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Pleiades

Listed in	Atharvaveda^[1]
Listed in	Mul.apin^[1]
Rdfs:label	Pleiades^[1]
Rdf:type	Star Cluster^[2]
Significance	uniquely significant among all star clusters^[3]
Visible Count	6^[2]
Functions As	Gateway^[2]
Marks Season Start	Winter^[2]
Begins Star Calendar System	Anwa^[1]

ex:Pleiades

Pleiades has 23 facts recorded in Dontopedia across 3 references, with 1 live disagreement.

23 facts·20 predicates·3 sources·1 in dispute

Mostly:listed in(2), rdfs:label(2), rdf:type(2)

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Atharvaveda^[1]all time · Pleiades Wikipedia Overview
Mul.apin^[1]sourceall time · Pleiades Wikipedia Overview

Rdfs:label`rdfs:label`

Pleiades^[1]sourceall time · Pleiades Wikipedia Overview
Pleiades^[2]sourceall time · Lost Pleiad Motif Worldwide

Rdf:type`rdf:type`

Star Cluster^[2]all time · Lost Pleiad Motif Worldwide
Star Cluster^[1]all time · Pleiades Wikipedia Overview

Significance`significance`

uniquely significant among all star clusters^[3]sourceall time · Mao Asterism White Tiger

Visible Count`visibleCount`

6^[2]sourceall time · Lost Pleiad Motif Worldwide

Functions As`functionsAs`

Gateway^[2]sourceall time · Lost Pleiad Motif Worldwide

Marks Season Start`marksSeasonStart`

Winter^[2]sourceall time · Lost Pleiad Motif Worldwide

Begins Star Calendar System`beginsStarCalendarSystem`

Anwa^[1]all time · Pleiades Wikipedia Overview

Known in Arab Astronomy As`knownInArabAstronomyAs`

al-Thurayyā^[1]all time · Pleiades Wikipedia Overview

Featured on`featuredOn`

Nebra Sky Disk^[1]sourceall time · Pleiades Wikipedia Overview

Heliacal Setting Time`heliacalSettingTime`

autumn^[1]sourceall time · Pleiades Wikipedia Overview

Heliacal Rising Time`heliacalRisingTime`

late April/early May^[1]sourceall time · Pleiades Wikipedia Overview

Inbound mentions (8)

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`singledOut`Singled Out(2)

Chinese Astronomy Traditionex:chinese-astronomy-tradition
Mesopotamian Astronomy Traditionex:mesopotamian-astronomy-tradition

`begunBy`Begun by(1)

Anwaex:Anwa

`embeddedInNameOf`Embedded in Name of(1)

Pleinex:Plein

`interpretedAsFeaturing`Interpreted As Featuring(1)

Nebra Sky Diskex:Nebra-Sky-Disk

`likelySameAs`Likely Same As(1)

Maoex:mao

`questionsVisibilityOf`Questions Visibility of(1)

Lost Pleiad Mythex:Lost-Pleiad-Myth

`refersTo`Refers to(1)

Mul Mulex:mul-mul

Other facts (8)

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8 facts

Predicate	Value	Ref
Heliacal Setting Marks End of	Sailing Season	[1]
Heliacal Rising Used by	Ancient Mediterranean Sailors	[1]
Visibility Subject of	Lost Pleiad Myth	[1]
Visible Star Count	6	[1]
Called	Seven Sisters	[1]
Primary Etymology Derived From	Sailing Derivation	[1]
Implied Meaning	daughters of Pleione	[1]
Mythological Etymology Connected to	Pleione	[1]

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23 undated

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beginsStarCalendarSystemastronomy/pleiades-wikipedia-overview

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calledastronomy/pleiades-wikipedia-overview

Seven Sisters

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featuredOnastronomy/pleiades-wikipedia-overview

ex:Nebra-Sky-Disk

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functionsAsdeep-time/lost-pleiad-motif-worldwide

ex:gateway

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heliacalRisingTimeastronomy/pleiades-wikipedia-overview

late April/early May

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heliacalRisingUsedByastronomy/pleiades-wikipedia-overview

ex:Ancient-Mediterranean-Sailors

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heliacalSettingMarksEndOfastronomy/pleiades-wikipedia-overview

ex:Sailing-Season

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heliacalSettingTimeastronomy/pleiades-wikipedia-overview

autumn

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impliedMeaningastronomy/pleiades-wikipedia-overview

daughters of Pleione

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knownInArabAstronomyAsastronomy/pleiades-wikipedia-overview

al-Thurayyā

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listedInastronomy/pleiades-wikipedia-overview

ex:Atharvaveda

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listedInastronomy/pleiades-wikipedia-overview

ex:MUL.APIN

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marksSeasonStartdeep-time/lost-pleiad-motif-worldwide

ex:winter

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mythologicalEtymologyConnectedToastronomy/pleiades-wikipedia-overview

ex:Pleione

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primaryEtymologyDerivedFromastronomy/pleiades-wikipedia-overview

ex:Sailing-Derivation

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labelastronomy/pleiades-wikipedia-overview

Pleiades

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labeldeep-time/lost-pleiad-motif-worldwide

Pleiades

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typedeep-time/lost-pleiad-motif-worldwide

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typeastronomy/pleiades-wikipedia-overview

ex:StarCluster

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significancechinese/mao-asterism-white-tiger

uniquely significant among all star clusters

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visibilitySubjectOfastronomy/pleiades-wikipedia-overview

ex:Lost-Pleiad-Myth

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visibleCountdeep-time/lost-pleiad-motif-worldwide

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visibleStarCountastronomy/pleiades-wikipedia-overview

References (3)

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  [Source: Pleiades — Wikipedia Overview: Astronomy, Etymology, Mythology, Cross-Cultural Significance — tradition: astronomy; era: ancient through modern. Excerpt 1/3. Provenance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades] [This excerpt is INER…
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  [Source: Pleiades — Wikipedia Overview: Astronomy, Etymology, Mythology, Cross-Cultural Significance — tradition: astronomy; era: ancient through modern. Excerpt 3/3. Provenance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades] [This excerpt is INER…
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  [Source: Pleiades — Wikipedia Overview: Astronomy, Etymology, Mythology, Cross-Cultural Significance — tradition: astronomy; era: ancient through modern. Excerpt 2/3. Provenance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades] [This excerpt is INER…
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  [Source: The Lost Pleiad Motif — Cross-Cultural Survey — tradition: deep-time; era: comparative; documented across world cultures. Excerpt 2/4. Provenance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades_in_folklore_and_literature] [This excerpt is …
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  [Source: Mao (昴) — The Pleiades as the Hairy Head of the White Tiger in Chinese Astronomy — tradition: chinese; era: ancient (earliest record ~2357 BC) through imperial period. Excerpt 3/4. Provenance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_(Chi…
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Pleiades

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Begins Star Calendar SystembeginsStarCalendarSystem

Known in Arab Astronomy AsknownInArabAstronomyAs

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Heliacal Rising TimeheliacalRisingTime

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