Triple

T15838841
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wolter type I grazing-incidence telescope E384049 entity
Predicate hasVariant P455 FINISHED
Object Wolter type II telescope
The Wolter type II telescope is a specialized grazing-incidence X-ray telescope design that uses a combination of parabolic and hyperbolic mirror segments arranged differently from the type I configuration to focus high-energy radiation.
E1179647 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Wolter type II telescope | Statement: [Wolter type I grazing-incidence telescope, hasVariant, Wolter type II telescope]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wolter type II telescope
Context triple: [Wolter type I grazing-incidence telescope, hasVariant, Wolter type II telescope]
  • A. Cassegrain telescope
    A Cassegrain telescope is a reflecting telescope design that uses a combination of a primary concave mirror and a secondary convex mirror to fold the optical path and produce a compact instrument with a long effective focal length.
  • B. Schmidt telescope
    A Schmidt telescope is a wide-field reflecting telescope design that uses a spherical primary mirror and a correcting lens to capture sharp images over a large area of the sky.
  • C. Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope design
    The Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope design is a compact catadioptric optical system that combines a spherical primary mirror with a Schmidt corrector plate to provide long focal lengths in a short, portable tube widely used in amateur and professional astronomy.
  • D. Maksutov–Cassegrain telescope design
    The Maksutov–Cassegrain telescope design is a compact catadioptric optical system that uses a spherical primary mirror and a meniscus corrector lens to provide long focal lengths with well-corrected, high-contrast images in a relatively short tube.
  • E. Wolter type I grazing-incidence telescope
    A Wolter type I grazing-incidence telescope is a specialized X-ray imaging system that uses nested, shallowly angled mirror surfaces to focus high-energy X-ray photons that would otherwise penetrate or be absorbed by conventional optical mirrors.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Wolter type II telescope
Triple: [Wolter type I grazing-incidence telescope, hasVariant, Wolter type II telescope]
Generated description
The Wolter type II telescope is a specialized grazing-incidence X-ray telescope design that uses a combination of parabolic and hyperbolic mirror segments arranged differently from the type I configuration to focus high-energy radiation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wolter type II telescope
Target entity description: The Wolter type II telescope is a specialized grazing-incidence X-ray telescope design that uses a combination of parabolic and hyperbolic mirror segments arranged differently from the type I configuration to focus high-energy radiation.
  • A. Cassegrain telescope
    A Cassegrain telescope is a reflecting telescope design that uses a combination of a primary concave mirror and a secondary convex mirror to fold the optical path and produce a compact instrument with a long effective focal length.
  • B. Schmidt telescope
    A Schmidt telescope is a wide-field reflecting telescope design that uses a spherical primary mirror and a correcting lens to capture sharp images over a large area of the sky.
  • C. Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope design
    The Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope design is a compact catadioptric optical system that combines a spherical primary mirror with a Schmidt corrector plate to provide long focal lengths in a short, portable tube widely used in amateur and professional astronomy.
  • D. Maksutov–Cassegrain telescope design
    The Maksutov–Cassegrain telescope design is a compact catadioptric optical system that uses a spherical primary mirror and a meniscus corrector lens to provide long focal lengths with well-corrected, high-contrast images in a relatively short tube.
  • E. Wolter type I grazing-incidence telescope
    A Wolter type I grazing-incidence telescope is a specialized X-ray imaging system that uses nested, shallowly angled mirror surfaces to focus high-energy X-ray photons that would otherwise penetrate or be absorbed by conventional optical mirrors.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d86da34c888190976e06c4019d415a completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e142e4fa24819086a1a226082ac2d3 completed April 16, 2026, 8:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffa13c931481908ed9fd10fddd867c completed May 9, 2026, 9:03 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffa419c6dc81908c9678f8434530f8 completed May 9, 2026, 9:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffa4cff5088190a7f11fd62941f4fb completed May 9, 2026, 9:19 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:49 a.m.