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Gage Golightly

Gage Golightly (born 1993) is an American actress from Nevada County, California, known for Hayley Steele in The Troop, Erica Reyes in Teen Wolf, Karen in Red Oaks, and Grace Durkin in 68 Whiskey.

Gage Jump

Gage Jump (Gage Lee Jump, born 2003) is a left-handed pitcher for the Athletics; drafted 73rd overall in 2024 out of LSU after UCLA and Tommy John surgery, MLB debut May 26, 2026.

Gagea

Gagea (yellow stars-of-Bethlehem, goose onion) is a large, taxonomically difficult genus of bulbous Liliaceae herbs native to temperate Eurasia, North Africa, and subalpine North America, with roughly 229 to over 320 species and the former genus Lloydia now merged into it.

GAGG:Ce scintillator

GAGG:Ce, cerium-doped gadolinium aluminum gallium garnet, is a non-hygroscopic scintillator crystal with very high light yield, used in gamma spectroscopy, medical imaging, and space detectors.

Gaggenau

Gaggenau is a German manufacturer of luxury built-in kitchen appliances, including ovens, combi-steam ovens, cooktops, and refrigeration, founded as an ironworks in 1683 and a BSH Hausgeräte subsidiary since 1995.

Gaggia

Gaggia, also known as Gaggia S.p.A., is an Italian espresso machine manufacturer founded in Milan in 1948 by Achille Gaggia, whose pressure brewing produced modern crema-topped espresso.

Gagik I of Armenia

Gagik I (Գագիկ Ա) was a Bagratid king of Armenia from 989 or 990 to 1020, under whom the kingdom of Ani reached its height.

Gagik I of Vaspurakan

Gagik I of Vaspurakan (Gagik Artsruni) was an Armenian king of the Artsruni dynasty, crowned in 908 and builder of the church of the Holy Cross on Aghtamar.

Gagik II of Armenia

Gagik II, Armenian: Գագիկ Բ, was the last Bagratuni king of Armenia, crowned at Ani in 1042 and forced to surrender his kingdom to Byzantium in 1045.

Gagman (개그맨)

Gagman (개그맨) is Lee Myung-se's 1988 debut feature, a Korean New Wave comedy-drama starring Ahn Sung-ki, Hwang Shin-hye, and Bae Chang-ho about a delusional cabaret comedian; shot in 21 days, released June 1989, later reevaluated as a cult classic.

Gagnoa

Gagnoa, city in center-west Côte d'Ivoire, capital of Gôh-Djiboua district and Gôh region; 277,044 inhabitants (2021), ninth-largest city; cocoa and coffee trading hub, Bété cultural center.

Gagnon v. Scarpelli

Gagnon v. Scarpelli, 411 U.S. 778 (1973), Supreme Court case extending Morrissey v. Brewer's two-hearing due process framework to probation revocation and adopting a case-by-case right to appointed counsel for indigent probationers and parolees.

Gagron Fort (गागरोन का किला)

Gagron Fort (गागरोन का किला), a hill and water fort in Jhalawar, Rajasthan, at the Ahu–Kali Sindh river confluence; one of six UNESCO Hill Forts of Rajasthan inscribed in 2013, with 14 recorded attacks.

Gahadavala dynasty

The Gahadavala dynasty (गहडवाल वंश) was a North Indian royal house that ruled the Ganga-Yamuna doab, including Kannauj and Varanasi, from about 1089 to 1194.

Gahai Ancient City Site

尕海古城遗址 (Gahai Ancient City Site), a Han-dynasty square rammed-earth city ruin near Gahai Lake, Haiyan County, Qinghai; one of five Western Sea Commandery cities around Qinghai Lake, built 4 CE, a national key cultural relics protection unit since 2019.

Gahan Wilson

Gahan Wilson (1930-2019), American macabre cartoonist whose single-panel gags appeared in Playboy from 1957 and The New Yorker from 1980; creator of the strip Nuts, designer of the World Fantasy Award's Lovecraft trophy, and World Fantasy Award winner.

Gahyun

Gahyun, also known as Gahyeon and born Lee Ga-hyun, is a South Korean singer and the youngest member of the girl group Dreamcatcher, which debuted in 2017.

Gai Gong

Gai Gong (盖公) was a Han-dynasty scholar of Huang-Lao thought in Jiaoxi, Shandong, whose advice on tranquil governance shaped Cao Shen's peaceful rule of Qi.

Gai Qi

Gai Qi (1773–1828) was a Chinese painter of the mid-Qing dynasty based in Songjiang, the most celebrated painter of beautiful women of his generation and founder of the Gai School.

Gai Wu Rebellion

The Gai Wu Rebellion (盖吴起义) was a 445 uprising against the Northern Wei dynasty led by the Lushui Hu chieftain Gai Wu, who gathered over 100,000 followers.

GAIA (General AI Assistants benchmark)

GAIA is a benchmark of real-world assistant questions released in 2023 by Meta AI and Hugging Face researchers, where humans scored 92% versus GPT-4's 15%.

Gaia (spacecraft)

Gaia is a European Space Agency space observatory for astrometry, launched in 2013 to orbit the Sun-Earth L2 point and map nearly two billion stars in the Milky Way.

GAIA (Wayve driving world model)

GAIA (Generative AI for Autonomy) is a family of generative video world models built by autonomous driving company Wayve, first introduced in 2023 to simulate driving footage for testing driving policies.

Gaia (Γαῖα)

Gaia (Γαῖα), also Gaea or Ge, is the primordial Greek earth goddess, Roman Terra/Tellus. In Hesiod's Theogony she follows Chaos, bears Ouranos, the Titans, and Typhoeus, and counsels Zeus; her cult was diffuse, centered on oaths and first-fruits.

Gaia BH1

Gaia BH1 is a binary system in Ophiuchus containing the nearest known black hole to Earth, about 1,560 light-years away, discovered by the Gaia mission in 2022.

Gaia BH1 and Gaia BH2

Gaia BH1 and Gaia BH2 are dormant stellar-mass black holes found by the Gaia mission through their companion stars' wobble, announced in 2022 and 2023.

Gaia BH2 and Gaia BH3

Gaia BH2 and Gaia BH3 are dormant stellar-mass black holes found by the Gaia mission; BH3 is the most massive stellar-origin black hole known in the Milky Way.

Gaia BH3

Gaia BH3 is a stellar-mass black hole of about 33 solar masses, the most massive of stellar origin known in the Milky Way, discovered by the Gaia mission in 2024.

Gaia Corona

Gaia Corona is a 400-km-wide, double-type corona in central Eistla Regio on Venus, IAU-named in 1994 for the Greek earth goddess, with a 2025-corrected center near 3.9°N, 21.6°E.

Gaia Data Release 3

Gaia Data Release 3, or Gaia DR3, is a 2022 catalog from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission covering about 1.8 billion stars and other objects.