BK3N
E450578
BK3N is a small, faint dwarf galaxy that is a member of the nearby M81 Group of galaxies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| BK3N canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4531654 — 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: BK3N Context triple: [M81 Group, containsGalaxy, BK3N]
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A.
BK
BK is a common abbreviation for Brooklyn, a borough of New York City known for its cultural diversity, arts scene, and historic neighborhoods.
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B.
BKS
BKS is the former New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for Barnes & Noble, the large American bookselling and retail company.
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C.
BKL
BKL is an alternative name for the Big Circle Line, a major circular metro line in Moscow’s rapid transit system.
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D.
BKL
BKL is the FAA airport code for Burke Lakefront Airport, a public airport located on the shore of Lake Erie in Cleveland, Ohio.
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E.
BKR
BKR was the abbreviated name of the People's Security Agency, an early post-World War II Indonesian security and defense organization.
- 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: BK3N Target entity description: BK3N is a small, faint dwarf galaxy that is a member of the nearby M81 Group of galaxies.
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A.
BK
BK is a common abbreviation for Brooklyn, a borough of New York City known for its cultural diversity, arts scene, and historic neighborhoods.
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B.
BKS
BKS is the former New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for Barnes & Noble, the large American bookselling and retail company.
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C.
BKL
BKL is an alternative name for the Big Circle Line, a major circular metro line in Moscow’s rapid transit system.
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D.
BKL
BKL is the FAA airport code for Burke Lakefront Airport, a public airport located on the shore of Lake Erie in Cleveland, Ohio.
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E.
BKR
BKR was the abbreviated name of the People's Security Agency, an early post-World War II Indonesian security and defense organization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dwarf galaxy
ⓘ
galaxy ⓘ |
| apparentBrightness | faint ⓘ |
| belongsTo | nearby M81 Group of galaxies ⓘ |
| cosmicEnvironment | nearby galaxy group ⓘ |
| cosmologicalContext | nearby universe ⓘ |
| discoveredAs | faint dwarf companion in the M81 Group ⓘ |
| distanceReferenceFrame | Local Group vicinity ⓘ |
| environmentType | group environment ⓘ |
| galaxyGroup | M81 Group ⓘ |
| galaxyType | dwarf galaxy ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
dwarf system
ⓘ
low luminosity ⓘ low surface brightness ⓘ |
| isSatelliteOf | M81 Group potential well ⓘ |
| locatedIn | M81 Group ⓘ |
| memberOf | M81 Group ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | dwarf galaxy ⓘ |
| neighboringMajorGalaxy |
M81
ⓘ
linked to:
Messier 81
Messier 81 ⓘ |
| observedIn |
optical wavelengths
ⓘ
radio wavelengths ⓘ |
| partOf | local universe ⓘ |
| redshiftFrame | local flow ⓘ |
| size | small ⓘ |
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: BK3N Description of subject: BK3N is a small, faint dwarf galaxy that is a member of the nearby M81 Group of galaxies.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.