Triple

T17131323
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject HIFI E415726 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared
The Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared (HIFI) is a high-resolution spectrometer aboard the Herschel Space Observatory designed to study the chemical composition and physical conditions of interstellar gas and dust in the far-infrared and submillimeter range.
E1252756 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: Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared | Statement: [HIFI, fullName, Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared
Context triple: [HIFI, fullName, Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared]
  • A. Imaging IR Spectrometer
    The Imaging IR Spectrometer is a Chandrayaan-2 orbiter instrument designed to map the Moon’s surface composition by measuring reflected and emitted infrared radiation.
  • B. Palomar Testbed Interferometer
    The Palomar Testbed Interferometer is an astronomical interferometer designed to combine light from multiple small telescopes to achieve extremely high angular resolution for precision measurements of stars and other celestial objects.
  • C. MicrOmega infrared imaging spectrometer
    The MicrOmega infrared imaging spectrometer is a mineralogical instrument designed to analyze the composition of Martian surface materials at microscopic scale aboard the Rosalind Franklin rover.
  • D. Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer
    The Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer (FIRAS) was a key instrument on NASA’s COBE satellite designed to precisely measure the spectrum of the cosmic microwave background, confirming its near-perfect blackbody nature.
  • E. Narrabri Stellar Intensity Interferometer
    The Narrabri Stellar Intensity Interferometer was a pioneering astronomical instrument in Australia that used intensity interferometry to measure the angular diameters of hot stars with unprecedented precision.
  • 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: Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared
Triple: [HIFI, fullName, Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared]
Generated description
The Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared (HIFI) is a high-resolution spectrometer aboard the Herschel Space Observatory designed to study the chemical composition and physical conditions of interstellar gas and dust in the far-infrared and submillimeter range.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared
Target entity description: The Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared (HIFI) is a high-resolution spectrometer aboard the Herschel Space Observatory designed to study the chemical composition and physical conditions of interstellar gas and dust in the far-infrared and submillimeter range.
  • A. Imaging IR Spectrometer
    The Imaging IR Spectrometer is a Chandrayaan-2 orbiter instrument designed to map the Moon’s surface composition by measuring reflected and emitted infrared radiation.
  • B. Palomar Testbed Interferometer
    The Palomar Testbed Interferometer is an astronomical interferometer designed to combine light from multiple small telescopes to achieve extremely high angular resolution for precision measurements of stars and other celestial objects.
  • C. MicrOmega infrared imaging spectrometer
    The MicrOmega infrared imaging spectrometer is a mineralogical instrument designed to analyze the composition of Martian surface materials at microscopic scale aboard the Rosalind Franklin rover.
  • D. Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer
    The Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer (FIRAS) was a key instrument on NASA’s COBE satellite designed to precisely measure the spectrum of the cosmic microwave background, confirming its near-perfect blackbody nature.
  • E. Narrabri Stellar Intensity Interferometer
    The Narrabri Stellar Intensity Interferometer was a pioneering astronomical instrument in Australia that used intensity interferometry to measure the angular diameters of hot stars with unprecedented precision.
  • 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_69d886d15af4819092f92f8a129763e6 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3f02a9fbc81909d820d29417aa55c completed April 18, 2026, 8:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01414cd5d481908d11eb230d2283cd completed May 11, 2026, 2:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01422c0f088190b162c7086bc93585 completed May 11, 2026, 2:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0142f274ec819081eb15a3ea0e1b13 completed May 11, 2026, 2:46 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:36 a.m.