UT3
E666001
UT3 is one of the four 8.2-meter Unit Telescopes of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope array at Paranal Observatory in Chile.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| UT3 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7459345 — 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: UT3 Context triple: [Melipal, telescopeNumber, UT3]
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A.
U3
U3 is one of the main lines of the Nuremberg U-Bahn rapid transit system in Nuremberg, Germany.
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B.
U3
U3 is a line of the Berlin U-Bahn rapid transit system serving several districts in the German capital.
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C.
Us3
Us3 is a British jazz-rap group best known for blending hip-hop with sampled Blue Note jazz recordings, particularly on their hit single "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)."
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D.
SS (UBT)
SS (UBT) is a political party in India led by Uddhav Thackeray, formed after a split in the original Shiv Sena.
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E.
UTS
UTS is the station code used to identify Utsunomiya Station in Japan’s railway system.
- 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: UT3 Target entity description: UT3 is one of the four 8.2-meter Unit Telescopes of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope array at Paranal Observatory in Chile.
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A.
U3
U3 is a line of the Berlin U-Bahn rapid transit system serving several districts in the German capital.
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B.
U3
U3 is one of the main lines of the Nuremberg U-Bahn rapid transit system in Nuremberg, Germany.
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C.
Us3
Us3 is a British jazz-rap group best known for blending hip-hop with sampled Blue Note jazz recordings, particularly on their hit single "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)."
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D.
SS (UBT)
SS (UBT) is a political party in India led by Uddhav Thackeray, formed after a split in the original Shiv Sena.
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E.
UTS
UTS is the station code used to identify Utsunomiya Station in Japan’s railway system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Unit Telescope ⓘ |
| hasApertureDiameter | 8.2 meters ⓘ |
| hasCollectingArea | approximately 52.8 square meters ⓘ |
| hasLocationLatitude | approximately -24.6 degrees ⓘ |
| hasLocationLongitude | approximately -70.4 degrees ⓘ |
| hasMirrorType | monolithic primary mirror ⓘ |
| hasSiteAltitude | about 2600 meters ⓘ |
| isOneOf | four 8.2-meter VLT Unit Telescopes ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Atacama Desert
ⓘ
Chile ⓘ Paranal Observatory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | VLT Unit Telescopes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfUnitTelescopesInArray | 4 ⓘ |
| observatoryCode | ESO Paranal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedBy | European Southern Observatory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | European Southern Observatory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Paranal Observatory
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
VLT array NERFINISHED ⓘ Very Large Telescope NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfProgram | ESO VLT Program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryMirrorDiameter | 8.2 meters ⓘ |
| scienceUse |
astronomical observations
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infrared astronomy ⓘ optical astronomy ⓘ |
| telescopeType |
alt-azimuth mounted telescope
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reflecting telescope ⓘ |
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: UT3 Description of subject: UT3 is one of the four 8.2-meter Unit Telescopes of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope array at Paranal Observatory in Chile.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.