Sharpless catalogue

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The Sharpless catalogue is an astronomical listing of H II regions and emission nebulae in the Milky Way, compiled by American astronomer Stewart Sharpless.

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Label	Occurrences
Sharpless catalog	6
Sharpless catalog of H II regions	5
Sharpless catalogue canonical	2
Sharpless 2 catalog	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18457941 — 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: Sharpless catalogue
Context triple: [Sharpless 2-275, partOfCatalogue, Sharpless catalogue]

A. Bonner Durchmusterung
Bonner Durchmusterung is a 19th-century astronomical star catalog that systematically surveyed and recorded the positions and magnitudes of hundreds of thousands of stars in the northern sky.
B. New General Catalogue
The New General Catalogue is a comprehensive 19th-century astronomical catalog of deep-sky objects, including galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters, that remains widely used by astronomers today.
C. Henry Draper Catalogue
The Henry Draper Catalogue is a pioneering astronomical star catalog that provides spectral classifications and designations for hundreds of thousands of stars, forming a foundational resource in stellar astronomy.
D. Caldwell catalogue
The Caldwell catalogue is an astronomical list of 109 bright star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies compiled by Patrick Moore as a complement to the Messier catalogue, intended for observation by amateur astronomers.
E. Messier catalogue
The Messier catalogue is an 18th-century list of 110 notable deep-sky objects, such as star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies, compiled by French astronomer Charles Messier to help astronomers distinguish them from comets.
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: Sharpless catalogue
Target entity description: The Sharpless catalogue is an astronomical listing of H II regions and emission nebulae in the Milky Way, compiled by American astronomer Stewart Sharpless.

A. Bonner Durchmusterung
Bonner Durchmusterung is a 19th-century astronomical star catalog that systematically surveyed and recorded the positions and magnitudes of hundreds of thousands of stars in the northern sky.
B. New General Catalogue
The New General Catalogue is a comprehensive 19th-century astronomical catalog of deep-sky objects, including galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters, that remains widely used by astronomers today.
C. Henry Draper Catalogue
The Henry Draper Catalogue is a pioneering astronomical star catalog that provides spectral classifications and designations for hundreds of thousands of stars, forming a foundational resource in stellar astronomy.
D. Caldwell catalogue
The Caldwell catalogue is an astronomical list of 109 bright star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies compiled by Patrick Moore as a complement to the Messier catalogue, intended for observation by amateur astronomers.
E. Messier catalogue
The Messier catalogue is an 18th-century list of 110 notable deep-sky objects, such as star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies, compiled by French astronomer Charles Messier to help astronomers distinguish them from comets.
F. None of above. chosen