UGC 7242
E450585
UGC 7242 is a dwarf galaxy that is a member of the nearby M81 Group in the constellation Ursa Major.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| UGC 7242 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4531665 — 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 7242 Context triple: [M81 Group, containsGalaxy, UGC 7242]
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A.
Caldwell 74
Caldwell 74 is a bright, well-known planetary nebula in the constellation Vela, popularly called the Southern Ring Nebula.
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B.
Ursa Minor Beta
Ursa Minor Beta is a fictional planet in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, best known as the corporate home of the Guide itself.
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C.
Collinder 228
Collinder 228 is an open star cluster embedded in the Carina Nebula, notable for its young, massive stars that help illuminate and shape the surrounding gas and dust.
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D.
Collinder 232
Collinder 232 is an open star cluster located within the Carina Nebula in the constellation Carina.
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E.
NGC 7320
NGC 7320 is a foreground spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus that appears as part of Stephan’s Quintet but is actually much closer to Earth than the other members.
- 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 7242 Target entity description: UGC 7242 is a dwarf galaxy that is a member of the nearby M81 Group in the constellation Ursa Major.
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A.
Caldwell 74
Caldwell 74 is a bright, well-known planetary nebula in the constellation Vela, popularly called the Southern Ring Nebula.
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B.
Ursa Minor Beta
Ursa Minor Beta is a fictional planet in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, best known as the corporate home of the Guide itself.
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C.
Collinder 228
Collinder 228 is an open star cluster embedded in the Carina Nebula, notable for its young, massive stars that help illuminate and shape the surrounding gas and dust.
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D.
Collinder 232
Collinder 232 is an open star cluster located within the Carina Nebula in the constellation Carina.
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E.
NGC 7320
NGC 7320 is a foreground spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus that appears as part of Stephan’s Quintet but is actually much closer to Earth than the other members.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dwarf galaxy
ⓘ
galaxy ⓘ |
| belongsToGalaxyGroup | M81 Group ⓘ |
| catalog | UGC ⓘ |
| catalogNumber | 7242 ⓘ |
| celestialObjectType | extragalactic object ⓘ |
| groupMemberOf |
M81 Group of galaxies
ⓘ
linked to:
M81 Group
|
| hasConstellation | Ursa Major ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | dwarf galaxy ⓘ |
| isNearbyGalaxyOf | Milky Way ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
northern celestial hemisphere
ⓘ
observable universe ⓘ |
| locatedInConstellation | Ursa Major ⓘ |
| memberOf | M81 Group ⓘ |
| partOf | Local Volume ⓘ |
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 7242 Description of subject: UGC 7242 is a dwarf galaxy that is a member of the nearby M81 Group in the constellation Ursa Major.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.