ATMS
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ATMS is a microwave sounder instrument aboard NOAA and NASA weather satellites that measures atmospheric temperature and moisture profiles for global weather forecasting and climate monitoring.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ATMS canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1745297 — 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: ATMS Context triple: [Joint Polar Satellite System, instrument, ATMS]
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A.
ATMB
ATMB is a French company responsible for managing and operating major alpine transport infrastructure, including the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
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B.
National Meteorological Telecommunication Networks
National Meteorological Telecommunication Networks are country-level systems that collect, process, and exchange meteorological data and forecasts, feeding into and operating within the World Meteorological Organization’s Global Telecommunication System.
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C.
ATAS
ATAS is the commonly used acronym for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the organization best known for administering the Primetime Emmy Awards.
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D.
ATC
ATC (Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System) is a widely used international system for classifying drugs according to the organ or system they act on and their therapeutic, pharmacological, and chemical properties.
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E.
Weather Machine
Weather Machine is a kinetic bronze and stainless-steel sculpture in Portland, Oregon, that theatrically forecasts the day's weather with sound, light, and changing metal symbols.
- 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: ATMS Target entity description: ATMS is a microwave sounder instrument aboard NOAA and NASA weather satellites that measures atmospheric temperature and moisture profiles for global weather forecasting and climate monitoring.
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A.
ATMB
ATMB is a French company responsible for managing and operating major alpine transport infrastructure, including the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
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B.
National Meteorological Telecommunication Networks
National Meteorological Telecommunication Networks are country-level systems that collect, process, and exchange meteorological data and forecasts, feeding into and operating within the World Meteorological Organization’s Global Telecommunication System.
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C.
ATAS
ATAS is the commonly used acronym for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the organization best known for administering the Primetime Emmy Awards.
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D.
ATC
ATC (Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System) is a widely used international system for classifying drugs according to the organ or system they act on and their therapeutic, pharmacological, and chemical properties.
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E.
Weather Machine
Weather Machine is a kinetic bronze and stainless-steel sculpture in Portland, Oregon, that theatrically forecasts the day's weather with sound, light, and changing metal symbols.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
microwave sounder instrument
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satellite remote sensing instrument ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf | Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder ⓘ |
| aboard |
NASA weather satellites
ⓘ
Polar Operational Environmental Satellites ⓘ
surface form:
NOAA weather satellites
NOAA-20 ⓘ
surface form:
NOAA-20 satellite
NOAA-21 ⓘ
surface form:
NOAA-21 satellite
Suomi NPP satellite ⓘ |
| agency |
NASA
ⓘ
surface form:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ⓘ |
| application |
atmospheric profiling over oceans
ⓘ
data continuity for microwave sounding records ⓘ precipitation monitoring ⓘ severe weather forecasting ⓘ |
| coverage | global ⓘ |
| dataProduct |
humidity sounding profiles
ⓘ
microwave brightness temperatures ⓘ temperature sounding profiles ⓘ |
| designedBy | NASA ⓘ |
| designedFor |
climate research
ⓘ
operational meteorology ⓘ |
| fullName | Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder ⓘ |
| measures |
atmospheric moisture profiles
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atmospheric temperature profiles ⓘ microwave radiances ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
NASA
ⓘ
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ⓘ
surface form:
NOAA
|
| orbits | polar orbit ⓘ |
| partOf | Joint Polar Satellite System ⓘ |
| platformType | polar-orbiting meteorological satellite ⓘ |
| spectralRegion | microwave ⓘ |
| successorOf |
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A
ⓘ
surface form:
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder ⓘ
surface form:
Microwave Humidity Sounder
|
| usedFor |
atmospheric sounding
ⓘ
climate monitoring ⓘ global weather forecasting ⓘ numerical weather prediction data assimilation ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: ATMS Description of subject: ATMS is a microwave sounder instrument aboard NOAA and NASA weather satellites that measures atmospheric temperature and moisture profiles for global weather forecasting and climate monitoring.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Suomi NPP