ARA
E867360
ARA (arachidonic acid) is a long-chain omega-6 fatty acid important for infant brain and eye development and commonly added to baby formulas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ARA canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10502949 — 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: ARA Context triple: [Similac, hasIngredient, ARA]
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ARA
ARA is the French administrative region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, located in the southeast-central part of France and known for its diverse landscapes and major cities like Lyon and Grenoble.
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ARA
ARA is the station code for Ara Junction, a railway station in Bihar, India, on the Patna–Mughalsarai section of the Indian Railways network.
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ARC
ARC is the official abbreviation used to designate ships and assets of the Colombian Navy (Armada de la República de Colombia).
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ARC
ARC is a family of configurable 32-bit RISC processor architectures commonly used in embedded and SoC designs.
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ARC
ARC is a U.S. federal–state regional economic development agency focused on improving economic growth and quality of life in the Appalachian region.
- 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: ARA Target entity description: ARA (arachidonic acid) is a long-chain omega-6 fatty acid important for infant brain and eye development and commonly added to baby formulas.
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ARA
ARA is the French administrative region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, located in the southeast-central part of France and known for its diverse landscapes and major cities like Lyon and Grenoble.
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B.
ARA
ARA is the station code for Ara Junction, a railway station in Bihar, India, on the Patna–Mughalsarai section of the Indian Railways network.
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ARC
ARC is the official abbreviation used to designate ships and assets of the Colombian Navy (Armada de la República de Colombia).
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D.
ARC
ARC is a family of configurable 32-bit RISC processor architectures commonly used in embedded and SoC designs.
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ARC
ARC is the Atlanta Regional Commission, a regional planning and intergovernmental coordination agency serving the metropolitan Atlanta area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dietary supplement
ⓘ
long-chain fatty acid ⓘ nutrient ⓘ omega-6 fatty acid ⓘ polyunsaturated fatty acid ⓘ |
| abbreviation | ARA ⓘ |
| belongsTo | n-6 fatty acids ⓘ |
| biosynthesizedFrom | linoleic acid ⓘ |
| carbonAtoms | 20 ⓘ |
| chemicalFormula | C20H32O2 ⓘ |
| doubleBonds | 4 ⓘ |
| fullName | arachidonic acid ⓘ |
| hasChainLength | long-chain ⓘ |
| hasRole |
inflammatory mediator precursor
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signaling molecule precursor ⓘ structural lipid ⓘ |
| isAddedTo | infant formula ⓘ |
| isCommonlyAddedTo | baby formulas ⓘ |
| isComponentOf |
cell membranes
ⓘ
phospholipids ⓘ |
| isConditionallyEssentialFor | infants ⓘ |
| isEssentialFattyAcid | conditionally essential ⓘ |
| isFoundIn |
breast milk
ⓘ
eggs ⓘ meat ⓘ organ meats ⓘ |
| isImportantDuring |
early life
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fetal development ⓘ postnatal development ⓘ |
| isImportantFor |
brain development
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eye development ⓘ growth in infants ⓘ neural development ⓘ retinal development ⓘ |
| isLipid | true ⓘ |
| isOftenCombinedWith | DHA ⓘ |
| isPrecursorOf |
eicosanoids
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leukotrienes ⓘ prostaglandins ⓘ thromboxanes ⓘ |
| isRegulatedIn | infant formula composition guidelines ⓘ |
| isUnsaturated | true ⓘ |
| isUsedAs |
food ingredient
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nutritional additive ⓘ |
| IUPACName | (5Z,8Z,11Z,14Z)-icosa-5,8,11,14-tetraenoic acid ⓘ |
| omegaSeries | omega-6 ⓘ |
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: ARA Description of subject: ARA (arachidonic acid) is a long-chain omega-6 fatty acid important for infant brain and eye development and commonly added to baby formulas.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.