NLM bibliographic services
E353349
NLM bibliographic services are the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s suite of databases and tools that provide access to biomedical literature and related bibliographic information.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NLM Catalog | 2 |
| NLM bibliographic services canonical | 2 |
| MEDLARS | 1 |
| MEDLARS Online | 1 |
| NLM Catalog indexing | 1 |
| NLM MeSH Section | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3389574 — 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: NLM bibliographic services Context triple: [MEDLINE, partOf, NLM bibliographic services]
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A.
MEDLINE
MEDLINE is a premier bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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B.
PubMed Central
PubMed Central is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature maintained by the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine.
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C.
NCBI Bookshelf
NCBI Bookshelf is a free online resource from the National Center for Biotechnology Information that provides access to a wide range of biomedical books, reports, and other full-text scholarly literature.
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D.
Europe PubMed Central
Europe PubMed Central is a regional, open-access repository that provides access to biomedical and life sciences research articles, mirroring and extending the content of PubMed Central for European users.
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E.
Z39.50
Z39.50 is a client-server protocol used primarily by libraries and information services to search and retrieve bibliographic and related data from remote databases in a standardized way.
- 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: NLM bibliographic services Target entity description: NLM bibliographic services are the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s suite of databases and tools that provide access to biomedical literature and related bibliographic information.
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A.
MEDLINE
MEDLINE is a premier bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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B.
PubMed Central
PubMed Central is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature maintained by the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine.
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C.
NCBI Bookshelf
NCBI Bookshelf is a free online resource from the National Center for Biotechnology Information that provides access to a wide range of biomedical books, reports, and other full-text scholarly literature.
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D.
Europe PubMed Central
Europe PubMed Central is a regional, open-access repository that provides access to biomedical and life sciences research articles, mirroring and extending the content of PubMed Central for European users.
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E.
Z39.50
Z39.50 is a client-server protocol used primarily by libraries and information services to search and retrieve bibliographic and related data from remote databases in a standardized way.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bibliographic service suite
ⓘ
information retrieval system ⓘ medical information system ⓘ |
| abbreviation | NLM bibliographic services self-link ⓘ |
| accessModel | primarily free access ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dataType |
abstracts
ⓘ
bibliographic records ⓘ book records ⓘ citations ⓘ full-text articles ⓘ journal information ⓘ subject headings ⓘ |
| field |
biomedicine
ⓘ
health sciences ⓘ life sciences ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Bookshelf
ⓘ
ClinicalTrials.gov ⓘ HSRProj ⓘ Index Medicus (historical) ⓘ LocatorPlus ⓘ MEDLINE ⓘ MeSH ⓘ
surface form:
MeSH database
NLM bibliographic services self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
NLM Catalog
MEDLINE ⓘ
surface form:
OLDMEDLINE
PubMed ⓘ PubMed Central ⓘ TOXNET ⓘ
surface form:
TOXLINE
|
| maintainedBy |
Library Operations division of NLM
ⓘ
National Center for Biotechnology Information ⓘ |
| operatedBy | United States National Library of Medicine ⓘ |
| operatorType | federal government agency ⓘ |
| partOf |
United States National Library of Medicine
ⓘ
surface form:
United States National Library of Medicine information services
|
| purpose |
provide access to biomedical literature
ⓘ
provide bibliographic information ⓘ support biomedical research ⓘ support clinical practice ⓘ support health policy and education ⓘ |
| supportsFunction |
citation retrieval
ⓘ
linking to full text ⓘ literature searching ⓘ subject indexing ⓘ |
| supportsStandard |
MeSH
ⓘ
NLM journal title abbreviations ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
clinicians
ⓘ
librarians ⓘ policy makers ⓘ researchers ⓘ students ⓘ |
| usesControlledVocabulary | Medical 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: NLM bibliographic services Description of subject: NLM bibliographic services are the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s suite of databases and tools that provide access to biomedical literature and related bibliographic information.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
MEDLARS
this entity surface form:
NLM Catalog
this entity surface form:
NLM Catalog indexing
this entity surface form:
NLM MeSH Section