LGS 3
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LGS 3 is a faint dwarf irregular galaxy in the Local Group, located in the constellation Pisces and notable for its low luminosity and sparse stellar population.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| LGS 3 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6623656 — 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: LGS 3 Context triple: [Pisces Dwarf Galaxy, hasAlternativeName, LGS 3]
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A.
Lagg
Lagg is a village on the Isle of Arran in Scotland, known for its coastal setting and association with whisky production.
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B.
LETGS
LETGS is a high-resolution X-ray grating spectrometer aboard NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory used to disperse and analyze X-ray emissions from cosmic sources.
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C.
LSGS
LSGS is the ICAO airport code for Sion Airport, a regional airport in the Swiss canton of Valais serving both civil and military aviation.
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D.
LGF.A
LGF.A is the Class A common stock of Lionsgate, a major entertainment company known for producing and distributing films and television series.
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E.
Logres
Logres is the legendary kingdom associated with King Arthur, often depicted as the idealized realm of Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table in Arthurian romance.
- 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: LGS 3 Target entity description: LGS 3 is a faint dwarf irregular galaxy in the Local Group, located in the constellation Pisces and notable for its low luminosity and sparse stellar population.
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A.
Lagg
Lagg is a village on the Isle of Arran in Scotland, known for its coastal setting and association with whisky production.
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B.
LETGS
LETGS is a high-resolution X-ray grating spectrometer aboard NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory used to disperse and analyze X-ray emissions from cosmic sources.
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C.
LSGS
LSGS is the ICAO airport code for Sion Airport, a regional airport in the Swiss canton of Valais serving both civil and military aviation.
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D.
LGF.A
LGF.A is the Class A common stock of Lionsgate, a major entertainment company known for producing and distributing films and television series.
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E.
Logres
Logres is the legendary kingdom associated with King Arthur, often depicted as the idealized realm of Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table in Arthurian romance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Local Group galaxy
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dwarf irregular galaxy ⓘ faint galaxy ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Local Group Survey (LGS) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains | neutral hydrogen gas ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | van den Bergh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoveredIn | 1970s ⓘ |
| hasAbsoluteMagnitudeV | about -10 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Dwarf Galaxy in Pisces
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KK 35 ⓘ LEDA 3792 NERFINISHED ⓘ PGC 3792 NERFINISHED ⓘ Pisces Dwarf Galaxy NERFINISHED ⓘ UGC 1157 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAngularSize | about 2 arcminutes ⓘ |
| hasCentralSurfaceBrightness | very low ⓘ |
| hasColor | relatively red ⓘ |
| hasDeclination | +21° ⓘ |
| hasDistanceFromEarth |
about 2.0 million light-years
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about 620 kiloparsecs ⓘ |
| hasDistanceModulus | about 24.5 mag ⓘ |
| hasEnvironment | relatively isolated within Local Group ⓘ |
| hasGalaxyClusterMembership | none (field dwarf in Local Group) ⓘ |
| hasGalaxyType | transition-type dwarf (dIrr/dSph) ⓘ |
| hasGasContent | modest HI reservoir ⓘ |
| hasHIIRegions | few or none ⓘ |
| hasLow | luminosity ⓘ |
| hasMassToLightRatio | high ⓘ |
| hasMetallicity | low ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | dIrr ⓘ |
| hasRadialVelocity | about -280 km/s ⓘ |
| hasRightAscension | about 01h 03m ⓘ |
| hasSparse | stellar population ⓘ |
| hasStarClusterPopulation | sparse ⓘ |
| hasStarFormationHistory | extended ⓘ |
| hasStarFormationRate | very low ⓘ |
| hasStellarPopulation |
intermediate-age stars
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old stars ⓘ |
| hasSurfaceBrightness | very low ⓘ |
| isDominatedBy | dark matter ⓘ |
| isFaint | true ⓘ |
| isGasRich | true ⓘ |
| isResolvedIntoStars | true ⓘ |
| locatedInConstellation | Pisces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Local Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observedWith | Hubble Space Telescope NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbits | Local Group barycenter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: LGS 3 Description of subject: LGS 3 is a faint dwarf irregular galaxy in the Local Group, located in the constellation Pisces 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.