STAR Collaboration
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The STAR Collaboration is an international team of scientists that conducts high-energy nuclear physics research using the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to study the properties of quark-gluon plasma and the strong interaction.
All labels observed (1)
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|---|---|
| STAR Collaboration canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6010590 — 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: STAR Collaboration Context triple: [STAR experiment, operatedBy, STAR Collaboration]
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A.
CDF Collaboration
The CDF Collaboration is an international team of physicists and engineers responsible for conducting experiments and analyses using the Collider Detector at Fermilab to study high-energy particle collisions.
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B.
CMS Collaboration
The CMS Collaboration is a large international team of scientists and engineers responsible for designing, operating, and analyzing data from the CMS detector at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.
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C.
ALEPH Collaboration
The ALEPH Collaboration was an international team of physicists and engineers responsible for designing, operating, and analyzing data from the ALEPH detector at the Large Electron–Positron Collider (LEP) at CERN.
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D.
Compact Muon Solenoid
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a large general-purpose particle detector at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider designed to investigate a wide range of high-energy physics phenomena, including the Higgs boson and potential new particles.
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E.
Super-Kamiokande Collaboration
The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration is an international team of physicists operating the Super-Kamiokande neutrino observatory in Japan, renowned for its groundbreaking discoveries in neutrino oscillations and particle physics.
- 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: STAR Collaboration Target entity description: The STAR Collaboration is an international team of scientists that conducts high-energy nuclear physics research using the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to study the properties of quark-gluon plasma and the strong interaction.
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A.
CDF Collaboration
The CDF Collaboration is an international team of physicists and engineers responsible for conducting experiments and analyses using the Collider Detector at Fermilab to study high-energy particle collisions.
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B.
CMS Collaboration
The CMS Collaboration is a large international team of scientists and engineers responsible for designing, operating, and analyzing data from the CMS detector at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.
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C.
ALEPH Collaboration
The ALEPH Collaboration was an international team of physicists and engineers responsible for designing, operating, and analyzing data from the ALEPH detector at the Large Electron–Positron Collider (LEP) at CERN.
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D.
Compact Muon Solenoid
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a large general-purpose particle detector at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider designed to investigate a wide range of high-energy physics phenomena, including the Higgs boson and potential new particles.
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E.
Super-Kamiokande Collaboration
The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration is an international team of physicists operating the Super-Kamiokande neutrino observatory in Japan, renowned for its groundbreaking discoveries in neutrino oscillations and particle physics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | scientific collaboration ⓘ |
| abbreviation | STAR ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
PHENIX Collaboration
ⓘ
linked to:
PHENIX experiment
sPHENIX Collaboration ⓘ
linked to:
sPHENIX
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| collaborationType | international collaboration ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| dataPolicy | collaboration-based data analysis ⓘ |
| employs |
electromagnetic calorimeters
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silicon detectors ⓘ time projection chamber ⓘ time-of-flight detectors ⓘ |
| field |
heavy-ion physics
ⓘ
high-energy nuclear physics ⓘ particle physics ⓘ |
| foundedFor | experiments at RHIC ⓘ |
| goal |
map the QCD phase diagram
ⓘ
search for signatures of quark-gluon plasma formation ⓘ study properties of strongly interacting matter at high energy density ⓘ understand confinement and deconfinement in QCD ⓘ |
| hasMembers |
engineers
ⓘ
graduate students ⓘ physicists ⓘ postdoctoral researchers ⓘ |
| hasSpokesperson | rotating elected leadership ⓘ |
| hostInstitution | Brookhaven National Laboratory ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedAt | Brookhaven National Laboratory ⓘ |
| operatesAt |
RHIC beam energy scan program
ⓘ
linked to:
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
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| parentFacility |
Brookhaven RHIC program
ⓘ
linked to:
Brookhaven RHIC complex
|
| produces | peer-reviewed scientific publications ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
Quantum Chromodynamics
ⓘ
linked to:
quantum chromodynamics
quark-gluon plasma ⓘ strong interaction ⓘ |
| studies |
QCD phase diagram
ⓘ
chiral magnetic effect ⓘ collective flow in heavy-ion collisions ⓘ fluctuations and correlations in heavy-ion collisions ⓘ hadronization mechanisms ⓘ jet quenching ⓘ proton-proton collisions ⓘ relativistic heavy-ion collisions ⓘ spin phenomena in polarized proton collisions ⓘ spin structure of the proton ⓘ strangeness enhancement ⓘ |
| usesDetector | STAR detector ⓘ |
| usesFacility | Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ⓘ |
| website | https://www.star.bnl.gov/ ⓘ |
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: STAR Collaboration Description of subject: The STAR Collaboration is an international team of scientists that conducts high-energy nuclear physics research using the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to study the properties of quark-gluon plasma and the strong interaction.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
STAR experiment at RHIC