UNBIS Thesaurus

E10201
United Nations information system component controlled vocabulary thesaurus

The UNBIS Thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary used by the United Nations for indexing and retrieving documents and information across its bibliographic and information systems.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
UNBIS Thesaurus canonical 3
United Nations Bibliographic Information System 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf United Nations information system component ⓘ
controlled vocabulary ⓘ
thesaurus ⓘ
appliedIn UNBISnet ⓘ
UN Digital Library ⓘ
surface form: United Nations Digital Library

United Nations documentation ⓘ
surface form: United Nations Official Document System
contains descriptors ⓘ
non-descriptors ⓘ
domain United Nations activities ⓘ
economic and social development ⓘ
human rights ⓘ
international law ⓘ
international relations ⓘ
peace and security ⓘ
governedBy UNBIS indexing rules ⓘ
hasFormat online ⓘ
print ⓘ
hasLanguage Arabic ⓘ
Chinese ⓘ
English ⓘ
French ⓘ
Russian ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ
hasStructure alphabetical ⓘ
classified ⓘ
hierarchical ⓘ
hasUser United Nations indexers ⓘ
United Nations librarians ⓘ
researchers of United Nations documentation ⓘ
maintainedBy Dag Hammarskjöld Library ⓘ
United Nations Secretariat ⓘ
multilingual true ⓘ
publisher United Nations ⓘ
scope United Nations documentation ⓘ
United Nations programmes and activities ⓘ
subjectArea knowledge organization ⓘ
subject indexing ⓘ
supportsRelation broader term ⓘ
narrower term ⓘ
related term ⓘ
scope note ⓘ
use for ⓘ
updated periodically ⓘ
usedBy United Nations ⓘ
usedFor indexing United Nations documents ⓘ
information retrieval in United Nations systems ⓘ
usedIn United Nations bibliographic databases ⓘ
United Nations information systems ⓘ

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: UNBIS Thesaurus
Description of subject: The UNBIS Thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary used by the United Nations for indexing and retrieving documents and information across its bibliographic and information systems.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Dag Hammarskjöld Library → hasPart → UNBIS Thesaurus ⓘ
UN Digital Library → relatedTo → UNBIS Thesaurus ⓘ
this entity surface form: United Nations Bibliographic Information System
UNBISnet → usesControlledVocabulary → UNBIS Thesaurus ⓘ
United Nations bibliographic databases → uses → UNBIS Thesaurus ⓘ