Corporation for National Research Initiatives
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The Corporation for National Research Initiatives is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that conducts and supports advanced research and development in networking, information infrastructure, and related technologies.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Corporation for National Research Initiatives canonical | 3 |
| CNRI | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T94533 — 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: Corporation for National Research Initiatives Context triple: [Guido van Rossum, employer, Corporation for National Research Initiatives]
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A.
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation is an independent U.S. government agency that funds and promotes fundamental research and education in all non-medical fields of science and engineering.
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B.
National Research Council
The National Research Council is a U.S. organization that provides independent, expert advice on scientific, engineering, and medical issues to inform public policy and decision-making.
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C.
Universities Research Association
Universities Research Association is a consortium of research universities that collaborates to manage and support major scientific facilities and high-energy physics research programs in the United States.
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D.
Research Triangle
The Research Triangle is a major metropolitan region in North Carolina known for its concentration of universities, high-tech research, and innovation-driven industries.
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E.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is a collective advisory organization in the United States that provides independent, evidence-based guidance on scientific, engineering, and medical issues to policymakers and the public.
- 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: Corporation for National Research Initiatives Target entity description: The Corporation for National Research Initiatives is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that conducts and supports advanced research and development in networking, information infrastructure, and related technologies.
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A.
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation is an independent U.S. government agency that funds and promotes fundamental research and education in all non-medical fields of science and engineering.
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B.
National Research Council
The National Research Council is a U.S. organization that provides independent, expert advice on scientific, engineering, and medical issues to inform public policy and decision-making.
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C.
Universities Research Association
Universities Research Association is a consortium of research universities that collaborates to manage and support major scientific facilities and high-energy physics research programs in the United States.
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D.
Research Triangle
The Research Triangle is a major metropolitan region in North Carolina known for its concentration of universities, high-tech research, and innovation-driven industries.
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E.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is a collective advisory organization in the United States that provides independent, evidence-based guidance on scientific, engineering, and medical issues to policymakers and the public.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
nonprofit organization
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organization based in the United States ⓘ research organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Corporation for National Research Initiatives
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surface form:
CNRI
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| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer networking
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digital object architecture ⓘ information infrastructure ⓘ internet technologies ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
distributed information systems
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internet-scale architectures ⓘ network-based information systems ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Robert Kahn
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surface form:
Robert E. Kahn
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| foundedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| founder |
Robert Kahn
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surface form:
Robert E. Kahn
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| hasChairperson |
Robert Kahn
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surface form:
Robert E. Kahn
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| hasMotto | Advancing the state of the art in networking and information infrastructure ⓘ |
| hasType | research and development organization ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Reston
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surface form:
Reston, Virginia
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| inception | 1986 ⓘ |
| industry |
information infrastructure research
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information technology research ⓘ networking research ⓘ |
| isPartOf | U.S. research and development ecosystem ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | nonprofit ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Virginia ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| nonprofitStatus | 501(c)(3) ⓘ |
| notableProject |
Digital Object Architecture
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Handle System ⓘ National Information Infrastructure research ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| purpose |
advanced research and development in information infrastructure
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advanced research and development in networking ⓘ support of network-based information technologies ⓘ |
| shortName |
Corporation for National Research Initiatives
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
CNRI
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| website |
https://www.cnri.reston.va.us
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https://www.cnri.reston.va.us/ ⓘ |
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: Corporation for National Research Initiatives Description of subject: The Corporation for National Research Initiatives is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that conducts and supports advanced research and development in networking, information infrastructure, and related technologies.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Corporation for National Research Initiatives
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Corporation for National Research Initiatives
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CNRI
Corporation for National Research Initiatives
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abbreviation
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Corporation for National Research Initiatives
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this entity surface form:
CNRI