Carte du Ciel project
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The Carte du Ciel project was a late 19th- and early 20th-century international astronomical initiative to create a comprehensive photographic map and catalog of the entire night sky.
All labels observed (1)
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| Carte du Ciel project canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19306915 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Carte du Ciel project Context triple: [Sir David Gill, participatedIn, Carte du Ciel project]
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A.
Palomar Observatory Sky Survey
The Palomar Observatory Sky Survey is a landmark mid-20th-century photographic mapping of the night sky that produced some of the most widely used astronomical reference images for research and discovery.
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B.
Garching-Bonn Deep Survey
The Garching-Bonn Deep Survey is an astronomical deep-imaging project designed to study distant galaxies and large-scale cosmic structures using wide-field observations.
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C.
Beijing–Arizona Sky Survey
The Beijing–Arizona Sky Survey is an astronomical project that conducts wide-field imaging of the night sky, contributing data for studies of galaxies, cosmology, and large-scale structure.
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D.
Gaia observatory
The Gaia observatory is a European Space Agency space telescope designed to create the most precise 3D map of the Milky Way by measuring the positions, distances, and motions of over a billion stars.
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E.
Palomar Transient Factory
The Palomar Transient Factory is an astronomical survey project that used the Palomar Observatory to systematically search the night sky for transient and variable phenomena such as supernovae and other short-lived cosmic events.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Carte du Ciel project Target entity description: The Carte du Ciel project was a late 19th- and early 20th-century international astronomical initiative to create a comprehensive photographic map and catalog of the entire night sky.
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A.
Palomar Observatory Sky Survey
The Palomar Observatory Sky Survey is a landmark mid-20th-century photographic mapping of the night sky that produced some of the most widely used astronomical reference images for research and discovery.
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B.
Garching-Bonn Deep Survey
The Garching-Bonn Deep Survey is an astronomical deep-imaging project designed to study distant galaxies and large-scale cosmic structures using wide-field observations.
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C.
Beijing–Arizona Sky Survey
The Beijing–Arizona Sky Survey is an astronomical project that conducts wide-field imaging of the night sky, contributing data for studies of galaxies, cosmology, and large-scale structure.
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D.
Gaia observatory
The Gaia observatory is a European Space Agency space telescope designed to create the most precise 3D map of the Milky Way by measuring the positions, distances, and motions of over a billion stars.
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E.
Palomar Transient Factory
The Palomar Transient Factory is an astronomical survey project that used the Palomar Observatory to systematically search the night sky for transient and variable phenomena such as supernovae and other short-lived cosmic events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.