ResearchKit
E240728
ResearchKit is an open-source framework from Apple that enables researchers and developers to create iOS apps for conducting medical studies and collecting health-related data from participants.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ResearchKit canonical | 5 |
| ResearchKit for iOS | 1 |
| ResearchKit framework | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2166157 — 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: ResearchKit Context triple: [HealthKit, integratesWith, ResearchKit]
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A.
Case Research Laboratory
The Case Research Laboratory was an early 20th-century research facility best known for pioneering work in sound-on-film motion picture technology.
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B.
RCT
RCT is the abbreviation for the Royal Corps of Transport, a former corps of the British Army responsible for military transport and logistics.
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C.
Social Research Library
The Social Research Library is a specialized branch of the UC Berkeley Library system that supports scholarship in the social sciences with focused collections and research services.
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D.
All of Us Research Program (genomics components)
The All of Us Research Program (genomics components) is a large-scale U.S. precision medicine initiative that collects and analyzes genomic data from diverse participants to advance research on health, disease, and individualized care.
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E.
Behavioral and Social Research Program
The Behavioral and Social Research Program is a National Institute on Aging initiative that supports research on how behavioral, psychological, social, and economic factors influence aging and health across the lifespan.
- 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: ResearchKit Target entity description: ResearchKit is an open-source framework from Apple that enables researchers and developers to create iOS apps for conducting medical studies and collecting health-related data from participants.
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A.
Case Research Laboratory
The Case Research Laboratory was an early 20th-century research facility best known for pioneering work in sound-on-film motion picture technology.
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B.
RCT
RCT is the abbreviation for the Royal Corps of Transport, a former corps of the British Army responsible for military transport and logistics.
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C.
Social Research Library
The Social Research Library is a specialized branch of the UC Berkeley Library system that supports scholarship in the social sciences with focused collections and research services.
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D.
All of Us Research Program (genomics components)
The All of Us Research Program (genomics components) is a large-scale U.S. precision medicine initiative that collects and analyzes genomic data from diverse participants to advance research on health, disease, and individualized care.
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E.
Behavioral and Social Research Program
The Behavioral and Social Research Program is a National Institute on Aging initiative that supports research on how behavioral, psychological, social, and economic factors influence aging and health across the lifespan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
open-source framework
ⓘ
software framework ⓘ |
| announcedAtEvent | Apple Special Event March 2015 ⓘ |
| announcementDate | 2015-03-09 ⓘ |
| codeRepository | https://github.com/ResearchKit/ResearchKit ⓘ |
| developer | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| initialReleaseDate | 2015-03-09 ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
CareKit
ⓘ
HealthKit ⓘ
linked to:
HealthKit framework
|
| license | Apache License 2.0 ⓘ |
| maintainer | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| notableUseCase |
Parkinson’s disease research apps
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asthma research apps ⓘ cardiovascular health research apps ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
iOS
ⓘ
iPadOS ⓘ |
| platform | Apple Health Research ⓘ |
| primaryDomain |
clinical studies
ⓘ
health research ⓘ medical research ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
Objective-C
ⓘ
Swift ⓘ |
| purpose |
to collect health-related data from study participants
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to enable remote clinical research ⓘ to help researchers create apps for medical studies ⓘ |
| repositoryHost | GitHub ⓘ |
| sourceModel | open source ⓘ |
| supportsDataType |
activity data
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cardiovascular measurements ⓘ cognitive assessment data ⓘ motion data ⓘ respiratory measurements ⓘ survey responses ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
active tasks
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data collection from device sensors ⓘ informed consent workflows ⓘ participant eligibility screening ⓘ result data export ⓘ survey creation ⓘ task scheduling ⓘ visual consent flows ⓘ |
| targetUser |
academic institutions
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app developers ⓘ healthcare organizations ⓘ medical researchers ⓘ |
| usedFor |
large-scale observational studies
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longitudinal health studies ⓘ remote patient monitoring research ⓘ |
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: ResearchKit Description of subject: ResearchKit is an open-source framework from Apple that enables researchers and developers to create iOS apps for conducting medical studies and collecting health-related data from participants.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.