Lyra
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Lyra is a small northern sky constellation best known for containing the bright star Vega and the Ring Nebula (M57).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lyra canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5723813 — 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: Lyra Context triple: [IAU 88 modern constellations list, includes, Lyra]
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A.
Lyra Belacqua
Lyra Belacqua is a brave, impulsive young girl from Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, known for her destiny-shaping role and her ability to read the alethiometer.
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B.
Letta
Letta is an Italian surname most prominently associated with political figures such as Gianni Letta and former Prime Minister Enrico Letta.
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C.
Serein
Serein is a river in central France that flows through the Burgundy region before joining the Yonne River.
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D.
Rainelle
Rainelle is a small town located in western Greenbrier County, West Virginia, historically tied to the lumber industry and the surrounding Appalachian region.
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E.
Maia
Maia is a figure from Greek mythology, one of the Pleiades and the mother of the god Hermes.
- 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: Lyra Target entity description: Lyra is a small northern sky constellation best known for containing the bright star Vega and the Ring Nebula (M57).
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A.
Lyra Belacqua
Lyra Belacqua is a brave, impulsive young girl from Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, known for her destiny-shaping role and her ability to read the alethiometer.
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B.
Letta
Letta is an Italian surname most prominently associated with political figures such as Gianni Letta and former Prime Minister Enrico Letta.
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C.
Serein
Serein is a river in central France that flows through the Burgundy region before joining the Yonne River.
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D.
Rainelle
Rainelle is a small town located in western Greenbrier County, West Virginia, historically tied to the lumber industry and the surrounding Appalachian region.
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E.
Maia
Maia is a figure from Greek mythology, one of the Pleiades and the mother of the god Hermes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | constellation ⓘ |
| abbreviation | Lyr ⓘ |
| areaSquareDegrees | 286 ⓘ |
| associatedWithMeteorShower | Lyrids NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestVisibleMonth | August ⓘ |
| borderedByConstellation |
Cygnus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Draco NERFINISHED ⓘ Hercules NERFINISHED ⓘ Vulpecula NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brightestStar | Vega NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsBrightStar | Vega NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsDeepSkyObject |
NGC6745
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NGC6791 NERFINISHED ⓘ RingNebula NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsDoubleStar | EpsilonLyrae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsExoplanetHostStar |
HAT-P-5
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kepler-37 NERFINISHED ⓘ Kepler-444 NERFINISHED ⓘ Kepler-62 NERFINISHED ⓘ TrES-1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsMessierObject |
M56
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
M57 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsVariableStar |
BetaLyrae
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
RRLyrae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalOrigin | GreekAstronomy ⓘ |
| declinationRange | +25° ⓘ |
| family | HerculesFamily NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genitiveForm | Lyrae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIAUCode | Lyr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hemisphere | northernCelestialHemisphere ⓘ |
| inIAUConstellationList | yes ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Ptolemy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mythologicalAssociation |
HermesLyre
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
OrpheusLyre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Lyra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfBayerFlamsteedStars | 25 ⓘ |
| numberOfMainStars | 5 ⓘ |
| numberOfStarsWithPlanets | several ⓘ |
| partOfAsterism | SummerTriangle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| quadrant | NQ4 ⓘ |
| rankByArea | 52 ⓘ |
| rightAscensionRange | 18h ⓘ |
| symbolism | lyre ⓘ |
| visibleAtLatitudeBetween |
+90
ⓘ
−40 ⓘ |
| zodiacal | no ⓘ |
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: Lyra Description of subject: Lyra is a small northern sky constellation best known for containing the bright star Vega and the Ring Nebula (M57).
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Cygnus