EPIC
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EPIC (Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera) is a NASA instrument aboard the DSCOVR/Triana spacecraft that continuously images the sunlit side of Earth in multiple wavelengths for climate and atmospheric studies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| EPIC canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8264740 — 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: EPIC Context triple: [Triana, hasInstrument, EPIC]
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A.
EPIC
EPIC is the official photo identity card issued by the Election Commission of India to eligible voters for identification during elections.
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B.
Epic
Epic is a major American record label known for signing and promoting a wide range of influential artists across pop, rock, R&B, and hip-hop.
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C.
Epic
Epic is a 2013 animated fantasy-adventure film that follows a teenage girl who is transported to a secret forest world where she helps tiny warriors protect nature from destructive forces.
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D.
Epic OpTime
Epic OpTime is Epic Systems’ operating room management module that supports surgical scheduling, documentation, and perioperative workflows within hospitals and health systems.
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E.
Epip
Epip is a summer month in the Coptic calendar, roughly corresponding to July in the Gregorian calendar.
- 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: EPIC Target entity description: EPIC (Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera) is a NASA instrument aboard the DSCOVR/Triana spacecraft that continuously images the sunlit side of Earth in multiple wavelengths for climate and atmospheric studies.
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A.
EPIC
EPIC is the official photo identity card issued by the Election Commission of India to eligible voters for identification during elections.
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B.
Epic
Epic is a major American record label known for signing and promoting a wide range of influential artists across pop, rock, R&B, and hip-hop.
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C.
Epic
Epic is a 2013 animated fantasy-adventure film that follows a teenage girl who is transported to a secret forest world where she helps tiny warriors protect nature from destructive forces.
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D.
Epic OpTime
Epic OpTime is Epic Systems’ operating room management module that supports surgical scheduling, documentation, and perioperative workflows within hospitals and health systems.
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E.
Epip
Epip is a summer month in the Coptic calendar, roughly corresponding to July in the Gregorian calendar.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Earth observation instrument
ⓘ
space-based camera ⓘ |
| acronym | EPIC ⓘ |
| contributesTo | space weather and climate services via DSCOVR mission ⓘ |
| dataAccess | publicly available online ⓘ |
| dataProduct |
UV radiation estimates
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aerosol optical depth ⓘ global cloud properties ⓘ ozone distribution ⓘ surface reflectance ⓘ vegetation indices ⓘ |
| dataUser |
general public
ⓘ
operational agencies ⓘ scientific community ⓘ |
| designHeritage | heritage from earlier NASA Earth-observing instruments ⓘ |
| enablesObservation | global diurnal cycle of the sunlit Earth ⓘ |
| fieldOfView | full sunlit hemisphere of Earth ⓘ |
| fullName | Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera ⓘ |
| hostLaunchDate | 2015-02-11 ⓘ |
| hostLaunchVehicle |
Falcon 9
ⓘ
linked to:
Falcon 9 rocket
|
| hostMissionAgency |
NASA
ⓘ
NOAA ⓘ |
| hostMissionPartner |
U.S. Air Force
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linked to:
United States Air Force
|
| hostOrbitLocation |
Sun–Earth L1 point
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linked to:
Sun–Earth L1 Lagrange point
|
| hostOrbitType | Lissajous orbit around L1 ⓘ |
| imageResolutionAtSubsatellitePoint | approximately 10 km ⓘ |
| imagingCadence | about 1 image every 1–2 hours ⓘ |
| locatedOnSpacecraft |
DSCOVR
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linked to:
Deep Space Climate Observatory
Deep Space Climate Observatory ⓘ |
| missionType | Earth observation ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
continuous full-disk color images of Earth from deep space
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first continuous Earth imaging instrument from L1 ⓘ |
| numberOfSpectralBands | 10 ⓘ |
| observes | Earth ⓘ |
| operator |
NASA
ⓘ
NOAA ⓘ |
| originalSpacecraftConcept | Triana ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose |
Earth radiation budget support
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atmospheric studies ⓘ climate studies ⓘ |
| spectralBandExample |
317 nm
ⓘ
325 nm ⓘ 340 nm ⓘ 388 nm ⓘ 443 nm ⓘ 552 nm ⓘ 680 nm ⓘ 688 nm ⓘ 764 nm ⓘ 780 nm ⓘ |
| spectralRange | ultraviolet to near-infrared ⓘ |
| spectralType | multispectral imager ⓘ |
| supportsScience |
Earth albedo studies
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aerosol research ⓘ atmospheric chemistry ⓘ climate monitoring ⓘ cloud physics ⓘ |
| viewingGeometry | near-constant full-disk view ⓘ |
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: EPIC Description of subject: EPIC (Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera) is a NASA instrument aboard the DSCOVR/Triana spacecraft that continuously images the sunlit side of Earth in multiple wavelengths for climate and atmospheric studies.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.