Open Library project
E55771
The Open Library project is an online initiative to create a comprehensive, publicly accessible catalog of every book ever published, offering digital borrowing and reading where possible.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Open Library | 5 |
| Open Library project canonical | 3 |
| Open Library ID | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T436973 — 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: Open Library project Context triple: [Brewster Kahle, hasAffiliation, Open Library project]
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A.
universal digital library
The universal digital library is a conceptual global repository aiming to provide seamless, searchable access to all recorded human knowledge in digital form.
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B.
Bibliotheca
Bibliotheca is an ancient Greek mythographical handbook traditionally attributed to Apollodorus that compiles and summarizes a wide range of Greek myths and heroic legends.
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C.
Library of Congress Online Catalog
The Library of Congress Online Catalog is the digital search system that provides public access to the Library of Congress’s vast collections of books, recordings, photographs, maps, and other materials.
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D.
Newton Free Library
Newton Free Library is the main public library serving the city of Newton, Massachusetts, offering extensive collections, programs, and community services.
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E.
UN Digital Library
The UN Digital Library is an online platform providing comprehensive access to United Nations documents, publications, and archival materials.
- 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: Open Library project Target entity description: The Open Library project is an online initiative to create a comprehensive, publicly accessible catalog of every book ever published, offering digital borrowing and reading where possible.
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A.
universal digital library
The universal digital library is a conceptual global repository aiming to provide seamless, searchable access to all recorded human knowledge in digital form.
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B.
Bibliotheca
Bibliotheca is an ancient Greek mythographical handbook traditionally attributed to Apollodorus that compiles and summarizes a wide range of Greek myths and heroic legends.
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C.
Library of Congress Online Catalog
The Library of Congress Online Catalog is the digital search system that provides public access to the Library of Congress’s vast collections of books, recordings, photographs, maps, and other materials.
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D.
Newton Free Library
Newton Free Library is the main public library serving the city of Newton, Massachusetts, offering extensive collections, programs, and community services.
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E.
UN Digital Library
The UN Digital Library is an online platform providing comprehensive access to United Nations documents, publications, and archival materials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
digital library project
ⓘ
online library catalog ⓘ open data project ⓘ |
| accessModel |
free to use
ⓘ
publicly accessible catalog ⓘ |
| contentFocus |
authors
ⓘ
books ⓘ editions ⓘ subjects ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dataModel | work-edition-author model ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Aaron Swartz ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Open Library project ⓘ |
| hasAPIDocumentation | https://openlibrary.org/developers/api ⓘ |
| hasIdentifierNamespace |
Open Library project
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Open Library ID
|
| hasMainGoal |
to create a web page for every book ever published
ⓘ
to offer public access to bibliographic data ⓘ to provide a comprehensive catalog of books ⓘ |
| hostedOn | servers of the Internet Archive ⓘ |
| inception | 2006 ⓘ |
| integratesWith | Internet Archive digital book collections ⓘ |
| licenseOfData | open license for most bibliographic data ⓘ |
| name |
Open Library project
self-link
ⓘ
surface form:
Open Library
|
| offersDigitalBorrowingThrough | controlled digital lending ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Internet Archive ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Internet Archive ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
JavaScript
ⓘ
Python ⓘ |
| providesService |
book lists and reading logs
ⓘ
book search ⓘ digital borrowing of books ⓘ online book catalog ⓘ online reading of digitized books ⓘ public API for book data ⓘ |
| repository | https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary ⓘ |
| slogan | One web page for every book ever published ⓘ |
| softwareLicense | GNU Affero General Public License ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
book covers upload
ⓘ
book ratings ⓘ book reviews ⓘ data editing by users ⓘ export of bibliographic records ⓘ import of bibliographic records ⓘ reading lists ⓘ user accounts ⓘ |
| supportsLanguage | English ⓘ |
| usesIdentifier |
International Standard Book Number
ⓘ
surface form:
ISBN
Library of Congress Control Number ⓘ
surface form:
LCCN
OCLC number ⓘ |
| website | https://openlibrary.org ⓘ |
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: Open Library project Description of subject: The Open Library project is an online initiative to create a comprehensive, publicly accessible catalog of every book ever published, offering digital borrowing and reading where possible.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Open Library
this entity surface form:
Open Library
this entity surface form:
Open Library
subject surface form:
Brewster Kahle
this entity surface form:
Open Library
subject surface form:
Open Library
this entity surface form:
Open Library
subject surface form:
Open Library
subject surface form:
Open Library
this entity surface form:
Open Library ID