UGC 6456
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UGC 6456 is a dwarf irregular galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major and is a member of the nearby M81 Group of galaxies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| UGC 6456 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4531660 — 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: UGC 6456 Context triple: [M81 Group, containsGalaxy, UGC 6456]
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A.
M66
M66 is a motorway in Greater Manchester, England, forming part of the route between Manchester and the M62 near Bury.
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B.
N66 (nebula)
N66 is a massive star-forming emission nebula in the Small Magellanic Cloud, notable as one of the most active stellar nurseries in the Local Group of galaxies.
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C.
Baade U
Baade U is a small lunar impact crater that forms one of the satellite craters surrounding the larger Baade crater on the Moon’s surface.
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D.
NGC 6205
NGC 6205 is a bright, densely packed globular star cluster in the constellation Hercules, commonly known as the Great Hercules Cluster (M13).
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E.
IC 1613
IC 1613 is a dwarf irregular galaxy in the constellation Cetus and a member of the Local Group, notable for its low dust content and use in calibrating the cosmic distance scale.
- 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: UGC 6456 Target entity description: UGC 6456 is a dwarf irregular galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major and is a member of the nearby M81 Group of galaxies.
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A.
M66
M66 is a motorway in Greater Manchester, England, forming part of the route between Manchester and the M62 near Bury.
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B.
N66 (nebula)
N66 is a massive star-forming emission nebula in the Small Magellanic Cloud, notable as one of the most active stellar nurseries in the Local Group of galaxies.
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C.
Baade U
Baade U is a small lunar impact crater that forms one of the satellite craters surrounding the larger Baade crater on the Moon’s surface.
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D.
NGC 6205
NGC 6205 is a bright, densely packed globular star cluster in the constellation Hercules, commonly known as the Great Hercules Cluster (M13).
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E.
IC 1613
IC 1613 is a dwarf irregular galaxy in the constellation Cetus and a member of the Local Group, notable for its low dust content and use in calibrating the cosmic distance scale.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dwarf irregular galaxy
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extragalactic astronomical object ⓘ galaxy ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Local Volume ⓘ |
| catalog | Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| catalogCode | UGC 6456 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| celestialHemisphere | Northern celestial hemisphere ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth | a few megaparsecs (approximate) ⓘ |
| distanceFromLocalGroup | near the Local Group boundary ⓘ |
| galaxyType | dwarf irregular ⓘ |
| groupMemberOf | nearby galaxy group ⓘ |
| hasAbsoluteMagnitude | faint ⓘ |
| hasAngularSize | small on the sky ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateSystem | equatorial coordinates (right ascension and declination) ⓘ |
| hasDarkMatterDominatedDynamics | true ⓘ |
| hasEnvironment | group environment ⓘ |
| hasGasContent | neutral hydrogen (HI) ⓘ |
| hasIrregularMorphology | true ⓘ |
| hasLowLuminosity | true ⓘ |
| hasLowMetallicity | true ⓘ |
| hasNoProminentSpiralArms | true ⓘ |
| hasPatchyStarFormation | true ⓘ |
| hasStellarMass | low stellar mass ⓘ |
| hasStellarPopulation | mixed-age stellar populations ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceBrightness | low surface brightness ⓘ |
| isDwarfGalaxy | true ⓘ |
| isGasRich | true ⓘ |
| isGravitationallyBoundTo | M81 Group potential ⓘ |
| isIncludedIn | nearby galaxy catalogs ⓘ |
| isNearbyGalaxyOf | Milky Way NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isNonBarredGalaxy | true ⓘ |
| isPartOf | nearby universe ⓘ |
| isResolvedIntoStarsBy | Hubble Space Telescope NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isStarFormingGalaxy | true ⓘ |
| isUsedAs | laboratory for dwarf galaxy evolution studies ⓘ |
| locatedIn | M81 Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInConstellation | Ursa Major NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | M81 Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | Im ⓘ |
| observedBy |
ground-based optical telescopes
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radio interferometers ⓘ |
| observedIn |
optical wavelengths
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radio wavelengths ⓘ |
| redshift | low redshift ⓘ |
| skyLocation | constellation Ursa Major region ⓘ |
| studiedFor |
chemical evolution in low-mass galaxies
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star formation in dwarf galaxies ⓘ |
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: UGC 6456 Description of subject: UGC 6456 is a dwarf irregular galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major and is a member of the nearby M81 Group of galaxies.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.