Triple

T20749015
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McDonald Observatory E510667 entity
Predicate hasFacility P105 FINISHED
Object Hobby–Eberly Telescope dome — NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Hobby–Eberly Telescope dome | Statement: [McDonald Observatory, hasFacility, Hobby–Eberly Telescope dome]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Hobby–Eberly Telescope dome
Context triple: [McDonald Observatory, hasFacility, Hobby–Eberly Telescope dome]
  • A. Hobby–Eberly Telescope chosen
    The Hobby–Eberly Telescope is a large, fixed-elevation optical telescope at McDonald Observatory in Texas, notable for its cost-effective segmented-mirror design used as a model for other large telescopes.
  • B. Harlan J. Smith Telescope
    The Harlan J. Smith Telescope is a 2.7-meter optical telescope at McDonald Observatory in Texas, used for a wide range of astronomical research including stellar, galactic, and exoplanet studies.
  • C. McDonald Observatory
    McDonald Observatory is a major astronomical research facility in West Texas known for its large telescopes and contributions to optical and infrared astronomy.
  • D. Burrell Schmidt Telescope
    The Burrell Schmidt Telescope is a wide-field Schmidt telescope known for deep imaging of galaxies and faint astronomical structures, located at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.
  • E. Curtis Schmidt Telescope
    The Curtis Schmidt Telescope is a wide-field Schmidt telescope known for its photographic sky surveys and operation at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (2 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_69e0b4c845e88190b4c5f3ae79291182 completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6c228af288190a20829d45c034c24 completed April 21, 2026, 12:17 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:34 p.m.