NGC 2011
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NGC 2011 is a young open star cluster embedded in a bright nebula located in the southern constellation Dorado within the Large Magellanic Cloud.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| NGC 2011 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4943500 — 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 2011 Context triple: [Dorado, contains, NGC 2011]
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A.
NGC 2023
NGC 2023 is a bright reflection nebula in the constellation Orion, illuminated by a young B-type star and noted for its complex dust and gas structures.
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B.
NGC 2024
NGC 2024, also known as the Flame Nebula, is a bright emission nebula and active star-forming region located in the constellation Orion near the Horsehead Nebula.
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C.
NGC 221
NGC 221 is a compact dwarf elliptical galaxy in the Local Group, best known as the bright satellite galaxy M32 orbiting the Andromeda Galaxy.
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D.
NGC 7319
NGC 7319 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus, notable as a member of the interacting galaxy group known as Stephan's Quintet.
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E.
NGC 2976
NGC 2976 is a nearby dwarf spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major and a member of the M81 Group of galaxies.
- 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 2011 Target entity description: NGC 2011 is a young open star cluster embedded in a bright nebula located in the southern constellation Dorado within the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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A.
NGC 2023
NGC 2023 is a bright reflection nebula in the constellation Orion, illuminated by a young B-type star and noted for its complex dust and gas structures.
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B.
NGC 2024
NGC 2024, also known as the Flame Nebula, is a bright emission nebula and active star-forming region located in the constellation Orion near the Horsehead Nebula.
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C.
NGC 221
NGC 221 is a compact dwarf elliptical galaxy in the Local Group, best known as the bright satellite galaxy M32 orbiting the Andromeda Galaxy.
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D.
NGC 7319
NGC 7319 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus, notable as a member of the interacting galaxy group known as Stephan's Quintet.
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E.
NGC 2976
NGC 2976 is a nearby dwarf spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major and a member of the M81 Group of galaxies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronomical object
ⓘ
open star cluster ⓘ young star cluster ⓘ |
| age | a few million years ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | approximately 11.2 ⓘ |
| associatedWith | star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud ⓘ |
| bestSeenFrom | southern latitudes ⓘ |
| catalog | New General Catalogue ⓘ |
| catalogNumber | 2011 ⓘ |
| contains | massive young stars ⓘ |
| declination | −67° 31′ ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | John Herschel ⓘ |
| discoveryYear | 1835 ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth |
approximately 160000 light-years
ⓘ
approximately 49 kiloparsecs ⓘ |
| embeddedIn | bright nebula ⓘ |
| environment | rich star-forming complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud ⓘ |
| galaxy | Large Magellanic Cloud ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeDesignation | ESO 56-SC121 ⓘ |
| hasNebulosity | yes ⓘ |
| hemisphere | southern celestial hemisphere ⓘ |
| isIn | constellation Dorado ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Large Magellanic Cloud ⓘ |
| locatedInConstellation | Dorado ⓘ |
| memberOf | Large Magellanic Cloud star clusters ⓘ |
| observedBy | Hubble Space Telescope ⓘ |
| observedIn | optical wavelengths ⓘ |
| partOf |
Milky Way satellite system
ⓘ
linked to:
Milky Way
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| rightAscension | 05h 31m ⓘ |
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 2011 Description of subject: NGC 2011 is a young open star cluster embedded in a bright nebula located in the southern constellation Dorado within the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.