United States National Library of Medicine
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The United States National Library of Medicine is the world’s largest biomedical library and a key U.S. government institution for biomedical information services and research.
All labels observed (10)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1199115 — 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: United States National Library of Medicine Context triple: [PubMed, maintainedBy, United States National Library of Medicine]
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A.
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health is the United States’ primary federal biomedical research agency, supporting and conducting medical research to improve public health.
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B.
NIH Clinical Center
The NIH Clinical Center is the research hospital of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, dedicated to conducting and supporting clinical studies that translate scientific discoveries into medical advances.
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C.
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences is a U.S. government biomedical research institute that supports fundamental, non-disease-specific science and training to advance understanding of biological processes and lay the groundwork for medical advances.
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D.
National Human Genome Research Institute
The National Human Genome Research Institute is a U.S. government biomedical research organization that leads and funds research on the structure, function, and impact of the human genome.
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E.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute is a U.S. government biomedical research institute that leads and funds research, training, and education focused on heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders.
- 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: United States National Library of Medicine Target entity description: The United States National Library of Medicine is the world’s largest biomedical library and a key U.S. government institution for biomedical information services and research.
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A.
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health is the United States’ primary federal biomedical research agency, supporting and conducting medical research to improve public health.
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B.
NIH Clinical Center
The NIH Clinical Center is the research hospital of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, dedicated to conducting and supporting clinical studies that translate scientific discoveries into medical advances.
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C.
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences is a U.S. government biomedical research institute that supports fundamental, non-disease-specific science and training to advance understanding of biological processes and lay the groundwork for medical advances.
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D.
National Human Genome Research Institute
The National Human Genome Research Institute is a U.S. government biomedical research organization that leads and funds research on the structure, function, and impact of the human genome.
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E.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute is a U.S. government biomedical research institute that leads and funds research, training, and education focused on heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biomedical library
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government agency ⓘ national library ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
United States National Library of Medicine
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
NLM
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| collectionSize | millions of items ⓘ |
| collectionType |
biomedical literature
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health sciences literature ⓘ historical medical materials ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describedAs | world’s largest biomedical library ⓘ |
| designatedAsNationalLibrary | 1956 ⓘ |
| directorStartDate | 2016 ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1836 ⓘ |
| fundingSource |
United States government
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surface form:
U.S. federal government
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| hasBuilding |
United States National Library of Medicine
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
NLM Building 38
United States National Library of Medicine self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
NLM Building 38A
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| hasDirector | Patricia Flatley Brennan ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications
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National Center for Biotechnology Information ⓘ National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States government
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surface form:
federal government of the United States
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| languageOfService | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Bethesda, Maryland ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
National Institutes of Health
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surface form:
NIH campus
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| mission |
provide access to biomedical and health information
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support biomedical research ⓘ support health care and public health ⓘ |
| operatesService |
ClinicalTrials.gov
ⓘ
National Center for Biotechnology Information ⓘ
surface form:
GenBank
MEDLINE ⓘ MedlinePlus ⓘ NIH Manuscript Submission system ⓘ PubMed ⓘ PubMed Central ⓘ TOXNET ⓘ |
| originalName |
United States National Library of Medicine
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Library of the Surgeon General’s Office
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| parentOrganization |
National Institutes of Health
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United States Department of Health and Human Services ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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| providesAccessTo |
bibliographic databases
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clinical trial information ⓘ full-text biomedical articles ⓘ genetic sequence data ⓘ toxicology data ⓘ |
| renamedAs |
Armed Forces Medical Library
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United States National Library of Medicine self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
National Library of Medicine
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| researchArea |
biomedical informatics
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computational biology ⓘ information science ⓘ |
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: United States National Library of Medicine Description of subject: The United States National Library of Medicine is the world’s largest biomedical library and a key U.S. government institution for biomedical information services and research.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
National Library of Medicine digital collections
this entity surface form:
NLM
United States National Library of Medicine
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originalName
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United States National Library of Medicine
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Library of the Surgeon General’s Office
United States National Library of Medicine
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renamedAs
→
United States National Library of Medicine
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
National Library of Medicine
United States National Library of Medicine
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hasBuilding
→
United States National Library of Medicine
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
NLM Building 38
United States National Library of Medicine
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hasBuilding
→
United States National Library of Medicine
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
NLM Building 38A
United States National Library of Medicine
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abbreviation
→
United States National Library of Medicine
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
NLM
National Center for Biotechnology Information
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parentOrganization
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United States National Library of Medicine
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this entity surface form:
National Library of Medicine
National Center for Biotechnology Information
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partOf
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United States National Library of Medicine
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this entity surface form:
National Library of Medicine
National Center for Biotechnology Information
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operatedBy
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United States National Library of Medicine
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this entity surface form:
National Library of Medicine
this entity surface form:
U.S. National Library of Medicine
this entity surface form:
U.S. National Library of Medicine
this entity surface form:
National Library of Medicine
this entity surface form:
NLM
this entity surface form:
National Library of Medicine
Bethesda, Maryland (through NHLBI headquarters)
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hostsInstitution
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United States National Library of Medicine
ⓘ
subject surface form:
Bethesda, Maryland
this entity surface form:
National Library of Medicine
this entity surface form:
United States National Library of Medicine information services
this entity surface form:
NLM
this entity surface form:
NLM
this entity surface form:
National Library of Medicine
this entity surface form:
National Library of Medicine
this entity surface form:
National Library of Medicine
this entity surface form:
National Library of Medicine leadership
this entity surface form:
National Library of Medicine