And IX
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And IX is a faint dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| And IX canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4983850 — 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: And IX Context triple: [Andromeda IX, otherDesignation, And IX]
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And VII
And VII is a dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
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And III
And III is a dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
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And VI
And VI is a dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
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D.
Séptima
Séptima is the common name for Carrera Séptima, one of Bogotá, Colombia’s main and most historic thoroughfares, known for its cultural, political, and commercial significance.
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E.
Pax
Pax is the Latin word for "peace," widely used in Christian and monastic traditions as a spiritual and communal ideal.
- 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: And IX Target entity description: And IX is a faint dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
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A.
And VII
And VII is a dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
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B.
And III
And III is a dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
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C.
And VI
And VI is a dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
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D.
Séptima
Séptima is the common name for Carrera Séptima, one of Bogotá, Colombia’s main and most historic thoroughfares, known for its cultural, political, and commercial significance.
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E.
Pax
Pax is the Latin word for "peace," widely used in Christian and monastic traditions as a spiritual and communal ideal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronomical object
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dwarf spheroidal galaxy ⓘ satellite galaxy ⓘ |
| absoluteMagnitudeV | about −8.3 ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | about 16.2 ⓘ |
| belongsTo | satellite system of the Andromeda Galaxy ⓘ |
| constellation | Andromeda ⓘ |
| contains | old, metal-poor stars ⓘ |
| darkMatterContent | dominant ⓘ |
| declination | +43° ⓘ |
| discoveredBy |
A. W. McConnachie
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collaborators ⓘ |
| discoveryMethod | analysis of Sloan Digital Sky Survey data ⓘ |
| discoveryYear | 2004 ⓘ |
| distanceFromAndromedaGalaxy | about 45 kiloparsecs ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth | about 2.5 million light-years ⓘ |
| environment | halo of the Andromeda Galaxy ⓘ |
| galaxyType | dwarf spheroidal ⓘ |
| gasContent | very low ⓘ |
| isOneOf | faintest known satellites of the Andromeda Galaxy ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Andromeda subgroup
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Local Group ⓘ |
| luminosityClass | very low-luminosity dwarf ⓘ |
| massToLightRatio | high ⓘ |
| memberOf | Local Group ⓘ |
| metallicity | low ⓘ |
| morphology | spheroidal ⓘ |
| otherName |
Andromeda 9
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Andromeda Dwarf IX ⓘ Andromeda IX ⓘ |
| redshift | near 0 (Local Group object) ⓘ |
| rightAscension | approximately 00h 52m ⓘ |
| satelliteOf | Andromeda Galaxy ⓘ |
| starFormationActivity | quiescent ⓘ |
| stellarPopulation | old ⓘ |
| surfaceBrightness | very 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: And IX Description of subject: And IX is a faint dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.