Library of Congress authority record
E11666
A Library of Congress authority record is a standardized cataloging entry that establishes the authorized form of names, subjects, and titles to ensure consistent identification and retrieval of bibliographic information.
All labels observed (7)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T68154 — 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: Library of Congress authority record Context triple: [Library of Congress Control Number, identifierFor, Library of Congress authority record]
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A.
Library of Congress Control Number
The Library of Congress Control Number is a unique identification system used by the Library of Congress to catalog and organize bibliographic records for books and other materials.
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B.
Library of Congress Online Catalog
The Library of Congress Online Catalog is the digital search system that provides public access to the Library of Congress’s vast collections of books, recordings, photographs, maps, and other materials.
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C.
Library of Congress catalogers
Library of Congress catalogers are professional librarians and metadata specialists at the U.S. Library of Congress who create and maintain authoritative bibliographic records for materials in its collections.
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D.
Librarian of Congress
The Librarian of Congress is the chief executive and primary steward of the United States Library of Congress, overseeing its collections, services, and national library programs.
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E.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Library of Congress Subject Headings is a comprehensive controlled vocabulary used by libraries worldwide to provide standardized subject access to cataloged materials.
- 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: Library of Congress authority record Target entity description: A Library of Congress authority record is a standardized cataloging entry that establishes the authorized form of names, subjects, and titles to ensure consistent identification and retrieval of bibliographic information.
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A.
Library of Congress Control Number
The Library of Congress Control Number is a unique identification system used by the Library of Congress to catalog and organize bibliographic records for books and other materials.
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B.
Library of Congress Online Catalog
The Library of Congress Online Catalog is the digital search system that provides public access to the Library of Congress’s vast collections of books, recordings, photographs, maps, and other materials.
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C.
Library of Congress catalogers
Library of Congress catalogers are professional librarians and metadata specialists at the U.S. Library of Congress who create and maintain authoritative bibliographic records for materials in its collections.
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D.
Librarian of Congress
The Librarian of Congress is the chief executive and primary steward of the United States Library of Congress, overseeing its collections, services, and national library programs.
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E.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Library of Congress Subject Headings is a comprehensive controlled vocabulary used by libraries worldwide to provide standardized subject access to cataloged materials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
authority record
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bibliographic control tool ⓘ cataloging record ⓘ controlled vocabulary entry ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
conference names
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corporate names ⓘ demographic group terms ⓘ genre/form terms ⓘ geographic names ⓘ medium of performance terms ⓘ personal names ⓘ topical subjects ⓘ uniform titles ⓘ |
| describedByStandard |
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
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MARC standards ⓘ
surface form:
MARC 21 Authority Format
Resource Description and Access ⓘ |
| encodedIn |
MADS/RDF
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MARC standards ⓘ
surface form:
MARC 21
SKOS ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
authorized access point
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classification numbers ⓘ heading type code ⓘ identifiers ⓘ language code ⓘ record control number ⓘ scope note ⓘ see also reference ⓘ source citations ⓘ variant access point ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
ensure consistent identification of entities
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ensure consistent retrieval of bibliographic information ⓘ establish authorized forms of names ⓘ establish authorized forms of subjects ⓘ establish authorized forms of titles ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Library of Congress ⓘ |
| supportsFunction |
authority control
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cataloging ⓘ disambiguation of similar names ⓘ standardization of headings ⓘ |
| usedBy |
archives
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bibliographic databases ⓘ libraries ⓘ museums ⓘ |
| usedFor |
authority data sharing
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interoperability between catalogs ⓘ linked data applications ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms
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Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms ⓘ Library of Congress Linked Data Service ⓘ Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ⓘ Library of Congress authority record self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Library of Congress Name Authority File
Library of Congress Subject Headings ⓘ |
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: Library of Congress authority record Description of subject: A Library of Congress authority record is a standardized cataloging entry that establishes the authorized form of names, subjects, and titles to ensure consistent identification and retrieval of bibliographic information.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Library of Congress authority record
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usedIn
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Library of Congress authority record
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Library of Congress Name Authority File
this entity surface form:
Library of Congress Authorities
this entity surface form:
Library of Congress authorities
this entity surface form:
Library of Congress Name Authority File
this entity surface form:
Library of Congress authority ID:n50002777
this entity surface form:
Library of Congress Authorities
this entity surface form:
Library of Congress identity work
this entity surface form:
Library of Congress records