Indus
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Indus is a faint southern constellation representing an Indian figure, located in the southern sky between constellations such as Grus and Pavo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Indus canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4736499 — 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: Indus Context triple: [Telescopium, borderingConstellation, Indus]
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A.
Indus River
The Indus River is one of Asia’s longest and most historically significant rivers, flowing from the Tibetan Plateau through India and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea and serving as a vital lifeline for agriculture, civilization, and industry in the region.
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B.
Saraswati River
The Saraswati River is a legendary and partially identified ancient river of the Indian subcontinent, revered in Hindu tradition and Vedic texts as a sacred and life-giving waterway.
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C.
Sindh River
The Sindh River is a significant tributary of the Yamuna River flowing through the central Indian states of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
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D.
Ganges
The Ganges is a major river in northern India that is considered sacred in Hinduism and supports hundreds of millions of people along its basin.
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E.
Bishad Sindhu
Bishad Sindhu is a landmark 19th-century Bengali epic novel by Mir Mosharraf Hossain that retells the tragic story of Karbala and the martyrdom of Imam Husayn.
- 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: Indus Target entity description: Indus is a faint southern constellation representing an Indian figure, located in the southern sky between constellations such as Grus and Pavo.
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A.
Indus River
The Indus River is one of Asia’s longest and most historically significant rivers, flowing from the Tibetan Plateau through India and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea and serving as a vital lifeline for agriculture, civilization, and industry in the region.
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B.
Saraswati River
The Saraswati River is a legendary and partially identified ancient river of the Indian subcontinent, revered in Hindu tradition and Vedic texts as a sacred and life-giving waterway.
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C.
Sindh River
The Sindh River is a significant tributary of the Yamuna River flowing through the central Indian states of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
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D.
Ganges
The Ganges is a major river in northern India that is considered sacred in Hinduism and supports hundreds of millions of people along its basin.
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E.
Bishad Sindhu
Bishad Sindhu is a landmark 19th-century Bengali epic novel by Mir Mosharraf Hossain that retells the tragic story of Karbala and the martyrdom of Imam Husayn.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
constellation
ⓘ
southern constellation ⓘ |
| areaInSquareDegrees | 294 ⓘ |
| areaRankAmongConstellations | 49 ⓘ |
| bestSeenIn | spring in Southern Hemisphere ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Grus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Microscopium NERFINISHED ⓘ Octans NERFINISHED ⓘ Pavo NERFINISHED ⓘ Telescopium NERFINISHED ⓘ Tucana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsDeepSkyObject |
IC 5152
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NGC 7049 NERFINISHED ⓘ NGC 7293 field region (nearby sky area) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsExoplanetHostStar |
HD 196050
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
HD 216437 NERFINISHED ⓘ HD 216770 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsStar |
Alpha Indi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Beta Indi NERFINISHED ⓘ Delta Indi NERFINISHED ⓘ Epsilon Indi NERFINISHED ⓘ Eta Indi NERFINISHED ⓘ HD 201091 NERFINISHED ⓘ HD 202628 NERFINISHED ⓘ Iota Indi NERFINISHED ⓘ Kappa Indi NERFINISHED ⓘ Mu Indi NERFINISHED ⓘ Nu Indi NERFINISHED ⓘ Pi Indi NERFINISHED ⓘ Psi Indi NERFINISHED ⓘ Rho Indi NERFINISHED ⓘ T Indi NERFINISHED ⓘ Theta Indi NERFINISHED ⓘ Zeta Indi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| declinationRange | approximately −45° to −75° ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1603 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedBy | Johann Bayer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Uranometria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGenitiveForm | Indi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIAUAbbreviation | Ind ⓘ |
| hasQuadrant | SQ4 ⓘ |
| hemisphereVisibility | Southern Hemisphere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Petrus Plancius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedInCentury | 16th century ⓘ |
| isOneOf | 88 modern constellations ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southern celestial hemisphere ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | the Indian ⓘ |
| representedAs | an Indian figure ⓘ |
| rightAscensionRange | approximately 20h to 23h ⓘ |
| visibleAtLatitudesBetween | about 15°N and 90°S ⓘ |
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: Indus Description of subject: Indus is a faint southern constellation representing an Indian figure, located in the southern sky between constellations such as Grus and Pavo.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tucana