YFA
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YFA is an acronym commonly used to refer to the DARPA Young Faculty Award, a program that supports early-career university researchers in high-risk, high-reward research areas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| YFA canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13042617 — 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: YFA Context triple: [DARPA Young Faculty Award, shortName, YFA]
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YFC
YFC is the IATA airport code for Fredericton International Airport, which serves the city of Fredericton in New Brunswick, Canada.
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YFC
YFC is the abbreviated name commonly used for Yokohama FC, a professional Japanese football club based in Yokohama.
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YFB
YFB is the IATA airport code for Iqaluit Airport, the primary air gateway to Nunavut’s capital in northern Canada.
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Yoff
Yoff is a coastal commune and suburb of Dakar, Senegal, known for its fishing community and beaches along the Atlantic Ocean.
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E.
F.Y.P
F.Y.P was an American punk rock band known for its fast, melodic songs and influential role in the 1990s DIY punk scene.
- 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: YFA Target entity description: YFA is an acronym commonly used to refer to the DARPA Young Faculty Award, a program that supports early-career university researchers in high-risk, high-reward research areas.
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A.
YFC
YFC is the abbreviated name commonly used for Yokohama FC, a professional Japanese football club based in Yokohama.
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B.
YFC
YFC is the IATA airport code for Fredericton International Airport, which serves the city of Fredericton in New Brunswick, Canada.
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C.
YFB
YFB is the IATA airport code for Iqaluit Airport, the primary air gateway to Nunavut’s capital in northern Canada.
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D.
Yoff
Yoff is a coastal commune and suburb of Dakar, Senegal, known for its fishing community and beaches along the Atlantic Ocean.
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E.
F.Y.P
F.Y.P was an American punk rock band known for its fast, melodic songs and influential role in the 1990s DIY punk scene.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
acronym
ⓘ
research funding program ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf | DARPA Young Faculty Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| administeredBy |
DARPA
NERFINISHED
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appliesTo | early-career university faculty ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
biotechnology and life sciences research
ⓘ
computer science departments ⓘ engineering departments ⓘ mathematics departments ⓘ physical sciences departments ⓘ universities ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| eligibility |
U.S.-based university faculty
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early-career status ⓘ tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions ⓘ |
| evaluationCriteria |
potential for high impact
ⓘ
relevance to DARPA mission ⓘ technical merit of proposed research ⓘ |
| field |
high-risk high-reward research
ⓘ
science and engineering ⓘ |
| focus |
defense-relevant research
ⓘ
innovative research ideas ⓘ |
| funder | U.S. Department of Defense NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| funderType | federal government program ⓘ |
| goal |
build long-term relationships between DARPA and academic researchers
ⓘ
identify rising research stars in academia ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
competitive selection process
ⓘ
mentoring and engagement with DARPA program managers ⓘ multi-year funding ⓘ peer-reviewed proposals ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| purpose |
develop the next generation of academic researchers in defense-relevant fields
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encourage high-risk high-reward research ⓘ support early-career university researchers ⓘ |
| relatedTo | DARPA research programs ⓘ |
| sector |
academic research
ⓘ
higher education ⓘ |
| sponsor | DARPA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| standsFor | Young Faculty Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supports |
emerging research leaders
ⓘ
unclassified basic and applied research ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
early-career researchers
ⓘ
junior faculty ⓘ |
| timeframe | early-career stage of faculty ⓘ |
| typeOfSupport |
research grants
ⓘ
travel and engagement funding ⓘ |
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: YFA Description of subject: YFA is an acronym commonly used to refer to the DARPA Young Faculty Award, a program that supports early-career university researchers in high-risk, high-reward research areas.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.