Engineering Index
E100287
Engineering Index was an early comprehensive bibliographic database that indexed worldwide engineering and technical literature, later evolving into what is now known as Ei Compendex.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Engineering Index canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T847907 — 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: Engineering Index Context triple: [Ei Compendex, predecessor, Engineering Index]
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A.
Engineers
Engineers is the nickname for the athletic teams representing the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in collegiate sports.
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B.
Faculty of Engineering
The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sheffield is a major academic division encompassing multiple engineering departments that provide research-led education and innovation across a wide range of engineering disciplines.
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C.
Faculty of Engineering
The Faculty of Engineering at Pontifical Xavierian University is an academic division that offers undergraduate and graduate programs in various engineering disciplines, combining technical education with research and innovation.
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D.
Faculty of Engineering
The Faculty of Engineering is a leading academic unit of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, recognized for its engineering education, research, and technological innovation.
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E.
Faculty of Engineering
The Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University is a leading Egyptian engineering school known for its comprehensive undergraduate and postgraduate programs, research output, and role in training engineers across diverse technical fields.
- 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: Engineering Index Target entity description: Engineering Index was an early comprehensive bibliographic database that indexed worldwide engineering and technical literature, later evolving into what is now known as Ei Compendex.
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A.
Engineers
Engineers is the nickname for the athletic teams representing the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in collegiate sports.
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B.
Faculty of Engineering
The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sheffield is a major academic division encompassing multiple engineering departments that provide research-led education and innovation across a wide range of engineering disciplines.
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C.
Faculty of Engineering
The Faculty of Engineering at Pontifical Xavierian University is an academic division that offers undergraduate and graduate programs in various engineering disciplines, combining technical education with research and innovation.
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D.
Faculty of Engineering
The Faculty of Engineering is a leading academic unit of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, recognized for its engineering education, research, and technological innovation.
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E.
Faculty of Engineering
The Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University is a leading Egyptian engineering school known for its comprehensive undergraduate and postgraduate programs, research output, and role in training engineers across diverse technical fields.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bibliographic database
ⓘ
engineering literature index ⓘ technical literature index ⓘ |
| coverage |
worldwide engineering literature
ⓘ
worldwide technical literature ⓘ |
| describedAs |
early comprehensive bibliographic database
ⓘ
index of worldwide engineering and technical literature ⓘ |
| evolvedInto |
Ei Compendex
ⓘ
surface form:
Compendex
Ei Compendex ⓘ |
| field |
engineering
ⓘ
technology ⓘ |
| focus |
conference proceedings
ⓘ
engineering research publications ⓘ journal articles ⓘ technical reports ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
bibliographic index
ⓘ
print index ⓘ |
| hasSuccessor |
Ei Compendex
ⓘ
surface form:
Compendex
Ei Compendex ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Engineering Information products ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| publisher | Engineering Information Inc. ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
applied sciences
ⓘ
engineering disciplines ⓘ technical disciplines ⓘ |
| successorDatabase |
Ei Compendex
ⓘ
surface form:
Compendex
Ei Compendex ⓘ |
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: Engineering Index Description of subject: Engineering Index was an early comprehensive bibliographic database that indexed worldwide engineering and technical literature, later evolving into what is now known as Ei Compendex.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.