Texas Advanced Computing Center
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The Texas Advanced Computing Center is a leading high-performance computing and data research facility that provides powerful supercomputing resources and expertise to support advanced scientific and engineering research.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Texas Advanced Computing Center canonical | 2 |
| TACC | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1689614 — 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: Texas Advanced Computing Center Context triple: [University of Texas at Austin, hasResearchUnit, Texas Advanced Computing Center]
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A.
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is a leading U.S. research institution known for pioneering high-performance computing technologies and software, including early web browser development.
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B.
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center is a leading U.S. Department of Energy high-performance computing facility that provides advanced computational resources and support for large-scale scientific research.
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C.
Voorhees Computing Center
Voorhees Computing Center is a major academic computing and technology hub on the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute campus, housing computer labs, networking infrastructure, and related IT services for students and faculty.
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D.
Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility is a U.S. Department of Energy supercomputing center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory that provides some of the world’s most powerful high-performance computing resources for scientific research.
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E.
USC Information Sciences Institute
USC Information Sciences Institute is a renowned research institute at the University of Southern California known for its pioneering work in computer science and its foundational contributions to the development of the internet.
- 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: Texas Advanced Computing Center Target entity description: The Texas Advanced Computing Center is a leading high-performance computing and data research facility that provides powerful supercomputing resources and expertise to support advanced scientific and engineering research.
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A.
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is a leading U.S. research institution known for pioneering high-performance computing technologies and software, including early web browser development.
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B.
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center is a leading U.S. Department of Energy high-performance computing facility that provides advanced computational resources and support for large-scale scientific research.
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C.
Voorhees Computing Center
Voorhees Computing Center is a major academic computing and technology hub on the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute campus, housing computer labs, networking infrastructure, and related IT services for students and faculty.
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D.
Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility is a U.S. Department of Energy supercomputing center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory that provides some of the world’s most powerful high-performance computing resources for scientific research.
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E.
USC Information Sciences Institute
USC Information Sciences Institute is a renowned research institute at the University of Southern California known for its pioneering work in computer science and its foundational contributions to the development of the internet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
high-performance computing facility
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petascale supercomputer ⓘ supercomputing center ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith | University of Texas at Austin ⓘ |
| campus | J. J. Pickle Research Campus ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
National Science Foundation
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United States Department of Energy national laboratory system ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Department of Energy laboratories
industry partners ⓘ universities ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| focusesOn |
advanced computing
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computational science ⓘ data-intensive computing ⓘ high-performance computing ⓘ research computing ⓘ scientific computing ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 2001 ⓘ |
| fundedBy | National Science Foundation ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation |
Texas Advanced Computing Center
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
TACC
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| hasDirector | Dan Stanzione ⓘ |
| hasFacilityType |
computational science center
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research center ⓘ |
| hostedBy | Texas Advanced Computing Center self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Austin
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surface form:
Austin, Texas
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| memberOf | XSEDE ⓘ |
| operatedBy | University of Texas at Austin ⓘ |
| operates | Frontera supercomputer ⓘ |
| position | Executive Director of Texas Advanced Computing Center ⓘ |
| provides |
data storage resources
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high-performance computing expertise ⓘ supercomputing resources ⓘ visualization resources ⓘ |
| region | Texas ⓘ |
| replaced | Texas TeraGrid node ⓘ |
| serves |
United States research community
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international research community ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
data analytics
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distributed computing ⓘ machine learning applications ⓘ parallel computing ⓘ scientific visualization ⓘ |
| supports |
academic researchers
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engineering research ⓘ government researchers ⓘ industry researchers ⓘ scientific research ⓘ |
| website | https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/ ⓘ |
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: Texas Advanced Computing Center Description of subject: The Texas Advanced Computing Center is a leading high-performance computing and data research facility that provides powerful supercomputing resources and expertise to support advanced scientific and engineering research.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Texas Advanced Computing Center
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hostedBy
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Texas Advanced Computing Center
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
Frontera supercomputer
Texas Advanced Computing Center
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hasAbbreviation
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Texas Advanced Computing Center
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
TACC