Calico LLC
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Calico LLC is a research and development company focused on understanding aging and developing technologies to extend human healthspan, backed by Alphabet Inc.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Calico LLC canonical | 3 |
| Calico Labs | 2 |
| Calico Life Sciences | 1 |
| Calico Life Sciences LLC | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T271953 — 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: Calico LLC Context triple: [Alphabet Inc., parentCompanyOf, Calico LLC]
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A.
PlumpJack Group
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B.
Cadabra, Inc.
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C.
Obvious Corporation
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D.
Onex
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E.
Nemo Studios
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- 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: Calico LLC Target entity description: Calico LLC is a research and development company focused on understanding aging and developing technologies to extend human healthspan, backed by Alphabet Inc.
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A.
PlumpJack Group
PlumpJack Group is a hospitality and lifestyle company known for its wineries, hotels, restaurants, and retail businesses, originally launched in San Francisco.
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B.
Cadabra, Inc.
Cadabra, Inc. was the original name of the company that later became Amazon, the multinational e-commerce and technology giant founded by Jeff Bezos.
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C.
Obvious Corporation
Obvious Corporation was the early holding company and development vehicle created by Twitter’s founders that incubated and spun out Twitter as an independent company.
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D.
Onex
Onex is a suburban municipality in western Switzerland located just outside the city of Geneva.
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E.
Nemo Studios
Nemo Studios was Vangelis’s personal London recording studio, renowned as the creative hub where he produced many of his influential electronic and film music works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Alphabet Inc. subsidiary
ⓘ
biotechnology company ⓘ research and development company ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
develop interventions to extend healthy human lifespan
ⓘ
understand the biology that controls lifespan ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Calico
ⓘ
California Life Company ⓘ |
| backedBy | Alphabet Inc. ⓘ |
| CEO | Arthur D. Levinson ⓘ |
| chairman | Arthur D. Levinson ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith | AbbVie ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| enteredStrategicR&DAllianceWith | AbbVie ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
age-related diseases
ⓘ
aging research ⓘ cancer ⓘ extending human healthspan ⓘ longevity research ⓘ metabolic diseases ⓘ neurodegenerative diseases ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Bill Maris
ⓘ
Larry Page ⓘ |
| foundedInYear | 2013 ⓘ |
| hasLongTermR&DInvestmentAgreementWith | AbbVie ⓘ |
| hasResearchCollaboration | AbbVie ⓘ |
| hasType | privately held company ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
South San Francisco, California
ⓘ
linked to:
South San Francisco
|
| industry |
biotechnology
ⓘ
life sciences ⓘ pharmaceuticals ⓘ |
| keyPerson |
Arthur D. Levinson
ⓘ
Cynthia Kenyon ⓘ David Botstein ⓘ Hal V. Barron ⓘ |
| name | Calico LLC ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Alphabet Inc. ⓘ |
| partOf | Alphabet Inc. ⓘ |
| regionServed | global ⓘ |
| researchArea |
cellular senescence
ⓘ
computational biology ⓘ drug discovery ⓘ genomics ⓘ molecular biology of aging ⓘ stem cell biology ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| subsidiaryOf | Alphabet Inc. ⓘ |
| usesApproach |
basic biological research
ⓘ
translational research ⓘ |
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: Calico LLC Description of subject: Calico LLC is a research and development company focused on understanding aging and developing technologies to extend human healthspan, backed by Alphabet Inc.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Calico LLC
linked to: Calico LLC
linked to: Calico LLC