Institute of Materials Science and Engineering
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The Institute of Materials Science and Engineering is an academic and research unit at EPFL focused on the study, development, and engineering of advanced materials and their applications.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Institute of Materials Science and Engineering canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6431373 — 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: Institute of Materials Science and Engineering Context triple: [School of Engineering (EPFL), hasDepartment, Institute of Materials Science and Engineering]
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Institute of Materials Science and Engineering
The Institute of Materials Science and Engineering is a specialized research and academic unit at Hanoi University of Science and Technology focused on advanced materials, their properties, and engineering applications.
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Institute for Materials Research
The Institute for Materials Research is a leading Japanese research center at Tohoku University specializing in advanced materials science and engineering.
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C.
School of Materials Science and Engineering
The School of Materials Science and Engineering is an academic unit specializing in the research and education of materials science and engineering disciplines within Hefei University of Technology.
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School of Materials Science and Engineering
The School of Materials Science and Engineering is an academic unit specializing in materials research and education within Northeastern University in China.
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School of Materials Science and Engineering
The School of Materials Science and Engineering is an academic unit at Huazhong University of Science and Technology specializing in education and research on the properties, design, and applications of advanced materials.
- 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: Institute of Materials Science and Engineering Target entity description: The Institute of Materials Science and Engineering is an academic and research unit at EPFL focused on the study, development, and engineering of advanced materials and their applications.
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A.
Institute of Materials Science and Engineering
The Institute of Materials Science and Engineering is a specialized research and academic unit at Hanoi University of Science and Technology focused on advanced materials, their properties, and engineering applications.
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B.
Institute for Materials Research
The Institute for Materials Research is a leading Japanese research center at Tohoku University specializing in advanced materials science and engineering.
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C.
School of Materials Science and Engineering
The School of Materials Science and Engineering is an academic unit specializing in the research and education of materials science and engineering disciplines within Hefei University of Technology.
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School of Materials Science and Engineering
The School of Materials Science and Engineering is an academic unit specializing in materials research and education within Northeastern University in China.
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School of Materials Science and Engineering
The School of Materials Science and Engineering is an academic unit at Huazhong University of Science and Technology specializing in education and research on the properties, design, and applications of advanced materials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic institute
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research institute ⓘ |
| abbreviation | IMX NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| affiliation | School of Engineering of EPFL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| city | Lausanne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
industry partners
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international research institutions ⓘ other EPFL institutes ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| employer |
doctoral students
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engineers ⓘ materials scientists ⓘ postdoctoral researchers ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
additive manufacturing of materials
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biomaterials ⓘ ceramics ⓘ composite materials ⓘ computational materials science ⓘ electronic materials ⓘ energy materials ⓘ functional materials ⓘ materials characterization ⓘ materials engineering ⓘ materials for biomedical applications ⓘ materials for energy conversion ⓘ materials for energy storage ⓘ materials processing ⓘ materials science ⓘ mechanical behavior of materials ⓘ metals and alloys ⓘ microstructure analysis ⓘ nanomaterials ⓘ polymers ⓘ surface science ⓘ sustainable materials ⓘ thin films ⓘ |
| languageOfWork |
English
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French ⓘ |
| locatedIn | EPFL campus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mission |
development of new materials
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engineering of materials for applications ⓘ study of advanced materials ⓘ |
| offers |
PhD research positions
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materials science courses ⓘ research projects for master students ⓘ |
| partOf | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
application-oriented materials engineering
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experimental materials characterization ⓘ fundamental properties of materials ⓘ multiscale materials modeling ⓘ |
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: Institute of Materials Science and Engineering Description of subject: The Institute of Materials Science and Engineering is an academic and research unit at EPFL focused on the study, development, and engineering of advanced materials and their applications.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
School of Engineering (EPFL)