Wide Field Camera
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The Wide Field Camera was an X-ray and extreme ultraviolet imaging instrument aboard the ROSAT satellite, used to survey the sky for high-energy astronomical sources.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wide Field Camera canonical | 1 |
| Wide Field Cameras | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15839224 — 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: Wide Field Camera Context triple: [ROSAT, instrument, Wide Field Camera]
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A.
Wide Field Instrument
The Wide Field Instrument is the primary camera and spectrograph on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, designed to capture large-area, high-resolution images for studies of dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics.
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B.
Wide Field Camera 3
Wide Field Camera 3 is a versatile imaging instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope that captures high-resolution observations across ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared wavelengths.
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Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2
Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 was a key imaging instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope that captured many of its most iconic and scientifically important space photographs from the mid-1990s to the late 2000s.
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LSST Camera
The LSST Camera is a massive, wide-field digital camera designed to capture deep, high-resolution images of the night sky for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s decade-long sky survey.
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Faint Object Camera
The Faint Object Camera was a high-resolution imaging instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope designed to observe very dim and distant astronomical objects in ultraviolet and visible light.
- 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: Wide Field Camera Target entity description: The Wide Field Camera was an X-ray and extreme ultraviolet imaging instrument aboard the ROSAT satellite, used to survey the sky for high-energy astronomical sources.
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A.
Wide Field Instrument
The Wide Field Instrument is the primary camera and spectrograph on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, designed to capture large-area, high-resolution images for studies of dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics.
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B.
Wide Field Camera 3
Wide Field Camera 3 is a versatile imaging instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope that captures high-resolution observations across ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared wavelengths.
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C.
Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2
Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 was a key imaging instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope that captured many of its most iconic and scientifically important space photographs from the mid-1990s to the late 2000s.
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D.
LSST Camera
The LSST Camera is a massive, wide-field digital camera designed to capture deep, high-resolution images of the night sky for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s decade-long sky survey.
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E.
Faint Object Camera
The Faint Object Camera was a high-resolution imaging instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope designed to observe very dim and distant astronomical objects in ultraviolet and visible light.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Wide Field Cameras