ESummary
E569468
ESummary is an NCBI E-utilities service that returns concise document summaries and key metadata for database records such as PubMed articles or nucleotide sequences.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ESummary canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6098398 — 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: ESummary Context triple: [NCBI E-utilities API, hasComponent, ESummary]
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A.
Summitt
Summitt is the surname of legendary American basketball coach Pat Summitt, one of the most successful figures in women's college basketball history.
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B.
Sumas
Sumas is a small border town in northwestern Washington State, located adjacent to Canada and known as a key U.S.–Canada crossing point.
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C.
ESS
ESS is the commonly used abbreviation for the European Standardization System, the framework through which European standards are developed and harmonized.
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D.
Sum It Up
Sum It Up is the memoir of legendary basketball coach Pat Summitt, chronicling her life, career, and impact on women's sports.
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E.
EPS
EPS is the abbreviation for UC Berkeley’s Department of Earth and Planetary Science, which focuses on research and education in geology, geophysics, and planetary sciences.
- 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: ESummary Target entity description: ESummary is an NCBI E-utilities service that returns concise document summaries and key metadata for database records such as PubMed articles or nucleotide sequences.
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A.
Summitt
Summitt is the surname of legendary American basketball coach Pat Summitt, one of the most successful figures in women's college basketball history.
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B.
Sumas
Sumas is a small border town in northwestern Washington State, located adjacent to Canada and known as a key U.S.–Canada crossing point.
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C.
ESS
ESS is the commonly used abbreviation for the European Standardization System, the framework through which European standards are developed and harmonized.
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D.
Sum It Up
Sum It Up is the memoir of legendary basketball coach Pat Summitt, chronicling her life, career, and impact on women's sports.
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E.
EPS
EPS is the abbreviation for UC Berkeley’s Department of Earth and Planetary Science, which focuses on research and education in geology, geophysics, and planetary sciences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCBI E-utilities service
ⓘ
web API method ⓘ |
| accessProtocol | HTTP ⓘ |
| baseURL | https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esummary.fcgi ⓘ |
| documentedAt | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25501/ ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
return concise document summaries
ⓘ
return key metadata for database records ⓘ |
| hasRateLimiting | yes ⓘ |
| inputParameter |
WebEnv
ⓘ
db ⓘ id ⓘ query_key ⓘ retmode ⓘ version ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | NCBI Entrez Programming Utilities team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatesOn |
Gene database
ⓘ
NCBI databases NERFINISHED ⓘ Nucleotide database ⓘ Protein database ⓘ PubChem NERFINISHED ⓘ PubMed NERFINISHED ⓘ Structure database ⓘ |
| partOf | NCBI E-utilities NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| providedBy | National Center for Biotechnology Information NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| requires |
record identifiers
ⓘ
valid NCBI database name ⓘ |
| returns |
authors
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database-specific metadata ⓘ document summary ⓘ journal information ⓘ links to related records ⓘ publication date ⓘ title ⓘ unique identifier ⓘ |
| returnsStructuredOutput | true ⓘ |
| supportsBatchRequests | true ⓘ |
| supportsFormat |
JSON
ⓘ
XML ⓘ text ⓘ |
| usedFor |
retrieving PubMed article metadata
ⓘ
retrieving gene record metadata ⓘ retrieving nucleotide sequence metadata ⓘ |
| usedWith |
EFetch
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
ELink NERFINISHED ⓘ ESearch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: ESummary Description of subject: ESummary is an NCBI E-utilities service that returns concise document summaries and key metadata for database records such as PubMed articles or nucleotide sequences.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.