UGC 9405
E450589
UGC 9405 is a dwarf galaxy that is a member of the nearby M81 Group in the constellation Ursa Major.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| UGC 9405 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4531690 — 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 9405 Context triple: [M81 Group, containsGalaxy, UGC 9405]
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A.
UGC
UGC (University Grants Commission) is a statutory body of the Indian government responsible for coordinating, determining, and maintaining standards of higher education in India.
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B.
UoC
UoC is a major public research university in Cologne, Germany, known for its broad range of academic disciplines and large student population.
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C.
UJ
UJ is a major public university in Johannesburg, South Africa, known for its diverse academic programs and strong focus on research and innovation.
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D.
UoK
UoK is the commonly used abbreviation for the University of Khartoum, a leading public university in Sudan.
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E.
UAK
UAK was the temporary currency code used for the Ukrainian karbovanets, a transitional currency of Ukraine in the early 1990s before the introduction of the hryvnia.
- 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 9405 Target entity description: UGC 9405 is a dwarf galaxy that is a member of the nearby M81 Group in the constellation Ursa Major.
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A.
UGC
UGC (University Grants Commission) is a statutory body of the Indian government responsible for coordinating, determining, and maintaining standards of higher education in India.
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B.
UoC
UoC is a major public research university in Cologne, Germany, known for its broad range of academic disciplines and large student population.
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C.
UJ
UJ is a major public university in Johannesburg, South Africa, known for its diverse academic programs and strong focus on research and innovation.
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D.
UoK
UoK is the commonly used abbreviation for the University of Khartoum, a leading public university in Sudan.
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E.
UAK
UAK was the temporary currency code used for the Ukrainian karbovanets, a transitional currency of Ukraine in the early 1990s before the introduction of the hryvnia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dwarf galaxy
ⓘ
galaxy ⓘ |
| belongsTo | nearby galaxy population ⓘ |
| catalog | UGC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| catalogNumber | 9405 ⓘ |
| hasDistanceCategory | nearby galaxy ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentType | group galaxy ⓘ |
| hasGalaxyType | dwarf ⓘ |
| hasHostGalaxyGroup | M81 Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | dwarf galaxy ⓘ |
| hasSizeClass | dwarf ⓘ |
| hasStellarMassClass | low-mass galaxy ⓘ |
| inGalacticEnvironment | M81 Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isGravitationallyBoundIn | M81 Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isInTheSkyRegionOf | Ursa Major NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isNearbyTo | Milky Way NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isNeighborOf | M81 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isObservedIn |
optical wavelengths
ⓘ
radio wavelengths ⓘ |
| isPartOf | extragalactic sky of Ursa Major ⓘ |
| isPartOfLargeScaleStructure | local volume ⓘ |
| isSmallerThan |
M81
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Milky Way NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInConstellation | Ursa Major NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | M81 Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
local universe
ⓘ
nearby galaxy group ⓘ |
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 9405 Description of subject: UGC 9405 is a dwarf galaxy that is a member of the nearby M81 Group in the constellation Ursa Major.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.