SRW
E148347
SRW (Search/Retrieve Web Service) is a web-based information retrieval protocol that modernizes and extends traditional library search standards for use over HTTP.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SRW canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1290219 — 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: SRW Context triple: [Z39.50, influenced, SRW]
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A.
SYR
SYR is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code representing the Middle Eastern nation of Syria.
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B.
SVRL
SVRL (Schematron Validation Report Language) is an XML-based reporting format used to express the results of Schematron rule validations.
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C.
SRB
SRB is the commonly used abbreviation for Sveriges Riksbank, the central bank of Sweden and the world’s oldest central bank.
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D.
SRB
SRB is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Serbia.
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E.
SR 400
SR 400 is a major north–south highway in Georgia that serves as a key commuter and traffic corridor through the Atlanta metropolitan area.
- 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: SRW Target entity description: SRW (Search/Retrieve Web Service) is a web-based information retrieval protocol that modernizes and extends traditional library search standards for use over HTTP.
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A.
SYR
SYR is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code representing the Middle Eastern nation of Syria.
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B.
SVRL
SVRL (Schematron Validation Report Language) is an XML-based reporting format used to express the results of Schematron rule validations.
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C.
SRB
SRB is the commonly used abbreviation for Sveriges Riksbank, the central bank of Sweden and the world’s oldest central bank.
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D.
SRB
SRB is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Serbia.
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E.
SR 400
SR 400 is a major north–south highway in Georgia that serves as a key commuter and traffic corridor through the Atlanta metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
information retrieval protocol
ⓘ
web service protocol ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SRW ⓘ |
| basedOnStandard |
SOAP
ⓘ
linked to:
SOAP API
|
| category |
library technology standard
ⓘ
search protocol ⓘ web service interface ⓘ |
| communicationStyle | request-response ⓘ |
| designedForDomain |
digital libraries
ⓘ
information retrieval systems ⓘ library systems ⓘ |
| extends | Z39.50 functionality ⓘ |
| fullName |
Contextual Query Language
ⓘ
linked to:
CQL
Search/Retrieve Web Service ⓘ |
| governedBy | Library of Congress standards maintenance ⓘ |
| hasDesignGoal |
enable interoperability between library systems
ⓘ
simplify implementation compared to Z39.50 ⓘ use standard web technologies ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
XML-based request and response messages
ⓘ
support for complex queries ⓘ support for diagnostics in responses ⓘ support for record schemas ⓘ support for result sets ⓘ web-friendly search interface ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
information retrieval over the web
ⓘ
search and retrieval of bibliographic and other records ⓘ |
| hasSpecification | SRW protocol specification ⓘ |
| isComplementedBy | SRU ⓘ |
| isSuccessorTo | Z39.50 in web environments ⓘ |
| modernizes | Z39.50 ⓘ |
| relatedProtocol | SRU ⓘ |
| supportsDiagnostics | yes ⓘ |
| supportsOperation |
explain
ⓘ
scan ⓘ searchRetrieve ⓘ |
| supportsPagination | yes ⓘ |
| supportsProtocolStyle | SOAP-based web services ⓘ |
| supportsQueryLanguage | CQL ⓘ |
| supportsRecordSchemas | yes ⓘ |
| supportsResultFormat |
XML records
ⓘ
various metadata schemas ⓘ |
| supportsSorting | yes ⓘ |
| supportsUseCase |
federated search across library databases
ⓘ
online catalog search ⓘ searching digital collections ⓘ searching institutional repositories ⓘ |
| usesEncoding | XML ⓘ |
| usesTransportProtocol | HTTP ⓘ |
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: SRW Description of subject: SRW (Search/Retrieve Web Service) is a web-based information retrieval protocol that modernizes and extends traditional library search standards for use over HTTP.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.