Alice
E151812
Alice is an ultraviolet imaging spectrograph aboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, used to study the composition and structure of planetary atmospheres and surfaces.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alice canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1274767 — 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: Alice Context triple: [New Horizons, instrument, Alice]
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A.
Alice
Alice is one of the given names of Anne, Princess Royal, the only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.
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B.
Alice
Alice is an American sitcom that aired from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, following a widowed waitress working at a roadside diner and the quirky people in her life.
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C.
Albert
Albert is the given name of the renowned theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, whose work revolutionized modern physics.
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D.
Charlie
Charlie is the fictional Boston subway rider in the folk song "Charlie on the MTA," known for being unable to get off the train because he lacks the fare to exit.
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E.
Charlie
Charlie was the third nuclear test in the U.S. Operation Crossroads series, planned as an underwater detonation to study the effects of nuclear weapons on naval vessels.
- 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: Alice Target entity description: Alice is an ultraviolet imaging spectrograph aboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, used to study the composition and structure of planetary atmospheres and surfaces.
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A.
Alice
Alice is one of the given names of Anne, Princess Royal, the only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.
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B.
Alice
Alice is an American sitcom that aired from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, following a widowed waitress working at a roadside diner and the quirky people in her life.
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C.
Albert
Albert is the given name of the renowned theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, whose work revolutionized modern physics.
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D.
Charlie
Charlie is the fictional Boston subway rider in the folk song "Charlie on the MTA," known for being unable to get off the train because he lacks the fare to exit.
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E.
Charlie
Charlie was the third nuclear test in the U.S. Operation Crossroads series, planned as an underwater detonation to study the effects of nuclear weapons on naval vessels.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
scientific instrument
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spacecraft instrument ⓘ ultraviolet imaging spectrograph ⓘ |
| aboard | New Horizons ⓘ |
| countryOfOperator |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| dataType |
imaging data
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ultraviolet spectra ⓘ |
| dataUser | New Horizons science team ⓘ |
| hostBody |
New Horizons spacecraft payload deck
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surface form:
New Horizons science deck
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| launchDate | 2006-01-19 ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Atlas V 551 ⓘ |
| missionAgency |
New Frontiers program
ⓘ
surface form:
NASA New Frontiers Program
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| missionPhase |
Jupiter flyby observations
ⓘ
Kuiper Belt extended mission observations ⓘ Pluto encounter observations ⓘ |
| missionTarget |
Kuiper Belt objects
ⓘ
Pluto’s satellite system ⓘ
surface form:
Pluto system
|
| missionType | flyby mission instrument ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Alice from The Honeymooners television show ⓘ |
| observes |
atmospheric escape
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surface frost distributions ⓘ ultraviolet emissions ⓘ |
| onboardLocation | New Horizons science payload ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| pairedInstrument |
New Horizons Ralph instrument
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surface form:
Ralph (New Horizons instrument)
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| partOfMission |
New Horizons
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surface form:
New Horizons mission
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| powerSource |
MMRTG
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surface form:
New Horizons RTG
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| primaryFunction |
ultraviolet imaging
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ultraviolet spectroscopy ⓘ |
| program |
New Frontiers program
ⓘ
surface form:
NASA New Frontiers program
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| scientificDiscipline |
astrophysics
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planetary science ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | NASA ⓘ |
| spacecraft | New Horizons ⓘ |
| studies |
composition of planetary atmospheres
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composition of planetary surfaces ⓘ planetary atmospheres ⓘ planetary surfaces ⓘ structure of planetary atmospheres ⓘ |
| supportsObservation |
airglow measurements
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solar occultations ⓘ stellar occultations ⓘ |
| usedFor |
atmospheric characterization
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remote sensing ⓘ surface composition analysis ⓘ |
| wavelengthRange | ultraviolet ⓘ |
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: Alice Description of subject: Alice is an ultraviolet imaging spectrograph aboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, used to study the composition and structure of planetary atmospheres and surfaces.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.