Earth Simulator supercomputer
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The Earth Simulator supercomputer is a high-performance computing system in Japan designed primarily for large-scale simulations of climate, weather, and geophysical phenomena.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Earth Simulator Center | 1 |
| Earth Simulator supercomputer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1850500 — 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: Earth Simulator supercomputer Context triple: [Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, operates, Earth Simulator supercomputer]
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A.
Pleiades supercomputer
The Pleiades supercomputer is a high-performance computing system used by NASA for large-scale simulations and scientific research in fields such as aeronautics, space exploration, and climate modeling.
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B.
Delta supercomputer
The Delta supercomputer is a high-performance computing system at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications designed to support advanced scientific research and data-intensive workloads.
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C.
Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility is a U.S. Department of Energy supercomputing center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory that provides some of the world’s most powerful high-performance computing resources for scientific research.
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D.
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center is a leading U.S. Department of Energy high-performance computing facility that provides advanced computational resources and support for large-scale scientific research.
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E.
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is a leading U.S. research institution known for pioneering high-performance computing technologies and software, including early web browser development.
- 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: Earth Simulator supercomputer Target entity description: The Earth Simulator supercomputer is a high-performance computing system in Japan designed primarily for large-scale simulations of climate, weather, and geophysical phenomena.
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A.
Pleiades supercomputer
The Pleiades supercomputer is a high-performance computing system used by NASA for large-scale simulations and scientific research in fields such as aeronautics, space exploration, and climate modeling.
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B.
Delta supercomputer
The Delta supercomputer is a high-performance computing system at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications designed to support advanced scientific research and data-intensive workloads.
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C.
Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility is a U.S. Department of Energy supercomputing center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory that provides some of the world’s most powerful high-performance computing resources for scientific research.
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D.
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center is a leading U.S. Department of Energy high-performance computing facility that provides advanced computational resources and support for large-scale scientific research.
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E.
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is a leading U.S. research institution known for pioneering high-performance computing technologies and software, including early web browser development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
supercomputer
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supercomputer ⓘ |
| architecture |
vector supercomputer
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vector supercomputer ⓘ |
| commissioned |
2002
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2009 ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| cpusPerNode | 8 ⓘ |
| developer |
NEC Corporation
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NEC Corporation ⓘ |
| fieldOfApplication |
climate science
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geophysics ⓘ meteorology ⓘ oceanography ⓘ |
| floorSpace | about 3200 square meters ⓘ |
| fundedBy | Government of Japan ⓘ |
| heldTitle | world's fastest supercomputer ⓘ |
| interconnect | proprietary crossbar switch ⓘ |
| locatedInCity | Yokohama ⓘ |
| locatedInFacility |
Earth Simulator supercomputer
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Earth Simulator Center
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| locatedInPrefecture | Kanagawa Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| measuredPerformance | 35.86 teraflops ⓘ |
| memoryPerNode | 16 GB ⓘ |
| numberOfNodes | 640 ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
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surface form:
JAMSTEC
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology ⓘ |
| peakPerformance |
131 teraflops
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40 teraflops ⓘ |
| powerConsumption | about 7 megawatts ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
climate simulation
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climate simulation ⓘ earth system science ⓘ earthquake simulation ⓘ geophysical simulation ⓘ tsunami simulation ⓘ weather simulation ⓘ |
| processorType | NEC SX-6 ⓘ |
| storageCapacity | 700 TB ⓘ |
| successor | Earth Simulator 2 ⓘ |
| top500List |
June 2002
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June 2003 ⓘ June 2004 ⓘ November 2002 ⓘ November 2003 ⓘ November 2004 ⓘ |
| top500Rank | 1 ⓘ |
| totalCPUs | 5120 ⓘ |
| totalMainMemory | 10 TB ⓘ |
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: Earth Simulator supercomputer Description of subject: The Earth Simulator supercomputer is a high-performance computing system in Japan designed primarily for large-scale simulations of climate, weather, and geophysical phenomena.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Earth Simulator supercomputer
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locatedInFacility
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Earth Simulator supercomputer
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
Earth Simulator
this entity surface form:
Earth Simulator Center