HD 36486
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HD 36486 is the stellar catalog designation for Mintaka, a bright multiple star system that forms the westernmost star in Orion’s Belt.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HD 36486 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5723646 — 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: HD 36486 Context triple: [Mintaka, catalogIdentifier, HD 36486]
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A.
HD 23480
HD 23480 is a bright B-type main-sequence star in the constellation Taurus, visible to the naked eye and cataloged under multiple stellar designations including 23 Tauri.
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B.
HD 23630
HD 23630 is a hot, massive early-type star located in the Perseus constellation and belonging to the young Perseus OB2 stellar association.
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C.
HD 108248
HD 108248 is the Henry Draper Catalogue designation for Alpha Crucis, the brightest star in the Southern Cross constellation.
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D.
HD 26165
HD 26165 is a star located in the Perseus constellation and identified as a member of the young stellar grouping known as the Perseus OB2 association.
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E.
HD 4308
HD 4308 is a nearby Sun-like star in the southern constellation Tucana, known for hosting at least one detected exoplanet.
- 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: HD 36486 Target entity description: HD 36486 is the stellar catalog designation for Mintaka, a bright multiple star system that forms the westernmost star in Orion’s Belt.
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A.
HD 23480
HD 23480 is a bright B-type main-sequence star in the constellation Taurus, visible to the naked eye and cataloged under multiple stellar designations including 23 Tauri.
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B.
HD 23630
HD 23630 is a hot, massive early-type star located in the Perseus constellation and belonging to the young Perseus OB2 stellar association.
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C.
HD 108248
HD 108248 is the Henry Draper Catalogue designation for Alpha Crucis, the brightest star in the Southern Cross constellation.
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D.
HD 26165
HD 26165 is a star located in the Perseus constellation and identified as a member of the young stellar grouping known as the Perseus OB2 association.
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E.
HD 4308
HD 4308 is a nearby Sun-like star in the southern constellation Tucana, known for hosting at least one detected exoplanet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Orion Belt star
ⓘ
eclipsing binary ⓘ multiple star system ⓘ spectroscopic binary ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Delta Orionis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mintaka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formsPartOfAsterism | Orion’s Belt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAge | a few million years ⓘ |
| hasApparentMagnitudeRangeV | about 2.20–2.23 ⓘ |
| hasApparentMagnitudeV | about 2.23 ⓘ |
| hasBayerDesignation | δ Orionis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBDDesignation | BD −00°983 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCompanions | multiple stellar components ⓘ |
| hasDeclination | −00° 18′ ⓘ |
| hasDistanceFromEarth |
about 1,200 light-years
ⓘ
about 360 parsecs ⓘ |
| hasEffectiveTemperaturePrimary | about 30,000 K ⓘ |
| hasFlamsteedDesignation | 34 Orionis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGalacticPopulation | Population I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHIPDesignation | HIP 25930 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHRDesignation | HR 1852 ⓘ |
| hasLuminosity | tens of thousands of times the Sun’s luminosity ⓘ |
| hasMassPrimary | about 20 solar masses ⓘ |
| hasMassSecondary | about 8 solar masses ⓘ |
| hasRadialVelocity | about +21 km/s ⓘ |
| hasRightAscension | 05h 32m ⓘ |
| hasSAODesignation | SAO 112740 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpectralType | O9.5II ⓘ |
| hasSpectralTypeComponent |
B-type (secondary)
ⓘ
O9.5II (primary) ⓘ |
| hasVariableStarDesignation | V* Mintaka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVariableType | eclipsing binary of Algol type ⓘ |
| isBrightStar | true ⓘ |
| isCataloguedIn |
Bright Star Catalogue
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Henry Draper Catalogue NERFINISHED ⓘ Hipparcos Catalogue NERFINISHED ⓘ SAO Catalogue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isLocatedNear | celestial equator ⓘ |
| isPartOfConstellation | Orion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isReferenceStarFor | Orion constellation identification ⓘ |
| isUsedAs | navigation star ⓘ |
| isVisibleToNakedEye | true ⓘ |
| isWesternmostStarOf | Orion’s Belt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbitsCommonBarycenterWith | HD 36486 secondary component ⓘ |
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: HD 36486 Description of subject: HD 36486 is the stellar catalog designation for Mintaka, a bright multiple star system that forms the westernmost star in Orion’s Belt.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.