GOES West
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GOES West is a U.S. geostationary weather satellite that continuously monitors atmospheric and environmental conditions over the western United States and adjacent Pacific regions.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1734089 — 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: GOES West Context triple: [Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite program, typicalLongitudeCoverage, GOES West]
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A.
NOAA-20
NOAA-20 is a U.S. polar-orbiting weather and environmental satellite operated by NOAA that provides critical data for global weather forecasting and climate monitoring.
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B.
Space Weather Prediction Center
The Space Weather Prediction Center is a U.S. government facility that monitors solar and geomagnetic activity and issues forecasts and alerts about space weather impacts on Earth and technological systems.
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C.
RSMC Washington (space weather centre)
RSMC Washington (space weather centre) is a specialized meteorological facility operated by the United States that monitors and provides forecasts and warnings on space weather conditions affecting Earth and technological systems.
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D.
WAAS
WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System) is a satellite-based augmentation system developed by the FAA to improve the accuracy, integrity, and availability of GPS signals for aviation and other precision navigation applications in North America.
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E.
Deep Space Climate Observatory
The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) is a NOAA and NASA satellite positioned at the Sun–Earth L1 Lagrange point that continuously monitors solar wind conditions and provides real-time space weather and Earth observation data.
- 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: GOES West Target entity description: GOES West is a U.S. geostationary weather satellite that continuously monitors atmospheric and environmental conditions over the western United States and adjacent Pacific regions.
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A.
NOAA-20
NOAA-20 is a U.S. polar-orbiting weather and environmental satellite operated by NOAA that provides critical data for global weather forecasting and climate monitoring.
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B.
Space Weather Prediction Center
The Space Weather Prediction Center is a U.S. government facility that monitors solar and geomagnetic activity and issues forecasts and alerts about space weather impacts on Earth and technological systems.
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C.
RSMC Washington (space weather centre)
RSMC Washington (space weather centre) is a specialized meteorological facility operated by the United States that monitors and provides forecasts and warnings on space weather conditions affecting Earth and technological systems.
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D.
WAAS
WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System) is a satellite-based augmentation system developed by the FAA to improve the accuracy, integrity, and availability of GPS signals for aviation and other precision navigation applications in North America.
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E.
Deep Space Climate Observatory
The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) is a NOAA and NASA satellite positioned at the Sun–Earth L1 Lagrange point that continuously monitors solar wind conditions and provides real-time space weather and Earth observation data.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Earth observation satellite
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geostationary weather satellite ⓘ |
| application |
aviation weather support
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climate monitoring ⓘ environmental hazard detection ⓘ hurricane tracking ⓘ marine weather support ⓘ severe storm monitoring ⓘ weather forecasting ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dataType |
atmospheric data
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environmental data ⓘ imagery ⓘ meteorological data ⓘ radiometric measurements ⓘ |
| missionType |
environmental monitoring
ⓘ
weather monitoring ⓘ |
| monitors |
atmospheric motion
ⓘ
cloud cover ⓘ fog ⓘ hurricanes ⓘ precipitation patterns ⓘ storms ⓘ surface temperatures ⓘ volcanic ash ⓘ water vapor ⓘ wildfire hotspots ⓘ |
| operator |
NOAA
ⓘ
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ⓘ |
| orbitRegime | geosynchronous Earth orbit ⓘ |
| orbitType | geostationary orbit ⓘ |
| partOf | U.S. national weather satellite system ⓘ |
| primaryRegionMonitored |
adjacent Pacific regions
ⓘ
central Pacific Ocean ⓘ
linked to:
Central Pacific Ocean
eastern Pacific Ocean ⓘ western United States ⓘ |
| program |
GOES program
ⓘ
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite program ⓘ |
| providesCoverageFor |
Alaska region
ⓘ
Hawaii region ⓘ North America ⓘ Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| temporalCoverage | continuous monitoring ⓘ |
| typicalLongitude | 137.2° West ⓘ |
| usedBy |
National Weather Service
ⓘ
climate researchers ⓘ emergency management agencies ⓘ weather agencies ⓘ |
| viewType |
full-disk imagery
ⓘ
regional imagery ⓘ |
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: GOES West Description of subject: GOES West is a U.S. geostationary weather satellite that continuously monitors atmospheric and environmental conditions over the western United States and adjacent Pacific regions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: GOES West