NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers
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NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers are specialized facilities within NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System that archive, manage, and provide public access to a wide range of Earth science data products.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers canonical | 3 |
| NASA GES DISC | 3 |
| NASA Earth Science Data Systems | 2 |
| NASA LP DAAC | 1 |
| NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center | 1 |
| NASA data processing centers | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3918827 — 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: NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers Context triple: [ICESat missions, dataArchive, NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers]
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A.
ESA Planetary Science Archive
The ESA Planetary Science Archive is the European Space Agency’s central online repository for storing, managing, and providing access to scientific data from its planetary exploration missions.
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B.
Community Science and Data Center
The Community Science and Data Center is a facility that provides data services, tools, and support to enable broad community access to astronomical observations and research.
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C.
National Centers for Environmental Information
The National Centers for Environmental Information is a U.S. federal organization that archives, manages, and provides public access to extensive environmental, atmospheric, oceanic, and geophysical data.
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D.
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Telescope Data Center
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Telescope Data Center is a specialized facility that archives, processes, and distributes astronomical data from ground- and space-based telescopes for the astrophysics research community.
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E.
NASA field center network
The NASA field center network is a system of geographically distributed research and operational centers that carry out NASA’s missions in aeronautics, space exploration, and scientific discovery.
- 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: NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers Target entity description: NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers are specialized facilities within NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System that archive, manage, and provide public access to a wide range of Earth science data products.
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A.
ESA Planetary Science Archive
The ESA Planetary Science Archive is the European Space Agency’s central online repository for storing, managing, and providing access to scientific data from its planetary exploration missions.
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B.
Community Science and Data Center
The Community Science and Data Center is a facility that provides data services, tools, and support to enable broad community access to astronomical observations and research.
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C.
National Centers for Environmental Information
The National Centers for Environmental Information is a U.S. federal organization that archives, manages, and provides public access to extensive environmental, atmospheric, oceanic, and geophysical data.
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D.
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Telescope Data Center
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Telescope Data Center is a specialized facility that archives, processes, and distributes astronomical data from ground- and space-based telescopes for the astrophysics research community.
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E.
NASA field center network
The NASA field center network is a system of geographically distributed research and operational centers that carry out NASA’s missions in aeronautics, space exploration, and scientific discovery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Earth science data facility
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component of EOSDIS ⓘ data archive center network ⓘ |
| accessMethod |
FTP and HTTPS data servers
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application programming interfaces ⓘ web-based data portals ⓘ |
| accessPolicy | data generally available without restriction ⓘ |
| beneficiary |
educators and students
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general public ⓘ policy makers and resource managers ⓘ scientific research community ⓘ |
| coordinatesWith |
NASA Planetary Data System
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surface form:
NASA Science Investigator-led Processing Systems
NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
NASA data processing centers
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| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| field |
Earth science
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geospatial data management ⓘ remote sensing ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
distributed architecture
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long-term data stewardship ⓘ open data access policy ⓘ standardized metadata practices ⓘ support for applications and decision-making ⓘ support for scientific research ⓘ thematically organized data holdings ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
NASA Earth Science Division
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NASA ⓘ
surface form:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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| partOf |
NASA Earth Observing System
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surface form:
NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System
NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
NASA Earth Science Data Systems
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| provides |
Earth science data products
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data access services ⓘ data discovery services ⓘ data download services ⓘ data visualization tools ⓘ metadata for Earth science data ⓘ subsetting services ⓘ user support for data users ⓘ |
| purpose |
archive Earth science data
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ensure long-term preservation of NASA Earth observation data ⓘ manage Earth science data products ⓘ provide public access to Earth science data ⓘ |
| standard | Earth science data standards promoted by NASA ⓘ |
| supports |
atmospheric composition research
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biosphere and ecology research ⓘ climate research ⓘ cryosphere research ⓘ hydrology research ⓘ land surface research ⓘ oceanography research ⓘ weather research ⓘ |
| usesDataFrom |
NASA Earth Observing System
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surface form:
NASA Earth-observing satellites
airborne Earth science campaigns ⓘ in situ Earth observations ⓘ |
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: NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers Description of subject: NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers are specialized facilities within NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System that archive, manage, and provide public access to a wide range of Earth science data products.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
NASA GES DISC
NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers
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partOf
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NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
NASA Earth Science Data Systems
NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers
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coordinatesWith
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NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
NASA data processing centers
this entity surface form:
NASA Earth Science Data Systems
this entity surface form:
NASA GES DISC
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
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dataArchive
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NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers
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this entity surface form:
NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center
Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer
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dataAccess
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NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers
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this entity surface form:
NASA LP DAAC
this entity surface form:
NASA GES DISC