Oxford Nanopore Technologies
E371073
Oxford Nanopore Technologies is a biotechnology company that develops and commercializes nanopore-based DNA and RNA sequencing devices for real-time, portable genomic analysis.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MinION | 2 |
| Oxford Nanopore Technologies canonical | 2 |
| Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3582349 — 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: Oxford Nanopore Technologies Context triple: [Pacific Biosciences, hasCompetitor, Oxford Nanopore Technologies]
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A.
Pacific Biosciences
Pacific Biosciences is a biotechnology company specializing in advanced DNA sequencing technologies, particularly long-read sequencing platforms used in genomics research.
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B.
Illumina
Illumina is a biotechnology company best known for developing and manufacturing advanced DNA sequencing and array-based technologies used in genomics research and clinical applications.
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C.
Molecular Devices
Molecular Devices is a life sciences company that develops and manufactures analytical instruments and software for high-throughput screening, cellular imaging, and microplate detection used in biological research and drug discovery.
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D.
IDT (Integrated DNA Technologies)
IDT (Integrated DNA Technologies) is a leading biotechnology company specializing in custom DNA and RNA oligonucleotide synthesis and related genomics solutions for research, diagnostics, and therapeutics.
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E.
Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies is a global company specializing in life sciences, diagnostics, and analytical laboratory instruments and services.
- 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: Oxford Nanopore Technologies Target entity description: Oxford Nanopore Technologies is a biotechnology company that develops and commercializes nanopore-based DNA and RNA sequencing devices for real-time, portable genomic analysis.
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A.
Pacific Biosciences
Pacific Biosciences is a biotechnology company specializing in advanced DNA sequencing technologies, particularly long-read sequencing platforms used in genomics research.
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B.
Illumina
Illumina is a biotechnology company best known for developing and manufacturing advanced DNA sequencing and array-based technologies used in genomics research and clinical applications.
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C.
Molecular Devices
Molecular Devices is a life sciences company that develops and manufactures analytical instruments and software for high-throughput screening, cellular imaging, and microplate detection used in biological research and drug discovery.
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D.
IDT (Integrated DNA Technologies)
IDT (Integrated DNA Technologies) is a leading biotechnology company specializing in custom DNA and RNA oligonucleotide synthesis and related genomics solutions for research, diagnostics, and therapeutics.
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E.
Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies is a global company specializing in life sciences, diagnostics, and analytical laboratory instruments and services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biotechnology company
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sequencing technology company ⓘ |
| application |
agricultural genomics
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clinical research ⓘ environmental DNA analysis ⓘ epigenomics ⓘ metagenomics ⓘ pathogen surveillance ⓘ transcriptomics ⓘ whole-genome sequencing ⓘ |
| businessModel | development and commercialization of sequencing platforms ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| feature |
USB-powered sequencer
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long read lengths ⓘ portable sequencing hardware ⓘ real-time data streaming ⓘ |
| foundationPlace |
Oxford
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Gordon Sanghera
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Hagan Bayley ⓘ Spike Willcocks ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiaryOrBrand |
Oxford Nanopore Technologies
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc
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| headquartersLocation |
England
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Oxford ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| industry |
DNA sequencing
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RNA sequencing ⓘ biotechnology ⓘ genomics ⓘ |
| notableProduct |
Flongle
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GridION ⓘ Oxford Nanopore Technologies self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
MinION
PromethION ⓘ |
| product |
Flongle
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GridION ⓘ Oxford Nanopore Technologies self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
MinION
PromethION ⓘ VolTRAX ⓘ library preparation kits ⓘ nanopore sequencing flow cells ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
direct RNA sequencing
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epigenetic modification detection ⓘ field-deployable sequencing ⓘ portable sequencing devices ⓘ real-time genomic analysis ⓘ |
| technology |
long-read sequencing
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nanopore sequencing ⓘ real-time DNA sequencing ⓘ real-time RNA sequencing ⓘ single-molecule sequencing ⓘ |
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: Oxford Nanopore Technologies Description of subject: Oxford Nanopore Technologies is a biotechnology company that develops and commercializes nanopore-based DNA and RNA sequencing devices for real-time, portable genomic analysis.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
this entity surface form:
MinION
Oxford Nanopore Technologies
→
notableProduct
→
Oxford Nanopore Technologies
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
MinION
Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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hasSubsidiaryOrBrand
→
Oxford Nanopore Technologies
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc