Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience
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The Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience is a research center in Trondheim, Norway, renowned for pioneering work in systems neuroscience, including the discovery of grid cells in the brain.
All labels observed (4)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1062326 — 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: Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience Context triple: [The Kavli Foundation, supports, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience]
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Kavli Institute for Brain Science
The Kavli Institute for Brain Science is a research institute dedicated to advancing the understanding of the brain through interdisciplinary neuroscience research and collaboration.
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Allen Institute for Brain Science
The Allen Institute for Brain Science is a Seattle-based nonprofit research organization dedicated to advancing the understanding of the brain through large-scale, open-access neuroscience projects and data resources.
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Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory is a neuroscience research center at MIT dedicated to understanding the mechanisms of learning, memory, and related brain disorders.
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McGovern Institute for Brain Research
The McGovern Institute for Brain Research is a neuroscience research center at MIT dedicated to understanding the brain and applying that knowledge to help treat brain disorders.
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Cambridge Neuroscience
Cambridge Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary research network at the University of Cambridge that brings together scientists and clinicians to advance understanding of the brain and nervous system.
- 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: Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience Target entity description: The Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience is a research center in Trondheim, Norway, renowned for pioneering work in systems neuroscience, including the discovery of grid cells in the brain.
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A.
Kavli Institute for Brain Science
The Kavli Institute for Brain Science is a research institute dedicated to advancing the understanding of the brain through interdisciplinary neuroscience research and collaboration.
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B.
Allen Institute for Brain Science
The Allen Institute for Brain Science is a Seattle-based nonprofit research organization dedicated to advancing the understanding of the brain through large-scale, open-access neuroscience projects and data resources.
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C.
Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory is a neuroscience research center at MIT dedicated to understanding the mechanisms of learning, memory, and related brain disorders.
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McGovern Institute for Brain Research
The McGovern Institute for Brain Research is a neuroscience research center at MIT dedicated to understanding the brain and applying that knowledge to help treat brain disorders.
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Cambridge Neuroscience
Cambridge Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary research network at the University of Cambridge that brings together scientists and clinicians to advance understanding of the brain and nervous system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
neuroscience research center
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research institute ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
biology
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medicine ⓘ psychology ⓘ |
| affiliation | Norwegian University of Science and Technology ⓘ |
| city | Trondheim ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Centre for Neural Computation
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international neuroscience laboratories ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country |
Kingdom of Norway
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Norway ⓘ |
| employs |
PhD student
ⓘ
neuroscientist ⓘ postdoctoral researcher ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
brain research
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neuroscience ⓘ systems neuroscience ⓘ |
| fundedBy | The Kavli Foundation ⓘ |
| hasLaboratory |
behavioral neuroscience laboratory
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electrophysiology laboratory ⓘ imaging laboratory ⓘ |
| hasMission | advance understanding of neural circuits for space and memory ⓘ |
| hasResearchFocus |
entorhinal cortex
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hippocampal formation ⓘ memory systems ⓘ neural circuits ⓘ neural coding of space ⓘ |
| hasType | academic research institute ⓘ |
| languageOfWork |
English
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Norwegian ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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Trondheim ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Fred Kavli ⓘ |
| notableFor |
discovery of grid cells
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research on spatial representation in the brain ⓘ |
| offers |
PhD training in neuroscience
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postdoctoral training in neuroscience ⓘ |
| partOf | Norwegian University of Science and Technology ⓘ |
| region | Trøndelag ⓘ |
| researchArea |
cellular neuroscience
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cognitive neuroscience ⓘ memory ⓘ network neuroscience ⓘ spatial navigation ⓘ |
| sponsor | The Kavli Foundation ⓘ |
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: Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience Description of subject: The Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience is a research center in Trondheim, Norway, renowned for pioneering work in systems neuroscience, including the discovery of grid cells in the brain.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
this entity surface form:
Centre for the Biology of Memory
this entity surface form:
Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at NTNU