Volans
E481648
Volans is a small southern sky constellation representing a flying fish, located near the Large Magellanic Cloud.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Volans canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4943485 — 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: Volans Context triple: [Dorado, borderedBy, Volans]
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A.
Aetos
Aetos is a settlement known for its nearby pilgrimage site, attracting religious visitors and cultural interest.
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B.
Falkor
Falkor is the luckdragon from Michael Ende’s fantasy novel "The Neverending Story," known for his benevolent nature, flying abilities, and role as the protagonist’s loyal companion.
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C.
Kestrel
Kestrel is a cross-platform, high-performance web server built into ASP.NET Core for hosting and serving web applications.
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D.
Kestrel
Kestrel is a pressure-fed, liquid-fueled rocket engine developed by SpaceX for the second stage of its early Falcon 1 launch vehicle.
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E.
Aquilon
Aquilon was a warship that engaged in naval combat with the British battleship HMS Goliath.
- 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: Volans Target entity description: Volans is a small southern sky constellation representing a flying fish, located near the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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A.
Aetos
Aetos is a settlement known for its nearby pilgrimage site, attracting religious visitors and cultural interest.
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B.
Falkor
Falkor is the luckdragon from Michael Ende’s fantasy novel "The Neverending Story," known for his benevolent nature, flying abilities, and role as the protagonist’s loyal companion.
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C.
Kestrel
Kestrel is a pressure-fed, liquid-fueled rocket engine developed by SpaceX for the second stage of its early Falcon 1 launch vehicle.
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D.
Kestrel
Kestrel is a cross-platform, high-performance web server built into ASP.NET Core for hosting and serving web applications.
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E.
Aquilon
Aquilon was a warship that engaged in naval combat with the British battleship HMS Goliath.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
constellation
ⓘ
southern sky constellation ⓘ |
| abbreviation | Vol ⓘ |
| areaSquareDegrees | 141 ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Bayer constellations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestViewingMonth | March ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Carina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chamaeleon NERFINISHED ⓘ Dorado NERFINISHED ⓘ Mensa NERFINISHED ⓘ Pictor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brightestStarApparentMagnitude | 3.77 ⓘ |
| contains |
Beta Volantis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Delta Volantis NERFINISHED ⓘ Epsilon Volantis NERFINISHED ⓘ Gamma Volantis NERFINISHED ⓘ HD 76700 NERFINISHED ⓘ NGC 2395 NERFINISHED ⓘ NGC 2396 NERFINISHED ⓘ NGC 2397 NERFINISHED ⓘ NGC 2434 NERFINISHED ⓘ NGC 2438 NERFINISHED ⓘ NGC 2439 NERFINISHED ⓘ NGC 2442 NERFINISHED ⓘ NGC 2445 NERFINISHED ⓘ NGC 2446 NERFINISHED ⓘ NGC 2527 NERFINISHED ⓘ Zeta Volantis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| declinationRange | approximately −64° to −75° ⓘ |
| firstPublishedInAtlas | Uranometria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublishedInAtlasBy | Johann Bayer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublishedInAtlasYear | 1603 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedOnGlobeBy | Petrus Plancius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublishedOnGlobeYear |
1597
ⓘ
1598 ⓘ |
| genitiveForm | Volantis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBrightestStar | Beta Volantis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hemisphereVisibility | best visible from southern latitudes ⓘ |
| iauDesignation | Volans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| iauQuadrant | SQ2 ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Petrus Plancius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedInCentury | 16th century ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southern celestial hemisphere ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | flying fish ⓘ |
| near | Large Magellanic Cloud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalName | Piscis Volans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | modern 88 constellations recognized by the IAU ⓘ |
| rankByArea | 76 ⓘ |
| represents | flying fish ⓘ |
| rightAscensionRange | approximately 06h 40m to 09h 30m ⓘ |
| visibleBetweenLatitudes | +15° to −90° ⓘ |
| zodiacal | no ⓘ |
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: Volans Description of subject: Volans is a small southern sky constellation representing a flying fish, located near the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Dorado
subject surface form:
Carina