SuperCam
E95820
Mars rover instrument
Raman spectrometer
infrared spectrometer
laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy instrument
microphone-equipped scientific instrument
remote-sensing instrument
SuperCam is a remote-sensing instrument on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover that uses lasers, cameras, and spectrometers to analyze the composition of Martian rocks and soil from a distance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SuperCam canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T747459 — 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: SuperCam Context triple: [Perseverance rover, hasInstrument, SuperCam]
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A.
ChemCam
ChemCam is a laser-based remote sensing instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used to analyze the chemical composition of Martian rocks and soil.
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B.
MAHLI
MAHLI is a high-resolution, focusable color camera on NASA's Curiosity rover used to capture detailed close-up images of Martian rocks, soil, and textures for geological analysis.
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C.
Mastcam
Mastcam is the main color imaging camera system on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, used to capture high-resolution photos and videos of the Martian surface for scientific analysis and mission navigation.
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D.
Curiosity rover
Curiosity rover is a NASA Mars rover designed to explore the Gale Crater, study the planet’s climate and geology, and assess whether Mars ever had environmental conditions suitable for microbial life.
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E.
Mars Science Laboratory
Mars Science Laboratory is a NASA mission that delivered and operates the Curiosity rover to study Mars’s geology and climate and assess its past habitability.
- 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: SuperCam Target entity description: SuperCam is a remote-sensing instrument on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover that uses lasers, cameras, and spectrometers to analyze the composition of Martian rocks and soil from a distance.
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A.
ChemCam
ChemCam is a laser-based remote sensing instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used to analyze the chemical composition of Martian rocks and soil.
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B.
MAHLI
MAHLI is a high-resolution, focusable color camera on NASA's Curiosity rover used to capture detailed close-up images of Martian rocks, soil, and textures for geological analysis.
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C.
Mastcam
Mastcam is the main color imaging camera system on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, used to capture high-resolution photos and videos of the Martian surface for scientific analysis and mission navigation.
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D.
Curiosity rover
Curiosity rover is a NASA Mars rover designed to explore the Gale Crater, study the planet’s climate and geology, and assess whether Mars ever had environmental conditions suitable for microbial life.
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E.
Mars Science Laboratory
Mars Science Laboratory is a NASA mission that delivered and operates the Curiosity rover to study Mars’s geology and climate and assess its past habitability.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mars rover instrument
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Raman spectrometer ⓘ infrared spectrometer ⓘ laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy instrument ⓘ microphone-equipped scientific instrument ⓘ remote-sensing instrument ⓘ |
| canAnalyzeFromDistance |
approximately 7 meters
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up to several meters ⓘ |
| dataUsedFor |
context for returned sample analysis on Earth
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supporting rover navigation decisions about targets ⓘ |
| developedBy |
CNES
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surface form:
Centre National d'Études Spatiales
French research institutions consortium ⓘ Los Alamos Laboratory ⓘ
surface form:
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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| firstOperatedOn | Perseverance landing date 2021-02-18 ⓘ |
| hasCapability |
detection of organic compounds
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high-resolution color imaging ⓘ recording acoustic data on Mars ⓘ remote elemental analysis ⓘ remote mineralogical analysis ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Body Unit
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Mast Unit ⓘ |
| hostRover | Perseverance ⓘ |
| internationalPartner |
CNES
ⓘ
France ⓘ |
| locatedAt | Mast Unit on Perseverance rover ⓘ |
| mission |
Mars 2020
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surface form:
Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission
|
| mountedOn | mast of Perseverance rover ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
ⓘ
NASA ⓘ |
| partOf |
Mars 2020 mission payload
ⓘ
Perseverance rover ⓘ
surface form:
NASA Perseverance rover
|
| predecessorInstrument |
ChemCam
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surface form:
ChemCam on Curiosity rover
|
| program |
Mars Exploration Program
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surface form:
NASA Mars Exploration Program
|
| scientificPurpose |
analyze composition of Martian rocks
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analyze composition of Martian soil ⓘ characterize Martian surface geology ⓘ search for signs of past habitability ⓘ study Martian atmospheric properties ⓘ support selection of rock and soil samples for caching ⓘ |
| spaceAgency | NASA ⓘ |
| successorTo | ChemCam ⓘ |
| targetBody | Mars ⓘ |
| uses |
Raman spectroscopy
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infrared spectroscopy ⓘ laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy ⓘ microphone acoustic measurements ⓘ time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy ⓘ visible imaging ⓘ |
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: SuperCam Description of subject: SuperCam is a remote-sensing instrument on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover that uses lasers, cameras, and spectrometers to analyze the composition of Martian rocks and soil from a distance.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.