NGC 4478
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NGC 4478 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Virgo and is a member of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| NGC 4478 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5410473 — 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 4478 Context triple: [Virgo Cluster, containsGalaxy, NGC 4478]
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A.
NGC 4477
NGC 4477 is a barred lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Virgo and is a member of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies.
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B.
NGC 4649
NGC 4649, also known as Messier 60, is a massive elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo notable for its bright central region and supermassive black hole.
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C.
NGC 4438
NGC 4438 is a heavily distorted spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo, notable for its tidal interactions and membership in the Virgo Cluster.
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D.
NGC 4473
NGC 4473 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo, notable as a bright member of the Virgo Cluster and a subject of detailed studies of galaxy structure and dynamics.
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E.
NGC 4374
NGC 4374, also known as Messier 84, is a giant elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Virgo and is a prominent member of the Virgo Cluster.
- 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 4478 Target entity description: NGC 4478 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Virgo and is a member of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies.
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A.
NGC 4477
NGC 4477 is a barred lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Virgo and is a member of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies.
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B.
NGC 4649
NGC 4649, also known as Messier 60, is a massive elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo notable for its bright central region and supermassive black hole.
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C.
NGC 4438
NGC 4438 is a heavily distorted spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo, notable for its tidal interactions and membership in the Virgo Cluster.
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D.
NGC 4473
NGC 4473 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo, notable as a bright member of the Virgo Cluster and a subject of detailed studies of galaxy structure and dynamics.
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E.
NGC 4374
NGC 4374, also known as Messier 84, is a giant elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Virgo and is a prominent member of the Virgo Cluster.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
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 4478 Description of subject: NGC 4478 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Virgo and is a member of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.