VISIR
E176898
VISIR is a mid-infrared imager and spectrometer used on ESO’s Very Large Telescope to study celestial objects at thermal infrared wavelengths.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| VISIR canonical | 4 |
| VISIR instrument | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1567953 — 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: VISIR Context triple: [Very Large Telescope, hasInstrument, VISIR]
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A.
VISTA
VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) is a national service program in the United States that places volunteers in low-income communities to help alleviate poverty and build local capacity.
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B.
VISTA
VISTA is a wide-field infrared survey telescope located at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, designed to map the southern sky in unprecedented detail.
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C.
Gaia observatory
The Gaia observatory is a European Space Agency space telescope designed to create the most precise 3D map of the Milky Way by measuring the positions, distances, and motions of over a billion stars.
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D.
Advanced Camera for Surveys
The Advanced Camera for Surveys is a high-resolution imaging instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope designed to capture detailed observations of distant galaxies, galaxy clusters, and other faint astronomical objects.
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E.
NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive
The NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive is a major astronomical data center that provides access to and tools for analyzing infrared and related multiwavelength observations from numerous space- and ground-based missions.
- 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: VISIR Target entity description: VISIR is a mid-infrared imager and spectrometer used on ESO’s Very Large Telescope to study celestial objects at thermal infrared wavelengths.
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A.
VISTA
VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) is a national service program in the United States that places volunteers in low-income communities to help alleviate poverty and build local capacity.
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B.
VISTA
VISTA is a wide-field infrared survey telescope located at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, designed to map the southern sky in unprecedented detail.
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C.
Gaia observatory
The Gaia observatory is a European Space Agency space telescope designed to create the most precise 3D map of the Milky Way by measuring the positions, distances, and motions of over a billion stars.
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D.
Advanced Camera for Surveys
The Advanced Camera for Surveys is a high-resolution imaging instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope designed to capture detailed observations of distant galaxies, galaxy clusters, and other faint astronomical objects.
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E.
NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive
The NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive is a major astronomical data center that provides access to and tools for analyzing infrared and related multiwavelength observations from numerous space- and ground-based missions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
VLT instrument
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astronomical instrument ⓘ mid-infrared imager ⓘ mid-infrared spectrometer ⓘ |
| acronymFor | VLT Imager and Spectrometer for mid-InfraRed ⓘ |
| associatedProject | New Earths in the Alpha Centauri Region ⓘ |
| dataAvailableFrom | ESO Science Archive Facility ⓘ |
| detectorType | infrared array detector ⓘ |
| environment |
Cerro Paranal high-altitude desert site
ⓘ
linked to:
Paranal Observatory
|
| fullName | VLT Imager and Spectrometer for mid-InfraRed ⓘ |
| hasFilter |
mid-infrared broad-band filters
ⓘ
mid-infrared narrow-band filters ⓘ |
| hasUpgrade |
NEAR experiment
ⓘ
linked to:
NEAR Shoemaker
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| hostFacility |
ESO Paranal Observatory
ⓘ
linked to:
Paranal Observatory
|
| hostTelescopeAperture | 8.2-metre primary mirror ⓘ |
| locatedAt | Very Large Telescope ⓘ |
| mountedOn |
VLT Unit Telescope 3 Melipal
ⓘ
linked to:
Very Large Telescope
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| observatoryCountry | Chile ⓘ |
| observes | celestial objects at thermal infrared wavelengths ⓘ |
| operatedBy | European Southern Observatory ⓘ |
| optimizedFor | ground-based mid-infrared observations ⓘ |
| partOf | ESO VLT instrument suite ⓘ |
| requires | cryogenic cooling of detectors ⓘ |
| scienceGoal |
high spatial resolution mid-infrared imaging
ⓘ
high spectral resolution mid-infrared spectroscopy ⓘ |
| scienceMode |
burst mode imaging
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coronagraphy ⓘ high-resolution spectroscopy ⓘ imaging ⓘ low-resolution spectroscopy ⓘ spectroscopy ⓘ |
| scientificDiscipline |
astrophysics
ⓘ
infrared astronomy ⓘ |
| supports |
cross-dispersed spectroscopy
ⓘ
long-slit spectroscopy ⓘ |
| telescopeSite |
Cerro Paranal Observatory
ⓘ
linked to:
Paranal Observatory
|
| typicalWavelengthCoverageMicrons | 8–25 micrometres ⓘ |
| usedFor |
spectroscopy of molecular and dust features
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study of active galactic nuclei ⓘ study of circumstellar disks ⓘ study of exoplanetary systems ⓘ study of star-forming regions ⓘ thermal infrared astronomy ⓘ |
| usedWith | VLT adaptive optics systems ⓘ |
| wavelengthRange |
N band
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Q band ⓘ mid-infrared ⓘ |
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: VISIR Description of subject: VISIR is a mid-infrared imager and spectrometer used on ESO’s Very Large Telescope to study celestial objects at thermal infrared wavelengths.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: VISIR