PSI
E159813
PSI is a major Swiss research institute specializing in natural and engineering sciences, particularly known for its large-scale facilities in particle physics, materials science, and energy research.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| PSI canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1388361 — 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: PSI Context triple: [Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain, includes, PSI]
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A.
PSI
PSI is the acronym commonly used for the Italian Socialist Party, a historic socialist political party in Italy.
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B.
PSB
PSB is a high-energy particle accelerator at CERN that boosts protons from the Proton Synchrotron Injector Complex to higher energies for use in subsequent accelerators and experiments.
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C.
PSF
PSF is the acronym for the Python Software Foundation, the nonprofit organization that manages and promotes the Python programming language and its community.
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D.
PSE
PSE is a major European political party alliance that brings together socialist, social democratic, and labor parties from across the European Union.
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E.
Ps
Ps is the standard abbreviation for Adobe Photoshop, a widely used professional image editing and graphic design software application.
- 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: PSI Target entity description: PSI is a major Swiss research institute specializing in natural and engineering sciences, particularly known for its large-scale facilities in particle physics, materials science, and energy research.
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A.
PSI
PSI is the acronym commonly used for the Italian Socialist Party, a historic socialist political party in Italy.
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B.
PSB
PSB is a high-energy particle accelerator at CERN that boosts protons from the Proton Synchrotron Injector Complex to higher energies for use in subsequent accelerators and experiments.
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C.
PSF
PSF is the acronym for the Python Software Foundation, the nonprofit organization that manages and promotes the Python programming language and its community.
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D.
PSE
PSE is a major European political party alliance that brings together socialist, social democratic, and labor parties from across the European Union.
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E.
Ps
Ps is the standard abbreviation for Adobe Photoshop, a widely used professional image editing and graphic design software application.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
national laboratory
ⓘ
research institute ⓘ |
| abbreviation | PSI self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| affiliation |
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
ⓘ
surface form:
EPFL
ETH Zurich ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
industry partners
ⓘ
international universities ⓘ research organizations ⓘ |
| coordinates | 47.541°N 8.228°E ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| employer |
engineers
ⓘ
scientists ⓘ technical staff ⓘ |
| field |
energy research
ⓘ
engineering sciences ⓘ materials science ⓘ natural sciences ⓘ neutron science ⓘ particle physics ⓘ proton therapy research ⓘ synchrotron radiation research ⓘ |
| foundedByMergerOf |
Paul Scherrer Institute
ⓘ
surface form:
Eidgenössisches Institut für Reaktorforschung
Institut für Mittelenergiephysik ⓘ |
| funding |
Confoederatio Helvetica (Swiss Confederation)
ⓘ
surface form:
Swiss Confederation
|
| hasDoctoralProgram |
engineering
ⓘ
materials science ⓘ physics ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
Swiss Light Source
ⓘ
Swiss Muon Source SμS ⓘ Paul Scherrer Institute ⓘ
surface form:
Swiss Spallation Neutron Source SINQ
SwissFEL free-electron laser ⓘ proton accelerator complex ⓘ proton therapy center ⓘ |
| inception | 1988 ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
German ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Villigen
ⓘ
Canton of Aargau ⓘ
surface form:
canton of Aargau
|
| namedAfter | Paul Scherrer ⓘ |
| offersService | user access to large-scale facilities ⓘ |
| operator | ETH Domain ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | ETH Board ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
energy and environment
ⓘ
future technologies ⓘ health-related research ⓘ large-scale research facilities ⓘ |
| website | https://www.psi.ch ⓘ |
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: PSI Description of subject: PSI is a major Swiss research institute specializing in natural and engineering sciences, particularly known for its large-scale facilities in particle physics, materials science, and energy research.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Paul Scherrer Institute