UGC 8833
E451668
UGC 8833 is a faint dwarf irregular galaxy located in the nearby M81 Group in the constellation Ursa Major.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| UGC 8833 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4531687 — 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 8833 Context triple: [M81 Group, containsGalaxy, UGC 8833]
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A.
UGC 8508
UGC 8508 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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B.
UGC 8201
UGC 8201 is a dwarf irregular galaxy located in the nearby M81 Group in the constellation Ursa Major.
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C.
UGC 9128
UGC 9128 is a faint dwarf irregular galaxy located in the nearby M81 Group in the constellation Ursa Major.
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D.
UGC 9240
UGC 9240 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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E.
UGC 4483
UGC 4483 is a faint dwarf irregular galaxy located in the constellation Camelopardalis and is a member of the nearby M81 Group of galaxies.
- 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 8833 Target entity description: UGC 8833 is a faint dwarf irregular galaxy located in the nearby M81 Group in the constellation Ursa Major.
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A.
UGC 8508
UGC 8508 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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B.
UGC 8201
UGC 8201 is a dwarf irregular galaxy located in the nearby M81 Group in the constellation Ursa Major.
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C.
UGC 9128
UGC 9128 is a faint dwarf irregular galaxy located in the nearby M81 Group in the constellation Ursa Major.
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D.
UGC 9240
UGC 9240 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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E.
UGC 4483
UGC 4483 is a faint dwarf irregular galaxy located in the constellation Camelopardalis and is a member of the nearby M81 Group of galaxies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dwarf irregular galaxy
ⓘ
galaxy ⓘ |
| absoluteMagnitudeV | ~−12.5 ⓘ |
| angularSize | ~1.3 arcminutes ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | ~14.4 ⓘ |
| belongsTo | nearby dwarf galaxy population ⓘ |
| belongsToGalaxyGroup | Local Volume NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| catalog | UGC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| catalogNumber | 8833 ⓘ |
| contains |
H II regions
ⓘ
neutral hydrogen gas ⓘ young stellar populations ⓘ |
| cosmicEnvironment | low-density group environment ⓘ |
| darkMatterContent | dark-matter-dominated ⓘ |
| declination | +35° ⓘ |
| discoveredIn | 20th century ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth |
~10.4 million light-years
ⓘ
~3.2 megaparsecs ⓘ |
| distanceFromMilkyWay | ~3.2 megaparsecs ⓘ |
| environment | nearby to M81 and NGC 2403 subgroups ⓘ |
| galaxyType | irregular ⓘ |
| gasContent | gas-rich ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName |
DDO 187
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
PGC 49069 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStellarPopulation |
intermediate-age stars
ⓘ
massive young stars ⓘ old stars ⓘ |
| hostGalaxyGroup | M81 Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isNearbyTo | Milky Way NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | nearby universe ⓘ |
| locatedIn | M81 Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInConstellation | Ursa Major NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| luminosityClass | dwarf ⓘ |
| memberOf | M81 Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| metallicity | low ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | Im ⓘ |
| observedBy |
Hubble Space Telescope
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
ground-based telescopes ⓘ |
| observedIn |
optical wavelengths
ⓘ
radio wavelengths ⓘ |
| positionInSky | northern celestial hemisphere ⓘ |
| radialVelocityHeliocentric | ~223 km/s ⓘ |
| redshift | ~0.00074 ⓘ |
| rightAscension | 13h 54m ⓘ |
| starFormationActivity | ongoing but weak ⓘ |
| surfaceBrightness | low ⓘ |
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 8833 Description of subject: UGC 8833 is a faint dwarf irregular galaxy located in 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.