Storm Prediction Center
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The Storm Prediction Center is a U.S. government facility responsible for forecasting severe convective weather such as tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, and related hazards across the United States.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Storm Prediction Center canonical | 10 |
| National Severe Storms Forecast Center | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T28113 — 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: Storm Prediction Center Context triple: [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, hasDivision, Storm Prediction Center]
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A.
National Weather Service
The National Weather Service is the U.S. federal agency responsible for providing weather forecasts, warnings, and climate data to protect life and property and support the national economy.
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B.
National Hurricane Center
The National Hurricane Center is a U.S. government agency that monitors, forecasts, and issues warnings for tropical cyclones in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific Oceans.
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C.
NOAA weather radio network
The NOAA Weather Radio network is a nationwide system of radio stations that continuously broadcasts official weather forecasts, warnings, and emergency information directly to the public.
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D.
World Weather Watch
World Weather Watch is a global program that coordinates the collection, processing, and exchange of meteorological data to support weather forecasting and climate monitoring worldwide.
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E.
National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
The National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) is a NOAA division responsible for managing the United States’ civil environmental satellites and providing critical weather, climate, and oceanographic data.
- 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: Storm Prediction Center Target entity description: The Storm Prediction Center is a U.S. government facility responsible for forecasting severe convective weather such as tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, and related hazards across the United States.
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A.
National Weather Service
The National Weather Service is the U.S. federal agency responsible for providing weather forecasts, warnings, and climate data to protect life and property and support the national economy.
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B.
National Hurricane Center
The National Hurricane Center is a U.S. government agency that monitors, forecasts, and issues warnings for tropical cyclones in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific Oceans.
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C.
NOAA weather radio network
The NOAA Weather Radio network is a nationwide system of radio stations that continuously broadcasts official weather forecasts, warnings, and emergency information directly to the public.
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D.
World Weather Watch
World Weather Watch is a global program that coordinates the collection, processing, and exchange of meteorological data to support weather forecasting and climate monitoring worldwide.
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E.
National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
The National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) is a NOAA division responsible for managing the United States’ civil environmental satellites and providing critical weather, climate, and oceanographic data.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. government agency
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meteorological organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SPC ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
National Severe Storms Laboratory
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local National Weather Service forecast offices ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| dataAccessibility | public ⓘ |
| domain |
meteorology
ⓘ
severe weather forecasting ⓘ |
| focusArea |
damaging wind forecasting
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hail forecasting ⓘ hazardous fire weather forecasting ⓘ severe thunderstorm prediction ⓘ tornado prediction ⓘ |
| formerName |
Storm Prediction Center
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
National Severe Storms Forecast Center
|
| headquartersLocation |
Norman, Oklahoma, United States
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surface form:
Norman, Oklahoma
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| jurisdiction |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
contiguous United States ⓘ |
| locatedInCity | Norman ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| locatedInFacility | National Weather Center ⓘ |
| locatedInState | Oklahoma ⓘ |
| mainFunction |
forecasting severe convective weather
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issuing convective outlooks ⓘ issuing fire weather outlooks ⓘ issuing severe thunderstorm watches ⓘ issuing tornado watches ⓘ monitoring mesoscale convective systems ⓘ providing guidance on hazardous thunderstorms ⓘ supporting warning operations of local National Weather Service offices ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
ⓘ
National Weather Service ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
National Centers for Environmental Prediction
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ⓘ National Weather Service ⓘ |
| partOf | U.S. Department of Commerce ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publishes |
Day 1 convective outlooks
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Day 2 convective outlooks ⓘ Day 3 convective outlooks ⓘ Day 4-8 convective outlooks ⓘ fire weather outlooks ⓘ mesoscale discussions ⓘ |
| serviceType | 24-hour operations ⓘ |
| usesDataFrom |
numerical weather prediction models
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satellite observations ⓘ surface weather observations ⓘ upper-air soundings ⓘ weather radar ⓘ |
| website | https://www.spc.noaa.gov/ ⓘ |
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: Storm Prediction Center Description of subject: The Storm Prediction Center is a U.S. government facility responsible for forecasting severe convective weather such as tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, and related hazards across the United States.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
National Severe Storms Forecast Center
subject surface form:
Storm Prediction Center
this entity surface form:
National Severe Storms Forecast Center
subject surface form:
Norman, Oklahoma