CERN Large Hadron Collider surface facilities
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The CERN Large Hadron Collider surface facilities are the above-ground buildings and infrastructure that support and control the LHC’s particle physics experiments near Geneva.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: CERN Large Hadron Collider surface facilities Context triple: [Meyrin, hosts, CERN Large Hadron Collider surface facilities]
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Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, used to smash subatomic particles together at unprecedented energies to study fundamental physics, including the Higgs boson.
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B.
CERN
CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research, renowned for its large particle accelerators and fundamental physics experiments that have led to major discoveries such as the Higgs boson.
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C.
Super Proton Synchrotron
The Super Proton Synchrotron is a high-energy circular particle accelerator at CERN that serves both as a research machine and as a key injector for the Large Hadron Collider.
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LHCf
LHCf is a CERN experiment at the Large Hadron Collider that studies forward particles produced in proton–proton collisions to improve our understanding of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.
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Proton Synchrotron
The Proton Synchrotron is a historic circular particle accelerator at CERN that has played a key role in high-energy physics research and in feeding beams to larger colliders.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: CERN Large Hadron Collider surface facilities Target entity description: The CERN Large Hadron Collider surface facilities are the above-ground buildings and infrastructure that support and control the LHC’s particle physics experiments near Geneva.
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Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, used to smash subatomic particles together at unprecedented energies to study fundamental physics, including the Higgs boson.
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CERN
CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research, renowned for its large particle accelerators and fundamental physics experiments that have led to major discoveries such as the Higgs boson.
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C.
Super Proton Synchrotron
The Super Proton Synchrotron is a high-energy circular particle accelerator at CERN that serves both as a research machine and as a key injector for the Large Hadron Collider.
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D.
LHCf
LHCf is a CERN experiment at the Large Hadron Collider that studies forward particles produced in proton–proton collisions to improve our understanding of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.
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Proton Synchrotron
The Proton Synchrotron is a historic circular particle accelerator at CERN that has played a key role in high-energy physics research and in feeding beams to larger colliders.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
research facility complex
ⓘ
scientific infrastructure ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
ALICE experiment
ⓘ
ATLAS experiment ⓘ
linked to:
ATLAS
CMS experiment ⓘ LHCb experiment ⓘ
linked to:
LHCb
|
| country |
France
ⓘ
Switzerland ⓘ |
| hasPart |
LHC control rooms
ⓘ
Point 1 surface facilities ⓘ Point 2 surface facilities ⓘ Point 3 surface facilities ⓘ Point 4 surface facilities ⓘ Point 5 surface facilities ⓘ Point 6 surface facilities ⓘ Point 7 surface facilities ⓘ Point 8 surface facilities ⓘ access shafts to underground LHC tunnels ⓘ compressed air stations ⓘ cooling and ventilation buildings ⓘ cryogenics plants ⓘ data acquisition buildings ⓘ electrical substations ⓘ helium storage and recovery installations ⓘ service caverns access buildings ⓘ surface buildings for ALICE experiment ⓘ surface buildings for ATLAS experiment ⓘ surface buildings for CMS experiment ⓘ surface buildings for LHC injectors interfaces ⓘ surface buildings for LHCb experiment ⓘ surface computing and networking centers ⓘ surface detector assembly halls ⓘ surface experimental halls ⓘ surface logistics and storage areas ⓘ surface offices for experiment collaborations ⓘ surface radiation monitoring stations ⓘ surface safety and access control buildings ⓘ surface workshops and maintenance halls ⓘ technical galleries ⓘ water cooling towers ⓘ |
| inception | 2000s ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Canton of Geneva
ⓘ
linked to:
canton of Geneva
Canton of Vaud ⓘ
linked to:
Vaud
France ⓘ Meyrin ⓘ Switzerland ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Geneva ⓘ |
| operator | CERN ⓘ |
| partOf |
CERN Large Hadron Collider
ⓘ
linked to:
Large Hadron Collider
CERN accelerator complex ⓘ |
| purpose |
house control and monitoring systems for the LHC
ⓘ
provide infrastructure for particle physics experiments ⓘ support operation of the Large Hadron Collider ⓘ |
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Subject: CERN Large Hadron Collider surface facilities Description of subject: The CERN Large Hadron Collider surface facilities are the above-ground buildings and infrastructure that support and control the LHC’s particle physics experiments near Geneva.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Meyrin, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland
subject linked to:
Meyrin, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland
linked to: CERN Large Hadron Collider surface facilities
linked to: CERN Large Hadron Collider surface facilities
linked to: CERN Large Hadron Collider surface facilities
linked to: CERN Large Hadron Collider surface facilities
linked to: CERN Large Hadron Collider surface facilities
linked to: CERN Large Hadron Collider surface facilities
linked to: CERN Large Hadron Collider surface facilities
linked to: CERN Large Hadron Collider surface facilities
linked to: CERN Large Hadron Collider surface facilities
linked to: CERN Large Hadron Collider surface facilities
linked to: CERN Large Hadron Collider surface facilities