NGC 4526
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NGC 4526 is a lenticular galaxy notable for its bright central dust disk and supermassive black hole, located in the constellation Virgo as a member of the Virgo Cluster.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NGC 4526 canonical | 2 |
| NGC 4526*BH | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5410455 — 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 4526 Context triple: [Virgo Cluster, containsGalaxy, NGC 4526]
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A.
NGC 4216
NGC 4216 is a large, edge-on spiral galaxy located in the Virgo constellation and is one of the brighter members of the Virgo Cluster.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
NGC 2976
NGC 2976 is a nearby dwarf spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major and a member of the M81 Group of galaxies.
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E.
NGC 3766
NGC 3766 is a young open star cluster notable for its rich population of hot, massive stars and unusual variable stars, located in the southern sky.
- 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 4526 Target entity description: NGC 4526 is a lenticular galaxy notable for its bright central dust disk and supermassive black hole, located in the constellation Virgo as a member of the Virgo Cluster.
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A.
NGC 4216
NGC 4216 is a large, edge-on spiral galaxy located in the Virgo constellation and is one of the brighter members of the Virgo Cluster.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
NGC 2976
NGC 2976 is a nearby dwarf spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major and a member of the M81 Group of galaxies.
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E.
NGC 3766
NGC 3766 is a young open star cluster notable for its rich population of hot, massive stars and unusual variable stars, located in the southern sky.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
galaxy
ⓘ
lenticular galaxy ⓘ |
| contains | supermassive black hole ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | William Herschel ⓘ |
| discoveryDate | 1779-04-13 ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth |
~17 Mpc
ⓘ
~55 million light-years ⓘ |
| hasAngularSize | 7.2′ × 2.4′ ⓘ |
| hasApparentMagnitudeV | ~10.7 ⓘ |
| hasCatalogDesignation |
NGC 4526
ⓘ
PGC 41789 ⓘ UGC 7718 ⓘ VCC 1535 ⓘ |
| hasCentralBlackHole |
NGC 4526*BH
ⓘ
linked to:
NGC 4526
|
| hasCentralBlackHoleMass | ~4.5×10^8 solar masses ⓘ |
| hasDeclination | +07° 41′ 57″ ⓘ |
| hasDustContent | significant dust in inner regions ⓘ |
| hasDustDiskOrientation | nearly edge-on ⓘ |
| hasDustFeature | bright central dust disk ⓘ |
| hasEnvironment | cluster galaxy ⓘ |
| hasGalaxyColor | red ⓘ |
| hasGalaxyType | early-type galaxy ⓘ |
| hasGasContent | molecular gas in central disk ⓘ |
| hasHubbleSequencePosition | between elliptical and spiral galaxies ⓘ |
| hasInclination | high inclination to line of sight ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType |
S0
ⓘ
SAB0 ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
fast-rotating disk
ⓘ
prominent dust lanes near the nucleus ⓘ well-defined bulge ⓘ |
| hasObservationBy |
ALMA
ⓘ
linked to:
Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
Hubble Space Telescope ⓘ |
| hasRadialVelocity | ~615 km/s ⓘ |
| hasRedshift | 0.00206 ⓘ |
| hasRightAscension | 12h 34m 03.0s ⓘ |
| hasStarFormationRate | low ⓘ |
| hasStellarPopulation | predominantly old stars ⓘ |
| hasSupermassiveBlackHoleMeasurementMethod | gas-dynamical modeling of circumnuclear disk ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceBrightnessProfile | typical of S0 galaxies ⓘ |
| isGravitationallyBoundTo | Virgo Cluster potential ⓘ |
| isIncludedIn | New General Catalogue ⓘ |
| isPartOf | local universe ⓘ |
| locatedInConstellation | Virgo ⓘ |
| locatedInSupercluster | Virgo Supercluster ⓘ |
| memberOf | Virgo Cluster ⓘ |
| observedIn |
infrared wavelengths
ⓘ
optical wavelengths ⓘ radio wavelengths ⓘ |
| shows | regular rotation in its central dust disk ⓘ |
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 4526 Description of subject: NGC 4526 is a lenticular galaxy notable for its bright central dust disk and supermassive black hole, located in the constellation Virgo as a member of the Virgo Cluster.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: NGC 4526