STN International
E200713
online information service
patent search platform
scientific information service
technical information service
STN International is a professional online scientific and technical information service widely used for advanced literature and patent searching in chemistry and related fields.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| STN | 1 |
| STN International canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1808934 — 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: STN International Context triple: [Chemical Abstracts Service, product, STN International]
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A.
STN
STN is the three-letter IATA airport code for London Stansted Airport, a major international airport serving the London area in the United Kingdom.
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B.
United Company
United Company was a prominent late 17th-century London theatre company formed by the merger of the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, active during the Restoration period.
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C.
SHI International Corp.
SHI International Corp. is a large U.S.-based information technology solutions provider offering hardware, software, and related services to corporate, enterprise, and public sector customers.
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D.
ITG Brands
ITG Brands is a major U.S. tobacco company known for manufacturing and marketing a portfolio of cigarette and cigar brands that compete with other leading tobacco firms.
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E.
Staley Manufacturing Company
Staley Manufacturing Company was an early 20th-century American food processing firm, best known for its corn products and for founding the football team that became the Chicago Bears.
- 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: STN International Target entity description: STN International is a professional online scientific and technical information service widely used for advanced literature and patent searching in chemistry and related fields.
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A.
STN
STN is the three-letter IATA airport code for London Stansted Airport, a major international airport serving the London area in the United Kingdom.
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B.
United Company
United Company was a prominent late 17th-century London theatre company formed by the merger of the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, active during the Restoration period.
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C.
SHI International Corp.
SHI International Corp. is a large U.S.-based information technology solutions provider offering hardware, software, and related services to corporate, enterprise, and public sector customers.
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D.
ITG Brands
ITG Brands is a major U.S. tobacco company known for manufacturing and marketing a portfolio of cigarette and cigar brands that compete with other leading tobacco firms.
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E.
Staley Manufacturing Company
Staley Manufacturing Company was an early 20th-century American food processing firm, best known for its corn products and for founding the football team that became the Chicago Bears.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
online information service
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patent search platform ⓘ scientific information service ⓘ technical information service ⓘ |
| domain |
chemistry
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engineering ⓘ materials science ⓘ patent information management ⓘ pharmaceuticals ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
chemical structure searching
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chemistry information ⓘ patent information searching ⓘ scientific and technical information ⓘ scientific literature searching ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
SDI selective dissemination of information
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advanced search capabilities ⓘ alerting services ⓘ chemical structure search ⓘ citation searching ⓘ command line search interface ⓘ cross-file searching ⓘ export of search results ⓘ fielded searching ⓘ patent family analysis tools ⓘ sequence searching ⓘ substructure search ⓘ thesaurus and indexing tools ⓘ |
| providesAccessTo |
bibliographic databases
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chemical reaction databases ⓘ chemical substance databases ⓘ citation databases ⓘ full-text patent databases ⓘ patent databases ⓘ regulatory information databases ⓘ scientific literature databases ⓘ |
| usedBy |
chemists
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corporate R&D departments ⓘ information professionals ⓘ patent offices ⓘ patent searchers ⓘ research organizations ⓘ universities ⓘ |
| usedFor |
chemical safety information retrieval
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competitive intelligence ⓘ freedom-to-operate searches ⓘ patentability searches ⓘ prior art searching ⓘ regulatory compliance information retrieval ⓘ technology monitoring ⓘ |
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: STN International Description of subject: STN International is a professional online scientific and technical information service widely used for advanced literature and patent searching in chemistry and related fields.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
STN