Blue Waters
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Blue Waters is a petascale supercomputer system designed for large-scale scientific and engineering research, formerly operated at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blue Waters canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T593320 — 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: Blue Waters Context triple: [National Center for Supercomputing Applications, hasSupercomputer, Blue Waters]
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A.
Calypso Deep
Calypso Deep is the deepest known point in the Mediterranean Sea, located in the Hellenic Trench near Greece.
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B.
Bluewater
Bluewater is a large out-of-town shopping and leisure centre located in Kent, England.
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C.
Lightwater
Lightwater is a village and civil parish in the English county of Surrey, known for its residential character and proximity to heathland and countryside.
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D.
The Icebergs
The Icebergs is a monumental 1861 landscape painting by American artist Frederic Edwin Church, renowned for its dramatic, highly detailed depiction of Arctic ice formations and sublime natural grandeur.
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E.
Openwater
Openwater is a medical imaging and neurotechnology company developing high-resolution, low-cost brain and body imaging devices using novel optics and holography techniques.
- 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: Blue Waters Target entity description: Blue Waters is a petascale supercomputer system designed for large-scale scientific and engineering research, formerly operated at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois.
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A.
Calypso Deep
Calypso Deep is the deepest known point in the Mediterranean Sea, located in the Hellenic Trench near Greece.
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B.
Bluewater
Bluewater is a large out-of-town shopping and leisure centre located in Kent, England.
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C.
Lightwater
Lightwater is a village and civil parish in the English county of Surrey, known for its residential character and proximity to heathland and countryside.
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D.
The Icebergs
The Icebergs is a monumental 1861 landscape painting by American artist Frederic Edwin Church, renowned for its dramatic, highly detailed depiction of Arctic ice formations and sublime natural grandeur.
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E.
Openwater
Openwater is a medical imaging and neurotechnology company developing high-resolution, low-cost brain and body imaging devices using novel optics and holography techniques.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
high-performance computing system
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petascale supercomputer ⓘ supercomputer ⓘ |
| acceleratorType |
NVIDIA Tesla data center GPUs
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surface form:
NVIDIA Tesla GPU
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| applicationDomain |
astrophysics
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climate science ⓘ computational biology ⓘ engineering simulations ⓘ molecular dynamics ⓘ seismology ⓘ |
| architecture |
Cray XE6
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Cray XK7 ⓘ |
| campus |
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
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surface form:
Urbana campus
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| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| designedFor |
large-scale engineering research
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large-scale scientific research ⓘ |
| field | high-performance computing ⓘ |
| formerOperator | National Center for Supercomputing Applications ⓘ |
| fundedBy |
National Science Foundation
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Illinois ⓘ
surface form:
State of Illinois
University of Illinois system ⓘ
surface form:
University of Illinois
|
| hostInstitution |
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
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surface form:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
|
| locatedIn |
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
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surface form:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
|
| manufacturer | Cray Inc. ⓘ |
| networkTopology | 3D torus ⓘ |
| operatedBy | National Center for Supercomputing Applications ⓘ |
| peakPerformance | over 1 petaflop ⓘ |
| primaryUse | open scientific research ⓘ |
| processorType | AMD Opteron ⓘ |
| status | decommissioned ⓘ |
| storageType | parallel file system ⓘ |
| supports |
large-scale data analysis
ⓘ
parallel computing ⓘ |
| usedBy |
academic researchers
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government researchers ⓘ industry researchers ⓘ |
| usesGPU | true ⓘ |
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: Blue Waters Description of subject: Blue Waters is a petascale supercomputer system designed for large-scale scientific and engineering research, formerly operated at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.