NGC 4696
E610635
NGC 4696 is a massive elliptical galaxy that serves as the central dominant galaxy of the Centaurus Cluster, notable for its complex dust lanes and active galactic nucleus.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6697731 — 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 4696 Context triple: [Centaurus Cluster, containsGalaxy, NGC 4696]
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A.
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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B.
NGC 4478
NGC 4478 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Virgo and is a member of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies.
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C.
NGC 4689
NGC 4689 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Coma Berenices and is a member of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies.
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D.
NGC 4660
NGC 4660 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Virgo and is a member of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies.
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E.
NGC 4606
NGC 4606 is a barred spiral 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 4696 Target entity description: NGC 4696 is a massive elliptical galaxy that serves as the central dominant galaxy of the Centaurus Cluster, notable for its complex dust lanes and active galactic nucleus.
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A.
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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B.
NGC 4478
NGC 4478 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Virgo and is a member of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies.
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C.
NGC 4689
NGC 4689 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Coma Berenices and is a member of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies.
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D.
NGC 4660
NGC 4660 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Virgo and is a member of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies.
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E.
NGC 4606
NGC 4606 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Virgo and is a member of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
central dominant galaxy
ⓘ
elliptical galaxy ⓘ radio galaxy ⓘ |
| angularSize | ~4.5 × 3.5 arcminutes ⓘ |
| apparentMagnitudeV | ~11.4 ⓘ |
| catalog | New General Catalogue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| declination | −41° 18′ 40″ (J2000) ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | John Herschel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoveryDate | 1834 ⓘ |
| distanceFromEarth |
~150 million light-years
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~46 Mpc ⓘ |
| environment | rich galaxy cluster core ⓘ |
| hasActiveGalacticNucleus | true ⓘ |
| hasAGNFeedbackOnIntraclusterMedium | true ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
2MASX J12484980-4118394
NERFINISHED
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ESO 322- G 091 NERFINISHED ⓘ PKS 1246-410 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCentralCoolingFlowFeatures | true ⓘ |
| hasComplexDustStructure | true ⓘ |
| hasComplexIonizedGasFilaments | true ⓘ |
| hasCoolCoreClusterEnvironment | true ⓘ |
| hasDustLanes | true ⓘ |
| hasExtendedHalo | true ⓘ |
| hasFilamentaryDustLanes | true ⓘ |
| hasIntraclusterLightContribution | significant ⓘ |
| hasJetActivity | true ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | E ⓘ |
| hasOpticalEmissionLineFilaments | true ⓘ |
| hasRadioSourceDesignation | PKS 1246-41 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStellarPopulation | predominantly old stars ⓘ |
| hasSupermassiveBlackHole | true ⓘ |
| hasXRayEmission | true ⓘ |
| hostClusterAlternativeName | Abell 3526 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isBrightestClusterGalaxy | true ⓘ |
| isCentralGalaxyOf | Centaurus Cluster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isDominantGalaxyInRegion | Centaurus Cluster core NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInConstellation | Centaurus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Centaurus Cluster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observedInRadioBy | VLA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observedInXRayBy |
Chandra X-ray Observatory
NERFINISHED
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XMM-Newton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| radialVelocity | ~2970 km/s ⓘ |
| redshift | 0.0099 ⓘ |
| rightAscension | 12h 48m 49s (J2000) ⓘ |
| showsEvidenceOf | past merger events ⓘ |
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 4696 Description of subject: NGC 4696 is a massive elliptical galaxy that serves as the central dominant galaxy of the Centaurus Cluster, notable for its complex dust lanes and active galactic nucleus.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
NGC 4696A