Greater Dog
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Greater Dog is a prominent constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere, best known for containing Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Great Dog | 2 |
| Greater Dog canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5259935 — 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: Greater Dog Context triple: [Canis Major, meaningOfName, Greater Dog]
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A.
Big Dog
Big Dog is the nickname of Tony Pérez, the Hall of Fame Cuban-American first baseman best known as a key run producer for the Cincinnati Reds’ “Big Red Machine” teams of the 1970s.
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B.
Alpha Dog
Alpha Dog is a 2006 crime drama film inspired by real-life events surrounding a kidnapping and murder case, featuring Anton Yelchin in a prominent role.
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C.
Nard Dog
Nard Dog is the goofy, a cappella-loving salesman and later manager Andy Bernard from the U.S. version of the TV show "The Office."
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D.
Pooch
Pooch is a skilled and resourceful member of the elite black-ops team in the action film "The Losers."
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E.
Hound
Hound is a coastal civil parish in the Borough of Eastleigh in Hampshire, England, encompassing villages such as Netley and Butlocks Heath.
- 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: Greater Dog Target entity description: Greater Dog is a prominent constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere, best known for containing Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.
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A.
Big Dog
Big Dog is the nickname of Tony Pérez, the Hall of Fame Cuban-American first baseman best known as a key run producer for the Cincinnati Reds’ “Big Red Machine” teams of the 1970s.
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B.
Alpha Dog
Alpha Dog is a 2006 crime drama film inspired by real-life events surrounding a kidnapping and murder case, featuring Anton Yelchin in a prominent role.
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C.
Nard Dog
Nard Dog is the goofy, a cappella-loving salesman and later manager Andy Bernard from the U.S. version of the TV show "The Office."
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D.
Pooch
Pooch is a skilled and resourceful member of the elite black-ops team in the action film "The Losers."
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E.
Hound
Hound is a coastal civil parish in the Borough of Eastleigh in Hampshire, England, encompassing villages such as Netley and Butlocks Heath.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
asterism
ⓘ
constellation ⓘ main-sequence star ⓘ white dwarf ⓘ |
| abbreviation | CMa ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Canis Major NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitude | −1.46 ⓘ |
| associatedMythology | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| belongsToFamily | Orion family of constellations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestKnownFor | containing Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky ⓘ |
| borderingConstellation |
Carina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Columba NERFINISHED ⓘ Lepus NERFINISHED ⓘ Monoceros NERFINISHED ⓘ Pictor NERFINISHED ⓘ Puppis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| celestialHemisphere | southern celestial hemisphere ⓘ |
| contains |
Adhara
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Aludra NERFINISHED ⓘ Sirius NERFINISHED ⓘ Sirius A NERFINISHED ⓘ Sirius B NERFINISHED ⓘ Wezen NERFINISHED ⓘ open cluster M41 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsBrightestStar | Sirius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| declinationRange | approximately −11° to −33° ⓘ |
| genitiveForm | Canis Majoris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hemisphereVisibility | best seen from latitudes south of 60°N ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Canis Major
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Greater Dog NERFINISHED ⓘ Sirius system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Greater Dog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| represents | the larger of Orion’s hunting dogs ⓘ |
| rightAscensionRange | approximately 6h to 7h ⓘ |
| spectralType | A1V ⓘ |
| visibleInSeason |
northern winter
ⓘ
southern summer ⓘ |
| zodiacConstellation | false ⓘ |
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: Greater Dog Description of subject: Greater Dog is a prominent constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere, best known for containing Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Great Dog
this entity surface form:
Great Dog