Caldwell 106
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Caldwell 106 is a bright, massive globular star cluster in the constellation Tucana, notable for its dense core and visibility to the naked eye under dark skies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Caldwell 106 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5089180 — 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: Caldwell 106 Context triple: [47 Tucanae, alsoKnownAs, Caldwell 106]
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A.
Caldwell 14
Caldwell 14 is an open star cluster in the constellation Perseus, forming part of the famous Double Cluster visible to the naked eye in dark skies.
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B.
Caldwell 49
Caldwell 49 is a large, bright emission nebula and star-forming region in the constellation Monoceros, popularly known as the Rosette Nebula.
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C.
Barnard 5
Barnard 5 is a dark molecular cloud and active star-forming region located within the Perseus molecular cloud complex.
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D.
Trumpler 16
Trumpler 16 is a massive young star cluster in the Carina Nebula, notable for hosting some of the most luminous and massive known stars, including Eta Carinae.
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E.
Jewel Box cluster
The Jewel Box cluster is a bright and colorful open star cluster in the constellation Crux, renowned for its striking mix of blue and red stars visible even in small telescopes.
- 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: Caldwell 106 Target entity description: Caldwell 106 is a bright, massive globular star cluster in the constellation Tucana, notable for its dense core and visibility to the naked eye under dark skies.
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A.
Caldwell 14
Caldwell 14 is an open star cluster in the constellation Perseus, forming part of the famous Double Cluster visible to the naked eye in dark skies.
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B.
Caldwell 49
Caldwell 49 is a large, bright emission nebula and star-forming region in the constellation Monoceros, popularly known as the Rosette Nebula.
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C.
Barnard 5
Barnard 5 is a dark molecular cloud and active star-forming region located within the Perseus molecular cloud complex.
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D.
Trumpler 16
Trumpler 16 is a massive young star cluster in the Carina Nebula, notable for hosting some of the most luminous and massive known stars, including Eta Carinae.
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E.
Jewel Box cluster
The Jewel Box cluster is a bright and colorful open star cluster in the constellation Crux, renowned for its striking mix of blue and red stars visible even in small telescopes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | globular star cluster ⓘ |
| bestObservedInSeason | Southern spring ⓘ |
| bestSeenFromHemisphere | Southern Hemisphere ⓘ |
| hasAngularSize | about 30 arcminutes ⓘ |
| hasApparentMagnitude | 4.1 ⓘ |
| hasCaldwellNumber | C106 ⓘ |
| hasCoreDensity | high ⓘ |
| isBright | true ⓘ |
| isMassive | true ⓘ |
| isPopularTargetFor |
amateur astronomers
ⓘ
astrophotographers ⓘ |
| isVisibleToNakedEye | true ⓘ |
| locatedInConstellation | Tucana ⓘ |
| partOfCatalogue | Caldwell catalogue ⓘ |
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: Caldwell 106 Description of subject: Caldwell 106 is a bright, massive globular star cluster in the constellation Tucana, notable for its dense core and visibility to the naked eye under dark skies.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
47 Tucanae (in its vicinity on the sky)