Epsilon Scuti
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Epsilon Scuti is a relatively faint star located in the small southern constellation Scutum.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Epsilon Scuti canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4943668 — 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: Epsilon Scuti Context triple: [Scutum, contains, Epsilon Scuti]
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A.
Beta Scuti
Beta Scuti is a prominent giant star in the constellation Scutum, notable as one of its brightest members.
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B.
Epsilon Sagittarii
Epsilon Sagittarii is a prominent binary star system in the constellation Sagittarius, notable as one of its most luminous and easily visible stars.
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C.
Alpha Scuti
Alpha Scuti is a relatively bright giant star in the constellation Scutum, visible to the naked eye from Earth.
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D.
Epsilon Telescopii
Epsilon Telescopii is a prominent star in the southern constellation Telescopium, visible to the naked eye.
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E.
UY Scuti
UY Scuti is an extremely large red supergiant star, among the biggest known in the Milky Way, located in the constellation Scutum.
- 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: Epsilon Scuti Target entity description: Epsilon Scuti is a relatively faint star located in the small southern constellation Scutum.
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A.
Beta Scuti
Beta Scuti is a prominent giant star in the constellation Scutum, notable as one of its brightest members.
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B.
Epsilon Sagittarii
Epsilon Sagittarii is a prominent binary star system in the constellation Sagittarius, notable as one of its most luminous and easily visible stars.
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C.
Alpha Scuti
Alpha Scuti is a relatively bright giant star in the constellation Scutum, visible to the naked eye from Earth.
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D.
Epsilon Telescopii
Epsilon Telescopii is a prominent star in the southern constellation Telescopium, visible to the naked eye.
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E.
UY Scuti
UY Scuti is an extremely large red supergiant star, among the biggest known in the Milky Way, located in the constellation Scutum.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronomicalObject
ⓘ
star ⓘ |
| age_Gyr | "~0.3–0.5" ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | "~4.9" ⓘ |
| bayerDesignation | "ε Scuti" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bayerDesignationConstellation | Scuti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bayerDesignationGreek | Epsilon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsTo | ScutumConstellation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestViewingMonth |
August
ⓘ
July ⓘ |
| catalog |
BrightStarCatalogue
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
HenryDraperCatalogue NERFINISHED ⓘ HipparcosCatalogue NERFINISHED ⓘ TychoCatalogue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| celestialHemisphere | southern ⓘ |
| colorIndexBminusV | "~1.0" ⓘ |
| constellation | Scutum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| declination | "-08° 16′" ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth_ly | "~530" ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth_pc | "~160" ⓘ |
| effectiveTemperature_K | "~4900" ⓘ |
| equatorialCoordinateSystem | ICRS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| evolutionaryStage | giantStar ⓘ |
| galacticPopulation | thinDisk ⓘ |
| hasProperMotion | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Milky Way ⓘ |
| luminosity_solar | "~250" ⓘ |
| luminosityClass | III ⓘ |
| mass_solar | "~3" ⓘ |
| metallicity_FeH | "nearSolar" ⓘ |
| nearbyConstellation |
Aquila
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sagittarius NERFINISHED ⓘ Serpens Cauda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parallax_mas | "~6.2" ⓘ |
| properMotionDec_masPerYear | "~-7" ⓘ |
| properMotionRA_masPerYear | "~+7" ⓘ |
| radialVelocity_kmPerSec | "~+20" ⓘ |
| radius_solar | "~20" ⓘ |
| rightAscension | "18h 46m" ⓘ |
| spectralClass | G8III ⓘ |
| variableStarStatus | nonVariableOrLowAmplitude ⓘ |
| visibility | nakedEye ⓘ |
| visibilityFromEarthLatitudes | "best in southern and tropical latitudes" ⓘ |
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: Epsilon Scuti Description of subject: Epsilon Scuti is a relatively faint star located in the small southern constellation Scutum.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Scutum