openCluster NGC 6712
E463801
OpenCluster NGC 6712 is a globular star cluster located in the constellation Scutum, notable for its relatively low concentration and signs of tidal disruption by the Milky Way.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| openCluster NGC 6712 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4619160 — 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: openCluster NGC 6712 Context triple: [Scutum, contains, openCluster NGC 6712]
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A.
openCluster NGC 6704
OpenCluster NGC 6704 is a distant open star cluster located in the constellation Scutum, composed of a loose grouping of gravitationally bound stars.
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B.
openCluster NGC 6664
OpenCluster NGC 6664 is an open star cluster located within the constellation Scutum, composed of a loose grouping of gravitationally bound young stars.
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C.
Open cluster NGC 6530
Open cluster NGC 6530 is a young, bright star cluster embedded in the Lagoon Nebula in the constellation Sagittarius, serving as a prominent site of active star formation within the Milky Way.
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D.
NGC 6205
NGC 6205 is a bright, densely packed globular star cluster in the constellation Hercules, commonly known as the Great Hercules Cluster (M13).
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E.
Jewel Box cluster
The Jewel Box cluster is a bright and colorful open star cluster in the constellation Crux, renowned for its striking mix of blue and red stars visible even in small telescopes.
- 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: openCluster NGC 6712 Target entity description: OpenCluster NGC 6712 is a globular star cluster located in the constellation Scutum, notable for its relatively low concentration and signs of tidal disruption by the Milky Way.
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A.
openCluster NGC 6704
OpenCluster NGC 6704 is a distant open star cluster located in the constellation Scutum, composed of a loose grouping of gravitationally bound stars.
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B.
openCluster NGC 6664
OpenCluster NGC 6664 is an open star cluster located within the constellation Scutum, composed of a loose grouping of gravitationally bound young stars.
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C.
Open cluster NGC 6530
Open cluster NGC 6530 is a young, bright star cluster embedded in the Lagoon Nebula in the constellation Sagittarius, serving as a prominent site of active star formation within the Milky Way.
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D.
NGC 6205
NGC 6205 is a bright, densely packed globular star cluster in the constellation Hercules, commonly known as the Great Hercules Cluster (M13).
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E.
Jewel Box cluster
The Jewel Box cluster is a bright and colorful open star cluster in the constellation Crux, renowned for its striking mix of blue and red stars visible even in small telescopes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NGC object
ⓘ
globular star cluster ⓘ |
| affectedBy | Milky Way tidal field ⓘ |
| age | ~12 billion years ⓘ |
| angularSize | ~7.2 arcminutes ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | 8.69 ⓘ |
| approximateHalfLightRadius | a few parsecs ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Galactic globular cluster system ⓘ |
| bestObservedIn | summer months ⓘ |
| catalog | New General Catalogue ⓘ |
| clusterType | low-concentration globular cluster ⓘ |
| concentration | low ⓘ |
| constellation | Scutum ⓘ |
| contains |
X-ray sources
ⓘ
blue straggler stars ⓘ millisecond pulsars ⓘ |
| coreCollapseStatus | non–core-collapsed ⓘ |
| declination | -08° 42′ 22″ ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | William Herschel ⓘ |
| discoveryDate | 1784 ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth |
~22,500 light-years
ⓘ
~6.9 kiloparsecs ⓘ |
| epoch | J2000 ⓘ |
| galacticLatitude | ~-4.3° ⓘ |
| galacticLongitude | ~25.35° ⓘ |
| hasRadialDensityProfile | shallow ⓘ |
| hostGalaxy | Milky Way ⓘ |
| interstellarExtinction | significant ⓘ |
| lineOfSight | through dense regions of the Galactic disk ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Milky Way
ⓘ
Milky Way halo ⓘ
linked to:
Milky Way stellar halo
|
| massLossHistory | significant due to tidal stripping ⓘ |
| metallicity[Fe/H] | about -1.0 ⓘ |
| metallicityClass | moderately metal-poor ⓘ |
| observedIn |
X-ray wavelengths
ⓘ
optical wavelengths ⓘ |
| otherDesignation |
C 1851-084
ⓘ
GCl 110 ⓘ |
| rightAscension | 18h 53m 04s ⓘ |
| ShapleySawyerConcentrationClass | IX ⓘ |
| showsMassSegregation | true ⓘ |
| showsTidalDisruption | true ⓘ |
| stellarPopulation | old, metal-poor stars ⓘ |
| tidalTailsDetected | true ⓘ |
| visibility | best seen from southern and low-northern latitudes ⓘ |
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: openCluster NGC 6712 Description of subject: OpenCluster NGC 6712 is a globular star cluster located in the constellation Scutum, notable for its relatively low concentration and signs of tidal disruption by the Milky Way.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.