Apus
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Apus is a small southern constellation representing a bird of paradise, located near the south celestial pole.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Apus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8717136 — 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: Apus Context triple: [Musca, borderedBy, Apus]
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A.
Apus
Apus are revered mountain spirits or deities in Andean cosmology, believed to protect local communities and landscapes.
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B.
Antelias
Antelias is a coastal town in Lebanon that serves as an important religious center, notably hosting the headquarters of the Armenian Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia.
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C.
Atsu
Atsu is a Japanese given-name element commonly used as the first part of longer names such as Atsuko.
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D.
Nu Tucanae
Nu Tucanae is a star located in the southern constellation Tucana.
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E.
Tucana
Tucana is a small, southern-sky constellation best known for containing most of the Small Magellanic Cloud and the globular cluster 47 Tucanae.
- 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: Apus Target entity description: Apus is a small southern constellation representing a bird of paradise, located near the south celestial pole.
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A.
Apus
Apus are revered mountain spirits or deities in Andean cosmology, believed to protect local communities and landscapes.
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B.
Antelias
Antelias is a coastal town in Lebanon that serves as an important religious center, notably hosting the headquarters of the Armenian Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia.
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C.
Atsu
Atsu is a Japanese given-name element commonly used as the first part of longer names such as Atsuko.
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D.
Nu Tucanae
Nu Tucanae is a star located in the southern constellation Tucana.
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E.
Tucana
Tucana is a small, southern-sky constellation best known for containing most of the Small Magellanic Cloud and the globular cluster 47 Tucanae.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
constellation
ⓘ
southern constellation ⓘ |
| abbreviation | Aps ⓘ |
| areaSquareDegrees | 206 ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Bayer constellations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Ara
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chamaeleon NERFINISHED ⓘ Octans NERFINISHED ⓘ Pavo NERFINISHED ⓘ Triangulum Australe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brightestStar | Alpha Apodis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brightestStarApparentMagnitude | 3.8 ⓘ |
| containsDeepSkyObject |
IC 4499
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NGC 6101 NERFINISHED ⓘ NGC 6392 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsDoubleStar | Gamma Apodis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsGlobularCluster |
IC 4499
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NGC 6101 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsOpenCluster | NGC 6392 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsStar |
Alpha Apodis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Beta Apodis NERFINISHED ⓘ Delta Apodis NERFINISHED ⓘ Gamma Apodis NERFINISHED ⓘ Kappa Apodis NERFINISHED ⓘ Zeta Apodis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsVariableStar | Delta Apodis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| declinationRange | approximately −67° to −83° ⓘ |
| eclipticCrosses | no ⓘ |
| firstAppearedOnGlobe | Plancius 1598 celestial globe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genitiveForm | Apodis ⓘ |
| hasNo | Messier objects ⓘ |
| hemisphereVisibility | best visible from southern latitudes ⓘ |
| IAUAbbreviation | Aps ⓘ |
| IAUConstellation | yes ⓘ |
| IAUConstellationFamily | Bayer family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| IAUThreeLetterAbbreviation | Aps ⓘ |
| includedInAtlas | Johann Bayer Uranometria 1603 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Petrus Plancius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedEra | late 16th century ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southern celestial hemisphere ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | bird of paradise ⓘ |
| near | south celestial pole ⓘ |
| notIn | Ptolemy 48 constellations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rankByArea | 67 ⓘ |
| represents | bird of paradise ⓘ |
| rightAscensionRange | approximately 13h to 18h ⓘ |
| visibleBestMonth | June ⓘ |
| visibleBetweenLatitudes | +7 degrees to −90 degrees ⓘ |
| zodiacConstellation | 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: Apus Description of subject: Apus is a small southern constellation representing a bird of paradise, located near the south celestial pole.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.