Canadian Library Association
E148585
The Canadian Library Association was a national professional organization that represented and supported libraries and library workers across Canada through advocacy, standards development, and professional services.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Canadian Library Association canonical | 3 |
| Canadian Library Association Annual Conference | 1 |
| Canadian Library Association Awards | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1290126 — 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: Canadian Library Association Context triple: [AACR2, publisher, Canadian Library Association]
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A.
American Library Association
The American Library Association is a leading professional organization in the United States that promotes libraries and librarianship, sets standards for library education, and accredits library and information science programs.
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B.
Canadian Association of Research Libraries
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries is a national organization representing Canada’s major research libraries, promoting collaboration, advocacy, and leadership in support of research and higher education.
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C.
Library Association
The Library Association was a major professional body and publishing organization for librarians and information professionals in the United Kingdom, known for producing influential cataloguing standards and library science literature.
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D.
OCLC
OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) is a global nonprofit cooperative organization that provides shared technology services, original research, and programs to help libraries catalog, manage, and share their collections worldwide.
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E.
University of Toronto Libraries
University of Toronto Libraries is the extensive academic library system of the University of Toronto, supporting research and learning with one of the largest collections in North America.
- 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: Canadian Library Association Target entity description: The Canadian Library Association was a national professional organization that represented and supported libraries and library workers across Canada through advocacy, standards development, and professional services.
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A.
American Library Association
The American Library Association is a leading professional organization in the United States that promotes libraries and librarianship, sets standards for library education, and accredits library and information science programs.
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B.
Canadian Association of Research Libraries
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries is a national organization representing Canada’s major research libraries, promoting collaboration, advocacy, and leadership in support of research and higher education.
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C.
Library Association
The Library Association was a major professional body and publishing organization for librarians and information professionals in the United Kingdom, known for producing influential cataloguing standards and library science literature.
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D.
OCLC
OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) is a global nonprofit cooperative organization that provides shared technology services, original research, and programs to help libraries catalog, manage, and share their collections worldwide.
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E.
University of Toronto Libraries
University of Toronto Libraries is the extensive academic library system of the University of Toronto, supporting research and learning with one of the largest collections in North America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
library association
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professional association ⓘ |
| abbreviation | CLA ⓘ |
| activity |
development of library standards in Canada
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policy advocacy ⓘ professional development ⓘ publication of professional materials ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| dissolutionReason | organizational restructuring of national library representation in Canada ⓘ |
| dissolved | 2016 ⓘ |
| field |
information science
ⓘ
librarianship ⓘ library science ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Canadian Library Association
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Canadian Library Association Annual Conference
Canadian Library Association self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Canadian Library Association Awards
|
| headquartersLocation | Ottawa ⓘ |
| industry | libraries ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| locationCountry | Canada ⓘ |
| memberOf | International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions ⓘ |
| purpose |
advocacy for libraries
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development of standards ⓘ professional services for members ⓘ represent libraries in Canada ⓘ represent library workers in Canada ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Canadian Federation of Library Associations ⓘ |
| scope | national ⓘ |
| sectorServed |
academic libraries
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public libraries ⓘ school libraries ⓘ special libraries ⓘ |
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: Canadian Library Association Description of subject: The Canadian Library Association was a national professional organization that represented and supported libraries and library workers across Canada through advocacy, standards development, and professional services.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Canadian Library Association Annual Conference
this entity surface form:
Canadian Library Association Awards