Triple
T20749005
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | McDonald Observatory |
E510667
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasTelescope |
P35
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Hobby–Eberly Telescope |
—
|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: [McDonald Observatory, hasTelescope, Hobby–Eberly Telescope]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hobby–Eberly Telescope Context triple: [McDonald Observatory, hasTelescope, Hobby–Eberly Telescope]
-
A.
Hobby–Eberly Telescope
chosen
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.
-
B.
Burrell Schmidt Telescope
The Burrell Schmidt Telescope is a wide-field Schmidt telescope known for deep imaging of galaxies and faint astronomical structures, located at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.
-
C.
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.
-
D.
WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope
The WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope is a modern, research-grade optical telescope known for high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy, operated collaboratively by several U.S. institutions at Kitt Peak.
-
E.
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.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69e0b4c845e88190b4c5f3ae79291182 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6c228af288190a20829d45c034c24 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 12:17 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:34 p.m.