Triple

T7845372
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject VLT Survey Telescope E181909 entity
Predicate primaryInstrument P933 FINISHED
Object OmegaCAM
OmegaCAM is a wide-field optical imaging camera designed for large-scale astronomical surveys, mounted on the VLT Survey Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile.
 E698543 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: OmegaCAM | Statement: [VLT Survey Telescope, primaryInstrument, OmegaCAM]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: OmegaCAM
Context triple: [VLT Survey Telescope, primaryInstrument, OmegaCAM]
  • A. MegaCam
    MegaCam is a wide-field optical imaging camera used for deep-sky astronomical surveys on the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope.
  • B. WIRCam
    WIRCam is a wide-field infrared camera used for astronomical imaging on the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope.
  • C. VIRCAM
    VIRCAM is the wide-field infrared camera used on the VISTA telescope to conduct large-scale near-infrared sky surveys.
  • D. LSST Camera
    The LSST Camera is a massive, wide-field digital camera designed to capture deep, high-resolution images of the night sky for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s decade-long sky survey.
  • E. HAWK-I
    HAWK-I is a high-sensitivity near-infrared wide-field imaging camera used for astronomical observations on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope.
  • 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: OmegaCAM
Triple: [VLT Survey Telescope, primaryInstrument, OmegaCAM]
Generated description
OmegaCAM is a wide-field optical imaging camera designed for large-scale astronomical surveys, mounted on the VLT Survey Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: OmegaCAM
Target entity description: OmegaCAM is a wide-field optical imaging camera designed for large-scale astronomical surveys, mounted on the VLT Survey Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile.
  • A. MegaCam
    MegaCam is a wide-field optical imaging camera used for deep-sky astronomical surveys on the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope.
  • B. WIRCam
    WIRCam is a wide-field infrared camera used for astronomical imaging on the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope.
  • C. VIRCAM
    VIRCAM is the wide-field infrared camera used on the VISTA telescope to conduct large-scale near-infrared sky surveys.
  • D. LSST Camera
    The LSST Camera is a massive, wide-field digital camera designed to capture deep, high-resolution images of the night sky for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s decade-long sky survey.
  • E. HAWK-I
    HAWK-I is a high-sensitivity near-infrared wide-field imaging camera used for astronomical observations on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope.
  • 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_69ca8285d6488190a95d4c02d7354b53 completed March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb163d92fc8190a4efcb08d6b3d404 completed March 31, 2026, 12:33 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cb5af27c9c8190a3e6062d323acff1 completed March 31, 2026, 5:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cb5def38e88190864d84abd7959aa3 completed March 31, 2026, 5:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cb766e41fc8190a08f07d04774053a completed March 31, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 4:49 p.m.