Triple

T5363142
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Palomar Observatory E103067 entity
Predicate hasTelescope P35 FINISHED
Object Palomar 48-inch Schmidt Telescope
The Palomar 48-inch Schmidt Telescope is a wide-field survey telescope at Palomar Observatory renowned for its major contributions to sky surveys and the discovery of numerous astronomical objects.
E515954 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: Palomar 48-inch Schmidt Telescope | Statement: [Palomar Observatory, hasTelescope, Palomar 48-inch Schmidt Telescope]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Palomar 48-inch Schmidt Telescope
Context triple: [Palomar Observatory, hasTelescope, Palomar 48-inch Schmidt Telescope]
  • A. Hale Telescope
    The Hale Telescope is a historic 200-inch reflecting telescope at Palomar Observatory in California that was once the world’s largest and remains a landmark instrument in observational astronomy.
  • B. 100-inch Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory
    The 100-inch Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory is a historic reflecting telescope that played a pivotal role in early 20th-century astronomy, including landmark discoveries about galaxies and the expanding universe.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 20 Meter Telescope
    The 20 Meter Telescope is a mid-sized radio telescope at the Green Bank Observatory used for astronomical research and education in radio astronomy.
  • E. Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope
    The Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope is a prominent optical telescope in Chile widely used for deep-sky surveys and cosmological research.
  • 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: Palomar 48-inch Schmidt Telescope
Triple: [Palomar Observatory, hasTelescope, Palomar 48-inch Schmidt Telescope]
Generated description
The Palomar 48-inch Schmidt Telescope is a wide-field survey telescope at Palomar Observatory renowned for its major contributions to sky surveys and the discovery of numerous astronomical objects.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Palomar 48-inch Schmidt Telescope
Target entity description: The Palomar 48-inch Schmidt Telescope is a wide-field survey telescope at Palomar Observatory renowned for its major contributions to sky surveys and the discovery of numerous astronomical objects.
  • A. Hale Telescope
    The Hale Telescope is a historic 200-inch reflecting telescope at Palomar Observatory in California that was once the world’s largest and remains a landmark instrument in observational astronomy.
  • B. 100-inch Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory
    The 100-inch Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory is a historic reflecting telescope that played a pivotal role in early 20th-century astronomy, including landmark discoveries about galaxies and the expanding universe.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 20 Meter Telescope
    The 20 Meter Telescope is a mid-sized radio telescope at the Green Bank Observatory used for astronomical research and education in radio astronomy.
  • E. Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope
    The Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope is a prominent optical telescope in Chile widely used for deep-sky surveys and cosmological research.
  • 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_69bd43daa3e4819090b59d127db70e57 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd865b9b808190a1e8c283ba28d645 completed March 20, 2026, 5:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf29205b188190a19cacbded1d5418 completed March 21, 2026, 11:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf2a09891c81908509695a41d1aa02 completed March 21, 2026, 11:30 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf2ad48fc48190bb0c7de4df879c3b completed March 21, 2026, 11:33 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:02 p.m.