Pacific Biosciences
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Pacific Biosciences is a biotechnology company specializing in advanced DNA sequencing technologies, particularly long-read sequencing platforms used in genomics research.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pacific Biosciences canonical | 8 |
| PacBio | 3 |
| Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. | 3 |
| PacBio Revio System | 1 |
| PacBio sequencing systems | 1 |
| SMRT Sequencing | 1 |
| Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT) sequencing | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T607371 — 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: Pacific Biosciences Context triple: [Menlo Park, California, hostsCompanyOffices, Pacific Biosciences]
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A.
Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies is a global company specializing in life sciences, diagnostics, and analytical laboratory instruments and services.
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B.
Danaher Corporation
Danaher Corporation is a diversified global science and technology conglomerate known for its portfolio of life sciences, diagnostics, and industrial solutions businesses.
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C.
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is a leading biomedical and genomic research center known for large-scale collaborative projects that advance understanding of human disease and inform new therapies.
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D.
Samsung Biologics
Samsung Biologics is a South Korean biopharmaceutical company specializing in contract development and manufacturing (CDMO) of biologic drugs for global pharmaceutical and biotech firms.
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E.
Genentech
Genentech is a pioneering American biotechnology company known for developing groundbreaking therapies and being one of the first firms to apply genetic engineering to medicine.
- 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: Pacific Biosciences Target entity description: 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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A.
Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies is a global company specializing in life sciences, diagnostics, and analytical laboratory instruments and services.
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B.
Danaher Corporation
Danaher Corporation is a diversified global science and technology conglomerate known for its portfolio of life sciences, diagnostics, and industrial solutions businesses.
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C.
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is a leading biomedical and genomic research center known for large-scale collaborative projects that advance understanding of human disease and inform new therapies.
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D.
Samsung Biologics
Samsung Biologics is a South Korean biopharmaceutical company specializing in contract development and manufacturing (CDMO) of biologic drugs for global pharmaceutical and biotech firms.
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E.
Genentech
Genentech is a pioneering American biotechnology company known for developing groundbreaking therapies and being one of the first firms to apply genetic engineering to medicine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
DNA sequencing company
ⓘ
biotechnology company ⓘ public company ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| focusesOn |
de novo genome assembly
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epigenetics research ⓘ structural variant detection ⓘ transcriptomics ⓘ whole-genome sequencing ⓘ |
| formerName |
Pacific Biosciences
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
|
| foundedBy |
David H. Tu
ⓘ
Stephen Turner ⓘ |
| hasCompetitor |
Illumina
ⓘ
Oxford Nanopore Technologies ⓘ Thermo Fisher Scientific ⓘ |
| hasResearchApplication |
cancer genomics
ⓘ
metagenomics ⓘ microbial genomics ⓘ plant and animal breeding ⓘ rare disease genomics ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Menlo Park, California ⓘ |
| inception | 2004 ⓘ |
| industry |
DNA sequencing
ⓘ
biotechnology ⓘ genomics ⓘ |
| listedOn |
NASDAQ
ⓘ
surface form:
Nasdaq
|
| notableFor |
haplotype-resolved genomes
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high-accuracy long reads ⓘ structural variant characterization ⓘ |
| product |
Revio System
ⓘ
SMRT Cell sequencing consumables ⓘ Sequel IIe System ⓘ
surface form:
Sequel II System
Sequel IIe System ⓘ Sequel System ⓘ |
| regionServed | global ⓘ |
| servesIndustry |
academic research
ⓘ
agricultural genomics ⓘ clinical research ⓘ pharmaceutical R&D ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
genomics research tools
ⓘ
long-read DNA sequencing ⓘ single-molecule real-time sequencing ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| technology |
Pacific Biosciences
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
SMRT Sequencing
single-molecule real-time detection ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | PACB ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
long-read 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: Pacific Biosciences Description of subject: Pacific Biosciences is a biotechnology company specializing in advanced DNA sequencing technologies, particularly long-read sequencing platforms used in genomics research.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
this entity surface form:
SMRT Sequencing
this entity surface form:
Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
subject surface form:
Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
this entity surface form:
Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT) sequencing
subject surface form:
Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
this entity surface form:
PacBio
this entity surface form:
PacBio
this entity surface form:
Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
this entity surface form:
PacBio
this entity surface form:
PacBio Revio System
this entity surface form:
PacBio sequencing systems