HR 4656
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HR 4656 is a bright blue-white giant star in the Southern Cross constellation, known more commonly as Delta Crucis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HR 4656 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6642734 — 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: HR 4656 Context triple: [Delta Crucis, otherName, HR 4656]
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A.
HR 4853
HR 4853 is a bright, massive blue giant star in the constellation Crux, better known by its Bayer designation Beta Crucis.
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B.
HR 4729
HR 4729 is a bright, massive blue star in the Southern Cross constellation, forming part of the multiple-star system Alpha Crucis.
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C.
HR 3569
HR 3569 is a white A-type main-sequence star in the constellation Cancer, better known by its traditional name Acubens.
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D.
HR 1156
HR 1156 is a catalog designation for 23 Tauri, a star in the constellation Taurus that is part of the Bright Star Catalogue.
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E.
HR 3572
HR 3572 is a white A-type main-sequence star in the constellation Cancer, better known as Alpha Cancri.
- 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: HR 4656 Target entity description: HR 4656 is a bright blue-white giant star in the Southern Cross constellation, known more commonly as Delta Crucis.
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A.
HR 4853
HR 4853 is a bright, massive blue giant star in the constellation Crux, better known by its Bayer designation Beta Crucis.
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B.
HR 4729
HR 4729 is a bright, massive blue star in the Southern Cross constellation, forming part of the multiple-star system Alpha Crucis.
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C.
HR 3569
HR 3569 is a white A-type main-sequence star in the constellation Cancer, better known by its traditional name Acubens.
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D.
HR 1156
HR 1156 is a catalog designation for 23 Tauri, a star in the constellation Taurus that is part of the Bright Star Catalogue.
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E.
HR 3572
HR 3572 is a white A-type main-sequence star in the constellation Cancer, better known as Alpha Cancri.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
B-type giant star
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star ⓘ |
| age_Myr | about 16 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Delta Cru
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Delta Crucis NERFINISHED ⓘ HD 111123 NERFINISHED ⓘ HIP 62434 NERFINISHED ⓘ δ Crucis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | 2.79 ⓘ |
| bayerDesignation | Delta Crucis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| color | blue-white ⓘ |
| constellation | Crux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| declination | −58° 44′ (approx, J2000) ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth_ly | approximately 345 ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth_pc | approximately 106 ⓘ |
| dominantFusionProcess | hydrogen fusion in core or shell ⓘ |
| effectiveTemperature_K | about 22,000 ⓘ |
| epoch | J2000 ⓘ |
| evolutionaryStage | subgiant or giant leaving main sequence ⓘ |
| flamsteedDesignation | 9 Crucis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| galacticLatitude | low galactic latitude ⓘ |
| galacticPopulation | thin disk ⓘ |
| hasColorIndexBminusV | about −0.22 ⓘ |
| HDNumber | 111123 ⓘ |
| hemisphereVisibility | southern hemisphere ⓘ |
| HIPNumber | 62434 ⓘ |
| HRNumber | 4656 ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Milky Way Galaxy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| luminosity_solar | about 10,000 ⓘ |
| mass_solar | about 8 ⓘ |
| parallax_mas | about 9.4 ⓘ |
| partOf | Southern Cross asterism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| radius_solar | about 8 ⓘ |
| rankByBrightnessInCrux | third-brightest star in Crux ⓘ |
| rightAscension | 12h 15m (approx, J2000) ⓘ |
| rotationalVelocity_km_s | about 210 ⓘ |
| spectralType | B2IV ⓘ |
| variableType | Beta Cephei-type candidate ⓘ |
| 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: HR 4656 Description of subject: HR 4656 is a bright blue-white giant star in the Southern Cross constellation, known more commonly as Delta Crucis.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.