ATC
E104004
ATC (Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System) is a widely used international system for classifying drugs according to the organ or system they act on and their therapeutic, pharmacological, and chemical properties.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ATC canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T875621 — 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: ATC Context triple: [SNOMED CT, supportsMappingTo, ATC]
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A.
ATIS
ATIS (Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions) is a leading North American standards development organization that advances global telecommunications and information and communications technology (ICT) networks and services.
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B.
ATN
ATN most likely refers to Augmented Transition Network, a type of finite state machine used in computational linguistics and natural language processing for parsing sentences.
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C.
Air Traffic Control Centre
The Air Traffic Control Centre is a Belgian Air Force unit responsible for managing and coordinating military air traffic within Belgian airspace.
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D.
ATG
ATG is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Antigua and Barbuda.
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E.
Flughafen
Flughafen is the Nuremberg U-Bahn station that serves Nuremberg Airport, providing direct metro access between the airport and the city.
- 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: ATC Target entity description: ATC (Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System) is a widely used international system for classifying drugs according to the organ or system they act on and their therapeutic, pharmacological, and chemical properties.
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A.
ATIS
ATIS (Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions) is a leading North American standards development organization that advances global telecommunications and information and communications technology (ICT) networks and services.
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B.
ATN
ATN most likely refers to Augmented Transition Network, a type of finite state machine used in computational linguistics and natural language processing for parsing sentences.
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C.
Air Traffic Control Centre
The Air Traffic Control Centre is a Belgian Air Force unit responsible for managing and coordinating military air traffic within Belgian airspace.
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D.
ATG
ATG is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Antigua and Barbuda.
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E.
Flughafen
Flughafen is the Nuremberg U-Bahn station that serves Nuremberg Airport, providing direct metro access between the airport and the city.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System
ⓘ
drug classification system ⓘ |
| abbreviationFor | Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System ⓘ |
| appliedTo |
over-the-counter drugs
ⓘ
prescription drugs ⓘ |
| classificationCriterion |
anatomical site of action
ⓘ
chemical properties ⓘ pharmacological properties ⓘ therapeutic properties ⓘ |
| codeLevelCount | 5 ⓘ |
| codeStructure | alphanumeric ⓘ |
| dataFormat | hierarchical classification ⓘ |
| exampleCode | N02BE01 ⓘ |
| exampleCodeMeaning | paracetamol ⓘ |
| fifthLevelRepresents | chemical substance ⓘ |
| firstLevelRepresents | anatomical main group ⓘ |
| fourthLevelRepresents | chemical or therapeutic subgroup ⓘ |
| fullName | Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System ⓘ |
| geographicScope | international ⓘ |
| governingBody | World Health Organization ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
ATC code
ⓘ
DDD ⓘ Defined Daily Dose ⓘ |
| languageOfOfficialLists | English ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
WHO Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics Methodology
ⓘ
World Health Organization ⓘ |
| relatedConcept | Defined Daily Dose ⓘ |
| relatedSystem | ATCvet ⓘ |
| scope |
human medicines
ⓘ
veterinary medicines ⓘ |
| secondLevelRepresents | therapeutic main group ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | World Health Organization ⓘ |
| supports |
comparison of drug use between countries
ⓘ
time-trend analysis of drug consumption ⓘ |
| thirdLevelRepresents | pharmacological subgroup ⓘ |
| updatedBy | WHO Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics Methodology ⓘ |
| updateFrequency | annually ⓘ |
| usedFor |
drug classification
ⓘ
drug utilization research ⓘ health statistics ⓘ pharmacoepidemiology ⓘ regulatory affairs ⓘ reimbursement systems ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Africa
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Americas ⓘ Asia ⓘ Europe ⓘ Oceania ⓘ |
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: ATC Description of subject: ATC (Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System) is a widely used international system for classifying drugs according to the organ or system they act on and their therapeutic, pharmacological, and chemical properties.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.