SMC
E114707
SMC is a nearby dwarf irregular galaxy and satellite of the Milky Way, visible from the Southern Hemisphere and important for studies of galactic evolution and stellar populations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SMC canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T967476 — 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: SMC Context triple: [Small Magellanic Cloud, alsoKnownAs, SMC]
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A.
SMF
SMF is the three-letter IATA airport code for Sacramento International Airport, the primary commercial airport serving California’s capital city.
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B.
SMMC
SMMC is the highest-ranking enlisted Marine who serves as the senior enlisted advisor to the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps.
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C.
CMC
CMC is the commonly used abbreviation for the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, the service’s highest-ranking officer and senior military leader.
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D.
SKC
SKC is the commonly used abbreviation for Sporting Kansas City, a professional Major League Soccer club based in Kansas City.
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E.
SBC
SBC is a standard Bluetooth audio codec used for wireless transmission of sound between devices such as headphones and smartphones.
- 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: SMC Target entity description: SMC is a nearby dwarf irregular galaxy and satellite of the Milky Way, visible from the Southern Hemisphere and important for studies of galactic evolution and stellar populations.
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A.
SMF
SMF is the three-letter IATA airport code for Sacramento International Airport, the primary commercial airport serving California’s capital city.
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B.
SMMC
SMMC is the highest-ranking enlisted Marine who serves as the senior enlisted advisor to the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps.
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C.
CMC
CMC is the commonly used abbreviation for the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, the service’s highest-ranking officer and senior military leader.
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D.
SKC
SKC is the commonly used abbreviation for Sporting Kansas City, a professional Major League Soccer club based in Kansas City.
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E.
SBC
SBC is a standard Bluetooth audio codec used for wireless transmission of sound between devices such as headphones and smartphones.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Local Group galaxy
ⓘ
dwarf irregular galaxy ⓘ satellite galaxy ⓘ |
| alternateName |
SMC galaxy
ⓘ
Small Magellanic Cloud ⓘ |
| angularSize_deg | ~3 ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | ~2.7 ⓘ |
| bestSeenIn | dark skies away from city lights ⓘ |
| constellation | Tucana ⓘ |
| contains |
Cepheid variable stars
ⓘ
H II regions ⓘ RR Lyrae variable stars ⓘ globular clusters ⓘ intermediate-age stellar populations ⓘ old stellar populations ⓘ planetary nebulae ⓘ star clusters ⓘ star-forming regions ⓘ supernova remnants ⓘ young stellar populations ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | known to pre-telescopic southern observers ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth_kpc | ~60 ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth_ly | ~200000 ⓘ |
| distanceFromMilkyWay_kpc | ~60 ⓘ |
| galaxyType | dwarf irregular ⓘ |
| gasMass_solarMasses | ~3e8 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Magellanic Bridge connection to LMC
ⓘ
linked to:
Magellanic Bridge
distorted morphology ⓘ extended gas envelope ⓘ irregular structure ⓘ |
| interactionWith |
Large Magellanic Cloud
ⓘ
Milky Way ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southern celestial hemisphere ⓘ |
| mass_solarMasses | ~7e8 ⓘ |
| memberOf | Local Group ⓘ |
| metallicity | low ⓘ |
| metallicityRelativeToSun | ~0.2 Z☉ ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | Im ⓘ |
| observedBy |
Ferdinand Magellan expedition
ⓘ
linked to:
Magellan–Elcano expedition
|
| satelliteOf | Milky Way ⓘ |
| starFormationActivity | ongoing ⓘ |
| stellarMass_solarMasses | ~4e8 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
chemical evolution studies
ⓘ
distance scale calibration ⓘ star formation studies ⓘ studies of galactic evolution ⓘ studies of stellar populations ⓘ |
| visibility | naked-eye object ⓘ |
| visibleFrom | Southern Hemisphere ⓘ |
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: SMC Description of subject: SMC is a nearby dwarf irregular galaxy and satellite of the Milky Way, visible from the Southern Hemisphere and important for studies of galactic evolution and stellar populations.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.