BibTeX
E157419
BibTeX is a tool and file format used with LaTeX to manage and format bibliographic references in scholarly documents.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| BibTeX canonical | 17 |
| BibTeX backend | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1383147 — 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: BibTeX Context triple: [INSPIRE-HEP, supportsFormat, BibTeX]
-
A.
LaTeX
LaTeX is a widely used, high-quality typesetting system particularly popular in academia for producing technical and scientific documents with precise control over layout and mathematical notation.
-
B.
DBLP
DBLP is a comprehensive computer science bibliography database that indexes research papers, conference proceedings, and journals in the field of computing.
-
C.
Z39.50
Z39.50 is a client-server protocol used primarily by libraries and information services to search and retrieve bibliographic and related data from remote databases in a standardized way.
-
D.
DOI
DOI is the commonly used abbreviation for the United States Department of the Interior, the federal executive department responsible for managing the nation’s natural resources and public lands.
-
E.
Maschinelles Austauschformat für Bibliotheken
Maschinelles Austauschformat für Bibliotheken (MAB) is a German machine-readable data exchange format historically used by libraries to encode and share bibliographic and authority records.
- 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: BibTeX Target entity description: BibTeX is a tool and file format used with LaTeX to manage and format bibliographic references in scholarly documents.
-
A.
LaTeX
LaTeX is a widely used, high-quality typesetting system particularly popular in academia for producing technical and scientific documents with precise control over layout and mathematical notation.
-
B.
DBLP
DBLP is a comprehensive computer science bibliography database that indexes research papers, conference proceedings, and journals in the field of computing.
-
C.
Z39.50
Z39.50 is a client-server protocol used primarily by libraries and information services to search and retrieve bibliographic and related data from remote databases in a standardized way.
-
D.
DOI
DOI is the commonly used abbreviation for the United States Department of the Interior, the federal executive department responsible for managing the nation’s natural resources and public lands.
-
E.
Maschinelles Austauschformat für Bibliotheken
Maschinelles Austauschformat für Bibliotheken (MAB) is a German machine-readable data exchange format historically used by libraries to encode and share bibliographic and authority records.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
LaTeX-related software
ⓘ
bibliographic file format ⓘ free software ⓘ reference management software ⓘ |
| citationKey | unique identifier for each entry ⓘ |
| designedFor | computer science publications ⓘ |
| developer |
Leslie Lamport
ⓘ
Oren Patashnik ⓘ |
| entryField |
author
ⓘ
booktitle ⓘ doi ⓘ journal ⓘ number ⓘ pages ⓘ publisher ⓘ title ⓘ url ⓘ volume ⓘ year ⓘ |
| entryType |
article
ⓘ
book ⓘ incollection ⓘ inproceedings ⓘ mastersthesis ⓘ misc ⓘ phdthesis ⓘ techreport ⓘ |
| fileExtension |
.bib
ⓘ
.bst ⓘ |
| hasAlternative |
BibLaTeX
ⓘ
Biber ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
BibTeX database file
ⓘ
BibTeX style file ⓘ |
| implementationLanguage | Pascal ⓘ |
| influenced |
BibLaTeX
ⓘ
many reference managers ⓘ |
| introduced | mid-1980s ⓘ |
| license | LaTeX Project Public License ⓘ |
| operatingSystem | cross-platform ⓘ |
| partOf | TeX ecosystem ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | WEB ⓘ |
| supports |
bibliographic databases
ⓘ
citation styles ⓘ cross-references between entries ⓘ |
| typicalWorkflowStep |
run BibTeX
ⓘ
run LaTeX ⓘ run LaTeX twice more ⓘ |
| usedFor |
formatting bibliographies
ⓘ
managing bibliographic references ⓘ |
| usedWith |
LaTeX
ⓘ
plain TeX ⓘ |
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: BibTeX Description of subject: BibTeX is a tool and file format used with LaTeX to manage and format bibliographic references in scholarly documents.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: BibTeX