SAO 132220
E540372
SAO 132220 is a catalog designation for Mintaka, one of the three prominent stars forming Orion’s Belt in the constellation Orion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SAO 132220 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5723648 — 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: SAO 132220 Context triple: [Mintaka, catalogIdentifier, SAO 132220]
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A.
SAO 209384
SAO 209384 is a catalog designation for Kaus Australis, the brightest star in the constellation Sagittarius and a prominent B-type giant in the Teapot asterism.
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B.
SAO 76199
SAO 76199 is a catalogued star in the constellation Taurus, also known by the designation 23 Tauri.
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C.
SAO 94027
SAO 94027 is the catalog designation in the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog for the bright red giant star Aldebaran in the constellation Taurus.
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SA2
SA2 is a 3GPP working group responsible for defining the overall system architecture and functional specifications of mobile communication networks.
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E.
SAS-1
SAS-1 is the first generation of the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface standard used for high-speed data transfer between storage devices and host systems.
- 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: SAO 132220 Target entity description: SAO 132220 is a catalog designation for Mintaka, one of the three prominent stars forming Orion’s Belt in the constellation Orion.
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A.
SAO 209384
SAO 209384 is a catalog designation for Kaus Australis, the brightest star in the constellation Sagittarius and a prominent B-type giant in the Teapot asterism.
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B.
SAO 76199
SAO 76199 is a catalogued star in the constellation Taurus, also known by the designation 23 Tauri.
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C.
SAO 94027
SAO 94027 is the catalog designation in the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog for the bright red giant star Aldebaran in the constellation Taurus.
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D.
SA2
SA2 is a 3GPP working group responsible for defining the overall system architecture and functional specifications of mobile communication networks.
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E.
SAS-1
SAS-1 is the first generation of the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface standard used for high-speed data transfer between storage devices and host systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
star
ⓘ
stellarObject ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Delta Orionis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mintaka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | 2.23 ⓘ |
| BayerDesignation | Delta Orionis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToAsterism | Orion’s Belt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestSeenInMonth | January ⓘ |
| binaryType | eclipsing binary ⓘ |
| catalogDesignation | SAO 132220 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorIndexB−V | −0.20 ⓘ |
| colorIndexU−B | −0.95 ⓘ |
| constellation | Orion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| declination | −00° 17′ 56″ ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth_ly | about 1,200 light-years ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth_pc | about 370 parsecs ⓘ |
| dominantColor | blue-white ⓘ |
| effectiveTemperature_K | about 29,500 ⓘ |
| equatorialCoordinateSystem | ICRS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| FlamsteedDesignation | 34 Orionis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| galacticLatitude_deg | −17.74 ⓘ |
| galacticLongitude_deg | 203.86 ⓘ |
| galacticPopulation | thin disk ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Mintaka A
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mintaka B NERFINISHED ⓘ Mintaka C NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProperName | Mintaka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hemisphereVisibility | both hemispheres ⓘ |
| isBrightStar | true ⓘ |
| isHotBlueStar | true ⓘ |
| isMultipleStarSystem | true ⓘ |
| isOneOf | three prominent stars in Orion’s Belt ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Orion’s Belt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isReferenceStarFor | orientation of Orion’s Belt ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Milky Way ⓘ |
| luminosity_solar | about 90,000 ⓘ |
| luminosityClass | II ⓘ |
| mass_solar | about 20 ⓘ |
| parallax_mas | about 2.7 ⓘ |
| primaryComponentSpectralType | O9.5 II ⓘ |
| radialVelocity_kmPerS | about +21 ⓘ |
| radius_solar | about 16 ⓘ |
| rightAscension | 05h 32m 00.4s ⓘ |
| spectralClass | O-type star ⓘ |
| spectralType | O9.5 II ⓘ |
| variabilityType | Algol-type eclipsing variable ⓘ |
| visibleToNakedEye | true ⓘ |
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: SAO 132220 Description of subject: SAO 132220 is a catalog designation for Mintaka, one of the three prominent stars forming Orion’s Belt in the constellation Orion.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.