Difco
E928062
Difco is a well-known microbiology brand that produces and supplies a wide range of culture media and related laboratory products.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Difco canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11466762 — 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: Difco Context triple: [Middlebrook 7H9 broth, commerciallyAvailableFrom, Difco]
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A.
Lowenstein–Jensen medium
Lowenstein–Jensen medium is a specialized egg-based solid growth medium used primarily for the isolation and cultivation of Mycobacterium species, especially Mycobacterium tuberculosis, in clinical microbiology.
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B.
ATCC
ATCC is the commonly used abbreviation for the Australian Touring Car Championship, a premier motorsport series for touring car racing in Australia.
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C.
Hach Company
Hach Company is a manufacturer of analytical instruments and reagents specializing in water quality testing and analysis for environmental, industrial, and municipal applications.
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D.
Nourse
Nourse is a surname and variant spelling of "Nurse," historically associated with English-speaking families and occasionally used as a place or business name.
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E.
CARPHA Medical Microbiology Laboratory
CARPHA Medical Microbiology Laboratory is the regional reference lab of the Caribbean Public Health Agency, providing diagnostic testing, surveillance, and outbreak support for infectious diseases across Caribbean member states.
- 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: Difco Target entity description: Difco is a well-known microbiology brand that produces and supplies a wide range of culture media and related laboratory products.
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A.
Lowenstein–Jensen medium
Lowenstein–Jensen medium is a specialized egg-based solid growth medium used primarily for the isolation and cultivation of Mycobacterium species, especially Mycobacterium tuberculosis, in clinical microbiology.
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B.
ATCC
ATCC is the commonly used abbreviation for the Australian Touring Car Championship, a premier motorsport series for touring car racing in Australia.
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C.
Hach Company
Hach Company is a manufacturer of analytical instruments and reagents specializing in water quality testing and analysis for environmental, industrial, and municipal applications.
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D.
Nourse
Nourse is a surname and variant spelling of "Nurse," historically associated with English-speaking families and occasionally used as a place or business name.
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E.
CARPHA Medical Microbiology Laboratory
CARPHA Medical Microbiology Laboratory is the regional reference lab of the Caribbean Public Health Agency, providing diagnostic testing, surveillance, and outbreak support for infectious diseases across Caribbean member states.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
brand
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microbiology brand ⓘ trade name ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
laboratory diagnostics
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quality control in microbiology ⓘ standardized culture media formulations ⓘ |
| category |
laboratory products brand
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microbiological culture media brand ⓘ |
| field |
bacteriology
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clinical microbiology ⓘ microbiology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
high-quality culture media
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reproducible microbiological results ⓘ |
| market | global ⓘ |
| productType |
agar media
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broth media ⓘ culture media ⓘ dehydrated culture media ⓘ differential media ⓘ enrichment media ⓘ laboratory reagents ⓘ microbiological test kits ⓘ prepared culture media ⓘ selective media ⓘ supplements for culture media ⓘ |
| usedBy |
clinical laboratories
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food testing laboratories ⓘ industrial microbiology laboratories ⓘ pharmaceutical quality control laboratories ⓘ research laboratories ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cultivation of bacteria
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cultivation of fungi ⓘ enumeration of microorganisms ⓘ identification of microorganisms ⓘ isolation of microorganisms ⓘ |
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: Difco Description of subject: Difco is a well-known microbiology brand that produces and supplies a wide range of culture media and related laboratory products.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.