ERC Starting Grant
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The ERC Starting Grant is a prestigious European Research Council funding scheme that supports early-career researchers in establishing their own independent research teams and programs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ERC Starting Grant canonical | 6 |
| ERC Starting Grant (for earlier career stage) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T380297 — 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 Starting Grant Context triple: [European Research Council, grantProgram, ERC Starting Grant]
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A.
European Research Council
The European Research Council is a premier European funding body that supports frontier research by awarding competitive grants to outstanding researchers across all scientific disciplines.
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B.
Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a prestigious National Science Foundation award that supports early-career faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, education, and integration of both.
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C.
Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation
The Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation are the European Union’s flagship multi-annual funding initiatives that support and coordinate scientific research and technological development across member states.
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D.
Royal Society Newton International Fellowships
The Royal Society Newton International Fellowships are prestigious research grants that support early-career international scientists to conduct postdoctoral research in the United Kingdom.
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E.
Royal Society University Research Fellowships
Royal Society University Research Fellowships are prestigious UK awards that provide long-term support for outstanding early-career scientists to establish independent research careers at universities.
- 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 Starting Grant Target entity description: The ERC Starting Grant is a prestigious European Research Council funding scheme that supports early-career researchers in establishing their own independent research teams and programs.
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A.
European Research Council
The European Research Council is a premier European funding body that supports frontier research by awarding competitive grants to outstanding researchers across all scientific disciplines.
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B.
Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a prestigious National Science Foundation award that supports early-career faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, education, and integration of both.
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C.
Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation
The Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation are the European Union’s flagship multi-annual funding initiatives that support and coordinate scientific research and technological development across member states.
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D.
Royal Society Newton International Fellowships
The Royal Society Newton International Fellowships are prestigious research grants that support early-career international scientists to conduct postdoctoral research in the United Kingdom.
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E.
Royal Society University Research Fellowships
Royal Society University Research Fellowships are prestigious UK awards that provide long-term support for outstanding early-career scientists to establish independent research careers at universities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
European Union research funding instrument
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funding scheme ⓘ research grant ⓘ |
| administeredBy | European Research Council ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
enable early-career researchers to establish their own research program
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support excellent principal investigators at the career stage of starting their own independent research team ⓘ |
| applicationFrequency | annual calls ⓘ |
| applicationMode | bottom-up ⓘ |
| basedOn | scientific excellence ⓘ |
| beneficiaryRole | principal investigator ⓘ |
| discipline |
life sciences
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physical sciences and engineering ⓘ social sciences and humanities ⓘ |
| eligibilityCriterion |
hosted by a research institution in an EU Member State or associated country
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principal investigator within a certain number of years after PhD ⓘ |
| evaluationCriterion |
excellence of the research project
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excellence of the researcher ⓘ |
| evaluationMethod | international peer review ⓘ |
| fundingBody | European Union ⓘ |
| fundingType | individual grant to a principal investigator ⓘ |
| funds | frontier research ⓘ |
| geographicalScope |
European Union Member States
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linked to:
Member States of the European Union
Horizon Europe associated countries ⓘ |
| hostInstitutionType |
public or private research-performing institutions
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research organisations ⓘ universities ⓘ |
| impact |
facilitates independence of young researchers
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supports creation of new research teams in Europe ⓘ |
| languageOfApplication | English ⓘ |
| legalFramework | EU framework programme for research and innovation ⓘ |
| offers | long-term funding for early-career researchers ⓘ |
| partOf |
European Research Council funding schemes
ⓘ
Horizon Europe ⓘ |
| predecessorProgram | Horizon 2020 ⓘ |
| projectType | individual frontier research project ⓘ |
| reputation | prestigious European research grant ⓘ |
| requires |
commitment of the principal investigator to the project
ⓘ
support letter from the host institution ⓘ |
| selectionLevel | highly competitive ⓘ |
| selectionPrinciple | scientific excellence as sole criterion ⓘ |
| supports | early-career researchers ⓘ |
| supportsActivity |
development of a research group
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establishment of an independent research team ⓘ pioneering high-risk, high-gain research ⓘ |
| supportsMobility | attraction of talented researchers to Europe ⓘ |
| targetGroup | researchers starting their own independent career ⓘ |
| topicRestrictions | none ⓘ |
| website | https://erc.europa.eu ⓘ |
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: ERC Starting Grant Description of subject: The ERC Starting Grant is a prestigious European Research Council funding scheme that supports early-career researchers in establishing their own independent research teams and programs.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: ERC Starting Grant