HIP 32349
E712264
HIP 32349 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky located in the constellation Canis Major.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HIP 32349 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8141129 — 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: HIP 32349 Context triple: [Sirius, hasHIPDesignation, HIP 32349]
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A.
HIP 43103
HIP 43103 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Gamma Cancri, a star in the constellation Cancer.
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B.
HIP 59747
HIP 59747 is the catalog designation for Delta Crucis, a bright blue-white giant star in the Southern Cross constellation.
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C.
HIP 40526
HIP 40526 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Altarf, a prominent star in the constellation Cancer.
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D.
HIP 42911
HIP 42911 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Delta Cancri, a prominent star in the constellation Cancer.
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E.
HIP 62434
HIP 62434 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Beta Crucis, a bright blue giant star in the Southern Cross constellation.
- 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: HIP 32349 Target entity description: HIP 32349 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky located in the constellation Canis Major.
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A.
HIP 43103
HIP 43103 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Gamma Cancri, a star in the constellation Cancer.
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B.
HIP 59747
HIP 59747 is the catalog designation for Delta Crucis, a bright blue-white giant star in the Southern Cross constellation.
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C.
HIP 40526
HIP 40526 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Altarf, a prominent star in the constellation Cancer.
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D.
HIP 42911
HIP 42911 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Delta Cancri, a prominent star in the constellation Cancer.
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E.
HIP 62434
HIP 62434 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Beta Crucis, a bright blue giant star in the Southern Cross constellation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hipparcos catalog object
ⓘ
star ⓘ |
| absoluteMagnitudeV | 1.42 ⓘ |
| age | about 242 million years ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Alpha Canis Majoris
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sirius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitude | -1.46 ⓘ |
| belongsToAsterism |
Winter Hexagon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Winter Triangle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| catalog | Hipparcos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorIndexBMinusV | 0.00 ⓘ |
| constellation | Canis Major NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| declinationJ2000 | -16° 42′ 58.02″ ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth |
about 2.64 parsecs
ⓘ
about 8.6 light-years ⓘ |
| effectiveTemperature | about 9940 K ⓘ |
| equatorialCoordinateSystem | ICRS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| galacticLatitude | -8.89° ⓘ |
| galacticLongitude | 227.23° ⓘ |
| galacticPopulation | thin disk ⓘ |
| hasBayerDesignation | Alpha Canis Majoris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCompanion | Sirius B NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFlamsteedDesignation | 9 Canis Majoris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGlieseNumber | Gliese 244 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHenryDraperNumber | HD 48915 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHipparcosNumber | 32349 ⓘ |
| hasHRNumber | HR 2491 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVariableType | none (essentially constant) ⓘ |
| hasWhiteDwarfCompanion | Sirius B NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heliocentricRadialVelocity | -5.5 km/s ⓘ |
| isBrightestStarInNightSky | true ⓘ |
| isBrightestStarOfConstellation | Canis Major NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Milky Way NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPrimaryOfSystem | Sirius binary system ⓘ |
| isStandardStar | yes ⓘ |
| luminosity | about 25.4 times solar luminosity ⓘ |
| mass | about 2.02 solar masses ⓘ |
| metallicityFeH | about +0.4 ⓘ |
| observedBy | Hipparcos satellite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parallax | 379.21 mas ⓘ |
| properMotionDec | -1223.08 mas/yr ⓘ |
| properMotionRA | -546.01 mas/yr ⓘ |
| radialVelocity | -5.5 km/s ⓘ |
| radius | about 1.71 solar radii ⓘ |
| rightAscensionJ2000 | 06h 45m 08.917s ⓘ |
| rotationVelocityProjected | about 16 km/s ⓘ |
| spectralType | A1V ⓘ |
| systemType | binary star system ⓘ |
| visibleFromEarth | naked eye ⓘ |
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: HIP 32349 Description of subject: HIP 32349 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky located in the constellation Canis Major.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.