ISI
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bibliographic database provider
citation indexing organization
company
information services organization
ISI (the Institute for Scientific Information) is a pioneering organization in bibliometrics and citation indexing, best known for creating influential tools for tracking and analyzing scientific literature.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ISI canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2958671 — 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: ISI Context triple: [Science Citation Index, originallyDevelopedBy, ISI]
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A.
ISI
ISI is an organization that inspects and regulates independent schools to ensure they meet required educational and welfare standards.
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B.
ISC
ISC is the commonly used abbreviation for the International Science Council, a global non-governmental organization that advances and coordinates international scientific research and policy.
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C.
IAS
IAS is India’s premier civil service responsible for administrative leadership and implementation of government policies at the central and state levels.
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D.
ISSP
ISSP is a renowned research institute of the University of Tokyo specializing in condensed matter and solid state physics.
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E.
ISE
ISE is the stock exchange identified by the abbreviation "ISE" on which RYA is listed or traded.
- 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: ISI Target entity description: ISI (the Institute for Scientific Information) is a pioneering organization in bibliometrics and citation indexing, best known for creating influential tools for tracking and analyzing scientific literature.
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A.
ISI
ISI is an organization that inspects and regulates independent schools to ensure they meet required educational and welfare standards.
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B.
ISC
ISC is the commonly used abbreviation for the International Science Council, a global non-governmental organization that advances and coordinates international scientific research and policy.
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C.
IAS
IAS is India’s premier civil service responsible for administrative leadership and implementation of government policies at the central and state levels.
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D.
ISSP
ISSP is a renowned research institute of the University of Tokyo specializing in condensed matter and solid state physics.
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E.
ISE
ISE is the stock exchange identified by the abbreviation "ISE" on which RYA is listed or traded.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bibliographic database provider
ⓘ
citation indexing organization ⓘ company ⓘ information services organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation | ISI ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Thomson Corporation ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
ⓘ
linked to:
Philadelphia
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creatorOf |
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
ⓘ
Journal Citation Reports ⓘ Science Citation Index ⓘ Social Sciences Citation Index ⓘ journal impact factor metric ⓘ |
| database |
citation indexes
ⓘ
journal citation data ⓘ |
| field |
bibliometrics
ⓘ
information science ⓘ scientometrics ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
citation analysis
ⓘ
research evaluation tools ⓘ tracking scientific literature ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Eugene Garfield ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
ⓘ
linked to:
Philadelphia
|
| influencedField |
library and information science
ⓘ
research assessment ⓘ science policy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
developing impact factor
ⓘ
influencing research evaluation practices ⓘ pioneering citation indexing ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
ⓘ
Journal Citation Reports ⓘ Science Citation Index ⓘ Social Sciences Citation Index ⓘ citation indexing ⓘ impact factor ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
academic information services
ⓘ
scientific publishing industry ⓘ |
| product |
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
ⓘ
Current Contents ⓘ Journal Citation Reports ⓘ Science Citation Index ⓘ Social Sciences Citation Index ⓘ Web of Science precursor databases ⓘ
linked to:
Web of Science
|
| serviceType |
abstracting service
ⓘ
analytics service ⓘ indexing service ⓘ |
| standsFor |
Institute for Scientific Information
ⓘ
linked to:
Clarivate Analytics
|
| successor |
Clarivate
ⓘ
linked to:
Clarivate Analytics
|
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: ISI Description of subject: ISI (the Institute for Scientific Information) is a pioneering organization in bibliometrics and citation indexing, best known for creating influential tools for tracking and analyzing scientific literature.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.