Phoenix I
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Phoenix I is a faint dwarf galaxy in the constellation Phoenix, notable as a nearby satellite of the Milky Way.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Phoenix I canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5844614 — 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: Phoenix I Context triple: [Phoenix Dwarf Galaxy, hasAlternativeName, Phoenix I]
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A.
Phénix
Phénix is the French Air and Space Force’s designation for its Airbus A330 MRTT multirole tanker and transport aircraft.
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B.
PHENIX
PHENIX is a major nuclear physics experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider designed to study the properties of quark-gluon plasma and the strong interaction under extreme conditions.
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C.
Phoenix
Phoenix is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Arizona, known for its desert climate, rapid growth, and role as a major economic and cultural center in the American Southwest.
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D.
Phoenix
Phoenix is a township near Durban in South Africa known for its large Indian community and its historical significance in the Indian diaspora in the country.
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E.
Phoenix
Phoenix is a residential suburb within the greater Milnerton area of Cape Town, South Africa.
- 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: Phoenix I Target entity description: Phoenix I is a faint dwarf galaxy in the constellation Phoenix, notable as a nearby satellite of the Milky Way.
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A.
Phénix
Phénix is the French Air and Space Force’s designation for its Airbus A330 MRTT multirole tanker and transport aircraft.
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B.
PHENIX
PHENIX is a major nuclear physics experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider designed to study the properties of quark-gluon plasma and the strong interaction under extreme conditions.
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C.
Phoenix
Phoenix is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Arizona, known for its desert climate, rapid growth, and role as a major economic and cultural center in the American Southwest.
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D.
Phoenix
Phoenix is a township near Durban in South Africa known for its large Indian community and its historical significance in the Indian diaspora in the country.
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E.
Phoenix
Phoenix is a residential suburb within the greater Milnerton area of Cape Town, South Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | dwarf galaxy ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | approximately 14.0 ⓘ |
| contains |
intermediate-age stars
ⓘ
neutral hydrogen gas ⓘ old stars ⓘ young stars ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | Hans-Emil Schuster ⓘ |
| discoveryYear | 1976 ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth |
approximately 1.4 million light-years
ⓘ
approximately 430 kiloparsecs ⓘ |
| galaxyType | dwarf irregular galaxy ⓘ |
| hasAbsoluteMagnitudeV | approximately −10 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
ESO 245-007
ⓘ
PGC 00906 ⓘ Phoenix Dwarf Galaxy ⓘ |
| hasDeclination | approximately −44° 26′ ⓘ |
| hasLowSurfaceBrightness | true ⓘ |
| hasMetallicity | low metallicity ⓘ |
| hasRightAscension | approximately 01h 51m ⓘ |
| hasStellarPopulation | mixed-age stellar population ⓘ |
| isFaint | true ⓘ |
| isGravitationallyBoundTo | Milky Way ⓘ |
| isLocatedInHemisphere | southern celestial hemisphere ⓘ |
| isNearbySatelliteOf | Milky Way ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Local Group dwarf galaxy population ⓘ |
| isSatelliteOf | Milky Way ⓘ |
| isUsedToStudy |
Local Group structure
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dwarf galaxy evolution ⓘ star formation history in dwarf galaxies ⓘ |
| locatedInConstellation | Phoenix ⓘ |
| memberOf | Local Group ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | dIrr ⓘ |
| observedIn |
optical wavelengths
ⓘ
radio wavelengths ⓘ |
| shows | recent star formation ⓘ |
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: Phoenix I Description of subject: Phoenix I is a faint dwarf galaxy in the constellation Phoenix, notable as a nearby satellite of the Milky Way.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.