IPAC
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IPAC is a science and data center at Caltech that supports NASA’s astrophysics missions by archiving, processing, and distributing astronomical data, particularly in the infrared.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| IPAC canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2962637 — 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: IPAC Context triple: [NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive, operatedBy, IPAC]
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A.
IPC
IPC is the IATA airport code for Mataveri International Airport, the main air gateway to Easter Island in Chile.
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B.
IPSA
IPSA is the main benchmark stock market index of Chile, tracking the performance of the most traded companies listed on the Santiago Stock Exchange.
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C.
IPHC
IPHC is the commonly used abbreviation for Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court, a specialized court that handles intellectual property disputes.
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D.
MCIPAC
MCIPAC is the U.S. Marine Corps command responsible for managing and supporting Marine Corps installations and facilities across the Pacific region.
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E.
IPEC
IPEC is the U.S. government’s chief coordinator for developing and overseeing national policies and strategies to protect and enforce intellectual property rights.
- 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: IPAC Target entity description: IPAC is a science and data center at Caltech that supports NASA’s astrophysics missions by archiving, processing, and distributing astronomical data, particularly in the infrared.
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A.
IPC
IPC is the IATA airport code for Mataveri International Airport, the main air gateway to Easter Island in Chile.
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B.
IPSA
IPSA is the main benchmark stock market index of Chile, tracking the performance of the most traded companies listed on the Santiago Stock Exchange.
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C.
IPHC
IPHC is the commonly used abbreviation for Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court, a specialized court that handles intellectual property disputes.
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D.
MCIPAC
MCIPAC is the U.S. Marine Corps command responsible for managing and supporting Marine Corps installations and facilities across the Pacific region.
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E.
IPEC
IPEC is the U.S. government’s chief coordinator for developing and overseeing national policies and strategies to protect and enforce intellectual property rights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Caltech research organization
ⓘ
astronomy research center ⓘ data archive ⓘ science and data center ⓘ |
| affiliation | California Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fieldOfWork |
astronomical data archiving
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astronomical data distribution ⓘ astronomical data processing ⓘ astronomy ⓘ astrophysics ⓘ infrared astronomy ⓘ |
| focus | infrared data ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
California Institute of Technology
ⓘ
NASA ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Infrared Science Archive
ⓘ
linked to:
NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive
NASA Extragalactic Database ⓘ NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database ⓘ
linked to:
NASA Extragalactic Database
NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Pasadena, California ⓘ
linked to:
Pasadena
|
| operatedBy | California Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| operates |
Infrared Science Archive
ⓘ
linked to:
NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive
NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database ⓘ
linked to:
NASA Extragalactic Database
NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Caltech Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy ⓘ |
| providesService |
science data archiving
ⓘ
science data distribution ⓘ science data processing ⓘ user support for NASA missions ⓘ |
| sector | academic ⓘ |
| sponsor | NASA Astrophysics Division ⓘ |
| supportedMission |
Infrared Astronomical Satellite
ⓘ
NEOWISE ⓘ
linked to:
NEOWISE mission
Planck (NASA participation) ⓘ
linked to:
Planck spacecraft
Spitzer Space Telescope ⓘ Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer ⓘ Zwicky Transient Facility data services ⓘ |
| supportsAgency | NASA ⓘ |
| supportsMissionType | NASA astrophysics missions ⓘ |
| website | https://www.ipac.caltech.edu/ ⓘ |
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: IPAC Description of subject: IPAC is a science and data center at Caltech that supports NASA’s astrophysics missions by archiving, processing, and distributing astronomical data, particularly in the infrared.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.