Index Medicus (historical)
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Index Medicus (historical) was a comprehensive, long-running print index of medical journal articles that served as a primary reference tool for biomedical literature before the advent of modern electronic databases.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Index Medicus (historical) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14254448 — 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: Index Medicus (historical) Context triple: [NLM bibliographic services, hasComponent, Index Medicus (historical)]
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A.
Bibliotheca Medicinae Practicae
Bibliotheca Medicinae Practicae is a comprehensive 18th-century medical bibliography and reference work compiled by Swiss physician and polymath Albrecht von Haller, cataloging and evaluating contemporary medical literature.
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B.
Minerva Medica
Minerva Medica is a healing aspect of the Roman goddess Minerva, venerated particularly in connection with medicinal and therapeutic functions.
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C.
Schola Medica Salernitana
Schola Medica Salernitana was a renowned medieval medical school in southern Italy, often considered the first and most important medical institution in Western Europe during the Middle Ages.
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D.
Canon Medicinae
Canon Medicinae is the Latin title of Avicenna’s influential medieval medical encyclopedia, widely used as a standard medical text in Europe and the Islamic world for centuries.
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E.
Grunigen Medical Library
Grunigen Medical Library is the primary health sciences and medical research library serving the University of California, Irvine’s medical center and related programs.
- 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: Index Medicus (historical) Target entity description: Index Medicus (historical) was a comprehensive, long-running print index of medical journal articles that served as a primary reference tool for biomedical literature before the advent of modern electronic databases.
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A.
Bibliotheca Medicinae Practicae
Bibliotheca Medicinae Practicae is a comprehensive 18th-century medical bibliography and reference work compiled by Swiss physician and polymath Albrecht von Haller, cataloging and evaluating contemporary medical literature.
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B.
Minerva Medica
Minerva Medica is a healing aspect of the Roman goddess Minerva, venerated particularly in connection with medicinal and therapeutic functions.
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C.
Schola Medica Salernitana
Schola Medica Salernitana was a renowned medieval medical school in southern Italy, often considered the first and most important medical institution in Western Europe during the Middle Ages.
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D.
Canon Medicinae
Canon Medicinae is the Latin title of Avicenna’s influential medieval medical encyclopedia, widely used as a standard medical text in Europe and the Islamic world for centuries.
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E.
Grunigen Medical Library
Grunigen Medical Library is the primary health sciences and medical research library serving the University of California, Irvine’s medical center and related programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.