AST
E1013881
AST is a professional organization dedicated to advancing the field of organ transplantation through research, education, advocacy, and the promotion of high-quality patient care.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| AST canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12980847 — 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: AST Context triple: [American Society of Transplantation, shortName, AST]
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A.
AST
AST is the time zone used in several Middle Eastern countries, including Saudi Arabia, that is three hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+3).
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B.
AST
AST is the National Rail station code for Aston railway station in Birmingham, England.
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C.
ASTE
ASTE is the official station code used to identify Stellingen railway station in Hamburg, Germany.
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D.
STA
STA is the vehicle registration code for the district of Starnberg in Bavaria, Germany.
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E.
STA
STA is the National Rail station code for Stafford railway station, a key junction on the West Coast Main Line in Staffordshire, England.
- 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: AST Target entity description: AST is a professional organization dedicated to advancing the field of organ transplantation through research, education, advocacy, and the promotion of high-quality patient care.
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A.
AST
AST is the time zone used in several Middle Eastern countries, including Saudi Arabia, that is three hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+3).
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B.
AST
AST is the National Rail station code for Aston railway station in Birmingham, England.
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C.
ASTE
ASTE is the official station code used to identify Stellingen railway station in Hamburg, Germany.
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D.
STA
STA is the vehicle registration code for the district of Starnberg in Bavaria, Germany.
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E.
STA
STA is the National Rail station code for Stafford railway station, a key junction on the West Coast Main Line in Staffordshire, England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
nonprofit organization
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professional medical society ⓘ |
| abbreviation | AST ⓘ |
| activity |
advocacy
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clinical practice guideline development ⓘ education ⓘ patient and public education ⓘ professional networking ⓘ public policy engagement ⓘ research ⓘ |
| aim |
advocate for transplant patients
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enhance education of transplant professionals ⓘ foster innovation in transplantation research ⓘ increase access to transplantation ⓘ support evidence-based transplant practice ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| field |
clinical transplantation
ⓘ
organ transplantation ⓘ transplant medicine ⓘ |
| focus |
heart transplantation
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intestine transplantation ⓘ kidney transplantation ⓘ liver transplantation ⓘ lung transplantation ⓘ multiorgan transplantation ⓘ pancreas transplantation ⓘ solid organ transplantation ⓘ |
| hasMembers |
allied health professionals
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nurses ⓘ pharmacists ⓘ physicians ⓘ scientists ⓘ surgeons ⓘ |
| memberOf | transplant community ⓘ |
| purpose |
advance the field of organ transplantation
ⓘ
improve outcomes for transplant recipients ⓘ promote high-quality patient care in transplantation ⓘ support transplant professionals ⓘ |
| sector | healthcare ⓘ |
| topic |
deceased donation
ⓘ
donor management ⓘ ethics in transplantation ⓘ health policy in transplantation ⓘ immunosuppression in transplantation ⓘ living donation ⓘ long-term transplant outcomes ⓘ transplant infectious diseases ⓘ |
| website | https://www.myast.org ⓘ |
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: AST Description of subject: AST is a professional organization dedicated to advancing the field of organ transplantation through research, education, advocacy, and the promotion of high-quality patient care.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
AST