.79 ⓘ |
| approvedByIAU | true ⓘ |
| BayerDesignation | Epsilon Sagittarii NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToConstellationFamily | Zodiac NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| catalogDesignation | BD−34 12223 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorIndexB−V | −0.02 ⓘ |
| component |
BD−34 12223 A
ⓘ
BD−34 12223 B NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constellation | Sagittarius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| declination | −34° 23′ 05″ ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth |
about 146 light-years
ⓘ
about 45 parsecs ⓘ |
| effectiveTemperature | about 9600 K ⓘ |
| equatorialCoordinateSystem | ICRS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| FlamsteedDesignation | 20 Sagittarii NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| galacticLatitude | −10.7 degrees ⓘ |
| galacticLongitude | 6.0 degrees ⓘ |
| galacticPopulation | thinDisk ⓘ |
| hasCompanionType | main-sequenceStar ⓘ |
| hasTraditionalName | Kaus Australis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| HenryDraperDesignation | HD 181869 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| HipparcosDesignation | HIP 95241 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| HRDesignation | HR 7355 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| IAUApprovalYear | 2016 ⓘ |
| IAUName | Kaus Australis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isBinarySystem | true ⓘ |
| isBrightestStarIn | Sagittarius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOfAsterism | Teapot (Sagittarius) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Milky Way ⓘ |
| luminosity | about 375 timesSolar ⓘ |
| luminosityClass | III ⓘ |
| mass | about 3.5 solarMasses ⓘ |
| parallax | 22.39 mas ⓘ |
| properMotionDec | −185 mas/yr ⓘ |
| properMotionRA | +44 mas/yr ⓘ |
| radialVelocity | −11 km/s ⓘ |
| radius | about 6 solarRadii ⓘ |
| rightAscension | 18h 24m 10.3s ⓘ |
| rotationalVelocity | 236 km/s ⓘ |
| SAODesignation | SAO 210452 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spectralClass | B-type ⓘ |
| spectralType | B9.5 III ⓘ |
| traditionalNameOrigin | Arabic ⓘ |
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: BD−34 12223 Description of subject: BD−34 12223 is a stellar catalog designation corresponding to Kaus Australis, the brightest star in the constellation Sagittarius.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.