Cepheid
E261817
Cepheid is a molecular diagnostics company known for its rapid, automated PCR-based testing systems used in clinical and research settings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cepheid canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2370806 — 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: Cepheid Context triple: [Danaher Corporation, owns, Cepheid]
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Baade’s star
Baade’s star is a luminous, variable star in the Andromeda Galaxy notable for its role in Walter Baade’s work refining the cosmic distance scale.
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Betelgeuse
Betelgeuse is a massive red supergiant star in the constellation Orion, notable for its brightness and status as a likely future supernova.
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30 Doradus
30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, is a vast and intensely active star-forming region and emission nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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Einasto
Einasto is an Estonian surname most notably associated with astrophysicist Jaan Einasto, a pioneer in the study of dark matter and large-scale structure of the universe.
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Betelgeuse Five
Betelgeuse Five is the fictional home planet of Zaphod Beeblebrox in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series.
- 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: Cepheid Target entity description: Cepheid is a molecular diagnostics company known for its rapid, automated PCR-based testing systems used in clinical and research settings.
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A.
Baade’s star
Baade’s star is a luminous, variable star in the Andromeda Galaxy notable for its role in Walter Baade’s work refining the cosmic distance scale.
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B.
Betelgeuse
Betelgeuse is a massive red supergiant star in the constellation Orion, notable for its brightness and status as a likely future supernova.
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C.
30 Doradus
30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, is a vast and intensely active star-forming region and emission nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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D.
Einasto
Einasto is an Estonian surname most notably associated with astrophysicist Jaan Einasto, a pioneer in the study of dark matter and large-scale structure of the universe.
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E.
Betelgeuse Five
Betelgeuse Five is the fictional home planet of Zaphod Beeblebrox in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biotechnology company
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medical device manufacturer ⓘ molecular diagnostics company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Danaher Corporation ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2016 ⓘ |
| applicationArea |
clinical diagnostics
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hospital laboratories ⓘ infectious disease testing ⓘ point-of-care testing ⓘ public health laboratories ⓘ research laboratories ⓘ |
| coreTechnology |
automated sample preparation
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polymerase chain reaction ⓘ real-time PCR ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| developsTestFor |
Clostridioides difficile
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Group B Streptococcus ⓘ HIV ⓘ SARS-CoV-2 ⓘ hepatitis C virus ⓘ influenza ⓘ methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ⓘ rifampin-resistant tuberculosis ⓘ sexually transmitted infections ⓘ tuberculosis ⓘ |
| feature |
integrated sample-to-answer workflow
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random-access testing ⓘ rapid turnaround time ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
H. Ward Wolff
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Thomas Gutshall ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Sunnyvale, California, United States ⓘ |
| inception | 1996 ⓘ |
| industry |
in vitro diagnostics
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medical devices ⓘ molecular diagnostics ⓘ |
| knownFor |
GeneXpert system
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automated molecular testing systems ⓘ rapid PCR-based diagnostic tests ⓘ |
| market | global ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Danaher Corporation ⓘ |
| product |
GeneXpert
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linked to:
GeneXpert system
GeneXpert Infinity ⓘ
linked to:
GeneXpert system
Xpert test cartridges ⓘ |
| serves |
hospitals
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public health agencies ⓘ reference laboratories ⓘ research institutions ⓘ |
| status | formerly publicly traded ⓘ |
| stockExchange |
Nasdaq
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linked to:
NASDAQ
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| subsidiaryOf | Danaher Corporation ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | CPHD ⓘ |
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: Cepheid Description of subject: Cepheid is a molecular diagnostics company known for its rapid, automated PCR-based testing systems used in clinical and research settings.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.