NGC 7317
E292074
NGC 7317 is an elliptical galaxy that forms part of Stephan's Quintet, a famous compact group of interacting galaxies in the constellation Pegasus.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| NGC 7317 canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2706415 — 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 7317 Context triple: [Stephan's Quintet, hasNGCDesignation, NGC 7317]
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A.
NGC 3372
NGC 3372 is a massive, bright star-forming nebula in the Carina constellation, famous for housing the unstable supergiant star Eta Carinae and extensive regions of ionized gas and dust.
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B.
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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C.
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.
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D.
NGC 205
NGC 205 is a dwarf elliptical satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy, notable for its proximity to the Local Group’s largest spiral and its mixed old and young stellar populations.
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E.
NGC 224
NGC 224 is the Andromeda Galaxy, a massive spiral galaxy and the closest major galactic neighbor 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 7317 Target entity description: NGC 7317 is an elliptical galaxy that forms part of Stephan's Quintet, a famous compact group of interacting galaxies in the constellation Pegasus.
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A.
NGC 3372
NGC 3372 is a massive, bright star-forming nebula in the Carina constellation, famous for housing the unstable supergiant star Eta Carinae and extensive regions of ionized gas and dust.
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B.
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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C.
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.
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D.
NGC 205
NGC 205 is a dwarf elliptical satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy, notable for its proximity to the Local Group’s largest spiral and its mixed old and young stellar populations.
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E.
NGC 224
NGC 224 is the Andromeda Galaxy, a massive spiral galaxy and the closest major galactic neighbor to the Milky Way.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
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 7317 Description of subject: NGC 7317 is an elliptical galaxy that forms part of Stephan's Quintet, a famous compact group of interacting galaxies in the constellation Pegasus.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
NGC 7318B
subject surface form:
NGC 7319
subject surface form:
NGC 7320