M58
E517950
M58 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Virgo and is one of the brighter members of the Virgo Cluster.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| M58 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5410443 — 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: M58 Context triple: [Virgo Cluster, containsGalaxy, M58]
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A.
M58
M58 is a motorway in North West England that links the M6 near Wigan to the Liverpool area, serving as a key route for traffic to and from Merseyside.
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B.
M55
M55 is a New York City bus route that provides public transit service connecting to the Whitehall Terminal area in Lower Manhattan.
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C.
M-5
M-5 is a state highway in southeastern Michigan that serves as a key commuter route connecting Novi and surrounding suburbs to the Detroit metropolitan area.
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D.
M-50
M-50 is a major orbital motorway around Madrid, Spain, designed to divert traffic from the city center and connect key suburbs and highways.
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E.
M-52
M-52 is a state highway in Michigan that runs north–south through several counties, serving as an important regional route for local and through traffic.
- 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: M58 Target entity description: M58 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Virgo and is one of the brighter members of the Virgo Cluster.
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A.
M58
M58 is a motorway in North West England that links the M6 near Wigan to the Liverpool area, serving as a key route for traffic to and from Merseyside.
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B.
M55
M55 is a New York City bus route that provides public transit service connecting to the Whitehall Terminal area in Lower Manhattan.
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C.
M-5
M-5 is a state highway in southeastern Michigan that serves as a key commuter route connecting Novi and surrounding suburbs to the Detroit metropolitan area.
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D.
M-50
M-50 is a major orbital motorway around Madrid, Spain, designed to divert traffic from the city center and connect key suburbs and highways.
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E.
M-52
M-52 is a state highway in Michigan that runs north–south through several counties, serving as an important regional route for local and through traffic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | barred spiral galaxy ⓘ |
| AGNType | LINER ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
PGC 42168
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
UGC 7796 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| angularSize | 5.9 × 4.7 arcminutes ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | 9.7 ⓘ |
| bestSeenIn | spring months from northern hemisphere ⓘ |
| catalogNumber |
M58
ⓘ
Messier 58 NERFINISHED ⓘ NGC 4579 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constellation | Virgo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| declination | +11° 49′ 05″ ⓘ |
| discoverer | Charles Messier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoveryDate | 1779 ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth |
approximately 21 megaparsecs
ⓘ
approximately 68 million light-years ⓘ |
| environment | cluster galaxy ⓘ |
| hasActiveGalacticNucleus | true ⓘ |
| hasBarredStructure | true ⓘ |
| hasCentralBulge | true ⓘ |
| hasDustLanes | true ⓘ |
| hasNuclearRing | yes ⓘ |
| hasSpiralArms | true ⓘ |
| hasStarFormation | ongoing ⓘ |
| hostedSupernova |
SN 1988A
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
SN 1989M NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostGalaxyType | barred spiral ⓘ |
| HubbleSequence | SBb ⓘ |
| isOneOf | brighter members of the Virgo Cluster ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Virgo constellation region of the sky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Virgo Cluster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | SBb ⓘ |
| observedIn |
X-ray wavelengths
ⓘ
optical wavelengths ⓘ radio wavelengths ⓘ |
| partOf | local large-scale structure near Virgo Cluster ⓘ |
| radialVelocity | 1510 km/s ⓘ |
| redshift | 0.00506 ⓘ |
| rightAscension | 12h 37m 43.5s ⓘ |
| supermassiveBlackHole | present ⓘ |
| supermassiveBlackHoleMass | about 7 × 10^7 solar masses ⓘ |
| surfaceBrightness | high for a galaxy in Virgo Cluster ⓘ |
| visibleWith | small amateur telescopes ⓘ |
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: M58 Description of subject: M58 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Virgo and is one of the brighter members of the Virgo Cluster.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.