Lynx

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Lynx is a faint, northern constellation introduced by Johannes Hevelius, located between Ursa Major and Auriga in the night sky.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Lynx canonical 5

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf astronomical constellation
constellation
abbreviation Lyn
appearsInWork Johannes Hevelius’s star atlas Firmamentum Sobiescianum NERFINISHED
areaSquareDegrees approximately 545
bestViewingMonth February
brightestStar Alpha Lyncis NERFINISHED
brightestStarApparentMagnitude about 3.1
constellationType zodiacal constellation
containsBrightStar Alpha Lyncis NERFINISHED
containsDeepSkyObject Abell 569 NERFINISHED
NGC 2273 NERFINISHED
NGC 2419 NERFINISHED
NGC 2537 NERFINISHED
NGC 2683 NERFINISHED
NGC 2770 NERFINISHED
containsGalaxy NGC 2537 NERFINISHED
NGC 2683 NERFINISHED
NGC 2770 NERFINISHED
containsGlobularCluster NGC 2419 NERFINISHED
containsOpenCluster NGC 2419 NERFINISHED
containsStar 31 Lyncis NERFINISHED
38 Lyncis NERFINISHED
declinationRange approximately +32 degrees to +61 degrees
family Ursa Major family of constellations
genitiveForm Lyncis
hemisphere northern
IAUApprovalYear 1922
IAUConstellation true
introducedBy Johannes Hevelius NERFINISHED
introducedInCentury 17th century
introducedInYear 1687
liesAdjacentTo Auriga NERFINISHED
Camelopardalis NERFINISHED
Cancer NERFINISHED
Gemini NERFINISHED
Leo Minor NERFINISHED
Ursa Major NERFINISHED
liesBetween Auriga NERFINISHED
Ursa Major NERFINISHED
locatedIn northern celestial hemisphere
namedAfter lynx (wild cat)
rankByArea 28
rightAscensionRange approximately 6 hours to 9 hours
visibility faint
visibleAtLatitudesBetween +90 degrees
-55 degrees

How these facts were elicited

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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: Lynx
Description of subject: Lynx is a faint, northern constellation introduced by Johannes Hevelius, located between Ursa Major and Auriga in the night sky.

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.