Representative Concentration Pathways
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Representative Concentration Pathway
climate change scenario family
greenhouse gas concentration trajectory framework
standardized climate modeling input
Representative Concentration Pathways are standardized greenhouse gas concentration trajectories used in climate modeling to project future climate change under different emissions scenarios.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| RCP2.6 | 2 |
| RCP4.5 | 2 |
| Representative Concentration Pathways canonical | 2 |
| IPCC Representative Concentration Pathways | 1 |
| RCP8.5 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1899929 — 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: Representative Concentration Pathways Context triple: [Fifth Assessment Report, usesConcept, Representative Concentration Pathways]
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Fifth Assessment Report
The Fifth Assessment Report is a comprehensive scientific evaluation of climate change published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, synthesizing the latest research on its causes, impacts, and mitigation options.
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IPCC TFI
IPCC TFI is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Task Force responsible for developing internationally accepted methodologies for estimating and reporting national greenhouse gas emissions and removals.
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Sixth Assessment Report
The Sixth Assessment Report is the latest comprehensive evaluation by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change summarizing current scientific knowledge on climate change, its impacts, and mitigation and adaptation options.
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D.
IPCC Principles and Procedures
The IPCC Principles and Procedures are the formal rules and guidelines that govern how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change conducts its assessments, reviews, and decision-making processes.
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Fourth Assessment Report
The Fourth Assessment Report is a major 2007 synthesis by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that comprehensively evaluated the scientific evidence for climate change, its impacts, and mitigation options, and strongly influenced global climate policy discussions.
- 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: Representative Concentration Pathways Target entity description: Representative Concentration Pathways are standardized greenhouse gas concentration trajectories used in climate modeling to project future climate change under different emissions scenarios.
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A.
Fifth Assessment Report
The Fifth Assessment Report is a comprehensive scientific evaluation of climate change published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, synthesizing the latest research on its causes, impacts, and mitigation options.
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B.
IPCC TFI
IPCC TFI is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Task Force responsible for developing internationally accepted methodologies for estimating and reporting national greenhouse gas emissions and removals.
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C.
Sixth Assessment Report
The Sixth Assessment Report is the latest comprehensive evaluation by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change summarizing current scientific knowledge on climate change, its impacts, and mitigation and adaptation options.
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D.
IPCC Principles and Procedures
The IPCC Principles and Procedures are the formal rules and guidelines that govern how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change conducts its assessments, reviews, and decision-making processes.
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E.
Fourth Assessment Report
The Fourth Assessment Report is a major 2007 synthesis by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that comprehensively evaluated the scientific evidence for climate change, its impacts, and mitigation options, and strongly influenced global climate policy discussions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Representative Concentration Pathway
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Representative Concentration Pathway ⓘ Representative Concentration Pathway ⓘ Representative Concentration Pathway ⓘ climate change scenario family ⓘ greenhouse gas concentration trajectory framework ⓘ standardized climate modeling input ⓘ |
| abbreviation | RCPs ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | RCP3-PD ⓘ |
| areComplementedBy | Shared Socioeconomic Pathways ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
high emissions and limited climate policy
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intermediate greenhouse gas concentrations ⓘ strong climate mitigation ⓘ |
| basedOn | radiative forcing trajectories ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
time series of aerosols
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time series of greenhouse gas concentrations ⓘ time series of land-use changes ⓘ |
| coordinatedBy | Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium ⓘ |
| coordinatedWith |
Coupled Model Intercomparison Project
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surface form:
Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5
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| define | different levels of radiative forcing by 2100 ⓘ |
| describes |
stabilization scenario at higher forcing
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stabilization scenario without overshoot ⓘ very high greenhouse gas concentration scenario ⓘ very low greenhouse gas concentration scenario ⓘ |
| developedBy | climate modeling community ⓘ |
| domain | climate science ⓘ |
| firstUsedIn |
Fifth Assessment Report
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surface form:
IPCC Fifth Assessment Report
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| haveUnit | watts per square meter ⓘ |
| include |
Representative Concentration Pathways
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
RCP2.6
Representative Concentration Pathways self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
RCP4.5
RCP6.0 ⓘ Representative Concentration Pathways self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
RCP8.5
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| introducedIn | late 2000s ⓘ |
| provide |
inputs for Earth system models
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inputs for global climate models ⓘ |
| radiativeForcingLevel |
2.6 W/m² by 2100
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4.5 W/m² by 2100 ⓘ 6.0 W/m² by 2100 ⓘ 8.5 W/m² by 2100 ⓘ |
| replaced | SRES emissions scenarios ⓘ |
| scope | global ⓘ |
| targetYear | 2100 ⓘ |
| timeHorizon | 2000–2100 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
IPCC Assessment Reports
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surface form:
IPCC assessment reports
assessing impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability to climate change ⓘ comparing different greenhouse gas emissions futures ⓘ driving climate model simulations ⓘ informing climate policy analysis ⓘ projecting future climate change ⓘ |
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: Representative Concentration Pathways Description of subject: Representative Concentration Pathways are standardized greenhouse gas concentration trajectories used in climate modeling to project future climate change under different emissions scenarios.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Representative Concentration Pathways
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this entity surface form:
RCP2.6
Representative Concentration Pathways
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this entity surface form:
RCP4.5
Representative Concentration Pathways
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Representative Concentration Pathways
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this entity surface form:
RCP8.5
this entity surface form:
IPCC Representative Concentration Pathways
this entity surface form:
RCP2.6
this entity surface form:
RCP4.5