NGC 6584
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NGC 6584 is a globular star cluster located in the southern constellation Telescopium.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| NGC 6584 canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4736514 — 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: NGC 6584 Context triple: [Telescopium, containsDeepSkyObject, NGC 6584]
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A.
NGC 6705
NGC 6705 is a rich, compact open star cluster in the constellation Scutum, notable for its high stellar density and brightness, making it one of the most impressive open clusters in the Milky Way.
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B.
NGC 6604
NGC 6604 is a young, compact open star cluster associated with the Serpens OB2 association, located near the Eagle Nebula in the constellation Serpens.
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C.
NGC 6514
NGC 6514 is a bright, colorful emission and reflection nebula in the constellation Sagittarius, widely known as the Trifid Nebula.
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D.
NGC 6618
NGC 6618 is a young, massive open star cluster embedded in the Omega Nebula (M17), notable for its intense star formation and luminous, hot stars.
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E.
NGC 6205
NGC 6205 is a bright, densely packed globular star cluster in the constellation Hercules, commonly known as the Great Hercules Cluster (M13).
- 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: NGC 6584 Target entity description: NGC 6584 is a globular star cluster located in the southern constellation Telescopium.
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A.
NGC 6705
NGC 6705 is a rich, compact open star cluster in the constellation Scutum, notable for its high stellar density and brightness, making it one of the most impressive open clusters in the Milky Way.
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B.
NGC 6604
NGC 6604 is a young, compact open star cluster associated with the Serpens OB2 association, located near the Eagle Nebula in the constellation Serpens.
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C.
NGC 6514
NGC 6514 is a bright, colorful emission and reflection nebula in the constellation Sagittarius, widely known as the Trifid Nebula.
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D.
NGC 6618
NGC 6618 is a young, massive open star cluster embedded in the Omega Nebula (M17), notable for its intense star formation and luminous, hot stars.
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E.
NGC 6205
NGC 6205 is a bright, densely packed globular star cluster in the constellation Hercules, commonly known as the Great Hercules Cluster (M13).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | globular cluster ⓘ |
| angularSize | about 7 arcminutes ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | about 8.3 ⓘ |
| belongsToGalaxy | Milky Way ⓘ |
| bestSeenInMonth | July ⓘ |
| catalog | New General Catalogue ⓘ |
| catalogDesignation | NGC 6584 ⓘ |
| contains | old, low-metallicity stars ⓘ |
| declination | −52° ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | James Dunlop ⓘ |
| discoveryYear | 1826 ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth |
approximately 14,000 parsecs
ⓘ
approximately 45,000 light-years ⓘ |
| galacticPopulation | Population II ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeClassification | Galactic globular cluster ⓘ |
| hasObjectType | star cluster ⓘ |
| locatedInConstellation | Telescopium ⓘ |
| locatedInGalacticComponent | Galactic halo ⓘ |
| locatedInRegionOfSky | southern celestial hemisphere ⓘ |
| metallicity[Fe/H] | about −1.5 ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | Class VI (Shapley–Sawyer) ⓘ |
| observableFrom | southern latitudes ⓘ |
| observedIn | optical wavelengths ⓘ |
| rightAscension | 18h 18m ⓘ |
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: NGC 6584 Description of subject: NGC 6584 is a globular star cluster located in the southern constellation Telescopium.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.