Menkent
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Menkent is a prominent K-type giant star in the constellation Centaurus, visible to the naked eye and known for its orange hue.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Menkent canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4943617 — 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: Menkent Context triple: [Centaurus constellation region, containsBrightStar, Menkent]
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A.
Kohunlich
Kohunlich is a large Maya archaeological site in southern Quintana Roo, Mexico, noted for its monumental architecture and well-preserved stucco masks.
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B.
Tampakan
Tampakan is a landlocked municipality in South Cotabato, Philippines, best known as the site of one of the world’s largest undeveloped copper-gold deposits.
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C.
Tumut
Tumut is a historic town in the Snowy Mountains region of New South Wales, Australia, known for its timber industry, scenic river landscapes, and role as a gateway to the Snowy Mountains Scheme.
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D.
Menkib
Menkib is a hot, massive blue supergiant star in the constellation Perseus, notable as one of the brightest and most luminous stars in its region of the Milky Way.
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E.
Pre Rup
Pre Rup is a 10th-century Hindu temple mountain in Angkor, Cambodia, renowned for its brick and laterite construction and alignment with state ceremonies of the Khmer Empire.
- 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: Menkent Target entity description: Menkent is a prominent K-type giant star in the constellation Centaurus, visible to the naked eye and known for its orange hue.
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A.
Kohunlich
Kohunlich is a large Maya archaeological site in southern Quintana Roo, Mexico, noted for its monumental architecture and well-preserved stucco masks.
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B.
Tampakan
Tampakan is a landlocked municipality in South Cotabato, Philippines, best known as the site of one of the world’s largest undeveloped copper-gold deposits.
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C.
Tumut
Tumut is a historic town in the Snowy Mountains region of New South Wales, Australia, known for its timber industry, scenic river landscapes, and role as a gateway to the Snowy Mountains Scheme.
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D.
Menkib
Menkib is a hot, massive blue supergiant star in the constellation Perseus, notable as one of the brightest and most luminous stars in its region of the Milky Way.
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E.
Pre Rup
Pre Rup is a 10th-century Hindu temple mountain in Angkor, Cambodia, renowned for its brick and laterite construction and alignment with state ceremonies of the Khmer Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
K-type star
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giant star ⓘ naked-eye star ⓘ star ⓘ |
| hasAge_Gyr | a few billion years ⓘ |
| hasApparentMagnitude | 3.86 ⓘ |
| hasApparentMagnitudeV | 3.86 ⓘ |
| hasBayerDesignation | Theta Centauri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBDNumber | BD−35 9648 ⓘ |
| hasColor | orange ⓘ |
| hasColorDescription | orange giant ⓘ |
| hasColorIndex_BV | ~1.0 ⓘ |
| hasConstellation | Centaurus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDeclination | −36° 22′ 12″ ⓘ |
| hasDistanceFromEarth_ly | ~60 ⓘ |
| hasDistanceFromEarth_pc | ~18.5 ⓘ |
| hasEffectiveTemperature_K | ~4800 ⓘ |
| hasEquinox | J2000.0 ⓘ |
| hasEvolutionaryStage | red giant branch star ⓘ |
| hasFlamsteedDesignation | Men Centauri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGalacticPopulation | thin disk star ⓘ |
| hasHDNumber | HD 123139 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHIPNumber | HIP 68933 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHRNumber | HR 5235 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLuminosity_solarLuminosity | ~60 ⓘ |
| hasMass_solarMass | ~1.3 ⓘ |
| hasMetallicity_Fe_H | slightly sub-solar ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | derived from Arabic phrase meaning "shoulder of the centaur" ⓘ |
| hasNotableProperty |
easily visible without optical aid
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one of the brighter stars in Centaurus ⓘ serves as a reference star for navigation in the southern hemisphere ⓘ |
| hasParallax_mas | ~54 ⓘ |
| hasProperMotion_Dec_mas_yr | ~−518 ⓘ |
| hasProperMotion_RA_mas_yr | ~−520 ⓘ |
| hasRadialVelocity_km_s | ~+5 ⓘ |
| hasRadius_solarRadius | ~10 ⓘ |
| hasRightAscension | 14h 06m 40.9s ⓘ |
| hasSIMBADIdentifier | HD 123139 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpectralType | K0III ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceGravity_logg | giant-like low gravity ⓘ |
| hasTraditionalName | Menkent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVariableType | non-variable ⓘ |
| hasVisibilityHemisphere | southern sky ⓘ |
| isLocatedIn |
Galactic disk
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Milky Way NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | constellation Centaurus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isVisibleTo | naked eye ⓘ |
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: Menkent Description of subject: Menkent is a prominent K-type giant star in the constellation Centaurus, visible to the naked eye and known for its orange hue.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.