Messier 11
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Messier 11 is a rich, compact open star cluster in the constellation Scutum, notable for its high stellar density and nickname "the Wild Duck Cluster."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Messier 11 canonical | 6 |
| open cluster M11 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4617722 — 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: Messier 11 Context triple: [Open cluster M11, alsoKnownAs, Messier 11]
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A.
Messier 45
Messier 45, commonly known as the Pleiades, is a prominent open star cluster in the constellation Taurus, easily visible to the naked eye and famous in many cultures worldwide.
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B.
Messier 44
Messier 44, also known as the Beehive Cluster or Praesepe, is a bright open star cluster visible to the naked eye and one of the nearest such clusters to Earth.
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C.
Messier 21
Messier 21 is a young open star cluster in the constellation Sagittarius, notable for its bright, densely packed hot stars and proximity to the Trifid Nebula.
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D.
Messier 8
Messier 8, also known as the Lagoon Nebula, is a large, bright emission nebula and active star-forming region visible in the constellation Sagittarius.
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E.
Messier 22
Messier 22 is a bright globular star cluster located near the center of the Milky Way, visible in the constellation Sagittarius and notable for being one of the closest and most easily observed clusters of its kind.
- 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: Messier 11 Target entity description: Messier 11 is a rich, compact open star cluster in the constellation Scutum, notable for its high stellar density and nickname "the Wild Duck Cluster."
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A.
Messier 45
Messier 45, commonly known as the Pleiades, is a prominent open star cluster in the constellation Taurus, easily visible to the naked eye and famous in many cultures worldwide.
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B.
Messier 44
Messier 44, also known as the Beehive Cluster or Praesepe, is a bright open star cluster visible to the naked eye and one of the nearest such clusters to Earth.
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C.
Messier 21
Messier 21 is a young open star cluster in the constellation Sagittarius, notable for its bright, densely packed hot stars and proximity to the Trifid Nebula.
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D.
Messier 8
Messier 8, also known as the Lagoon Nebula, is a large, bright emission nebula and active star-forming region visible in the constellation Sagittarius.
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E.
Messier 22
Messier 22 is a bright globular star cluster located near the center of the Milky Way, visible in the constellation Sagittarius and notable for being one of the closest and most easily observed clusters of its kind.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Messier object
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NGC object ⓘ astronomical object ⓘ open star cluster ⓘ |
| age | about 220 million years ⓘ |
| angularSize | 14 arcminutes ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | 5.8 ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Messier catalogue
ⓘ
New General Catalogue ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Scutum–Centaurus Arm ⓘ |
| bestSeenFromHemisphere | Northern Hemisphere ⓘ |
| cataloguedBy | Charles Messier ⓘ |
| clusterConcentration | high ⓘ |
| clusterType | rich open cluster ⓘ |
| contains |
giant stars
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numerous main-sequence stars ⓘ several thousand stars ⓘ |
| declination | -06° 16′ ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | Gottfried Kirch ⓘ |
| discoveryYear | 1681 ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth |
about 1.8 kiloparsecs
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about 6000 light-years ⓘ |
| galacticLatitude | -2.8 degrees ⓘ |
| galacticLongitude | 27.3 degrees ⓘ |
| hasColor | dominated by blue-white stars ⓘ |
| hasCorePopulation | high stellar density ⓘ |
| hasDesignation |
M11
ⓘ
NGC 6705 ⓘ |
| hasNickname | Wild Duck Cluster ⓘ |
| hasObservationSeason |
northern autumn
ⓘ
northern summer ⓘ |
| hasShape | triangular appearance ⓘ |
| isTargetFor |
amateur astronomers
ⓘ
astrophotography ⓘ |
| liesInDirectionOf |
Galactic center region
ⓘ
linked to:
Milky Way center
|
| locatedIn |
Galactic disk
ⓘ
Milky Way ⓘ |
| locatedInConstellation | Scutum ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Scutum Star Cloud ⓘ |
| messierNumber | 11 ⓘ |
| metallicity | near-solar ⓘ |
| ngcNumber | 6705 ⓘ |
| nicknameOrigin | resembles a flock of wild ducks in flight ⓘ |
| observedIn | optical wavelengths ⓘ |
| rightAscension | 18h 51m ⓘ |
| visibleWith |
binoculars
ⓘ
small telescope ⓘ |
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: Messier 11 Description of subject: Messier 11 is a rich, compact open star cluster in the constellation Scutum, notable for its high stellar density and nickname "the Wild Duck Cluster."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.