Pleiades supercomputer
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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.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility | 1 |
| NASA’s Supercomputer ‘Kalpana’ | 1 |
| Pleiades supercomputer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T25173 — 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: Pleiades supercomputer Context triple: [Ames Research Center, hasFacility, Pleiades supercomputer]
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A.
Norsk Data NORD-10
Norsk Data NORD-10 was a 16-bit minicomputer series from the Norwegian company Norsk Data, widely used in the 1970s and 1980s for scientific, technical, and commercial applications.
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B.
Bolt Beranek and Newman
Bolt Beranek and Newman was a pioneering American research and engineering firm best known for its foundational role in developing the ARPANET, a precursor to the modern internet.
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C.
Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, used to smash subatomic particles together at unprecedented energies to study fundamental physics, including the Higgs boson.
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D.
Baade Telescope
The Baade Telescope is one of the twin 6.5-meter Magellan optical telescopes used for cutting-edge astronomical research in Chile.
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E.
Stanford Research Institute
Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) is a prominent independent nonprofit research and innovation center known for pioneering advances in computing, artificial intelligence, and other cutting-edge technologies.
- 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: Pleiades supercomputer Target entity description: 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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A.
Norsk Data NORD-10
Norsk Data NORD-10 was a 16-bit minicomputer series from the Norwegian company Norsk Data, widely used in the 1970s and 1980s for scientific, technical, and commercial applications.
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B.
Bolt Beranek and Newman
Bolt Beranek and Newman was a pioneering American research and engineering firm best known for its foundational role in developing the ARPANET, a precursor to the modern internet.
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C.
Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, used to smash subatomic particles together at unprecedented energies to study fundamental physics, including the Higgs boson.
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D.
Baade Telescope
The Baade Telescope is one of the twin 6.5-meter Magellan optical telescopes used for cutting-edge astronomical research in Chile.
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E.
Stanford Research Institute
Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) is a prominent independent nonprofit research and innovation center known for pioneering advances in computing, artificial intelligence, and other cutting-edge technologies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | supercomputer ⓘ |
| architecture |
distributed-memory cluster
ⓘ
x86-64 ⓘ |
| basedOn | SGI Altix ICE architecture ⓘ |
| commissionedBy |
Ames Research Center
ⓘ
surface form:
NASA Ames Research Center
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| domain |
Earth science
ⓘ
aeronautics ⓘ climate science ⓘ computational engineering ⓘ computational physics ⓘ space science ⓘ |
| interconnect | InfiniBand ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Moffett Field, California
ⓘ
Ames Research Center ⓘ
surface form:
NASA Ames Research Center
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| maintainedBy |
Ames Research Center
ⓘ
surface form:
NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division
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| namedAfter |
Pleiades
ⓘ
surface form:
Pleiades star cluster
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| operator |
NASA
ⓘ
Ames Research Center ⓘ
surface form:
NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division
|
| owner | NASA ⓘ |
| partOf |
Pleiades supercomputer
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility
|
| status | operational ⓘ |
| supports |
MPI parallel programming
ⓘ
large-scale parallel jobs ⓘ long-running simulations ⓘ petabyte-scale data workloads ⓘ |
| usedBy |
NASA researchers
ⓘ
external research partners ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Earth science modeling
ⓘ
aeronautics research ⓘ aircraft design simulations ⓘ astrophysics simulations ⓘ climate modeling ⓘ computational fluid dynamics ⓘ data analysis for space missions ⓘ heliophysics simulations ⓘ high-performance computing ⓘ large-scale simulations ⓘ launch vehicle simulations ⓘ mission planning analysis ⓘ noise and aeroacoustics studies ⓘ planetary science simulations ⓘ reentry and aerothermal simulations ⓘ scientific research ⓘ space exploration research ⓘ spacecraft design simulations ⓘ turbulence modeling ⓘ weather and climate prediction experiments ⓘ |
| vendor | SGI ⓘ |
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: Pleiades supercomputer Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Pleiades
this entity surface form:
NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility
this entity surface form:
NASA’s Supercomputer ‘Kalpana’