NSIDC DAAC
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NSIDC DAAC is NASA’s National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center, which archives and distributes satellite and field data related to Earth’s cryosphere.
All labels observed (5)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3918828 — 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: NSIDC DAAC Context triple: [ICESat missions, dataArchive, NSIDC DAAC]
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A.
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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B.
ICE Data Services
ICE Data Services is a financial market data and analytics provider offering real-time and historical pricing, reference data, and related services to global market participants.
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C.
GAW World Data Centres
GAW World Data Centres are specialized international facilities that collect, manage, and distribute atmospheric and environmental data to support the scientific and monitoring activities of the Global Atmosphere Watch program.
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D.
Earth System Research Laboratories
Earth System Research Laboratories is a NOAA research organization that studies the atmosphere and related Earth system processes to improve weather, climate, and air quality understanding and prediction.
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E.
National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
The National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) is a NOAA division responsible for managing the United States’ civil environmental satellites and providing critical weather, climate, and oceanographic data.
- 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: NSIDC DAAC Target entity description: NSIDC DAAC is NASA’s National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center, which archives and distributes satellite and field data related to Earth’s cryosphere.
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A.
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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B.
ICE Data Services
ICE Data Services is a financial market data and analytics provider offering real-time and historical pricing, reference data, and related services to global market participants.
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C.
GAW World Data Centres
GAW World Data Centres are specialized international facilities that collect, manage, and distribute atmospheric and environmental data to support the scientific and monitoring activities of the Global Atmosphere Watch program.
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D.
Earth System Research Laboratories
Earth System Research Laboratories is a NOAA research organization that studies the atmosphere and related Earth system processes to improve weather, climate, and air quality understanding and prediction.
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E.
National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
The National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) is a NOAA division responsible for managing the United States’ civil environmental satellites and providing critical weather, climate, and oceanographic data.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (69)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Earth science data center
ⓘ
NASA Distributed Active Archive Center ⓘ data archive center ⓘ |
| acronym | NSIDC DAAC self-link ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dataAccessPolicy | open access for most datasets ⓘ |
| dataDiscipline |
climate science
ⓘ
cryospheric science ⓘ glaciology ⓘ hydrology ⓘ polar research ⓘ remote sensing ⓘ |
| dataFormat |
GeoTIFF
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HDF ⓘ NetCDF ⓘ binary formats ⓘ text formats ⓘ |
| dataType |
airborne data
ⓘ
derived data products ⓘ field measurements ⓘ in situ observations ⓘ model output ⓘ satellite data ⓘ |
| dataUsers |
general public
ⓘ
policy makers ⓘ scientists ⓘ students ⓘ |
| focusArea |
cryosphere
ⓘ
frozen ground ⓘ glaciers ⓘ ice ⓘ ice sheets ⓘ lake ice ⓘ permafrost ⓘ polar climate ⓘ river ice ⓘ sea ice ⓘ snow ⓘ |
| fullName |
NSIDC DAAC
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
|
| hasThematicArea |
glacier elevation change
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ice sheet mass balance ⓘ lake and river ice phenology ⓘ permafrost temperature ⓘ sea ice concentration ⓘ sea ice thickness ⓘ snow cover extent ⓘ snow water equivalent ⓘ |
| hostInstitution |
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
ⓘ
University of Colorado Boulder ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Boulder, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
NSIDC DAAC
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
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| operatedFor | NASA ⓘ |
| partOf |
NASA Earth Observing System
ⓘ
surface form:
NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System
|
| providesService |
data access
ⓘ
data distribution ⓘ data search and discovery ⓘ data subsetting ⓘ data tools ⓘ data visualization ⓘ documentation ⓘ user support ⓘ |
| role |
archive of NASA cryospheric data
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distribution center for cryospheric data ⓘ long-term preservation of cryospheric data ⓘ |
| sponsoredBy |
NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers
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surface form:
NASA Earth Science Data Systems
|
| supportsMission |
NASA Earth Observing System
ⓘ
surface form:
NASA Earth Observing System missions
cryosphere-focused NASA satellite missions ⓘ |
| website | https://nsidc.org/daac ⓘ |
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: NSIDC DAAC Description of subject: NSIDC DAAC is NASA’s National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center, which archives and distributes satellite and field data related to Earth’s cryosphere.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
this entity surface form:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
this entity surface form:
NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
this entity surface form:
NASA NSIDC DAAC
this entity surface form:
National Snow and Ice Data Center