UGC 8201
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UGC 8201 is a dwarf irregular galaxy located in the nearby M81 Group in the constellation Ursa Major.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| UGC 8201 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4531663 — 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: UGC 8201 Context triple: [M81 Group, containsGalaxy, UGC 8201]
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A.
UJ
UJ is a major public university in Johannesburg, South Africa, known for its diverse academic programs and strong focus on research and innovation.
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B.
RUC
RUC is the abbreviation for the Royal Ulster Constabulary, the former police force in Northern Ireland that operated during the Troubles.
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C.
UEA
UEA is the World Esperanto Association, the leading international organization dedicated to promoting and coordinating the global Esperanto movement.
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D.
The U's
The U's is the commonly used nickname for Cambridge United Football Club, an English professional football team based in Cambridge.
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E.
UNICT
UNICT is the commonly used acronym for the University of Catania, a major public university located in Catania, Sicily, Italy.
- 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: UGC 8201 Target entity description: UGC 8201 is a dwarf irregular galaxy located in the nearby M81 Group in the constellation Ursa Major.
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A.
UJ
UJ is a major public university in Johannesburg, South Africa, known for its diverse academic programs and strong focus on research and innovation.
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B.
RUC
RUC is the abbreviation for the Royal Ulster Constabulary, the former police force in Northern Ireland that operated during the Troubles.
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C.
UEA
UEA is the World Esperanto Association, the leading international organization dedicated to promoting and coordinating the global Esperanto movement.
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D.
The U's
The U's is the commonly used nickname for Cambridge United Football Club, an English professional football team based in Cambridge.
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E.
UNICT
UNICT is the commonly used acronym for the University of Catania, a major public university located in Catania, Sicily, Italy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dwarf irregular galaxy
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galaxy ⓘ |
| angularSize | ~2.4 × 1.4 arcminutes ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | ~13.5 ⓘ |
| catalogDesignation |
DDO 167
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PGC 45628 ⓘ UGC 8201 ⓘ |
| contains |
H II regions
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neutral hydrogen gas ⓘ |
| declination | +67° (approx) ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth |
~14 million light-years
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~4.3 Mpc ⓘ |
| environment | nearby M81 Group outskirts ⓘ |
| galaxyType | gas-rich dwarf ⓘ |
| hasStellarPopulation |
old stars
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young stars ⓘ |
| locatedIn | northern celestial hemisphere ⓘ |
| locatedInConstellation | Ursa Major ⓘ |
| memberOf | M81 Group ⓘ |
| metallicity | low ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | Im ⓘ |
| partOf | Local Volume ⓘ |
| radialVelocity | ~255 km/s ⓘ |
| redshift | 0.0009 ⓘ |
| rightAscension | 13h 06m (approx) ⓘ |
| starFormationActivity | ongoing ⓘ |
| surfaceBrightness | low ⓘ |
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: UGC 8201 Description of subject: UGC 8201 is a dwarf irregular galaxy located in the nearby M81 Group in the constellation Ursa Major.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.