UGC 9128
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UGC 9128 is a faint dwarf irregular galaxy located in the nearby M81 Group in the constellation Ursa Major.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| UGC 9128 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4531688 — 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 9128 Context triple: [M81 Group, containsGalaxy, UGC 9128]
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A.
UCH
UCH is a leading public research university in Santiago, Chile, renowned for its academic excellence and significant influence on the country’s intellectual and cultural life.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Ufgood
Ufgood is the surname of Willow Ufgood, the central aspiring sorcerer and farmer protagonist from the fantasy film "Willow."
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E.
UGC
UGC (University Grants Commission) is a statutory body of the Indian government responsible for coordinating, determining, and maintaining standards of higher education in India.
- 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 9128 Target entity description: UGC 9128 is a faint dwarf irregular galaxy located in the nearby M81 Group in the constellation Ursa Major.
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A.
UCH
UCH is a leading public research university in Santiago, Chile, renowned for its academic excellence and significant influence on the country’s intellectual and cultural life.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Ufgood
Ufgood is the surname of Willow Ufgood, the central aspiring sorcerer and farmer protagonist from the fantasy film "Willow."
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E.
UGC
UGC (University Grants Commission) is a statutory body of the Indian government responsible for coordinating, determining, and maintaining standards of higher education in India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronomical object
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dwarf irregular galaxy ⓘ galaxy ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | ~14.5 ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Local Volume ⓘ |
| catalog | UGC ⓘ |
| catalogName | UGC 9128 ⓘ |
| contains |
neutral hydrogen gas
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old stars ⓘ young stars ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth |
~2.2 Mpc
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~7.2 Mly ⓘ |
| environment | nearby galaxy group ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeDesignation |
DDO 187
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PGC 51659 ⓘ |
| hasLowSurfaceBrightness | true ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType |
Im
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dIrr ⓘ |
| hasOngoingStarFormation | true ⓘ |
| hasStarFormationHistoryStudy | true ⓘ |
| isFaint | true ⓘ |
| isGasRich | true ⓘ |
| isGravitationallyBoundTo | M81 Group ⓘ |
| isIrregularInShape | true ⓘ |
| isNearbyGalaxy | true ⓘ |
| isResolvedIntoStars | true ⓘ |
| isStarFormingDwarf | true ⓘ |
| locatedInConstellation | Ursa Major ⓘ |
| memberOf | M81 Group ⓘ |
| metallicity | low ⓘ |
| observedBy | Hubble Space Telescope ⓘ |
| partOf | M81 Group ⓘ |
| radialVelocity | ~215 km/s ⓘ |
| redshift | ~0.0007 ⓘ |
| 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 9128 Description of subject: UGC 9128 is a faint 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.