UGC 9992
E451669
UGC 9992 is a relatively faint, dwarf galaxy that is a member of the nearby M81 Group in the constellation Ursa Major.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| UGC 9992 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4531691 — 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 9992 Context triple: [M81 Group, containsGalaxy, UGC 9992]
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A.
UGC 9128
UGC 9128 is a faint dwarf irregular galaxy located in the nearby M81 Group in the constellation Ursa Major.
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B.
UGC 9405
UGC 9405 is a dwarf galaxy that is a member of the nearby M81 Group in the constellation Ursa Major.
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C.
UGC 9240
UGC 9240 is a dwarf irregular galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major and is a member of the nearby M81 Group of galaxies.
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D.
UGC 4483
UGC 4483 is a faint dwarf irregular galaxy located in the constellation Camelopardalis and is a member of the nearby M81 Group of galaxies.
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E.
UGC 8201
UGC 8201 is a dwarf irregular galaxy located in the nearby M81 Group in the constellation Ursa Major.
- 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 9992 Target entity description: UGC 9992 is a relatively faint, dwarf galaxy that is a member of the nearby M81 Group in the constellation Ursa Major.
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A.
UGC 9128
UGC 9128 is a faint dwarf irregular galaxy located in the nearby M81 Group in the constellation Ursa Major.
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B.
UGC 9405
UGC 9405 is a dwarf galaxy that is a member of the nearby M81 Group in the constellation Ursa Major.
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C.
UGC 9240
UGC 9240 is a dwarf irregular galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major and is a member of the nearby M81 Group of galaxies.
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D.
UGC 4483
UGC 4483 is a faint dwarf irregular galaxy located in the constellation Camelopardalis and is a member of the nearby M81 Group of galaxies.
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E.
UGC 8201
UGC 8201 is a dwarf irregular galaxy located in the nearby M81 Group in the constellation Ursa Major.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dwarf galaxy
ⓘ
galaxy ⓘ |
| brightness | relatively faint ⓘ |
| catalog | UGC ⓘ |
| catalogNumber | 9992 ⓘ |
| celestialCategory | extragalactic object ⓘ |
| cosmicStructure | part of the local universe ⓘ |
| distanceRelation | nearby relative to the Milky Way ⓘ |
| environment | near M81 ⓘ |
| gravitationallyBoundTo | M81 Group ⓘ |
| groupMembership | nearby galaxy group ⓘ |
| hostEnvironment | group environment rather than field ⓘ |
| includedIn | Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies ⓘ |
| locatedInConstellation | Ursa Major ⓘ |
| luminosityClass | low-luminosity galaxy ⓘ |
| massCategory | low-mass galaxy ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Local Volume
ⓘ
M81 Group ⓘ |
| observedIn |
optical wavelengths
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radio wavelengths ⓘ |
| partOf | M81 Group ⓘ |
| redshiftCategory | nearby galaxy (low redshift) ⓘ |
| skyArea | constellation region of Ursa Major ⓘ |
| skyLocation | northern celestial 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: UGC 9992 Description of subject: UGC 9992 is a relatively faint, 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.