Corexit EC9527A
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Corexit EC9527A is a chemical oil dispersant formulation used in marine oil spill response to break up and disperse petroleum in water.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Corexit | 1 |
| Corexit 9527 | 1 |
| Corexit EC9527A canonical | 1 |
| Corexit EC9527A in some applications | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12783521 — 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: Corexit EC9527A Context triple: [Corexit 9500A, comparedWith, Corexit EC9527A]
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A.
Corexit 9500A
Corexit 9500A is a chemical oil dispersant widely known for its large-scale and controversial use during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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B.
Petrox Oil
Petrox Oil is a fictional multinational petroleum corporation featured as the sponsoring company behind the expedition in the 1976 film "King Kong."
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C.
Naphta
Naphta is a fanatical, intellectually sharp Jesuit and radical ideologue in Thomas Mann’s novel "The Magic Mountain," serving as a philosophical and ideological foil to the hedonistic humanist Mynheer Peeperkorn.
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D.
Noxon
Noxon is a surname most notably associated with American television writer, producer, and director Marti Noxon.
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E.
Optax
Optax is a gradient processing and optimization library for JAX, providing a flexible collection of composable optimizers and transformations for training machine learning models.
- 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: Corexit EC9527A Target entity description: Corexit EC9527A is a chemical oil dispersant formulation used in marine oil spill response to break up and disperse petroleum in water.
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A.
Corexit 9500A
Corexit 9500A is a chemical oil dispersant widely known for its large-scale and controversial use during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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B.
Petrox Oil
Petrox Oil is a fictional multinational petroleum corporation featured as the sponsoring company behind the expedition in the 1976 film "King Kong."
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C.
Naphta
Naphta is a fanatical, intellectually sharp Jesuit and radical ideologue in Thomas Mann’s novel "The Magic Mountain," serving as a philosophical and ideological foil to the hedonistic humanist Mynheer Peeperkorn.
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D.
Noxon
Noxon is a surname most notably associated with American television writer, producer, and director Marti Noxon.
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E.
Optax
Optax is a gradient processing and optimization library for JAX, providing a flexible collection of composable optimizers and transformations for training machine learning models.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
chemical oil dispersant formulation
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industrial chemical product ⓘ oil spill dispersant ⓘ |
| applicationMethod |
aerial spraying
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vessel-based spraying ⓘ |
| appliedIn |
marine environments
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offshore oil spill incidents ⓘ |
| brandFamily |
Corexit
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linked to:
Corexit EC9527A
|
| category | oil spill treatment agent ⓘ |
| developedBy |
Nalco Chemical Company
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linked to:
Nalco Company
|
| exposureRoute |
dermal contact
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ingestion ⓘ inhalation ⓘ |
| function |
dispersant
ⓘ
emulsifier ⓘ |
| hasCASStatus | mixture with proprietary composition ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
2-butoxyethanol
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nonionic surfactants ⓘ organic sulfonic acid salt ⓘ propylene glycol ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
oil–water interfacial tension reduction
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surfactant activity ⓘ |
| industry | oil spill response industry ⓘ |
| marketedAs |
Corexit 9527
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linked to:
Corexit EC9527A
|
| mechanismOfAction | promotes formation of small oil droplets that disperse into the water column ⓘ |
| phase | liquid ⓘ |
| potentialEffect |
eye irritation
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hemolysis in laboratory animals ⓘ respiratory tract irritation ⓘ skin irritation ⓘ |
| regulatoryConcern |
aquatic toxicity
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human health toxicity ⓘ presence of 2-butoxyethanol ⓘ |
| regulatoryStatus | subject to approval by national authorities for use in oil spill response ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
Corexit EC9500A
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linked to:
Corexit 9500A
|
| risk | increased bioavailability of oil components to marine organisms ⓘ |
| solubility | dispersible in water ⓘ |
| usedBy |
offshore oil and gas operators
ⓘ
oil spill response organizations ⓘ |
| usedDuring | Deepwater Horizon oil spill response ⓘ |
| usedFor |
breaking up oil slicks into smaller droplets
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dispersing petroleum in water ⓘ marine oil spill response ⓘ |
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: Corexit EC9527A Description of subject: Corexit EC9527A is a chemical oil dispersant formulation used in marine oil spill response to break up and disperse petroleum in water.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Corexit EC9527A
linked to: Corexit EC9527A
linked to: Corexit EC9527A