Kornephoros
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Kornephoros is the brightest star in the constellation Hercules, known astronomically as Beta Herculis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kornephoros canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11376978 — 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: Kornephoros Context triple: [Hercules, hasBrightestStarName, Kornephoros]
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A.
Corynetes
Corynetes is an epithet of the mythological bandit Periphetes, a club-wielding villain slain by the hero Theseus in Greek mythology.
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B.
Polyperchon
Polyperchon was a Macedonian general and one of Alexander the Great’s successors who briefly served as regent of the empire during the early Wars of the Diadochi.
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C.
Aristodemus
Aristodemus is a figure in Greek mythology, one of the Heracleidae and a descendant of Heracles associated with the legendary return of his lineage to the Peloponnese.
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D.
Aristodemus
Aristodemus is a minor figure in ancient Greek philosophy, known primarily as a participant and narrator in Plato’s dialogue Symposium.
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E.
Apheidas
Apheidas is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as a child of the Muse Erato.
- 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: Kornephoros Target entity description: Kornephoros is the brightest star in the constellation Hercules, known astronomically as Beta Herculis.
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A.
Corynetes
Corynetes is an epithet of the mythological bandit Periphetes, a club-wielding villain slain by the hero Theseus in Greek mythology.
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B.
Polyperchon
Polyperchon was a Macedonian general and one of Alexander the Great’s successors who briefly served as regent of the empire during the early Wars of the Diadochi.
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C.
Aristodemus
Aristodemus is a figure in Greek mythology, one of the Heracleidae and a descendant of Heracles associated with the legendary return of his lineage to the Peloponnese.
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D.
Aristodemus
Aristodemus is a minor figure in ancient Greek philosophy, known primarily as a participant and narrator in Plato’s dialogue Symposium.
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E.
Apheidas
Apheidas is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as a child of the Muse Erato.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronomical object
ⓘ
giant star ⓘ star ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Beta Herculis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
β Her NERFINISHED ⓘ β Herculis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | 2.81 ⓘ |
| associatedMythology | Heracles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bayerDesignation | Beta Herculis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Milky Way NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| catalogIdentifier |
BD+22 3090
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HD 155125 NERFINISHED ⓘ HIP 83962 NERFINISHED ⓘ HR 6406 ⓘ |
| colorIndexBminusV | ~0.93 ⓘ |
| colorIndexUminusB | ~0.63 ⓘ |
| constellation | Hercules NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| declination | +21° 29′ 22″ ⓘ |
| declinationHemisphere | northern ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth_ly | ~139 ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth_pc | ~42.7 ⓘ |
| effectiveTemperature_K | ~4900 ⓘ |
| equatorialCoordinateSystem | ICRS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| evolutionaryStage | red giant branch star ⓘ |
| galacticPopulation | thin disk ⓘ |
| hasCompanion | Kornephoros B ⓘ |
| hasFlamsteedDesignation | 30 Herculis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTraditionalName | Kornephoros NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hemisphere | northern celestial hemisphere ⓘ |
| isBrightestStarIn | Hercules NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isNakedEyeVisible | yes ⓘ |
| isNavigationStar | yes ⓘ |
| luminosity_solar | ~175 ⓘ |
| mass_solar | ~2.9 ⓘ |
| meaningOfName | club-bearer ⓘ |
| metallicity_FeH | ~0.0 ⓘ |
| nameOrigin | Greek language ⓘ |
| parallax_mas | 23.42 ⓘ |
| properMotionDec_masPerYr | +91 ⓘ |
| properMotionRA_masPerYr | -262 ⓘ |
| radialVelocity_kmPerSec | -26 ⓘ |
| radius_solar | ~17 ⓘ |
| rightAscension | 16h 30m 13.3s ⓘ |
| spectralType | G7IIIa ⓘ |
| surfaceGravity_logg | ~2.5 ⓘ |
| systemType | binary star system ⓘ |
| variableStarType | suspected variable ⓘ |
| visibleFrom | Northern Hemisphere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Kornephoros Description of subject: Kornephoros is the brightest star in the constellation Hercules, known astronomically as Beta Herculis.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.