Peg DIG
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Peg DIG is a small, faint dwarf irregular galaxy in the Local Group, located in the constellation Pegasus and notable for its low luminosity and sparse stellar population.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peg DIG canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5966570 — 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: Peg DIG Context triple: [Pegasus Dwarf Irregular Galaxy, alsoKnownAs, Peg DIG]
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A.
Peg
Peg is a common diminutive or nickname for the female given name Margaret.
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B.
Peg
"Peg" is a jazz-influenced pop/rock song by Steely Dan, known for its intricate production, sophisticated harmonies, and enduring popularity since its release on the 1977 album *Aja*.
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C.
The Peg
The Peg is a colloquial nickname for Winnipeg, the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Manitoba.
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Pego
Pego is a civil parish located within the municipality of Abrantes in central Portugal.
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E.
Pengo
Pengo is a Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Pengo people in parts of central India, especially in Odisha and neighboring regions.
- 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: Peg DIG Target entity description: Peg DIG is a small, faint dwarf irregular galaxy in the Local Group, located in the constellation Pegasus and notable for its low luminosity and sparse stellar population.
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A.
Peg
Peg is a common diminutive or nickname for the female given name Margaret.
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B.
Peg
"Peg" is a jazz-influenced pop/rock song by Steely Dan, known for its intricate production, sophisticated harmonies, and enduring popularity since its release on the 1977 album *Aja*.
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C.
The Peg
The Peg is a colloquial nickname for Winnipeg, the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Manitoba.
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D.
Pego
Pego is a civil parish located within the municipality of Abrantes in central Portugal.
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E.
Pengo
Pengo is a Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Pengo people in parts of central India, especially in Odisha and neighboring regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | dwarf irregular galaxy ⓘ |
| containsComponent | neutral hydrogen (H I) envelope ⓘ |
| containsStellarPopulations |
red giant branch stars
ⓘ
young blue stars ⓘ |
| hasAbsoluteMagnitudeV | ~−12 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Andromeda VI
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
DDO 216 NERFINISHED ⓘ PGC 71538 NERFINISHED ⓘ Pegasus DIG NERFINISHED ⓘ Pegasus Dwarf Irregular Galaxy NERFINISHED ⓘ UGC 12613 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAngularSize | ~5.0′ × 2.7′ ⓘ |
| hasApparentMagnitudeV | ~13.2 ⓘ |
| hasColorIndex | relatively blue for a dwarf galaxy ⓘ |
| hasDeclination | +14° 44′ ⓘ |
| hasDiscoveryYear | 1959 ⓘ |
| hasDistanceFromEarth |
~1.0 Mly
ⓘ
~300 kpc ⓘ |
| hasDominantStellarPopulationAge | intermediate-age and old stars ⓘ |
| hasEnvironment | relatively isolated within the Local Group ⓘ |
| hasGalaxyType | dIrr ⓘ |
| hasKinematicProperty | slow internal rotation or dispersion-dominated dynamics ⓘ |
| hasLuminosity | low luminosity ⓘ |
| hasMassToLightRatio | high mass-to-light ratio (dark-matter dominated) ⓘ |
| hasMetallicity | low metallicity ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | Im ⓘ |
| hasNeutralHydrogenContent | gas-rich ⓘ |
| hasRadialVelocity | ~-183 km/s ⓘ |
| hasRightAscension | 23h 28m ⓘ |
| hasStarFormationActivity | low-level ongoing star formation ⓘ |
| hasStarFormationHistory | extended star formation over a Hubble time ⓘ |
| hasStarFormationRate | very low star formation rate ⓘ |
| hasStellarPopulation | sparse ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceBrightness | very low surface brightness ⓘ |
| isGravitationallyBoundTo | Local Group potential ⓘ |
| isObservableFrom | Northern Hemisphere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSatelliteOf | Milky Way (probable) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInConstellation | Pegasus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Local Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasDiscoveredBy | Sidney van den Bergh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Peg DIG Description of subject: Peg DIG is a small, faint dwarf irregular galaxy in the Local Group, located in the constellation Pegasus and notable for its low luminosity and sparse stellar population.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.