VIAF
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VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) is an international service that aggregates and links authority records from national and regional libraries to create unified, global identifiers for names and works.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| VIAF canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9198237 — 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: VIAF Context triple: [ISNI database, linkedTo, VIAF]
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A.
ISNI database
The ISNI database is a global registry that assigns and maintains unique identifiers for public identities such as authors, researchers, and organizations to ensure accurate attribution and disambiguation.
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B.
Library of Congress Linked Data Service
The Library of Congress Linked Data Service is an online platform that publishes the Library of Congress’s controlled vocabularies and authority data in machine-readable linked data formats for use in cataloging and semantic web applications.
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C.
Library of Congress authority record
A Library of Congress authority record is a standardized cataloging entry that establishes the authorized form of names, subjects, and titles to ensure consistent identification and retrieval of bibliographic information.
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D.
ORCID
ORCID is a non-profit organization that provides unique, persistent digital identifiers to researchers, enabling accurate attribution of their scholarly work across systems and platforms.
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E.
International Standard Name Identifier
The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is a globally recognized unique identifier used to distinguish the public identities of contributors such as authors, musicians, researchers, and organizations in the creative and scholarly sectors.
- 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: VIAF Target entity description: VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) is an international service that aggregates and links authority records from national and regional libraries to create unified, global identifiers for names and works.
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A.
ISNI database
The ISNI database is a global registry that assigns and maintains unique identifiers for public identities such as authors, researchers, and organizations to ensure accurate attribution and disambiguation.
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B.
Library of Congress Linked Data Service
The Library of Congress Linked Data Service is an online platform that publishes the Library of Congress’s controlled vocabularies and authority data in machine-readable linked data formats for use in cataloging and semantic web applications.
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C.
Library of Congress authority record
A Library of Congress authority record is a standardized cataloging entry that establishes the authorized form of names, subjects, and titles to ensure consistent identification and retrieval of bibliographic information.
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D.
ORCID
ORCID is a non-profit organization that provides unique, persistent digital identifiers to researchers, enabling accurate attribution of their scholarly work across systems and platforms.
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E.
International Standard Name Identifier
The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is a globally recognized unique identifier used to distinguish the public identities of contributors such as authors, musicians, researchers, and organizations in the creative and scholarly sectors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
authority control service
ⓘ
bibliographic database ⓘ virtual international authority file ⓘ |
| abbreviation | VIAF NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| accessibleVia |
APIs
ⓘ
linked data URIs ⓘ web interface ⓘ |
| aggregates |
authority records
ⓘ
name authority files ⓘ work authority records ⓘ |
| dataFormat |
MARC
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
RDF ⓘ XML ⓘ |
| describedAs |
a system for creating unified global identifiers for names and works
ⓘ
an international service that aggregates and links authority records from national and regional libraries ⓘ |
| developedBy |
Bibliothèque nationale de France
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek NERFINISHED ⓘ Library of Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ OCLC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Virtual International Authority File NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasContributor |
bibliographic agencies
ⓘ
national libraries ⓘ regional libraries ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryPurpose |
to cluster and link authority records for the same entity from different libraries
ⓘ
to provide persistent identifiers for personal names, corporate names, and works ⓘ |
| hasScope | international ⓘ |
| links | authority records for the same entity across institutions ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | OCLC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedBy | OCLC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| provides |
URIs for authority entities
ⓘ
global identifiers for names ⓘ global identifiers for works ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Gemeinsame Normdatei
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
International Standard Name Identifier NERFINISHED ⓘ Library of Congress Name Authority File NERFINISHED ⓘ ORCID NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
authority control
ⓘ
bibliographic control ⓘ library and information science ⓘ |
| supports |
authority control in library catalogs
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disambiguation of corporate names ⓘ disambiguation of personal names ⓘ disambiguation of works ⓘ |
| usedBy |
archives
ⓘ
digital humanities projects ⓘ libraries ⓘ museums ⓘ researchers ⓘ |
| uses |
Semantic Web technologies
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cluster identifiers to group equivalent authority records ⓘ linked data principles ⓘ |
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: VIAF Description of subject: VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) is an international service that aggregates and links authority records from national and regional libraries to create unified, global identifiers for names and works.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Thomas Hatfield