National Center for Biotechnology Information
E135929
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is a U.S. government bioinformatics institution that develops and hosts major biological databases and tools for biomedical research.
All labels observed (12)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| National Center for Biotechnology Information canonical | 13 |
| NCBI | 4 |
| BioSample database | 1 |
| Conserved Domain Database | 1 |
| GenBank | 1 |
| HomoloGene | 1 |
| NCBI databases | 1 |
| NCBI resources | 1 |
| NCBI web servers | 1 |
| OMIM database | 1 |
| Protein Clusters database | 1 |
| dbSNP | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1199116 — 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: National Center for Biotechnology Information Context triple: [PubMed, maintainedBy, National Center for Biotechnology Information]
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A.
National Human Genome Research Institute
The National Human Genome Research Institute is a U.S. government biomedical research organization that leads and funds research on the structure, function, and impact of the human genome.
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B.
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences is a U.S. biomedical research center focused on accelerating the development and delivery of new diagnostics, treatments, and cures by improving the translational science process.
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C.
PubMed Central
PubMed Central is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature maintained by the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine.
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D.
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences is a U.S. government biomedical research institute that supports fundamental, non-disease-specific science and training to advance understanding of biological processes and lay the groundwork for medical advances.
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E.
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health is the United States’ primary federal biomedical research agency, supporting and conducting medical research to improve public health.
- 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: National Center for Biotechnology Information Target entity description: The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is a U.S. government bioinformatics institution that develops and hosts major biological databases and tools for biomedical research.
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A.
National Human Genome Research Institute
The National Human Genome Research Institute is a U.S. government biomedical research organization that leads and funds research on the structure, function, and impact of the human genome.
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B.
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences is a U.S. biomedical research center focused on accelerating the development and delivery of new diagnostics, treatments, and cures by improving the translational science process.
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C.
PubMed Central
PubMed Central is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature maintained by the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine.
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D.
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences is a U.S. government biomedical research institute that supports fundamental, non-disease-specific science and training to advance understanding of biological processes and lay the groundwork for medical advances.
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E.
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health is the United States’ primary federal biomedical research agency, supporting and conducting medical research to improve public health.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bioinformatics organization
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government agency ⓘ research center ⓘ |
| abbreviation | NCBI ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| field |
bioinformatics
ⓘ
biomedical research ⓘ computational biology ⓘ genomics ⓘ molecular biology ⓘ |
| focus |
bioinformatics tools
ⓘ
biological databases ⓘ biomedical literature ⓘ genomic data ⓘ sequence data ⓘ |
| foundedBy | United States Congress ⓘ |
| fundedBy |
United States federal government
ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
|
| hasDatabase |
BLAST databases
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GenBank ⓘ Gene ⓘ Protein ⓘ PubMed ⓘ PubMed Central ⓘ RefSeq ⓘ SRA ⓘ dbSNP ⓘ dbVar ⓘ |
| hasIdentifier | Wikidata:Q2013 ⓘ |
| hasService |
BLAST
ⓘ
Conserved Domain Database ⓘ E-utilities ⓘ
linked to:
NCBI E-utilities API
Entrez ⓘ Genome Data Viewer ⓘ Taxonomy Browser ⓘ |
| inception | 1988 ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States federal government
ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bethesda, Maryland
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Maryland ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| mission |
to develop information systems for molecular biology
ⓘ
to provide access to biomedical and genomic information ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
National Institutes of Health
ⓘ
National Library of Medicine ⓘ
linked to:
United States National Library of Medicine
|
| parentOrganization |
National Institutes of Health
ⓘ
National Library of Medicine ⓘ
linked to:
United States National Library of Medicine
|
| partOf |
National Institutes of Health
ⓘ
National Library of Medicine ⓘ
linked to:
United States National Library of Medicine
|
| sector | public ⓘ |
| website | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ ⓘ |
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: National Center for Biotechnology Information Description of subject: The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is a U.S. government bioinformatics institution that develops and hosts major biological databases and tools for biomedical research.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: National Center for Biotechnology Information
United States National Library of Medicine
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hasDivision
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National Center for Biotechnology Information
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linked to: National Center for Biotechnology Information
linked to: National Center for Biotechnology Information
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linked to: National Center for Biotechnology Information
linked to: National Center for Biotechnology Information
linked to: National Center for Biotechnology Information
linked to: National Center for Biotechnology Information
linked to: National Center for Biotechnology Information
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linked to: National Center for Biotechnology Information
linked to: National Center for Biotechnology Information
linked to: National Center for Biotechnology Information