Triple

T7486708
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject VISIR E176898 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object VLT Imager and Spectrometer for mid-InfraRed
VLT Imager and Spectrometer for mid-InfraRed is a mid-infrared astronomical instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope that provides high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy of celestial objects.
E668455 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: VLT Imager and Spectrometer for mid-InfraRed | Statement: [VISIR, fullName, VLT Imager and Spectrometer for mid-InfraRed]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: VLT Imager and Spectrometer for mid-InfraRed
Context triple: [VISIR, fullName, VLT Imager and Spectrometer for mid-InfraRed]
  • A. VLT Survey Telescope
    The VLT Survey Telescope is a wide-field optical survey telescope in Chile designed to conduct large-scale imaging of the southern sky for the European Southern Observatory.
  • B. Mid-Infrared Instrument
    The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) is a key James Webb Space Telescope payload that provides imaging, spectroscopy, and coronagraphy in the mid-infrared range to study cold, distant, and dust-obscured cosmic objects.
  • C. MMIRS (Magellan/MMT Infrared Spectrograph)
    MMIRS (Magellan/MMT Infrared Spectrograph) is a near-infrared imaging spectrograph designed for the Magellan and MMT telescopes to study faint astronomical objects at infrared wavelengths.
  • D. ESO 3.6 m Telescope
    The ESO 3.6 m Telescope is a major optical telescope operated by the European Southern Observatory in Chile, known for hosting the HARPS spectrograph used in exoplanet discovery.
  • E. VIRCAM
    VIRCAM is the wide-field infrared camera used on the VISTA telescope to conduct large-scale near-infrared sky surveys.
  • 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: VLT Imager and Spectrometer for mid-InfraRed
Triple: [VISIR, fullName, VLT Imager and Spectrometer for mid-InfraRed]
Generated description
VLT Imager and Spectrometer for mid-InfraRed is a mid-infrared astronomical instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope that provides high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy of celestial objects.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: VLT Imager and Spectrometer for mid-InfraRed
Target entity description: VLT Imager and Spectrometer for mid-InfraRed is a mid-infrared astronomical instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope that provides high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy of celestial objects.
  • A. VLT Survey Telescope
    The VLT Survey Telescope is a wide-field optical survey telescope in Chile designed to conduct large-scale imaging of the southern sky for the European Southern Observatory.
  • B. Mid-Infrared Instrument
    The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) is a key James Webb Space Telescope payload that provides imaging, spectroscopy, and coronagraphy in the mid-infrared range to study cold, distant, and dust-obscured cosmic objects.
  • C. MMIRS (Magellan/MMT Infrared Spectrograph)
    MMIRS (Magellan/MMT Infrared Spectrograph) is a near-infrared imaging spectrograph designed for the Magellan and MMT telescopes to study faint astronomical objects at infrared wavelengths.
  • D. ESO 3.6 m Telescope
    The ESO 3.6 m Telescope is a major optical telescope operated by the European Southern Observatory in Chile, known for hosting the HARPS spectrograph used in exoplanet discovery.
  • E. VIRCAM
    VIRCAM is the wide-field infrared camera used on the VISTA telescope to conduct large-scale near-infrared sky surveys.
  • 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_69c69f24ac508190bb98fe927c0bd065 completed March 27, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f5582adc81908b68439762965d88 completed March 27, 2026, 9:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c83c68bcf081908a2c280152d887f0 completed March 28, 2026, 8:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c83ddda5688190be1ec69f23671f60 completed March 28, 2026, 8:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c83e42b0048190b1abd8ae99c97e38 completed March 28, 2026, 8:46 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:42 p.m.