ISOLDE
E3753
ISOLDE is a CERN facility dedicated to producing and studying beams of radioactive isotopes for research in nuclear physics, astrophysics, and related fields.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ISOLDE canonical | 3 |
| ISOLDE facility | 3 |
| GPS general-purpose separator at ISOLDE | 1 |
| HIE-ISOLDE | 1 |
| ISOLDE physics program | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20807 — 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: ISOLDE Context triple: [CERN, hostsExperiment, ISOLDE]
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A.
Dædalus
Dædalus is a scholarly journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that features interdisciplinary essays on culture, science, public affairs, and the arts.
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B.
Fiat Lux
Fiat Lux is a Latin phrase meaning "Let there be light," used as the inspirational motto of the University of California, Berkeley.
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C.
Veritas
Veritas is the Latin word for "truth" and is famously used as the motto of Harvard University.
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D.
Herbert
Herbert is a masculine given name of Germanic origin that has been borne by various notable figures, including U.S. President Herbert Hoover.
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E.
Sununu
Sununu is a prominent American political family name most notably associated with former New Hampshire Governor and White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu and his son, Governor Chris Sununu.
- 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: ISOLDE Target entity description: ISOLDE is a CERN facility dedicated to producing and studying beams of radioactive isotopes for research in nuclear physics, astrophysics, and related fields.
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A.
Dædalus
Dædalus is a scholarly journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that features interdisciplinary essays on culture, science, public affairs, and the arts.
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B.
Fiat Lux
Fiat Lux is a Latin phrase meaning "Let there be light," used as the inspirational motto of the University of California, Berkeley.
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C.
Veritas
Veritas is the Latin word for "truth" and is famously used as the motto of Harvard University.
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D.
Herbert
Herbert is a masculine given name of Germanic origin that has been borne by various notable figures, including U.S. President Herbert Hoover.
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E.
Sununu
Sununu is a prominent American political family name most notably associated with former New Hampshire Governor and White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu and his son, Governor Chris Sununu.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
CERN experimental facility
ⓘ
nuclear physics research facility ⓘ radioactive ion beam facility ⓘ |
| acronymFor | Isotope Separator On-Line Device ⓘ |
| applicationArea |
fundamental symmetry tests
ⓘ
life sciences ⓘ materials science ⓘ nuclear astrophysics ⓘ nuclear structure studies ⓘ |
| beamEnergyRange | up to several MeV per nucleon (post-accelerated) ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| fullName | Isotope Separator On-Line Device ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
GPS general purpose separator
ⓘ
HRS high-resolution separator ⓘ |
| hasUpgrade |
ISOLDE
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
HIE-ISOLDE
|
| hostInstitution | CERN ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
CERN
ⓘ
Geneva metropolitan area ⓘ
surface form:
Geneva region
Meyrin ⓘ Switzerland ⓘ |
| method |
mass separation of isotopes
ⓘ
on-line isotope production ⓘ |
| movedToCERNPSBooster | 1970s ⓘ |
| numberOfElementsCovered | around 70 elements ⓘ |
| numberOfIsotopesProduced | over 1000 isotopes ⓘ |
| operatedBy | CERN ⓘ |
| primaryBeamSource |
Proton Synchrotron Booster
ⓘ
surface form:
CERN Proton Synchrotron Booster
|
| produces |
beams of radioactive isotopes
ⓘ
radioactive ion beams ⓘ |
| researchField |
astrophysics
ⓘ
atomic physics ⓘ fundamental interactions ⓘ nuclear physics ⓘ solid-state physics ⓘ |
| specialization |
on-line isotope separation
ⓘ
radioactive ion beams ⓘ radioactive isotopes ⓘ |
| startOfOperation | 1967 ⓘ |
| supportsExperiments |
Coulomb excitation
ⓘ
beta decay studies ⓘ charge radius measurements ⓘ collinear laser spectroscopy ⓘ implantation in materials ⓘ nuclear moments measurements ⓘ |
| upgradePurpose | provide higher energy radioactive ion beams ⓘ |
| userCommunity | international ⓘ |
| usesPrimaryBeam | proton beam ⓘ |
| website | https://isolde.cern ⓘ |
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: ISOLDE Description of subject: ISOLDE is a CERN facility dedicated to producing and studying beams of radioactive isotopes for research in nuclear physics, astrophysics, and related fields.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
HIE-ISOLDE
this entity surface form:
ISOLDE facility
this entity surface form:
ISOLDE facility
this entity surface form:
GPS general-purpose separator at ISOLDE
this entity surface form:
ISOLDE facility
this entity surface form:
ISOLDE physics program