Triple

T12792002
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Southern African Large Telescope E305787 entity
Predicate modeledAfter P2006 FINISHED
Object Hobby–Eberly Telescope
The Hobby–Eberly Telescope is a large, fixed-elevation optical telescope at McDonald Observatory in Texas, notable for its cost-effective segmented-mirror design used as a model for other large telescopes.
E1003075 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: Hobby–Eberly Telescope | Statement: [Southern African Large Telescope, modeledAfter, Hobby–Eberly Telescope]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hobby–Eberly Telescope
Context triple: [Southern African Large Telescope, modeledAfter, Hobby–Eberly Telescope]
  • 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.
  • B. Magellan Clay Telescope
    The Magellan Clay Telescope is one of the twin 6.5-meter Magellan telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, used for cutting-edge optical and infrared astronomical research.
  • C. Pan-STARRS 1 telescope
    The Pan-STARRS 1 telescope is a wide-field survey instrument located at Haleakalā Observatory in Hawaii, designed to systematically scan the sky for astronomical objects such as asteroids, comets, variable stars, and distant galaxies.
  • D. Simonyi Survey Telescope
    The Simonyi Survey Telescope is a wide-field optical telescope designed for rapid, repeated imaging of the night sky as part of large-scale astronomical surveys.
  • E. 20 Meter Telescope
    The 20 Meter Telescope is a mid-sized radio telescope at the Green Bank Observatory used for astronomical research and education in radio astronomy.
  • 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: Hobby–Eberly Telescope
Triple: [Southern African Large Telescope, modeledAfter, Hobby–Eberly Telescope]
Generated description
The Hobby–Eberly Telescope is a large, fixed-elevation optical telescope at McDonald Observatory in Texas, notable for its cost-effective segmented-mirror design used as a model for other large telescopes.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hobby–Eberly Telescope
Target entity description: The Hobby–Eberly Telescope is a large, fixed-elevation optical telescope at McDonald Observatory in Texas, notable for its cost-effective segmented-mirror design used as a model for other large telescopes.
  • 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.
  • B. Magellan Clay Telescope
    The Magellan Clay Telescope is one of the twin 6.5-meter Magellan telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, used for cutting-edge optical and infrared astronomical research.
  • C. Pan-STARRS 1 telescope
    The Pan-STARRS 1 telescope is a wide-field survey instrument located at Haleakalā Observatory in Hawaii, designed to systematically scan the sky for astronomical objects such as asteroids, comets, variable stars, and distant galaxies.
  • D. Simonyi Survey Telescope
    The Simonyi Survey Telescope is a wide-field optical telescope designed for rapid, repeated imaging of the night sky as part of large-scale astronomical surveys.
  • E. 20 Meter Telescope
    The 20 Meter Telescope is a mid-sized radio telescope at the Green Bank Observatory used for astronomical research and education in radio astronomy.
  • 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_69d7bdf366888190a8cccb982606889c completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96e6b55248190ab938e69eb263612 completed April 10, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6850ac1808190a9b547d934252d10 completed May 2, 2026, 11:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f689733f748190bca592ab30b4437c completed May 2, 2026, 11:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f68a4cb2c4819083def0a43452470f completed May 2, 2026, 11:35 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:30 p.m.