COS
E260027
COS is a Hubble Space Telescope instrument designed to study the origins and evolution of the universe by analyzing the ultraviolet light from distant astronomical objects.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| COS canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2373287 — 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: COS Context triple: [Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, abbreviation, COS]
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A.
KOS
KOS is the vehicle registration code assigned to the town of Oświęcim in southern Poland.
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B.
COU
COU (Council of Ontario Universities) is a coordinating body that represents and advocates for Ontario’s publicly funded universities.
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C.
CW
CW is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Curaçao.
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D.
CW
CW is a postcode area in the United Kingdom covering Crewe and surrounding parts of Cheshire.
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E.
COLL
COLL is the standard abbreviation for the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry, a professional body focused on research and advancement in colloid and surface science.
- 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: COS Target entity description: COS is a Hubble Space Telescope instrument designed to study the origins and evolution of the universe by analyzing the ultraviolet light from distant astronomical objects.
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A.
KOS
KOS is the vehicle registration code assigned to the town of Oświęcim in southern Poland.
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B.
COU
COU (Council of Ontario Universities) is a coordinating body that represents and advocates for Ontario’s publicly funded universities.
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C.
CW
CW is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Curaçao.
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D.
CW
CW is a postcode area in the United Kingdom covering Crewe and surrounding parts of Cheshire.
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E.
COLL
COLL is the standard abbreviation for the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry, a professional body focused on research and advancement in colloid and surface science.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hubble Space Telescope instrument
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space telescope instrument ⓘ spectrograph ⓘ |
| acronymFor | Cosmic Origins Spectrograph ⓘ |
| agency | NASA ⓘ |
| countryOfOperator |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| dataProduct | ultraviolet spectra ⓘ |
| designedTo |
analyze ultraviolet light from distant astronomical objects
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obtain high-sensitivity ultraviolet spectra ⓘ |
| developedBy |
Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy
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NASA ⓘ University of Colorado Boulder ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
astrophysics
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cosmology ⓘ galaxy evolution ⓘ intergalactic medium physics ⓘ interstellar medium physics ⓘ |
| fullName | Cosmic Origins Spectrograph ⓘ |
| hostedBy | Low Earth orbit platform ⓘ |
| hostServicingMissionSTS | STS-125 ⓘ |
| installationYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| installedDuring | Hubble Servicing Mission 4 ⓘ |
| launchVehicleOfHost | Space Shuttle Discovery ⓘ |
| locatedAt |
Hubble Space Telescope optical bench
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surface form:
Hubble Space Telescope instrument bay
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| observatory | Hubble Space Telescope ⓘ |
| operatedOn | Hubble Space Telescope ⓘ |
| optimizedFor |
faint ultraviolet sources
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high throughput spectroscopy ⓘ |
| primaryScienceGoal |
study of galaxy formation and evolution
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study of quasar absorption lines ⓘ study of stellar atmospheres ⓘ study of the circumgalactic medium ⓘ study of the evolution of the universe ⓘ study of the intergalactic medium ⓘ study of the origins of the universe ⓘ |
| scienceTargets |
active galactic nuclei
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circumgalactic gas ⓘ hot stars ⓘ intergalactic medium ⓘ interstellar medium ⓘ quasars ⓘ star-forming galaxies ⓘ white dwarfs ⓘ |
| spectralRegion |
far-ultraviolet
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near-ultraviolet ⓘ |
| telescope | Hubble Space Telescope ⓘ |
| typeOfInstrument |
imaging spectrograph
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point-source optimized spectrograph ⓘ |
| 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: COS Description of subject: COS is a Hubble Space Telescope instrument designed to study the origins and evolution of the universe by analyzing the ultraviolet light from distant astronomical objects.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.