HIP 62434
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HIP 62434 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Beta Crucis, a bright blue giant star in the Southern Cross constellation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HIP 62434 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5637017 — 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: HIP 62434 Context triple: [Beta Crucis, hasCatalogIdentifier, HIP 62434]
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A.
HIP 60718
HIP 60718 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Alpha Crucis, the brightest star in the Southern Cross constellation.
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B.
HD 168454
HD 168454 is the Henry Draper Catalogue designation for Kaus Australis, the bright primary star in the constellation Sagittarius.
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C.
HIP 17954
HIP 17954 is a star in the Pleiades open star cluster, known more commonly by its traditional name Sterope I.
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D.
HIP 17531
HIP 17531 is a star in the Pleiades open star cluster, more commonly known by its traditional name Taygeta.
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E.
HIP 17608
HIP 17608 is a star in the constellation Taurus, more commonly known as 23 Tauri, and is cataloged in the Hipparcos star catalog.
- 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: HIP 62434 Target entity description: HIP 62434 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Beta Crucis, a bright blue giant star in the Southern Cross constellation.
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A.
HIP 60718
HIP 60718 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Alpha Crucis, the brightest star in the Southern Cross constellation.
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B.
HD 168454
HD 168454 is the Henry Draper Catalogue designation for Kaus Australis, the bright primary star in the constellation Sagittarius.
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C.
HIP 17954
HIP 17954 is a star in the Pleiades open star cluster, known more commonly by its traditional name Sterope I.
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D.
HIP 17531
HIP 17531 is a star in the Pleiades open star cluster, more commonly known by its traditional name Taygeta.
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E.
HIP 17608
HIP 17608 is a star in the constellation Taurus, more commonly known as 23 Tauri, and is cataloged in the Hipparcos star catalog.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | star ⓘ |
| age_millionYears | about 8 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Beta Crucis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mimosa NERFINISHED ⓘ β Crucis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | 1.25 ⓘ |
| belongsToAsterism | Southern Cross asterism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| catalogDesignation |
CD−59 4474
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
HD 111123 NERFINISHED ⓘ HIP 62434 NERFINISHED ⓘ HR 4853 NERFINISHED ⓘ SAO 240019 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorIndexB−V | −0.23 ⓘ |
| colorIndexU−B | −0.95 ⓘ |
| constellation | Crux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| declination | −59° 41′ 19.63″ ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth_ly | approximately 280 light-years ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth_pc | approximately 86 parsecs ⓘ |
| dominantColor | blue-white ⓘ |
| effectiveTemperature_K | about 27,000 ⓘ |
| equatorialCoordinateSystem | ICRS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| evolutionaryStage | blue giant ⓘ |
| galacticLatitude_deg | −0.36 ⓘ |
| galacticLongitude_deg | 300.13 ⓘ |
| galacticPopulation | young disk star ⓘ |
| hasCompanion |
HIP 62434 B
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
HIP 62434 C NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hemisphereVisibility | Southern Hemisphere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Southern Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Milky Way ⓘ |
| luminosity_solar | about 34,000 ⓘ |
| mass_solar | about 16 ⓘ |
| multiplicity | multiple star system ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the brightest B-type stars in the sky ⓘ |
| parallax_mas | about 11.6 ⓘ |
| properMotionDec_masPerYear | about −13 ⓘ |
| properMotionRA_masPerYear | about −36 ⓘ |
| radialVelocity_kmPerSec | about +15 ⓘ |
| radius_solar | about 8.4 ⓘ |
| rankByBrightnessInCrux | second-brightest star in Crux ⓘ |
| rightAscension | 12h 47m 43.268s ⓘ |
| rotationalVelocity_kmPerSec | about 35 ⓘ |
| spectralClass | B-type ⓘ |
| spectralType | B0.5 III ⓘ |
| variableType | Beta Cephei variable NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| visibleToNakedEye | true ⓘ |
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: HIP 62434 Description of subject: HIP 62434 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Beta Crucis, a bright blue giant star in the Southern Cross constellation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.