NGC 6603 (central cluster often associated)
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NGC 6603 is a compact open star cluster located within the Sagittarius Star Cloud in the constellation Sagittarius.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NGC 6603 (central cluster often associated) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5240889 — 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 6603 (central cluster often associated) Context triple: [Sagittarius Star Cloud, NGCNumber, NGC 6603 (central cluster often associated)]
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A.
Open cluster NGC 6530
Open cluster NGC 6530 is a young, bright star cluster embedded in the Lagoon Nebula in the constellation Sagittarius, serving as a prominent site of active star formation within the Milky Way.
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B.
open star cluster NGC 6611
Open star cluster NGC 6611 is a young, massive cluster of hot, bright stars that illuminates and shapes the surrounding gas and dust of the Eagle Nebula.
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C.
NGC 6611
NGC 6611 is a young, massive open star cluster embedded within the Eagle Nebula, notable for illuminating and shaping its surrounding interstellar gas and dust.
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D.
NGC 6618
NGC 6618 is a young, massive open star cluster embedded in the Omega Nebula (M17), notable for its intense star formation and luminous, hot stars.
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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: NGC 6603 (central cluster often associated) Target entity description: NGC 6603 is a compact open star cluster located within the Sagittarius Star Cloud in the constellation Sagittarius.
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A.
Open cluster NGC 6530
Open cluster NGC 6530 is a young, bright star cluster embedded in the Lagoon Nebula in the constellation Sagittarius, serving as a prominent site of active star formation within the Milky Way.
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B.
open star cluster NGC 6611
Open star cluster NGC 6611 is a young, massive cluster of hot, bright stars that illuminates and shapes the surrounding gas and dust of the Eagle Nebula.
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C.
NGC 6611
NGC 6611 is a young, massive open star cluster embedded within the Eagle Nebula, notable for illuminating and shaping its surrounding interstellar gas and dust.
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D.
NGC 6618
NGC 6618 is a young, massive open star cluster embedded in the Omega Nebula (M17), notable for its intense star formation and luminous, hot stars.
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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 (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | open star cluster ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
C 1815-182
ⓘ
OCL 44 ⓘ |
| angularSize | ~5 arcminutes ⓘ |
| apparentBrightness | faint ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | ~11.4 ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Sagittarius Star Cloud field ⓘ |
| bestSeenFrom | Southern Hemisphere ⓘ |
| bestSeenInMonth | July ⓘ |
| catalog |
New General Catalogue
ⓘ
open cluster catalogues ⓘ |
| clusterType | compact open cluster ⓘ |
| contains |
giant stars
ⓘ
main-sequence stars ⓘ |
| declination | −18° 25′ ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | William Herschel ⓘ |
| discoveryDate | 1784 ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth |
~1.7 kiloparsecs
ⓘ
~5500 light-years ⓘ |
| galacticLatitude | ~−2° ⓘ |
| galacticLongitude | ~7° ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
M24 (Sagittarius Star Cloud)
ⓘ
linked to:
Sagittarius Star Cloud
Milky Way ⓘ Sagittarius Arm ⓘ Sagittarius Star Cloud ⓘ |
| locatedInConstellation | Sagittarius ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Galactic bulge
ⓘ
linked to:
Milky Way center
|
| observedIn | optical wavelengths ⓘ |
| rightAscension | 18h 18m ⓘ |
| skyLocation | near the center of M24 ⓘ |
| visibleWith | medium amateur 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: NGC 6603 (central cluster often associated) Description of subject: NGC 6603 is a compact open star cluster located within the Sagittarius Star Cloud in the constellation Sagittarius.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.