NGC 362
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NGC 362 is a bright, compact globular star cluster in the constellation Tucana, notable for its relatively young age compared to most Milky Way globular clusters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NGC 362 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5089070 — 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: NGC 362 Context triple: [Tucana, contains, NGC 362]
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A.
NGC 3766
NGC 3766 is a young open star cluster notable for its rich population of hot, massive stars and unusual variable stars, located in the southern sky.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
NGC 2976
NGC 2976 is a nearby dwarf spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major and a member of the M81 Group of galaxies.
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E.
NGC 598
NGC 598 is the Triangulum Galaxy, a nearby spiral galaxy in the Local Group and one of the closest large galaxies to the Milky Way.
- 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: NGC 362 Target entity description: NGC 362 is a bright, compact globular star cluster in the constellation Tucana, notable for its relatively young age compared to most Milky Way globular clusters.
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A.
NGC 3766
NGC 3766 is a young open star cluster notable for its rich population of hot, massive stars and unusual variable stars, located in the southern sky.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
NGC 2976
NGC 2976 is a nearby dwarf spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major and a member of the M81 Group of galaxies.
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E.
NGC 598
NGC 598 is the Triangulum Galaxy, a nearby spiral galaxy in the Local Group and one of the closest large galaxies to the Milky Way.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | globular star cluster ⓘ |
| age | about 10.5 billion years ⓘ |
| angularSize | 12.9 arcminutes ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | 6.4 ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Galactic halo ⓘ |
| bestSeenFrom | southern latitudes ⓘ |
| catalog | New General Catalogue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| clusterRichness | rich in stars ⓘ |
| constellation | Tucana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coreConcentration | high ⓘ |
| declination | −70° 50′ 55″ ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | James Dunlop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoveryYear | 1826 ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth |
about 27,000 light-years
ⓘ
about 8.3 kiloparsecs ⓘ |
| galacticLatitude | −46.25° ⓘ |
| galacticLongitude | 301.53° ⓘ |
| hemisphere | southern celestial hemisphere ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Milky Way ⓘ |
| metallicityFeH | about −1.3 ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | concentrated globular cluster ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
bright and compact appearance
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relatively young age for a globular cluster ⓘ |
| observedIn | optical wavelengths ⓘ |
| relativeAge | younger than most Milky Way globular clusters ⓘ |
| researchUse |
studies of globular cluster ages
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studies of stellar evolution in dense environments ⓘ |
| rightAscension | 01h 03m 14s ⓘ |
| stellarPopulation | Population II stars ⓘ |
| visibility | visible in binoculars under dark skies ⓘ |
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: NGC 362 Description of subject: NGC 362 is a bright, compact globular star cluster in the constellation Tucana, notable for its relatively young age compared to most Milky Way globular clusters.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tucana
subject surface form:
Tucana