ORCID
E171110
ORCID is a non-profit organization that provides unique, persistent digital identifiers to researchers, enabling accurate attribution of their scholarly work across systems and platforms.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ORCID canonical | 8 |
| ORCID Member API | 1 |
| ORCID Public API | 1 |
| ORCID Registry | 1 |
| ORCID identifiers | 1 |
| Open Researcher and Contributor ID | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1500636 — 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: ORCID Context triple: [DBLP, integratedWith, ORCID]
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A.
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.
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B.
International DOI Foundation
The International DOI Foundation is a non-profit organization that develops, manages, and promotes the global Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system for identifying digital content.
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C.
DBLP
DBLP is a comprehensive computer science bibliography database that indexes research papers, conference proceedings, and journals in the field of computing.
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D.
Scopus
Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature covering scientific, technical, medical, and social science research.
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E.
Clarivate Analytics
Clarivate Analytics is a global analytics company specializing in providing research, citation, patent, and intellectual property data and tools for academia, corporations, and governments.
- 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: ORCID Target entity description: ORCID is a non-profit organization that provides unique, persistent digital identifiers to researchers, enabling accurate attribution of their scholarly work across systems and platforms.
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A.
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.
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B.
International DOI Foundation
The International DOI Foundation is a non-profit organization that develops, manages, and promotes the global Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system for identifying digital content.
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C.
DBLP
DBLP is a comprehensive computer science bibliography database that indexes research papers, conference proceedings, and journals in the field of computing.
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D.
Scopus
Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature covering scientific, technical, medical, and social science research.
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E.
Clarivate Analytics
Clarivate Analytics is a global analytics company specializing in providing research, citation, patent, and intellectual property data and tools for academia, corporations, and governments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
non-profit organization
ⓘ
persistent identifier provider ⓘ researcher identifier system ⓘ |
| abbreviation | ORCID ⓘ |
| businessModel | membership-based ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Crossref
ⓘ
DataCite ⓘ research institutions worldwide ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dataPolicy |
open data for public information (with consent)
ⓘ
researcher-controlled privacy settings ⓘ |
| foundedInYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| fullName |
Open Researcher and Contributor ID
ⓘ
linked to:
ORCID
|
| fundingSource |
grants and sponsorships
ⓘ
membership fees ⓘ |
| goal |
to enable reliable attribution of research outputs
ⓘ
to solve name ambiguity in scholarly communication ⓘ |
| governance |
board of directors
ⓘ
community-driven ⓘ |
| hasAPI |
ORCID Member API
ⓘ
linked to:
ORCID
ORCID Public API ⓘ
linked to:
ORCID
|
| hasFeature |
API for system integration
ⓘ
free-to-register identifiers ⓘ open and non-proprietary identifier ⓘ researcher-controlled profiles ⓘ support for multiple affiliations ⓘ support for multiple name variants ⓘ support for multiple works and outputs ⓘ |
| hasRegistry |
ORCID Registry
ⓘ
linked to:
ORCID
|
| headquartersLocation |
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Bethesda, Maryland
|
| identifierFormat | 16-digit identifier ⓘ |
| identifierScope |
contributors to scholarly work
ⓘ
individual researchers ⓘ |
| identifierStandard |
ISO 27729 (International Standard Name Identifier related)
ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 27729
|
| identifierType | persistent digital identifier ⓘ |
| language | multilingual interface ⓘ |
| legalStatus | non-profit ⓘ |
| mission |
to provide a registry of unique identifiers for researchers
ⓘ
to support transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers and their contributions ⓘ |
| primaryService |
integration of identifiers across research systems
ⓘ
maintenance of ORCID registry ⓘ provision of unique researcher identifiers ⓘ |
| sector |
research infrastructure
ⓘ
scholarly communication ⓘ |
| supports |
funders
ⓘ
publishers ⓘ repositories ⓘ research institutions ⓘ researchers ⓘ |
| usedFor |
grant application systems
ⓘ
institutional reporting ⓘ linking researchers to affiliations ⓘ linking researchers to datasets ⓘ linking researchers to grants ⓘ linking researchers to their publications ⓘ manuscript submission systems ⓘ research evaluation workflows ⓘ |
| website | https://orcid.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: ORCID Description of subject: ORCID is a non-profit organization that provides unique, persistent digital identifiers to researchers, enabling accurate attribution of their scholarly work across systems and platforms.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: ORCID
linked to: ORCID