NGC 5460
E493931
NGC 5460 is an open star cluster located in the southern constellation Centaurus.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4943592 — 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 5460 Context triple: [Centaurus constellation region, contains, NGC 5460]
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A.
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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B.
NGC 2976
NGC 2976 is a nearby dwarf spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major and a member of the M81 Group of galaxies.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
NGC 598
NGC 598 is the Triangulum Galaxy, a nearby spiral galaxy in the Local Group and one of the closest large galaxies to the Milky Way.
- 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 5460 Target entity description: NGC 5460 is an open star cluster located in the southern constellation Centaurus.
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A.
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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B.
NGC 2976
NGC 2976 is a nearby dwarf spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major and a member of the M81 Group of galaxies.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
NGC 598
NGC 598 is the Triangulum Galaxy, a nearby spiral galaxy in the Local Group and one of the closest large galaxies to the Milky Way.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | open star cluster ⓘ |
| age | on the order of 100 million years ⓘ |
| angularSize | about 20 arcminutes ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | about 5.6 ⓘ |
| catalog | New General Catalogue ⓘ |
| celestialCategory | star cluster ⓘ |
| clusterType | open cluster ⓘ |
| contains |
giant stars
ⓘ
main-sequence stars ⓘ |
| coordinateSystem | equatorial coordinates ⓘ |
| discoverer | James Dunlop ⓘ |
| discoveryMethod | telescope observation ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth |
approximately 1,600 light-years
ⓘ
approximately 500 parsecs ⓘ |
| galacticLocation | Milky Way ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeDesignation |
C 1405-482
ⓘ
Melotte 124 ⓘ |
| hasMemberType |
A-type stars
ⓘ
B-type stars ⓘ F-type stars ⓘ |
| locatedInConstellation | Centaurus ⓘ |
| locatedInHemisphere | southern celestial hemisphere ⓘ |
| observedIn | optical wavelengths ⓘ |
| partOf |
Milky Way disk
ⓘ
linked to:
Galactic disk
|
| rightAscensionEpoch | J2000 ⓘ |
| skyLocation | near the star Zeta Centauri ⓘ |
| visibleFrom | Southern Hemisphere ⓘ |
| visibleInSeason | late autumn (Southern 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: NGC 5460 Description of subject: NGC 5460 is an open star cluster located in the southern constellation Centaurus.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: NGC 5460