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source: Freebase Data Dumps
stated in qid: Q15241312
pub year: 2013

source: SIMBAD
stated in qid: Q654724
retrieved: 2014-08-14

source: VizieR
stated in qid: Q1662358

source: Hard X-ray properties of blazars
stated in qid: Q58983817

source: Evidence for very large-scale coherent orientations of quasar polarization vectors
stated in qid: Q66617834

source: A catalogue of quasars and active nuclei: 13th edition
stated in qid: Q56002165

source: CGRaBS: An All‐Sky Survey of Gamma‐Ray Blazar Candidates
stated in qid: Q58914066

source: Gaia Data Release 2
stated in qid: Q51905050

source: VizieR Online Data Catalog: 2MASS All-Sky Catalog of Point Sources (Cutri+ 2003)
stated in qid: Q66309067

source: The first INTEGRAL AGN catalog
stated in qid: Q68892637

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