Leo Minor
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Leo Minor is a small, faint constellation in the northern sky located between Ursa Major and Leo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Leo Minor canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6175373 — 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: Leo Minor Context triple: [Ursa Major family, hasMember, Leo Minor]
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A.
Microscopium
Microscopium is a small, faint constellation in the southern sky, representing a microscope and introduced in the 18th century by the astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille.
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B.
Ursa Minor
Ursa Minor is a small northern constellation best known for containing Polaris, the current North Star, and forming the Little Dipper asterism.
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C.
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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D.
Ursa Minor Beta
Ursa Minor Beta is a fictional planet in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, best known as the corporate home of the Guide itself.
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E.
Cygnis
Cygnis is a digital product development company specializing in custom web and mobile applications, often leveraging emerging technologies like AI and cloud platforms.
- 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: Leo Minor Target entity description: Leo Minor is a small, faint constellation in the northern sky located between Ursa Major and Leo.
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A.
Microscopium
Microscopium is a small, faint constellation in the southern sky, representing a microscope and introduced in the 18th century by the astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille.
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B.
Ursa Minor
Ursa Minor is a small northern constellation best known for containing Polaris, the current North Star, and forming the Little Dipper asterism.
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C.
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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D.
Ursa Minor Beta
Ursa Minor Beta is a fictional planet in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, best known as the corporate home of the Guide itself.
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E.
Cygnis
Cygnis is a digital product development company specializing in custom web and mobile applications, often leveraging emerging technologies like AI and cloud platforms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronomical constellation
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constellation ⓘ meteor shower ⓘ |
| abbreviation | LMi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | 3.83 ⓘ |
| areaSquareDegrees | 232 ⓘ |
| bestViewingMonth | April ⓘ |
| borderingConstellation |
Cancer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Leo NERFINISHED ⓘ Leo Minor (self-bordering not applicable) NERFINISHED ⓘ Lynx NERFINISHED ⓘ Ursa Major NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brightestStar | 46 Leonis Minoris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| declinationRange | +22° to +41° (approximate) ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | Johannes Hevelius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| family | Ursa Major family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genitiveForm | Leonis Minoris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBrightStarWithMagnitudeBrighterThan4 | false ⓘ |
| hasMessierObject | false ⓘ |
| hasMeteorShower | Leonis Minorids NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hemisphereVisibility | Northern Hemisphere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| iauConstellation | true ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Johannes Hevelius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introductionYear | 1687 ⓘ |
| isPartOf | modern 88 constellations ⓘ |
| locatedBetween |
Leo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ursa Major NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | northern celestial hemisphere ⓘ |
| nameEtymology | Latin for "smaller lion" ⓘ |
| notableDeepSkyObject |
NGC 3003
NERFINISHED
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NGC 3344 NERFINISHED ⓘ NGC 3432 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableStar |
10 Leonis Minoris
NERFINISHED
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21 Leonis Minoris NERFINISHED ⓘ 46 Leonis Minoris NERFINISHED ⓘ Beta Leonis Minoris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| radiantIn | Leo Minor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rankByArea | 64 ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | International Astronomical Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rightAscensionRange | 10h 00m to 13h 00m (approximate) ⓘ |
| spectralType | F9III ⓘ |
| symbolism | the Lesser Lion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| visibility | faint ⓘ |
| visibleFromLatitudeNorth | +90° ⓘ |
| visibleFromLatitudeSouth | about −45° ⓘ |
| zodiacal | false ⓘ |
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: Leo Minor Description of subject: Leo Minor is a small, faint constellation in the northern sky located between Ursa Major and Leo.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.