silicon retina
E645810
A silicon retina is a neuromorphic electronic device that mimics the information-processing functions of the biological retina using analog VLSI circuits.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| silicon retina canonical | 2 |
| silicon retina chip | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7160235 — 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: silicon retina Context triple: [Carver A. Mead, notableWork, silicon retina]
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A.
Neuralink
Neuralink is a neurotechnology company developing implantable brain–computer interfaces aimed at enabling direct communication between the human brain and computers.
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B.
SyNAPSE neuromorphic computing program
The SyNAPSE neuromorphic computing program is a DARPA initiative to develop brain-inspired electronic systems that emulate neural architectures for highly efficient, scalable cognitive computing.
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C.
Heptares Therapeutics
Heptares Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the discovery and development of medicines targeting G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) using its proprietary structure-based drug design technologies.
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D.
Curzon Artificial Eye
Curzon Artificial Eye is a British film distribution company known for releasing independent, arthouse, and world cinema titles in the UK.
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E.
Retina
Retina is Apple’s high-resolution display technology designed to make individual pixels indistinguishable at normal viewing distances for sharper, more detailed images and text.
- 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: silicon retina Target entity description: A silicon retina is a neuromorphic electronic device that mimics the information-processing functions of the biological retina using analog VLSI circuits.
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A.
Neuralink
Neuralink is a neurotechnology company developing implantable brain–computer interfaces aimed at enabling direct communication between the human brain and computers.
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B.
SyNAPSE neuromorphic computing program
The SyNAPSE neuromorphic computing program is a DARPA initiative to develop brain-inspired electronic systems that emulate neural architectures for highly efficient, scalable cognitive computing.
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C.
Heptares Therapeutics
Heptares Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the discovery and development of medicines targeting G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) using its proprietary structure-based drug design technologies.
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D.
Curzon Artificial Eye
Curzon Artificial Eye is a British film distribution company known for releasing independent, arthouse, and world cinema titles in the UK.
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E.
Retina
Retina is Apple’s high-resolution display technology designed to make individual pixels indistinguishable at normal viewing distances for sharper, more detailed images and text.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bio-inspired vision system
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electronic device ⓘ neuromorphic device ⓘ retina-inspired sensor ⓘ |
| basedOn |
biological vision
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retinal neurophysiology ⓘ |
| designedFor |
computational neuroscience experiments
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embedded vision systems ⓘ low-power vision processing ⓘ machine vision research ⓘ real-time image processing ⓘ robotic vision ⓘ |
| fabricatedWith | CMOS technology ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
VLSI circuit design
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bio-inspired computing ⓘ computational neuroscience ⓘ machine vision ⓘ neuromorphic engineering ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
analog signal processing circuitry
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bipolar cell circuit ⓘ event-based output circuitry ⓘ ganglion cell circuit ⓘ on-chip photodetector ⓘ photoreceptor circuit ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
continuous-time operation
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event-driven output ⓘ high dynamic range ⓘ low latency ⓘ low power consumption ⓘ parallel processing ⓘ |
| implements |
address-event representation
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asynchronous event-based vision ⓘ contrast adaptation ⓘ dynamic range compression ⓘ edge detection ⓘ gain control ⓘ spatial filtering ⓘ temporal filtering ⓘ |
| mimics |
biological retina
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retinal adaptation mechanisms ⓘ retinal ganglion cell response ⓘ retinal information processing ⓘ retinal photoreceptor response ⓘ retinal spatiotemporal filtering ⓘ |
| outputType |
address-event coded spikes
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analog signals ⓘ spike-based events ⓘ |
| usesTechnology |
analog VLSI
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neuromorphic engineering ⓘ |
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: silicon retina Description of subject: A silicon retina is a neuromorphic electronic device that mimics the information-processing functions of the biological retina using analog VLSI circuits.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: silicon retina