MEDLINE
E71384
MEDLINE is a premier bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MEDLINE canonical | 16 |
| MEDLARS Online | 1 |
| MEDLINE database | 1 |
| Medical Subject Headings | 1 |
| OLDMEDLINE | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T566633 — 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: MEDLINE Context triple: [Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, indexingService, MEDLINE]
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A.
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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B.
PubMed
PubMed is a free search engine providing access to a vast database of biomedical and life sciences literature maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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C.
Scopus
Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature covering scientific, technical, medical, and social science research.
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D.
Web of Science
Web of Science is a major multidisciplinary citation indexing and abstracting database widely used for academic research and bibliometric analysis.
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E.
Ei Compendex
Ei Compendex is a comprehensive engineering literature database that indexes scientific and technical research publications across a wide range of engineering disciplines.
- 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: MEDLINE Target entity description: 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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A.
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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B.
PubMed
PubMed is a free search engine providing access to a vast database of biomedical and life sciences literature maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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C.
Scopus
Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature covering scientific, technical, medical, and social science research.
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D.
Web of Science
Web of Science is a major multidisciplinary citation indexing and abstracting database widely used for academic research and bibliometric analysis.
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E.
Ei Compendex
Ei Compendex is a comprehensive engineering literature database that indexes scientific and technical research publications across a wide range of engineering disciplines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bibliographic database
ⓘ
biomedical literature database ⓘ |
| accessMethod |
EBSCOhost
ⓘ
Ovid ⓘ PubMed ⓘ Web of Science ⓘ commercial database vendors ⓘ |
| acronymOf |
NLM bibliographic services
ⓘ
surface form:
MEDLARS Online
|
| countryOfOperator | United States of America ⓘ |
| dataType |
bibliographic records
ⓘ
indexed metadata ⓘ |
| developedFrom |
NLM bibliographic services
ⓘ
surface form:
MEDLARS
|
| field |
biomedicine
ⓘ
clinical medicine ⓘ dentistry ⓘ health care systems ⓘ health sciences ⓘ life sciences ⓘ nursing ⓘ preclinical sciences ⓘ veterinary medicine ⓘ |
| fullName |
MEDLINE
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
MEDLARS Online
|
| governedBy | NLM journal selection committee ⓘ |
| hasContentType |
abstracts
ⓘ
citations ⓘ journal articles ⓘ |
| hasCoverage |
biomedical journals
ⓘ
life sciences journals ⓘ |
| hasIdentifierSystem | PMID ⓘ |
| hasScope | international biomedical literature ⓘ |
| hasSelectionPolicy |
journal selection based on scientific quality
ⓘ
journal selection based on scope and coverage ⓘ |
| hasTemporalCoverage | from mid-20th century to present ⓘ |
| hasUpdateFrequency | updated daily ⓘ |
| indexingStandard |
MeSH descriptors
ⓘ
MeSH qualifiers ⓘ |
| isAccessibleAs | free access via PubMed ⓘ |
| isCoreComponentOf |
PubMed
ⓘ
surface form:
PubMed database
|
| isUsedFor |
biomedical information retrieval
ⓘ
clinical research ⓘ evidence-based medicine ⓘ systematic reviews ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
United States National Library of Medicine
ⓘ
surface form:
NLM
United States National Library of Medicine ⓘ |
| operatedBy | United States National Library of Medicine ⓘ |
| partOf | NLM bibliographic services ⓘ |
| provider | United States National Library of Medicine ⓘ |
| subjectHeadingSystem | Medical Subject Headings ⓘ |
| usesControlledVocabulary | MeSH ⓘ |
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: MEDLINE Description of subject: MEDLINE is a premier bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Medical Subject Headings
this entity surface form:
OLDMEDLINE