GFDL
E828516
Earth system modeling center
United States federal research laboratory
climate research laboratory
meteorological research laboratory
GFDL is a leading U.S. research laboratory that develops advanced climate and weather models to study the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| GFDL canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9893280 — 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: GFDL Context triple: [Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, abbreviation, GFDL]
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A.
GNU Free Documentation License
The GNU Free Documentation License is a copyleft license designed to ensure that documentation, textbooks, and other written works remain freely usable, modifiable, and redistributable.
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B.
GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License is a widely used free software license that guarantees users the freedoms to run, study, share, and modify software while requiring that derivative works remain similarly open.
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C.
GNU Lesser General Public License
The GNU Lesser General Public License is a free software license that allows developers to use and integrate covered software libraries into their own programs, including proprietary ones, under certain copyleft conditions.
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D.
Apache License 1.1
Apache License 1.1 is an older, permissive open-source software license from the Apache Software Foundation that preceded and was later replaced by Apache License 2.0.
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E.
Artistic License 2.0
Artistic License 2.0 is a permissive, copyleft-influenced open-source software license originally used by Perl and other projects, allowing modification and redistribution under certain conditions.
- 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: GFDL Target entity description: GFDL is a leading U.S. research laboratory that develops advanced climate and weather models to study the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans.
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A.
GNU Free Documentation License
The GNU Free Documentation License is a copyleft license designed to ensure that documentation, textbooks, and other written works remain freely usable, modifiable, and redistributable.
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B.
GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License is a widely used free software license that guarantees users the freedoms to run, study, share, and modify software while requiring that derivative works remain similarly open.
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C.
GNU Lesser General Public License
The GNU Lesser General Public License is a free software license that allows developers to use and integrate covered software libraries into their own programs, including proprietary ones, under certain copyleft conditions.
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D.
Apache License 1.1
Apache License 1.1 is an older, permissive open-source software license from the Apache Software Foundation that preceded and was later replaced by Apache License 2.0.
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E.
Artistic License 2.0
Artistic License 2.0 is a permissive, copyleft-influenced open-source software license originally used by Perl and other projects, allowing modification and redistribution under certain conditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Earth system modeling center
ⓘ
United States federal research laboratory ⓘ climate research laboratory ⓘ meteorological research laboratory ⓘ |
| abbreviation | GFDL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith | Princeton University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
NASA
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NOAA National Weather Service NERFINISHED ⓘ Princeton University NERFINISHED ⓘ international climate modeling centers ⓘ |
| contributesTo |
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessments
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. National Climate Assessments NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| develops |
Earth system models
ⓘ
atmosphere–ocean coupled models ⓘ global climate models ⓘ ocean models ⓘ weather prediction models ⓘ |
| establishedIn | 1955 ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Earth’s atmosphere
ⓘ
climate change ⓘ climate variability ⓘ oceans ⓘ weather prediction ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Joseph Smagorinsky
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jule Charney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDeveloped |
FV3 dynamical core
ⓘ
GFDL CM2 climate model family NERFINISHED ⓘ GFDL ESM2 Earth system model family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New Jersey, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
New Jersey
Princeton, New Jersey, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Princeton, New Jersey
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| mission | to improve understanding and prediction of climate and weather ⓘ |
| operatedBy | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentAgency | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryObjective | to provide scientific basis for climate policy and decision-making ⓘ |
| researchField |
Earth system science
ⓘ
atmospheric sciences ⓘ climate modeling ⓘ geophysical fluid dynamics ⓘ oceanography ⓘ weather modeling ⓘ |
| uses |
numerical models
ⓘ
supercomputers ⓘ |
| website | https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/ ⓘ |
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: GFDL Description of subject: GFDL is a leading U.S. research laboratory that develops advanced climate and weather models to study the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.