NGC 4388
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NGC 4388 is an edge-on spiral galaxy with an active galactic nucleus located in the Virgo Cluster, notable for its strong emission lines and interaction with the cluster environment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| NGC 4388 canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5410452 — 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.
Target entity: NGC 4388 Context triple: [Virgo Cluster, containsGalaxy, NGC 4388]
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NGC 4609
NGC 4609 is an open star cluster located in the southern constellation Centaurus, notable for its relatively young stellar population.
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NGC 4622
NGC 4622 is an unusual spiral galaxy notable for its rare leading spiral arms and distinctive ring-like structure, located in the constellation Centaurus.
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NGC 3918
NGC 3918 is a bright planetary nebula in the southern sky, often called the "Blue Planetary" due to its vivid blue appearance.
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NGC 4725
NGC 4725 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, notable for having only one prominent spiral arm.
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NGC 5128
NGC 5128, also known as Centaurus A, is a nearby peculiar elliptical galaxy with a prominent dust lane and one of the strongest radio sources in the sky.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: NGC 4388 Target entity description: NGC 4388 is an edge-on spiral galaxy with an active galactic nucleus located in the Virgo Cluster, notable for its strong emission lines and interaction with the cluster environment.
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A.
NGC 4609
NGC 4609 is an open star cluster located in the southern constellation Centaurus, notable for its relatively young stellar population.
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B.
NGC 4622
NGC 4622 is an unusual spiral galaxy notable for its rare leading spiral arms and distinctive ring-like structure, located in the constellation Centaurus.
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C.
NGC 3918
NGC 3918 is a bright planetary nebula in the southern sky, often called the "Blue Planetary" due to its vivid blue appearance.
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D.
NGC 4725
NGC 4725 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, notable for having only one prominent spiral arm.
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E.
NGC 5128
NGC 5128, also known as Centaurus A, is a nearby peculiar elliptical galaxy with a prominent dust lane and one of the strongest radio sources in the sky.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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.
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.
Subject: NGC 4388 Description of subject: NGC 4388 is an edge-on spiral galaxy with an active galactic nucleus located in the Virgo Cluster, notable for its strong emission lines and interaction with the cluster environment.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.