And III
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And III is a dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| And III canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4736407 — 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: And III Context triple: [Andromeda III, otherName, And III]
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A.
Loop I
Loop I is a large, nearby interstellar superbubble in the Milky Way, associated with expanding gas and dust shells likely driven by past supernovae and stellar winds.
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B.
Book III
Book III is a component section of the Power Architecture specification that defines part of the architecture’s operational and programming model.
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C.
Book III
Book III is a section of Lactantius’s early Christian apologetic work *Divine Institutes*, continuing his systematic defense and explanation of Christian doctrine to a Roman audience.
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D.
Book III
Book III is a section of Aristotle’s zoological treatise "History of Animals," focusing on the classification and internal anatomy of animals.
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E.
Book III
Book III is the final section of Newton’s *Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica*, in which he applies his laws of motion and universal gravitation to explain the motions of celestial bodies and the structure of the solar system.
- 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: And III Target entity description: And III is a dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
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A.
Loop I
Loop I is a large, nearby interstellar superbubble in the Milky Way, associated with expanding gas and dust shells likely driven by past supernovae and stellar winds.
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B.
Book III
Book III is a component section of the Power Architecture specification that defines part of the architecture’s operational and programming model.
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C.
Book III
Book III is a section of Lactantius’s early Christian apologetic work *Divine Institutes*, continuing his systematic defense and explanation of Christian doctrine to a Roman audience.
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D.
Book III
Book III is a section of Aristotle’s zoological treatise "History of Animals," focusing on the classification and internal anatomy of animals.
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E.
Book III
Book III is the final section of Newton’s *Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica*, in which he applies his laws of motion and universal gravitation to explain the motions of celestial bodies and the structure of the solar system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronomical object
ⓘ
dwarf spheroidal galaxy ⓘ satellite galaxy ⓘ |
| absoluteMagnitudeV | about −10.2 ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Andromeda 3
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Andromeda III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | about 14.4 ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Andromeda subgroup of the Local Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
horizontal branch stars
ⓘ
red giant branch stars ⓘ |
| declination | +36° ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | Sidney van den Bergh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoveryMethod | photographic plates ⓘ |
| discoveryYear | 1972 ⓘ |
| distanceFromAndromedaGalaxy | about 280,000 light-years ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth | about 2.4 million light-years ⓘ |
| galaxyType | dwarf spheroidal ⓘ |
| gasContent | very low ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
dominated by dark matter
ⓘ
low surface brightness ⓘ |
| hostGalaxy | Andromeda Galaxy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isGravitationallyBoundTo | Andromeda Galaxy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | constellation Andromeda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Local Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| metallicity | low ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | dSph ⓘ |
| partOf | halo of the Andromeda Galaxy ⓘ |
| radialVelocityRelativeToSun | about −351 km/s ⓘ |
| rightAscension | about 00h 35m ⓘ |
| satelliteOf | Andromeda Galaxy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starFormationActivity | none or negligible ⓘ |
| stellarPopulation | old ⓘ |
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: And III Description of subject: And III is a dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.