Ursa Minor Dwarf Galaxy
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The Ursa Minor Dwarf Galaxy is a faint, spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Milky Way located in the constellation Ursa Minor and composed primarily of old, metal-poor stars.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ursa Minor Dwarf Galaxy canonical | 6 |
| Ursa Minor Dwarf | 2 |
| Dwarf Galaxy in Ursa Minor | 1 |
| Ursa Minor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T869150 — 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: Ursa Minor Dwarf Galaxy Context triple: [Local Group, contains, Ursa Minor Dwarf Galaxy]
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A.
Draco Dwarf Galaxy
Draco Dwarf Galaxy is a faint, spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, notable for its high dark matter content and very low rate of star formation.
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B.
Carina Dwarf Galaxy
The Carina Dwarf Galaxy is a faint, spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Milky Way located in the Local Group, notable for its low luminosity and predominantly old stellar population.
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C.
Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy
The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy is a nearby, faint irregular dwarf galaxy thought to be the closest known satellite galaxy to the Milky Way and currently being tidally disrupted by it.
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D.
Leo II Dwarf Galaxy
Leo II Dwarf Galaxy is a faint, spheroidal dwarf galaxy and satellite of the Milky Way located in the constellation Leo and belonging to the Local Group of galaxies.
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E.
Leo I Dwarf Galaxy
Leo I Dwarf Galaxy is a faint, spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Milky Way located in the constellation Leo and belonging to the Local Group of galaxies.
- 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: Ursa Minor Dwarf Galaxy Target entity description: The Ursa Minor Dwarf Galaxy is a faint, spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Milky Way located in the constellation Ursa Minor and composed primarily of old, metal-poor stars.
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A.
Draco Dwarf Galaxy
Draco Dwarf Galaxy is a faint, spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, notable for its high dark matter content and very low rate of star formation.
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B.
Carina Dwarf Galaxy
The Carina Dwarf Galaxy is a faint, spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Milky Way located in the Local Group, notable for its low luminosity and predominantly old stellar population.
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C.
Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy
The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy is a nearby, faint irregular dwarf galaxy thought to be the closest known satellite galaxy to the Milky Way and currently being tidally disrupted by it.
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D.
Leo II Dwarf Galaxy
Leo II Dwarf Galaxy is a faint, spheroidal dwarf galaxy and satellite of the Milky Way located in the constellation Leo and belonging to the Local Group of galaxies.
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E.
Leo I Dwarf Galaxy
Leo I Dwarf Galaxy is a faint, spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Milky Way located in the constellation Leo and belonging to the Local Group of galaxies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Ursa Minor Dwarf Galaxy Description of subject: The Ursa Minor Dwarf Galaxy is a faint, spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Milky Way located in the constellation Ursa Minor and composed primarily of old, metal-poor stars.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ursa Minor Dwarf Galaxy
subject linked to:
Local Group galaxies
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linked to: Ursa Minor Dwarf Galaxy
linked to: Ursa Minor Dwarf Galaxy