ERC
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The ERC is a major European funding body that supports pioneering, investigator-driven research across all scientific disciplines.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ERC canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T380276 — 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: ERC Context triple: [European Research Council, abbreviation, ERC]
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A.
ETH
ETH is a leading Swiss public research university in Zurich renowned for its excellence in science, engineering, and technology.
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B.
CED
CED is an academic unit focused on the study and practice of environmental design, including fields such as architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning.
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C.
ECR
ECR is a European political party and parliamentary group that brings together conservative and Eurosceptic parties advocating for EU reform and national sovereignty.
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D.
MiriadaX
MiriadaX is an online learning platform that provides Spanish-language massive open online courses (MOOCs) from universities and educational institutions across the Ibero-American region.
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E.
ECRML
ECRML is a Council of Europe treaty aimed at protecting and promoting Europe’s regional and minority languages through legal and policy measures.
- 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: ERC Target entity description: The ERC is a major European funding body that supports pioneering, investigator-driven research across all scientific disciplines.
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A.
ETH
ETH is a leading Swiss public research university in Zurich renowned for its excellence in science, engineering, and technology.
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B.
CED
CED is an academic unit focused on the study and practice of environmental design, including fields such as architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning.
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C.
ECR
ECR is a European political party and parliamentary group that brings together conservative and Eurosceptic parties advocating for EU reform and national sovereignty.
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D.
MiriadaX
MiriadaX is an online learning platform that provides Spanish-language massive open online courses (MOOCs) from universities and educational institutions across the Ibero-American region.
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E.
ECRML
ECRML is a Council of Europe treaty aimed at protecting and promoting Europe’s regional and minority languages through legal and policy measures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
European Union body
ⓘ
research funding organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation | ERC ⓘ |
| administeredBy | European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | ERC Executive Agency ⓘ |
| country | European Union ⓘ |
| disciplineCoverage |
all scientific disciplines
ⓘ
life sciences ⓘ physical sciences and engineering ⓘ social sciences and humanities ⓘ |
| eligibleRegion | European Research Area ⓘ |
| employer | Executive Agency for the European Research Council ⓘ |
| evaluationCriterion | scientific excellence ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
basic research
ⓘ
frontier research ⓘ scientific research funding ⓘ |
| focus | pioneering investigator-driven research ⓘ |
| foundedBy | European Union ⓘ |
| fundingModel | bottom-up ⓘ |
| fundingType | competitive research grants ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Scientific Council of the European Research Council
ⓘ
linked to:
ERC Scientific Council
|
| grantDuration | up to 5 years for main grants ⓘ |
| grantPortability | grants are portable within the European Research Area ⓘ |
| hasPart |
ERC Advanced Grant
ⓘ
ERC Consolidator Grant ⓘ ERC Proof of Concept Grant ⓘ ERC Starting Grant ⓘ ERC Synergy Grant ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Belgium
ⓘ
Brussels ⓘ
linked to:
Brussels, Belgium
|
| inception | 2007 ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | European Union ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central European Time ⓘ |
| mission | to support investigator-driven frontier research across all fields ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | English ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | European Commission ⓘ |
| partOf |
Horizon 2020
ⓘ
Horizon Europe ⓘ Seventh Framework Programme ⓘ |
| selectionMethod | peer review ⓘ |
| slogan | Supporting top researchers from anywhere in the world ⓘ |
| sponsor | European Union budget ⓘ |
| supports |
individual principal investigators
ⓘ
research teams ⓘ |
| targetGroup |
early-career researchers
ⓘ
established researchers ⓘ leading senior researchers ⓘ |
| website | https://erc.europa.eu ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: ERC Description of subject: The ERC is a major European funding body that supports pioneering, investigator-driven research across all scientific disciplines.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.