Virgo Supercluster
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The Virgo Supercluster is a massive galaxy supercluster that contains the Local Group, including the Milky Way, and forms part of the larger Laniakea Supercluster.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Virgo Supercluster canonical | 6 |
| Local Supercluster | 3 |
| Virgo Supercluster region | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1014589 — 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: Virgo Supercluster Context triple: [Laniakea Supercluster, includesFormerlyClassifiedAs, Virgo Supercluster]
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A.
Laniakea Supercluster
Laniakea Supercluster is a vast cosmic structure encompassing the Milky Way and hundreds of thousands of other galaxies, forming one of the largest known galaxy superclusters in the observable universe.
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B.
Hydra–Centaurus Supercluster
The Hydra–Centaurus Supercluster is a massive nearby concentration of galaxy clusters that forms one of the dominant structures in our cosmic neighborhood and serves as a major component of the larger Laniakea Supercluster.
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C.
Shapley Supercluster
The Shapley Supercluster is one of the most massive known concentrations of galaxies in the nearby universe, exerting a significant gravitational influence on surrounding cosmic structures.
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D.
Perseus–Pisces Supercluster
The Perseus–Pisces Supercluster is a massive, elongated concentration of galaxy clusters stretching hundreds of millions of light-years across space and forming one of the most prominent large-scale structures in the nearby universe.
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E.
Centaurus A/M83 Group
The Centaurus A/M83 Group is a nearby galaxy group dominated by the massive galaxies Centaurus A and Messier 83, forming one of the closest large-scale neighbors to our own galactic neighborhood.
- 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: Virgo Supercluster Target entity description: The Virgo Supercluster is a massive galaxy supercluster that contains the Local Group, including the Milky Way, and forms part of the larger Laniakea Supercluster.
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A.
Laniakea Supercluster
Laniakea Supercluster is a vast cosmic structure encompassing the Milky Way and hundreds of thousands of other galaxies, forming one of the largest known galaxy superclusters in the observable universe.
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B.
Hydra–Centaurus Supercluster
The Hydra–Centaurus Supercluster is a massive nearby concentration of galaxy clusters that forms one of the dominant structures in our cosmic neighborhood and serves as a major component of the larger Laniakea Supercluster.
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C.
Shapley Supercluster
The Shapley Supercluster is one of the most massive known concentrations of galaxies in the nearby universe, exerting a significant gravitational influence on surrounding cosmic structures.
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D.
Perseus–Pisces Supercluster
The Perseus–Pisces Supercluster is a massive, elongated concentration of galaxy clusters stretching hundreds of millions of light-years across space and forming one of the most prominent large-scale structures in the nearby universe.
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E.
Centaurus A/M83 Group
The Centaurus A/M83 Group is a nearby galaxy group dominated by the massive galaxies Centaurus A and Messier 83, forming one of the closest large-scale neighbors to our own galactic neighborhood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Virgo Supercluster Description of subject: The Virgo Supercluster is a massive galaxy supercluster that contains the Local Group, including the Milky Way, and forms part of the larger Laniakea Supercluster.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Local Supercluster
this entity surface form:
Virgo Supercluster region
this entity surface form:
Local Supercluster
this entity surface form:
Local Supercluster