Triple

T7486587
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject SPHERE E176895 entity
Predicate subsystemFullName P40619 FINISHED
Object ZIMPOL – Zurich IMaging POLarimeter
ZIMPOL – Zurich IMaging POLarimeter is a high-precision imaging polarimeter within the SPHERE instrument on the Very Large Telescope, designed primarily for direct detection and characterization of exoplanets and circumstellar environments.
 E668452 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: ZIMPOL – Zurich IMaging POLarimeter | Statement: [SPHERE, subsystemFullName, ZIMPOL – Zurich IMaging POLarimeter]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: ZIMPOL – Zurich IMaging POLarimeter
Context triple: [SPHERE, subsystemFullName, ZIMPOL – Zurich IMaging POLarimeter]
  • A. Zorro (speckle imager)
    Zorro is a high-resolution speckle imaging instrument used on the Gemini South telescope to obtain diffraction-limited images of astronomical objects.
  • B. Photopolarimeter-Radiometer
    The Photopolarimeter-Radiometer was a scientific instrument on NASA’s Galileo spacecraft designed to measure the intensity and polarization of light to study the atmospheres and surfaces of Jupiter and its moons.
  • C. SPTpol camera
    The SPTpol camera is a highly sensitive polarization-sensitive receiver used on the South Pole Telescope to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background for cosmological studies.
  • D. SPT-SZ camera
    The SPT-SZ camera is a millimeter-wave imaging instrument designed to survey the cosmic microwave background and detect galaxy clusters via the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect.
  • E. VIRCAM
    VIRCAM is the wide-field infrared camera used on the VISTA telescope to conduct large-scale near-infrared sky surveys.
  • 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: ZIMPOL – Zurich IMaging POLarimeter
Triple: [SPHERE, subsystemFullName, ZIMPOL – Zurich IMaging POLarimeter]
Generated description
ZIMPOL – Zurich IMaging POLarimeter is a high-precision imaging polarimeter within the SPHERE instrument on the Very Large Telescope, designed primarily for direct detection and characterization of exoplanets and circumstellar environments.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: ZIMPOL – Zurich IMaging POLarimeter
Target entity description: ZIMPOL – Zurich IMaging POLarimeter is a high-precision imaging polarimeter within the SPHERE instrument on the Very Large Telescope, designed primarily for direct detection and characterization of exoplanets and circumstellar environments.
  • A. Zorro (speckle imager)
    Zorro is a high-resolution speckle imaging instrument used on the Gemini South telescope to obtain diffraction-limited images of astronomical objects.
  • B. Photopolarimeter-Radiometer
    The Photopolarimeter-Radiometer was a scientific instrument on NASA’s Galileo spacecraft designed to measure the intensity and polarization of light to study the atmospheres and surfaces of Jupiter and its moons.
  • C. SPTpol camera
    The SPTpol camera is a highly sensitive polarization-sensitive receiver used on the South Pole Telescope to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background for cosmological studies.
  • D. SPT-SZ camera
    The SPT-SZ camera is a millimeter-wave imaging instrument designed to survey the cosmic microwave background and detect galaxy clusters via the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect.
  • E. VIRCAM
    VIRCAM is the wide-field infrared camera used on the VISTA telescope to conduct large-scale near-infrared sky surveys.
  • 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_69c69f24ac508190bb98fe927c0bd065 completed March 27, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f5582adc81908b68439762965d88 completed March 27, 2026, 9:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c83c68bcf081908a2c280152d887f0 completed March 28, 2026, 8:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c83ddda5688190be1ec69f23671f60 completed March 28, 2026, 8:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c83e42b0048190b1abd8ae99c97e38 completed March 28, 2026, 8:46 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:42 p.m.