Calico
E184180
Calico is a research and development company founded by Google that focuses on understanding aging and developing technologies to extend human lifespan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Calico canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1633894 — 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: Calico Context triple: [Calico LLC, alsoKnownAs, Calico]
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A.
Kitty
Kitty is a common diminutive or nickname for the given name Catherine.
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B.
Kitty
"Kitty" is a 1945 historical comedy-drama film set in 18th-century London, best known for starring Paulette Goddard as a pickpocket who rises in society.
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C.
Blaze the Trail Cat
Blaze the Trail Cat is the energetic, feline-themed mascot who entertains fans at Portland Trail Blazers basketball games.
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D.
Cashmere Cat
Cashmere Cat is a Norwegian DJ, record producer, and musician known for his atmospheric, R&B-influenced electronic music and collaborations with major pop and hip-hop artists.
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E.
Mr. Mistoffelees
Mr. Mistoffelees is a magical black-and-white cat character from T. S. Eliot’s poetry, best known today through his prominent role in the musical "Cats."
- 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: Calico Target entity description: Calico is a research and development company founded by Google that focuses on understanding aging and developing technologies to extend human lifespan.
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A.
Kitty
Kitty is a common diminutive or nickname for the given name Catherine.
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B.
Kitty
"Kitty" is a 1945 historical comedy-drama film set in 18th-century London, best known for starring Paulette Goddard as a pickpocket who rises in society.
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C.
Blaze the Trail Cat
Blaze the Trail Cat is the energetic, feline-themed mascot who entertains fans at Portland Trail Blazers basketball games.
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D.
Cashmere Cat
Cashmere Cat is a Norwegian DJ, record producer, and musician known for his atmospheric, R&B-influenced electronic music and collaborations with major pop and hip-hop artists.
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E.
Mr. Mistoffelees
Mr. Mistoffelees is a magical black-and-white cat character from T. S. Eliot’s poetry, best known today through his prominent role in the musical "Cats."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Google subsidiary
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biotechnology company ⓘ life sciences company ⓘ research and development company ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | California Life Company ⓘ |
| businessModel | long-term research investment ⓘ |
| city | South San Francisco ⓘ |
| collaborationFocus | discovering and developing new therapies for age-related diseases ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| employerType | private company ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
age-related diseases
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aging research ⓘ extending human lifespan ⓘ healthspan extension ⓘ longevity research ⓘ |
| foundedAs | independent company with Google backing ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Google
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surface form:
Google Inc.
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| fullName |
Calico LLC
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surface form:
Calico Life Sciences LLC
|
| hasCollaboration | AbbVie ⓘ |
| hasFundingSource | Alphabet Inc. ⓘ |
| hasGoal |
improve quality of life in old age
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increase human lifespan ⓘ |
| hasKeyTheme |
drug discovery for age-related conditions
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translational aging research ⓘ |
| hasLaboratoryFacility |
South San Francisco
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surface form:
South San Francisco research campus
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| headquartersLocation |
South San Francisco
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surface form:
South San Francisco, California, United States
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| industry |
biotechnology
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life sciences ⓘ pharmaceutical research ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Alphabet Inc. ⓘ |
| primaryObjective |
develop interventions to treat age-related diseases
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understand the biology of aging ⓘ |
| researchArea |
cancer biology
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cellular senescence ⓘ computational biology ⓘ metabolism ⓘ neurodegeneration ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
|
| usesMethod |
computational modeling
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genomics ⓘ large-scale data analysis ⓘ molecular biology ⓘ |
| website | https://calicolabs.com/ ⓘ |
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: Calico Description of subject: Calico is a research and development company founded by Google that focuses on understanding aging and developing technologies to extend human lifespan.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.