Society for Neuroscience
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The Society for Neuroscience is a leading international organization that promotes the advancement and dissemination of knowledge about the brain and nervous system among scientists and clinicians.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Society for Neuroscience canonical | 3 |
| SfN | 1 |
| Society for Neuroscience annual meeting | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2172110 — 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: Society for Neuroscience Context triple: [Richard Tsien, memberOf, Society for Neuroscience]
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A.
Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience
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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B.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke is a U.S. government research agency that supports and conducts scientific studies on the brain and nervous system to better understand, treat, and prevent neurological disorders.
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C.
American Association for the Advancement of Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science is a leading international nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing science, engineering, and innovation for the benefit of all people, best known for publishing the journal Science.
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D.
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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E.
Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
The Neuroscience Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is an interdisciplinary research and education center that brings together experts from fields such as psychology, biology, computer science, and engineering to study 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: Society for Neuroscience Target entity description: The Society for Neuroscience is a leading international organization that promotes the advancement and dissemination of knowledge about the brain and nervous system among scientists and clinicians.
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A.
Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience
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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B.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke is a U.S. government research agency that supports and conducts scientific studies on the brain and nervous system to better understand, treat, and prevent neurological disorders.
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C.
American Association for the Advancement of Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science is a leading international nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing science, engineering, and innovation for the benefit of all people, best known for publishing the journal Science.
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D.
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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E.
Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
The Neuroscience Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is an interdisciplinary research and education center that brings together experts from fields such as psychology, biology, computer science, and engineering to study the brain and nervous system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
learned society
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nonprofit organization ⓘ professional association ⓘ scientific society ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Society for Neuroscience
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
SfN
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| aimsTo |
advance understanding of the brain
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improve human health through neuroscience research ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| field | neuroscience ⓘ |
| fieldOfPublication | neuroscience ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
brain
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nervous system ⓘ |
| founded | 1969 ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
advocacy for research funding
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professional training ⓘ public outreach ⓘ scientific conferences ⓘ scientific publishing ⓘ |
| hasMember |
clinician
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neuroscientist ⓘ researcher ⓘ |
| hasProgram |
advocacy and public policy program
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public education initiatives ⓘ trainee and early-career support programs ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| knownFor | large annual neuroscience conference ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| membershipType |
individual membership
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postdoctoral membership ⓘ regular membership ⓘ student membership ⓘ |
| offers |
educational resources
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networking opportunities for neuroscientists ⓘ professional development programs ⓘ |
| organizes |
Society for Neuroscience
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Society for Neuroscience annual meeting
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| publishes |
The Journal of Neuroscience
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eNeuro ⓘ |
| purpose |
advancement of neuroscience
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dissemination of knowledge about the brain and nervous system ⓘ promotion of public information and education about neuroscience ⓘ support of neuroscientists ⓘ |
| scope | international ⓘ |
| subjectOf | neuroscience policy discussions ⓘ |
| supports |
basic neuroscience research
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clinical neuroscience research ⓘ translational neuroscience research ⓘ |
| website | https://www.sfn.org ⓘ |
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: Society for Neuroscience Description of subject: The Society for Neuroscience is a leading international organization that promotes the advancement and dissemination of knowledge about the brain and nervous system among scientists and clinicians.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
SfN
this entity surface form:
Society for Neuroscience annual meeting