ISA
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ISA is the standard abbreviation for an International Searching Authority, a patent office designated to conduct international prior art searches under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ISA canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2971968 — 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: ISA Context triple: [International Searching Authority, abbreviation, ISA]
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A.
ISA
ISA (Industry Standard Architecture) is an early computer bus standard used in IBM PCs and compatible systems to connect expansion cards and peripherals to the motherboard.
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B.
ISA
ISA is the acronym for the International Seabed Authority, the intergovernmental organization responsible for regulating mineral-related activities in the international seabed area beyond national jurisdiction.
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C.
ISA
ISA is the commonly used abbreviation for the Israel State Archives, the national repository for Israeli government records and historical documents.
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D.
ISA
ISA is the commonly used abbreviation for Integrated Science Assessments, which are comprehensive evaluations of scientific data used to inform environmental and regulatory decisions.
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E.
IAS
IAS is India’s premier civil service responsible for administrative leadership and implementation of government policies at the central and state levels.
- 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: ISA Target entity description: ISA is the standard abbreviation for an International Searching Authority, a patent office designated to conduct international prior art searches under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).
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A.
ISA
ISA (Industry Standard Architecture) is an early computer bus standard used in IBM PCs and compatible systems to connect expansion cards and peripherals to the motherboard.
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B.
ISA
ISA is the acronym for the International Seabed Authority, the intergovernmental organization responsible for regulating mineral-related activities in the international seabed area beyond national jurisdiction.
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C.
ISA
ISA is the commonly used abbreviation for the Israel State Archives, the national repository for Israeli government records and historical documents.
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D.
ISA
ISA is the commonly used abbreviation for Integrated Science Assessments, which are comprehensive evaluations of scientific data used to inform environmental and regulatory decisions.
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E.
IAS
IAS is India’s premier civil service responsible for administrative leadership and implementation of government policies at the central and state levels.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
PCT authority
ⓘ
patent office function ⓘ |
| abbreviation | ISA self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| administeredBy | World Intellectual Property Organization ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
PCT Chapter I procedure
ⓘ
international patent applications ⓘ |
| benefits | centralized prior art search for multiple countries ⓘ |
| designatedBy |
Patent Cooperation Treaty
ⓘ
surface form:
PCT Contracting States
|
| field |
intellectual property
ⓘ
patent law ⓘ |
| governedBy |
PCT
ⓘ
surface form:
PCT Administrative Instructions
PCT ⓘ
surface form:
PCT Regulations
|
| issues |
international search report
ⓘ
written opinion of the International Searching Authority ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | international ⓘ |
| language | one or more official search languages ⓘ |
| legalFramework | PCT ⓘ |
| mustBe | national patent office or intergovernmental organization ⓘ |
| objective | assess novelty and inventive step of claimed invention ⓘ |
| operatesUnder | Patent Cooperation Treaty ⓘ |
| performs |
international search
ⓘ
prior art search ⓘ |
| purpose | identify relevant prior art for PCT applications ⓘ |
| relatedAuthority | International Preliminary Examining Authority ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Patent Cooperation Treaty
ⓘ
surface form:
PCT international phase
international search report ⓘ written opinion ⓘ |
| requires |
access to comprehensive prior art databases
ⓘ
competence in specified technical fields ⓘ |
| role | conduct international prior art searches ⓘ |
| scope | international phase of PCT application ⓘ |
| searches |
non-patent literature
ⓘ
patent documentation ⓘ |
| selectableBy | PCT applicant ⓘ |
| standsFor | International Searching Authority ⓘ |
| supervisedBy |
WIPO Secretariat
ⓘ
surface form:
WIPO International Bureau
|
| typeOf | patent office authority ⓘ |
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: ISA Description of subject: ISA is the standard abbreviation for an International Searching Authority, a patent office designated to conduct international prior art searches under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
International Searching Authority