RSA catalog
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The RSA catalog is a widely used astronomical reference listing and classifying bright galaxies in the nearby universe.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| RSA Catalog | 1 |
| RSA catalog canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11210520 — 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: RSA catalog Context triple: [Revised Shapley–Ames Catalog of Bright Galaxies, alsoKnownAs, RSA catalog]
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RSA Fellowship
The RSA Fellowship is a global community of accomplished individuals from diverse fields who collaborate to address social challenges and promote innovative solutions for the public good.
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RSA
RSA is a widely used public-key cryptographic algorithm that enables secure key exchange and digital signatures in many internet security protocols.
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C.
RSA
RSA is the three-letter World Rugby trigram used to represent the South Africa national rugby union team in international competitions and official records.
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D.
RSA Design
RSA Design is a creative design division of the production company RSA Films, specializing in visual and graphic solutions for film, advertising, and branded content.
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E.
RSA Security
RSA Security is a pioneering American cybersecurity company best known for its contributions to public-key cryptography and secure data encryption technologies.
- 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: RSA catalog Target entity description: The RSA catalog is a widely used astronomical reference listing and classifying bright galaxies in the nearby universe.
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A.
RSA Fellowship
The RSA Fellowship is a global community of accomplished individuals from diverse fields who collaborate to address social challenges and promote innovative solutions for the public good.
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B.
RSA
RSA is a widely used public-key cryptographic algorithm that enables secure key exchange and digital signatures in many internet security protocols.
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C.
RSA
RSA is the three-letter World Rugby trigram used to represent the South Africa national rugby union team in international competitions and official records.
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D.
RSA Design
RSA Design is a creative design division of the production company RSA Films, specializing in visual and graphic solutions for film, advertising, and branded content.
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E.
RSA Security
RSA Security is a pioneering American cybersecurity company best known for its contributions to public-key cryptography and secure data encryption technologies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronomical catalog
ⓘ
galaxy catalog ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Revised Shapley-Ames Catalog
ⓘ
linked to:
Revised Shapley–Ames Catalog
Revised Shapley-Ames Catalog of Bright Galaxies ⓘ |
| basedOn | Shapley-Ames Catalog of Bright Galaxies ⓘ |
| catalogType | optical galaxy catalog ⓘ |
| classificationSystem |
Hubble sequence
ⓘ
de Vaucouleurs revised Hubble system ⓘ |
| contains | bright galaxies in the local universe ⓘ |
| containsObjectsOfType |
elliptical galaxies
ⓘ
irregular galaxies ⓘ lenticular galaxies ⓘ spiral galaxies ⓘ |
| dataType |
basic observational parameters of galaxies
ⓘ
morphological types of galaxies ⓘ photometric information on galaxies ⓘ positions of galaxies ⓘ |
| field |
astronomy
ⓘ
extragalactic astronomy ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
galaxy classification
ⓘ
morphological classification of galaxies ⓘ |
| fullName | Revised Shapley-Ames Catalog of Bright Galaxies ⓘ |
| importance | widely used standard reference for bright nearby galaxies ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| predecessor | Shapley-Ames Catalog of Bright Galaxies ⓘ |
| regionCovered | whole sky ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
New General Catalogue
ⓘ
Third Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies ⓘ
linked to:
Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies
Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies ⓘ |
| scope | nearby universe ⓘ |
| selectionCriterion |
apparent brightness of galaxies
ⓘ
proximity of galaxies ⓘ |
| shortName | RSA ⓘ |
| subject | bright galaxies ⓘ |
| timeCoverage | nearby universe at low redshift ⓘ |
| use |
calibration of galaxy morphology studies
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reference for bright nearby galaxies ⓘ selection of nearby galaxy samples ⓘ source of homogeneous galaxy classifications ⓘ |
| usedBy |
extragalactic astronomy researchers
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professional astronomers ⓘ |
| usedFor |
comparison with other galaxy catalogs
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studies of galaxy morphology-density relation ⓘ studies of local large-scale structure ⓘ |
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: RSA catalog Description of subject: The RSA catalog is a widely used astronomical reference listing and classifying bright galaxies in the nearby universe.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: RSA catalog