Gamma Centauri
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Gamma Centauri is a bright binary star system in the southern constellation Centaurus, visible to the naked eye and notable for its hot, blue-white stellar components.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gamma Centauri canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8717098 — 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: Gamma Centauri Context triple: [Centaurus, containsStar, Gamma Centauri]
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A.
Beta Centauri
Beta Centauri is a bright blue-white multiple star system and one of the most luminous and prominent stars in the southern sky.
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B.
Theta Centauri
Theta Centauri is a bright giant star in the constellation Centaurus, visible from the Southern Hemisphere and notable as one of the constellation’s prominent stellar members.
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C.
Gamma Sagittarii
Gamma Sagittarii is a bright star in the constellation Sagittarius that forms part of the asterism known as the Teapot.
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D.
Beta Canis Majoris
Beta Canis Majoris is a bright blue-white giant star in the constellation Canis Major, notable as one of its most luminous and prominent members.
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E.
Alpha Centauri
Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to the Solar System, consisting of a triple-star arrangement that includes the Sun-like stars Alpha Centauri A and B and the red dwarf Proxima Centauri.
- 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: Gamma Centauri Target entity description: Gamma Centauri is a bright binary star system in the southern constellation Centaurus, visible to the naked eye and notable for its hot, blue-white stellar components.
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A.
Beta Centauri
Beta Centauri is a bright blue-white multiple star system and one of the most luminous and prominent stars in the southern sky.
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B.
Theta Centauri
Theta Centauri is a bright giant star in the constellation Centaurus, visible from the Southern Hemisphere and notable as one of the constellation’s prominent stellar members.
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C.
Gamma Sagittarii
Gamma Sagittarii is a bright star in the constellation Sagittarius that forms part of the asterism known as the Teapot.
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D.
Beta Canis Majoris
Beta Canis Majoris is a bright blue-white giant star in the constellation Canis Major, notable as one of its most luminous and prominent members.
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E.
Alpha Centauri
Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to the Solar System, consisting of a triple-star arrangement that includes the Sun-like stars Alpha Centauri A and B and the red dwarf Proxima Centauri.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
binary star system
ⓘ
main-sequence star ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Gamma Cen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
HD 110304 NERFINISHED ⓘ HIP 61932 NERFINISHED ⓘ HR 4825 NERFINISHED ⓘ γ Cen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasApparentMagnitudeV | approximately 2.2 ⓘ |
| hasBayerDesignation |
Gamma Centauri
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
γ Centauri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasColor |
blue-white
ⓘ
blue-white ⓘ blue-white ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Gamma Centauri A
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gamma Centauri B NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasConstellation | Centaurus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDeclinationEpochJ2000 | approximately −48° ⓘ |
| hasEquatorialCoordinateSystem | ICRS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFlamsteedDesignation | P Centauri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProperName | Gamma Centauri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRightAscensionEpochJ2000 | approximately 12h 41m ⓘ |
| hasSpectralType |
B-type
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B-type ⓘ B-type ⓘ |
| isBrightStar | true ⓘ |
| isCataloguedIn |
Bright Star Catalogue
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Henry Draper Catalogue NERFINISHED ⓘ Hipparcos Catalogue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isHotStarSystem | true ⓘ |
| isHotterThan | Sun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isInMilkyWay | true ⓘ |
| isInSkyHemisphere | southern celestial hemisphere ⓘ |
| isMoreLuminousThan | Sun ⓘ |
| isMoreMassiveThan | Sun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | constellation Centaurus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isUsedFor |
binary star orbit analysis
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stellar astrophysics studies ⓘ |
| locatedInConstellation | Centaurus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 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: Gamma Centauri Description of subject: Gamma Centauri is a bright binary star system in the southern constellation Centaurus, visible to the naked eye and notable for its hot, blue-white stellar components.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.