PGC 2121
E450961
PGC 2121 is a faint, gas-rich dwarf irregular galaxy located in the outskirts of the Andromeda Galaxy’s local group region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| PGC 2121 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4531604 — 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: PGC 2121 Context triple: [Andromeda IV, otherName, PGC 2121]
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A.
PGC 3085
PGC 3085 is a dwarf irregular galaxy better known as the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby satellite of the Milky Way visible from the Southern Hemisphere.
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B.
NGC 205
NGC 205 is a dwarf elliptical satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy, notable for its proximity to the Local Group’s largest spiral and its mixed old and young stellar populations.
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C.
NGC 6822
NGC 6822 is a barred irregular dwarf galaxy located in the constellation Sagittarius and is one of the nearest and best-studied galaxies outside the Milky Way.
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D.
NGC 3372
NGC 3372 is a massive, bright star-forming nebula in the Carina constellation, famous for housing the unstable supergiant star Eta Carinae and extensive regions of ionized gas and dust.
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E.
NGC 7319
NGC 7319 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus, notable as a member of the interacting galaxy group known as Stephan's Quintet.
- 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: PGC 2121 Target entity description: PGC 2121 is a faint, gas-rich dwarf irregular galaxy located in the outskirts of the Andromeda Galaxy’s local group region.
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A.
PGC 3085
PGC 3085 is a dwarf irregular galaxy better known as the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby satellite of the Milky Way visible from the Southern Hemisphere.
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B.
NGC 205
NGC 205 is a dwarf elliptical satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy, notable for its proximity to the Local Group’s largest spiral and its mixed old and young stellar populations.
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C.
NGC 6822
NGC 6822 is a barred irregular dwarf galaxy located in the constellation Sagittarius and is one of the nearest and best-studied galaxies outside the Milky Way.
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D.
NGC 3372
NGC 3372 is a massive, bright star-forming nebula in the Carina constellation, famous for housing the unstable supergiant star Eta Carinae and extensive regions of ionized gas and dust.
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E.
NGC 7319
NGC 7319 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus, notable as a member of the interacting galaxy group known as Stephan's Quintet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronomical object
ⓘ
dwarf irregular galaxy ⓘ galaxy ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Local Volume ⓘ |
| contains |
dark matter
ⓘ
gas ⓘ stars ⓘ |
| emits |
optical radiation
ⓘ
radio emission from neutral hydrogen ⓘ |
| hasBarStructure | false ⓘ |
| hasCatalogueIdentifier |
LEDA 2121
NERFINISHED
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PGC 2121 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDustContent | low ⓘ |
| hasEnvironment | low-density ⓘ |
| hasGalaxyType | irregular ⓘ |
| hasKinematics | dominated by dark matter ⓘ |
| hasLuminosity | low ⓘ |
| hasMetallicity | low ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType |
Im
ⓘ
dIrr ⓘ |
| hasNeutralHydrogenContent | high ⓘ |
| hasShape | irregular ⓘ |
| hasSpiralArms | false ⓘ |
| hasStarFormationHistory | extended ⓘ |
| hasStarFormationRate | low ⓘ |
| hasStellarMass | low ⓘ |
| hasStellarPopulation | mixed young and old stars ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceBrightness | low ⓘ |
| isCataloguedIn | Principal Galaxies Catalogue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isFaint | true ⓘ |
| isGasRich | true ⓘ |
| isGravitationallyBoundSystem | true ⓘ |
| isInLocalGroupRegion | true ⓘ |
| isInOutskirtsOfLocalGroupRegion | true ⓘ |
| isInVicinityOf | Andromeda Galaxy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isObservedIn |
optical wavelengths
ⓘ
radio wavelengths ⓘ |
| isPartOf | nearby universe ⓘ |
| isStarForming | true ⓘ |
| isSubjectOfStudyIn |
dwarf galaxy formation
ⓘ
galaxy evolution ⓘ low surface brightness 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: PGC 2121 Description of subject: PGC 2121 is a faint, gas-rich dwarf irregular galaxy located in the outskirts of the Andromeda Galaxy’s local group region.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.