NGC 4459
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NGC 4459 is a lenticular galaxy located in the Virgo constellation and is a member of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NGC 4459 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5410465 — 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 4459 Context triple: [Virgo Cluster, containsGalaxy, NGC 4459]
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A.
NGC 4579
NGC 4579 is a barred spiral galaxy with an active galactic nucleus located in the constellation Virgo and associated with the Virgo Cluster.
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B.
NGC 4639
NGC 4639 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo that hosts an active galactic nucleus and lies on the outskirts of the Virgo Cluster.
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C.
NGC 4609
NGC 4609 is an open star cluster located in the southern constellation Centaurus, notable for its relatively young stellar population.
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D.
NGC 4569
NGC 4569 is a bright, gas-stripped spiral galaxy in the Virgo Cluster notable for its unusually low star formation and strong nuclear activity.
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E.
NGC 4477
NGC 4477 is a barred lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Virgo and is a member of the Virgo Cluster 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: NGC 4459 Target entity description: NGC 4459 is a lenticular galaxy located in the Virgo constellation and is a member of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies.
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A.
NGC 4579
NGC 4579 is a barred spiral galaxy with an active galactic nucleus located in the constellation Virgo and associated with the Virgo Cluster.
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B.
NGC 4639
NGC 4639 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo that hosts an active galactic nucleus and lies on the outskirts of the Virgo Cluster.
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C.
NGC 4609
NGC 4609 is an open star cluster located in the southern constellation Centaurus, notable for its relatively young stellar population.
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D.
NGC 4569
NGC 4569 is a bright, gas-stripped spiral galaxy in the Virgo Cluster notable for its unusually low star formation and strong nuclear activity.
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E.
NGC 4477
NGC 4477 is a barred lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Virgo and is a member of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Virgo Cluster member
ⓘ
galaxy ⓘ lenticular galaxy ⓘ |
| angularSize | ~3.8 × 3.1 arcmin ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | ~11.4 ⓘ |
| catalog | New General Catalogue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralBlackHoleMass | on the order of 10^7–10^8 solar masses ⓘ |
| declination | +13° 58′ ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | William Herschel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoveryDate | 1784 ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth |
~15 Mpc
ⓘ
~50 million light-years ⓘ |
| environment | cluster environment ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
PGC 41081
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
UGC 7614 NERFINISHED ⓘ VCC 1154 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBar | no prominent large-scale bar ⓘ |
| hasBulge | yes ⓘ |
| hasCentralBlackHole | yes ⓘ |
| hasColdGas | yes ⓘ |
| hasDust | yes ⓘ |
| hasDustDisk | yes ⓘ |
| hasIonizedGas | yes ⓘ |
| hasKinematicsStudy |
gas kinematics
ⓘ
stellar kinematics ⓘ |
| hasNuclearDisk | yes ⓘ |
| hasPhotometricBandData |
infrared
ⓘ
optical ⓘ |
| hasStarFormation | low-level central star formation ⓘ |
| hasStellarPopulation | dominantly old stars ⓘ |
| isEarlyTypeGalaxy | yes ⓘ |
| isInSupercluster | Virgo Supercluster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isNearbyGalaxy | yes ⓘ |
| isPartOf | local universe ⓘ |
| locatedInConstellation | Virgo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Virgo Cluster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | S0 ⓘ |
| observedByTelescope |
Hubble Space Telescope
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Very Large Array NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observedInSurvey | Virgo Cluster Catalog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| radialVelocity | ~1180 km/s ⓘ |
| redshift | 0.0039 ⓘ |
| rightAscension | 12h 29m 00s ⓘ |
| showsDustLanes | yes ⓘ |
| spectralType | early-type galaxy spectrum ⓘ |
| surfaceBrightnessProfile | typical of S0 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: NGC 4459 Description of subject: NGC 4459 is a lenticular galaxy located in the Virgo constellation and is a member of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.