Perlmutter
E261392
Perlmutter is a powerful next-generation supercomputer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center designed to support large-scale scientific research and simulations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Perlmutter canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2363272 — 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: Perlmutter Context triple: [National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, hasSupercomputer, Perlmutter]
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A.
Barbara Picower
Barbara Picower is an American philanthropist best known for leading major charitable initiatives and foundations, particularly in the wake of her late husband Jeffry Picower’s involvement in the Madoff scandal.
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B.
Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei is an AI researcher and entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic and former OpenAI research leader known for his work on large language models and AI safety.
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C.
Hinton
Hinton is the surname of Geoffrey Hinton, a pioneering computer scientist widely regarded as one of the founding figures of deep learning and modern artificial intelligence.
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D.
Sloan
Sloan is a surname most notably associated with Alfred P. Sloan, the influential long-time president and chairman of General Motors.
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E.
Sloan
Sloan is a small unincorporated community in Clark County, Nevada, located just south of Las Vegas along Interstate 15.
- 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: Perlmutter Target entity description: Perlmutter is a powerful next-generation supercomputer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center designed to support large-scale scientific research and simulations.
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A.
Barbara Picower
Barbara Picower is an American philanthropist best known for leading major charitable initiatives and foundations, particularly in the wake of her late husband Jeffry Picower’s involvement in the Madoff scandal.
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B.
Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei is an AI researcher and entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic and former OpenAI research leader known for his work on large language models and AI safety.
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C.
Hinton
Hinton is the surname of Geoffrey Hinton, a pioneering computer scientist widely regarded as one of the founding figures of deep learning and modern artificial intelligence.
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D.
Sloan
Sloan is a surname most notably associated with Alfred P. Sloan, the influential long-time president and chairman of General Motors.
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E.
Sloan
Sloan is a small unincorporated community in Clark County, Nevada, located just south of Las Vegas along Interstate 15.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
high-performance computing system
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supercomputer ⓘ |
| accessModel | peer-reviewed allocation process ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
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linked to:
Office of Science
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| computingCenter | NERSC ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| designedFor |
high-performance computing workloads
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large-scale scientific research ⓘ scientific simulations ⓘ |
| domain |
computational science
ⓘ
high-performance computing ⓘ scientific computing ⓘ |
| fieldOfUse |
astrophysics
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climate modeling ⓘ computational chemistry ⓘ computational physics ⓘ data-intensive computing ⓘ machine learning ⓘ materials science ⓘ |
| fundedBy | U.S. Department of Energy ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
CPU nodes
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GPU-accelerated nodes ⓘ high-speed interconnect ⓘ parallel file system ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
high energy efficiency
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large-scale parallelism ⓘ next-generation architecture ⓘ optimized for AI and ML workloads ⓘ optimized for data-intensive workloads ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Saul Perlmutter ⓘ |
| operator |
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center ⓘ |
| partOf | U.S. Department of Energy computing facilities ⓘ |
| purpose |
advance scientific discovery
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enable exascale-class research workflows ⓘ |
| supports |
MPI applications
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data analytics workloads ⓘ large-scale simulations ⓘ open science research ⓘ parallel computing ⓘ |
| usedBy |
U.S. national laboratory scientists
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academic researchers ⓘ industry collaborators ⓘ scientific researchers ⓘ |
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: Perlmutter Description of subject: Perlmutter is a powerful next-generation supercomputer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center designed to support large-scale scientific research and simulations.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.