Local Spur
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Local Spur is an alternative name for the Orion Arm, the minor spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy where our Solar System is located.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Local Spur canonical | 1 |
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
region of the Milky Way galaxy
ⓘ
spiral arm of the Milky Way ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Perseus Arm
ⓘ
Sagittarius Arm ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Local Arm
ⓘ
Orion Arm ⓘ Orion Spur ⓘ |
| contains |
Gould Belt
ⓘ
surface form:
Gould Belt region
Local Bubble ⓘ Orion Molecular Cloud Complex ⓘ Orion OB association ⓘ
surface form:
Orion OB1 association
Orion Arm ⓘ
surface form:
Orion–Cygnus Arm segment near the Sun
Pleiades moving group vicinity ⓘ Solar System ⓘ Sun ⓘ nearby OB associations ⓘ numerous H II regions ⓘ numerous giant molecular clouds ⓘ numerous open star clusters ⓘ |
| describedAs | minor spiral arm of the Milky Way ⓘ |
| distanceToSun | Sun is embedded within Local Spur ⓘ |
| galacticLongitudeRangeApprox | about 60 to 270 degrees (approximate extent on sky) ⓘ |
| galacticRadiusApprox | about 8 kiloparsecs from Galactic Center ⓘ |
| hosts | local interstellar medium around the Sun ⓘ |
| lengthApprox | about 10,000–20,000 light-years ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Milky Way
ⓘ
surface form:
Milky Way galaxy
|
| orientation | roughly follows Milky Way spiral pattern near Sun ⓘ |
| partOf | Milky Way ⓘ |
| spiralStructureType | spur or local arm segment ⓘ |
| widthApprox | about 3,000 light-years ⓘ |
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: Local Spur Description of subject: Local Spur is an alternative name for the Orion Arm, the minor spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy where our Solar System is located.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.