2.5-meter Sloan Foundation Telescope
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The 2.5-meter Sloan Foundation Telescope is a dedicated wide-field optical telescope at Apache Point Observatory, best known for conducting the Sloan Digital Sky Survey that has mapped large-scale structure in the universe.
All labels observed (1)
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| 2.5-meter Sloan Foundation Telescope canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20129068 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 2.5-meter Sloan Foundation Telescope Context triple: [Sloan Digital Sky Survey, telescopeUsed, 2.5-meter Sloan Foundation Telescope]
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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.
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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.
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SMARTS 1.3-meter Telescope
The SMARTS 1.3-meter Telescope is a small optical telescope used for a wide range of astronomical observations as part of the SMARTS consortium’s facilities in Chile.
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D.
Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope
The Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope is a 4-meter-class optical telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, widely used for large-scale astronomical surveys and cosmological research.
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SMARTS 1.5-meter Telescope
The SMARTS 1.5-meter Telescope is a medium-sized optical telescope used for a wide range of astronomical research as part of the SMARTS consortium’s observing facilities.
- 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: 2.5-meter Sloan Foundation Telescope Target entity description: The 2.5-meter Sloan Foundation Telescope is a dedicated wide-field optical telescope at Apache Point Observatory, best known for conducting the Sloan Digital Sky Survey that has mapped large-scale structure in the universe.
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A.
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.
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B.
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.
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C.
SMARTS 1.3-meter Telescope
The SMARTS 1.3-meter Telescope is a small optical telescope used for a wide range of astronomical observations as part of the SMARTS consortium’s facilities in Chile.
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D.
Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope
The Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope is a 4-meter-class optical telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, widely used for large-scale astronomical surveys and cosmological research.
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E.
SMARTS 1.5-meter Telescope
The SMARTS 1.5-meter Telescope is a medium-sized optical telescope used for a wide range of astronomical research as part of the SMARTS consortium’s observing facilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.