And II
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And II is a dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| And II canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5363250 — 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 II Context triple: [Andromeda II, alternateName, And II]
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A.
And III
And III is a dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
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B.
And VII
And VII is a dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
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C.
And IX
And IX is a faint dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
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D.
The Second
"The Second" is a jazz album by American bassist and composer Derrick Hodge that blends contemporary jazz with elements of soul, hip-hop, and experimental music.
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E.
And VI
And VI is a dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
- 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 II Target entity description: And II is a dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
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A.
And III
And III is a dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
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B.
And VII
And VII is a dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
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C.
And IX
And IX is a faint dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
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D.
The Second
"The Second" is a jazz album by American bassist and composer Derrick Hodge that blends contemporary jazz with elements of soul, hip-hop, and experimental music.
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E.
And VI
And VI is a dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | dwarf spheroidal galaxy ⓘ |
| absoluteMagnitudeV | about −12.6 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
And 2
ⓘ
Andromeda II ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | about 14.5 ⓘ |
| belongsTo | M31 satellite system ⓘ |
| category |
Andromeda satellite galaxy
ⓘ
Local Group dwarf galaxy ⓘ |
| constellation | Andromeda ⓘ |
| contains | old red giant stars ⓘ |
| darkMatterDominated | true ⓘ |
| declination | +33° 26′ ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | Sidney van den Bergh ⓘ |
| discoveryYear | 1972 ⓘ |
| distanceFromAndromedaGalaxy | about 220000 light-years ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth | about 2.2 million light-years ⓘ |
| environment | outer halo of Andromeda Galaxy ⓘ |
| galaxyType | dwarf spheroidal ⓘ |
| gasContent | very low ⓘ |
| hasHalfLightRadius | on the order of 1 kpc ⓘ |
| hasKinematics | dispersion-supported ⓘ |
| hasMorphology | spheroidal ⓘ |
| hasStellarMass | on the order of 10^7 solar masses ⓘ |
| hostGalaxy |
M31
ⓘ
linked to:
Andromeda Galaxy
|
| isGravitationallyBoundTo | Andromeda Galaxy ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Local Group ⓘ |
| memberOf | Local Group ⓘ |
| metallicity | low ⓘ |
| observedIn |
near-infrared wavelengths
ⓘ
optical wavelengths ⓘ |
| radialVelocity | about −188 km/s ⓘ |
| rightAscension | 01h 16m ⓘ |
| satelliteOf | Andromeda Galaxy ⓘ |
| shows | evidence of past tidal interactions ⓘ |
| starFormationActivity | quiescent ⓘ |
| stellarPopulation | old ⓘ |
| surfaceBrightness | 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 II Description of subject: And II is a dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.