OGLE
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OGLE (Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment) is a long-term astronomical survey focused on detecting dark matter, exoplanets, and variable stars through gravitational microlensing and photometric monitoring.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| OGLE canonical | 3 |
| OGLE project | 2 |
| OGLE project archives | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T352918 — 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: OGLE Context triple: [Warsaw Telescope, majorProject, OGLE]
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A.
Google
Google is a multinational technology company best known for its search engine and wide range of internet-related products and services, including Android, YouTube, and cloud computing.
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B.
Goole
Goole is an inland port town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, known for its significant docks and role in regional maritime trade.
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C.
Google Workspace
Google Workspace is a cloud-based suite of productivity and collaboration tools that includes Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Meet, and other integrated services for businesses and organizations.
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D.
Gmail
Gmail is Google's widely used web-based email service known for its large storage capacity, powerful search, and integration with other Google products.
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E.
Alphabet Inc.
Alphabet Inc. is a multinational technology conglomerate that serves as the holding company for Google and various other businesses in areas such as artificial intelligence, life sciences, and autonomous vehicles.
- 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: OGLE Target entity description: OGLE (Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment) is a long-term astronomical survey focused on detecting dark matter, exoplanets, and variable stars through gravitational microlensing and photometric monitoring.
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A.
Google
Google is a multinational technology company best known for its search engine and wide range of internet-related products and services, including Android, YouTube, and cloud computing.
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B.
Goole
Goole is an inland port town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, known for its significant docks and role in regional maritime trade.
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C.
Google Workspace
Google Workspace is a cloud-based suite of productivity and collaboration tools that includes Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Meet, and other integrated services for businesses and organizations.
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D.
Gmail
Gmail is Google's widely used web-based email service known for its large storage capacity, powerful search, and integration with other Google products.
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E.
Alphabet Inc.
Alphabet Inc. is a multinational technology conglomerate that serves as the holding company for Google and various other businesses in areas such as artificial intelligence, life sciences, and autonomous vehicles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronomical survey
ⓘ
observational astronomy project ⓘ |
| acronym | OGLE ⓘ |
| affiliation | University of Warsaw ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
calibration of cosmic distance scale
ⓘ
discovery of microlensing exoplanets ⓘ study of Galactic bar ⓘ |
| country | Poland ⓘ |
| dataType |
optical photometry
ⓘ
time-series light curves ⓘ |
| field |
astronomy
ⓘ
astrophysics ⓘ |
| founder | Bohdan Paczyński ⓘ |
| fullName |
Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment
ⓘ
linked to:
OGLE-I survey
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| goal |
catalog variable stars
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detect exoplanets via microlensing ⓘ search for dark matter via microlensing ⓘ |
| method |
photometric monitoring
ⓘ
time-domain astronomy ⓘ |
| monitors | millions of stars ⓘ |
| notableResult |
detection of numerous gravitational microlensing events
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detection of planetary microlensing events ⓘ large catalogs of variable stars in the Magellanic Clouds ⓘ |
| observes |
Galactic bulge
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Galactic disk ⓘ Magellanic Clouds ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw ⓘ |
| phase |
OGLE-I
ⓘ
linked to:
OGLE-I survey
OGLE-II ⓘ OGLE-III ⓘ OGLE-IV ⓘ
linked to:
OGLE-IV survey
|
| principalInvestigator | Andrzej Udalski ⓘ |
| provides | public data archive ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
Galactic structure
ⓘ
dark matter ⓘ exoplanets ⓘ gravitational microlensing ⓘ transient phenomena ⓘ variable stars ⓘ |
| startDate | 1992 ⓘ |
| surveyType |
long-term survey
ⓘ
wide-field survey ⓘ |
| technique | difference image analysis ⓘ |
| telescopeCountry | Chile ⓘ |
| telescopeLocation | Las Campanas Observatory ⓘ |
| usesTelescope | Warsaw Telescope ⓘ |
| wavelength | optical ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: OGLE Description of subject: OGLE (Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment) is a long-term astronomical survey focused on detecting dark matter, exoplanets, and variable stars through gravitational microlensing and photometric monitoring.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: OGLE
linked to: OGLE
linked to: OGLE