Institute for Materials Research
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The Institute for Materials Research is a leading Japanese research center at Tohoku University specializing in advanced materials science and engineering.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Institute for Materials Research canonical | 1 |
| 多元物質科学研究所 | 1 |
| 東北大学金属材料研究所 | 1 |
| 金属材料研究所 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T424016 — 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: Institute for Materials Research Context triple: [Tohoku University, hasResearchInstitute, Institute for Materials Research]
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A.
Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo
The Institute for Solid State Physics at the University of Tokyo is a leading Japanese research institute specializing in condensed matter physics and related materials science.
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B.
Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo
The Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo is a leading Japanese research institute dedicated to advanced science and engineering, spanning fields from information technology and robotics to materials and environmental studies.
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C.
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo
The Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo is a leading interdisciplinary institute focused on pioneering research and innovation across cutting-edge fields in science and technology.
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D.
Department of Materials Science and Engineering (Carnegie Mellon University)
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University is an academic unit specializing in the study, research, and education of materials and their applications in engineering and technology.
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E.
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley is a leading academic department focused on the study, design, and engineering of materials for advanced technologies and scientific innovation.
- 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: Institute for Materials Research Target entity description: The Institute for Materials Research is a leading Japanese research center at Tohoku University specializing in advanced materials science and engineering.
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A.
Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo
The Institute for Solid State Physics at the University of Tokyo is a leading Japanese research institute specializing in condensed matter physics and related materials science.
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B.
Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo
The Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo is a leading Japanese research institute dedicated to advanced science and engineering, spanning fields from information technology and robotics to materials and environmental studies.
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C.
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo
The Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo is a leading interdisciplinary institute focused on pioneering research and innovation across cutting-edge fields in science and technology.
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Department of Materials Science and Engineering (Carnegie Mellon University)
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University is an academic unit specializing in the study, research, and education of materials and their applications in engineering and technology.
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Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley is a leading academic department focused on the study, design, and engineering of materials for advanced technologies and scientific innovation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
materials science research institute
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research institute ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
applied physics
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materials science ⓘ |
| affiliation | Tohoku University ⓘ |
| city | Sendai ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Japanese universities
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industrial partners ⓘ international research institutions ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| field |
engineering
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science and technology ⓘ |
| focusArea |
alloy design
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computational materials science ⓘ condensed matter physics ⓘ corrosion science ⓘ crystal growth ⓘ electronic materials ⓘ energy materials ⓘ functional materials ⓘ interdisciplinary materials research ⓘ magnetic materials ⓘ materials characterization ⓘ materials engineering ⓘ materials science ⓘ metallurgy ⓘ nanomaterials ⓘ oxide electronics ⓘ quantum materials ⓘ spintronics ⓘ structural materials ⓘ superconducting materials ⓘ surface science ⓘ thin films ⓘ |
| hasType | university research center ⓘ |
| languageOfWork |
English
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Japanese ⓘ |
| location |
Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
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linked to:
Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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| notableFor |
advanced materials research in Japan
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collaboration with industry on materials technologies ⓘ |
| offers | research opportunities for graduate students ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Tohoku University ⓘ |
| partOf | Japanese national research infrastructure in materials science ⓘ |
| prefecture | Miyagi Prefecture ⓘ |
| researchOutput |
patents in materials and devices
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peer-reviewed journal articles in materials science ⓘ |
| sector |
academic research
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higher education ⓘ |
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: Institute for Materials Research Description of subject: The Institute for Materials Research is a leading Japanese research center at Tohoku University specializing in advanced materials science and engineering.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.