Canes Venatici
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Canes Venatici is a small northern constellation representing a pair of hunting dogs, known for containing several prominent deep-sky objects such as galaxies and star clusters.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Canes Venatici canonical | 1 |
| Canis Venatici | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6175369 — 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: Canes Venatici Context triple: [Ursa Major family, hasMember, Canes Venatici]
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A.
Corona Borealis
Corona Borealis is a small but distinctive northern constellation known for its semicircular arc of stars, often associated in mythology with Ariadne’s crown.
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B.
Reticulum
Reticulum is a small, faint southern constellation named after a reticle or net, located near the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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C.
Fornax constellation
The Fornax constellation is a faint southern sky constellation representing a furnace, notable for containing the Fornax Dwarf Galaxy and several important deep-sky objects.
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D.
Triangulum
Triangulum is a small northern constellation best known for containing the Triangulum Galaxy (M33), one of the closest spiral galaxies to the Milky Way.
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E.
Puppis
Puppis is a southern constellation representing the stern of the mythological ship Argo Navis, notable for its rich fields of stars and nebulae in the Milky Way.
- 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: Canes Venatici Target entity description: Canes Venatici is a small northern constellation representing a pair of hunting dogs, known for containing several prominent deep-sky objects such as galaxies and star clusters.
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A.
Corona Borealis
Corona Borealis is a small but distinctive northern constellation known for its semicircular arc of stars, often associated in mythology with Ariadne’s crown.
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B.
Reticulum
Reticulum is a small, faint southern constellation named after a reticle or net, located near the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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C.
Fornax constellation
The Fornax constellation is a faint southern sky constellation representing a furnace, notable for containing the Fornax Dwarf Galaxy and several important deep-sky objects.
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D.
Triangulum
Triangulum is a small northern constellation best known for containing the Triangulum Galaxy (M33), one of the closest spiral galaxies to the Milky Way.
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E.
Puppis
Puppis is a southern constellation representing the stern of the mythological ship Argo Navis, notable for its rich fields of stars and nebulae in the Milky Way.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | constellation ⓘ |
| abbreviation | CVn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| areaSquareDegrees | 465 ⓘ |
| associatedMythology | hunting dogs of Boötes ⓘ |
| associatedWithAstronomer | Johannes Hevelius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsTo | IAU 88 modern constellations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestVisibleMonth | May ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Boötes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Canes Venatici NERFINISHED ⓘ Coma Berenices NERFINISHED ⓘ Leo NERFINISHED ⓘ Ursa Major NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brightestStar | Cor Caroli NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brightestStarApparentMagnitude | 2.9 ⓘ |
| containsMessierObject |
M106
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
M3 NERFINISHED ⓘ M51 NERFINISHED ⓘ M63 NERFINISHED ⓘ M94 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsNotableDeepSkyObject |
Cat’s Eye Galaxy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hockey Stick Galaxy NERFINISHED ⓘ Sunflower Galaxy NERFINISHED ⓘ Whale Galaxy NERFINISHED ⓘ Whirlpool Galaxy NERFINISHED ⓘ globularCluster M3 ⓘ spiralGalaxy M106 ⓘ spiralGalaxy M51 NERFINISHED ⓘ spiralGalaxy M63 ⓘ spiralGalaxy M94 ⓘ |
| declinationRange | +40° ⓘ |
| family | Ursa Major family ⓘ |
| genitive | Canum Venaticorum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBrightStar |
Chara
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cor Caroli NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMeteorShower | Canes Venaticids NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hemisphere | northern ⓘ |
| IAUConstellationCode | CVn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Johannes Hevelius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introductionYear | 1687 ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Coma Berenices
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ursa Major NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| meaningOfName | hunting dogs ⓘ |
| name | Canes Venatici NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfBayerFlamsteedStars | 23 ⓘ |
| numberOfMainStars | 2 ⓘ |
| rankByArea | 38 ⓘ |
| rightAscensionRange | 12h ⓘ |
| symbolism | pair of hunting dogs ⓘ |
| visibleAtLatitudesBetween |
+90
ⓘ
-40 ⓘ |
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: Canes Venatici Description of subject: Canes Venatici is a small northern constellation representing a pair of hunting dogs, known for containing several prominent deep-sky objects such as galaxies and star clusters.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Canis Venatici