Swift
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Swift is a NASA space telescope mission dedicated to detecting and rapidly observing gamma-ray bursts and other high-energy astrophysical phenomena.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Swift canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2962613 — 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: Swift Context triple: [Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, abbreviation, Swift]
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A.
Swift
Swift is a modern, compiled programming language developed by Apple for building fast, safe, and expressive applications across its platforms and beyond.
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B.
Swift
Swift is a common English surname borne by numerous notable figures, including the Anglo-Irish satirist Jonathan Swift.
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C.
SwiftUI
SwiftUI is Apple’s modern declarative user interface framework for building apps across all its platforms using the Swift programming language.
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D.
Swift Standard Library
The Swift Standard Library is the core collection of fundamental types, protocols, and utilities that provide essential functionality for writing programs in the Swift programming language.
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E.
Swift Package Manager
Swift Package Manager is the official tool for managing, building, and distributing Swift code and dependencies across projects.
- 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: Swift Target entity description: Swift is a NASA space telescope mission dedicated to detecting and rapidly observing gamma-ray bursts and other high-energy astrophysical phenomena.
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A.
Swift
Swift is a modern, compiled programming language developed by Apple for building fast, safe, and expressive applications across its platforms and beyond.
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B.
Swift
Swift is a common English surname borne by numerous notable figures, including the Anglo-Irish satirist Jonathan Swift.
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C.
SwiftUI
SwiftUI is Apple’s modern declarative user interface framework for building apps across all its platforms using the Swift programming language.
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D.
Swift Standard Library
The Swift Standard Library is the core collection of fundamental types, protocols, and utilities that provide essential functionality for writing programs in the Swift programming language.
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E.
Swift Package Manager
Swift Package Manager is the official tool for managing, building, and distributing Swift code and dependencies across projects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA space mission
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gamma-ray observatory ⓘ space telescope ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
BAT
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UVOT ⓘ XRT ⓘ |
| BurstAlertTelescopeEnergyRange | 15–150 keV ⓘ |
| canSlew | yes ⓘ |
| collaboration |
Italy
ⓘ
NASA ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOperator |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dataPolicy | rapid public release of data ⓘ |
| detects |
X-ray transients
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active galactic nuclei flares ⓘ gamma-ray bursts ⓘ soft gamma repeaters ⓘ supernova shock breakouts ⓘ |
| fieldOfView | large field of view for Burst Alert Telescope ⓘ |
| hasInstrument |
Burst Alert Telescope
ⓘ
Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope ⓘ X-Ray Telescope ⓘ |
| launchCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| launchDate | 2004-11-20 ⓘ |
| launchSite | Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17 ⓘ |
| launchVehicle |
Delta rocket
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surface form:
Delta II 7320-10C
|
| managedBy |
Goddard Space Flight Center
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surface form:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
|
| massAtLaunch | approximately 1500 kilograms ⓘ |
| missionType |
gamma-ray burst observatory
ⓘ
multi-wavelength space observatory ⓘ |
| namedAfter | swift bird ⓘ |
| observatoryClass | medium-class Explorer mission ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| orbitInclination | about 20.6 degrees ⓘ |
| orbitPeriod | about 96 minutes ⓘ |
| orbitType | low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| primaryObjective |
detection of gamma-ray bursts
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rapid follow-up observations of gamma-ray bursts ⓘ |
| program | NASA Explorer Program ⓘ |
| provides |
multi-wavelength follow-up observations
ⓘ
rapid localization of gamma-ray bursts ⓘ |
| reasonForName | rapid slewing capability ⓘ |
| scientificObjective |
study of X-ray transients
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study of active galactic nuclei ⓘ study of afterglows of gamma-ray bursts ⓘ study of high-energy astrophysical phenomena ⓘ study of supernovae ⓘ |
| slewCapability | can slew to new targets in about 20–70 seconds ⓘ |
| spacecraftBus | custom Swift spacecraft bus ⓘ |
| status | operational ⓘ |
| telescopeType | multi-instrument observatory ⓘ |
| UltravioletOpticalTelescopeWavelengthRange | 170–650 nm ⓘ |
| XRayTelescopeEnergyRange | 0.2–10 keV ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Swift Description of subject: Swift is a NASA space telescope mission dedicated to detecting and rapidly observing gamma-ray bursts and other high-energy astrophysical phenomena.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
HEASoft