LSC
E730518
LSC is the international scientific collaboration responsible for operating the LIGO detectors and analyzing their data to study gravitational waves.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| LSC canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8396749 — 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: LSC Context triple: [LIGO Scientific Collaboration, abbreviation, LSC]
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A.
LSC
LSC is the IATA airport code for La Florida Airport, which serves the city of La Serena in Chile.
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B.
Law Center
The Law Center is the University of Houston’s professional school for legal education, offering J.D. and graduate law programs and serving as a hub for legal scholarship and practice.
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C.
LSCC
LSCC is the stock ticker symbol for Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, a company specializing in low-power programmable logic devices.
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D.
Legal Services Board
The Legal Services Board is the independent oversight regulator for legal services in England and Wales, responsible for supervising frontline regulators and promoting the public interest in the legal sector.
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E.
Legal Services Corporation Act
The Legal Services Corporation Act is a U.S. federal law that created a nonprofit corporation to fund and support civil legal assistance for low-income Americans.
- 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: LSC Target entity description: LSC is the international scientific collaboration responsible for operating the LIGO detectors and analyzing their data to study gravitational waves.
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A.
LSC
LSC is the IATA airport code for La Florida Airport, which serves the city of La Serena in Chile.
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B.
Law Center
The Law Center is the University of Houston’s professional school for legal education, offering J.D. and graduate law programs and serving as a hub for legal scholarship and practice.
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C.
LSCC
LSCC is the stock ticker symbol for Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, a company specializing in low-power programmable logic devices.
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D.
Legal Services Board
The Legal Services Board is the independent oversight regulator for legal services in England and Wales, responsible for supervising frontline regulators and promoting the public interest in the legal sector.
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E.
Legal Services Corporation Act
The Legal Services Corporation Act is a U.S. federal law that created a nonprofit corporation to fund and support civil legal assistance for low-income Americans.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | scientific collaboration ⓘ |
| abbreviation | LSC ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
probe compact objects and cosmology with gravitational waves
ⓘ
test general relativity with gravitational waves ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
LIGO Laboratory
ⓘ
National Science Foundation ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
KAGRA Collaboration
ⓘ
linked to:
KAGRA gravitational-wave detector
Virgo Collaboration ⓘ |
| coordinates | observing runs of LIGO detectors ⓘ |
| dataSharedWith | partner observatories ⓘ |
| dataUsedFor | multi-messenger astronomy ⓘ |
| field |
astrophysics
ⓘ
gravitational-wave astronomy ⓘ physics ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
characterization of gravitational-wave sources
ⓘ
detection of gravitational waves ⓘ |
| fullName | LIGO Scientific Collaboration ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
astrophysical interpretation of gravitational-wave signals
ⓘ
data analysis ⓘ detector commissioning ⓘ instrumentation development ⓘ |
| hasGovernance | elected collaboration leadership ⓘ |
| hasMemberType |
engineers
ⓘ
scientists ⓘ students ⓘ technicians ⓘ |
| hasOutput |
gravitational-wave event catalogs
ⓘ
public data releases ⓘ software tools for gravitational-wave data analysis ⓘ |
| hasScope | international ⓘ |
| operates | LIGO detectors ⓘ |
| publishesIn | peer-reviewed scientific journals ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
analysis of LIGO data
ⓘ
operation of LIGO interferometers ⓘ |
| studies |
binary black hole mergers
ⓘ
binary neutron star mergers ⓘ continuous gravitational-wave sources ⓘ gravitational waves ⓘ neutron star–black hole mergers ⓘ stochastic gravitational-wave background ⓘ |
| subjectOf | gravitational-wave detection papers ⓘ |
| usesInstrument |
LIGO Hanford Observatory
ⓘ
LIGO Livingston Observatory ⓘ |
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: LSC Description of subject: LSC is the international scientific collaboration responsible for operating the LIGO detectors and analyzing their data to study gravitational waves.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
LSC