And XII
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And XII is a faint dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| And XII canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5129141 — 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 XII Context triple: [Andromeda XII, otherName, And XII]
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A.
And XI
And XI is a faint dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
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B.
And IX
And IX is a faint dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
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C.
And VII
And VII is a dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
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D.
The Twelve
The Twelve is a collection of twelve shorter prophetic books in the Hebrew Bible, often treated as a single unified work within the Minor Prophets.
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E.
The Twelfth
The Twelfth is an annual Protestant and unionist celebration in Northern Ireland, marked by parades and bonfires commemorating the 1690 Battle of the Boyne.
- 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 XII Target entity description: And XII is a faint dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
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A.
And XI
And XI is a faint dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
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B.
And IX
And IX is a faint dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
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C.
And VII
And VII is a dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy located in the Local Group.
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D.
The Twelve
The Twelve is a collection of twelve shorter prophetic books in the Hebrew Bible, often treated as a single unified work within the Minor Prophets.
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E.
The Twelfth
The Twelfth is an annual Protestant and unionist celebration in Northern Ireland, marked by parades and bonfires commemorating the 1690 Battle of the Boyne.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | dwarf spheroidal galaxy ⓘ |
| absoluteMagnitudeV | about −6.4 ⓘ |
| apparentBrightness | faint ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Andromeda satellite system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Dwarf galaxies
ⓘ
Local Group galaxies ⓘ Satellite galaxies of Andromeda ⓘ |
| constellation | Andromeda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| darkMatterContent | dark-matter-dominated ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | Martin et al. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoveryMethod | resolved stellar photometry ⓘ |
| discoveryYear | 2006 ⓘ |
| distanceFromAndromedaGalaxy | approximately 115000 parsecs ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth | approximately 900000 light-years ⓘ |
| environment | outer halo of the Andromeda Galaxy ⓘ |
| galaxyType | dwarf spheroidal galaxy ⓘ |
| gasContent | gas-poor ⓘ |
| hasStarFormation | no current star formation detected ⓘ |
| hostGalaxy | Andromeda Galaxy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Local Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| luminosity | very low ⓘ |
| memberOf | Local Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| metallicity | low ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | dSph ⓘ |
| otherName |
Andromeda 12
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Andromeda XII NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| radialVelocityRelativeToAndromedaGalaxy | unbound or marginally bound ⓘ |
| radialVelocityRelativeToMilkyWay | high ⓘ |
| satelliteOf | Andromeda Galaxy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shape | spheroidal ⓘ |
| stellarPopulation | old ⓘ |
| surfaceBrightness | very low ⓘ |
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 XII Description of subject: And XII is a faint 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.