Medical Subject Headings
E353351
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is a comprehensive controlled vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing, cataloging, and searching biomedical and health-related information.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Medical Subject Headings canonical | 4 |
| MeSH database | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3389579 — 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: Medical Subject Headings Context triple: [MEDLINE, subjectHeadingSystem, Medical Subject Headings]
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A.
SNOMED CT
SNOMED CT is a comprehensive, multilingual clinical healthcare terminology used worldwide to standardize the recording and sharing of medical information in electronic health records.
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B.
International Classification of Diseases
The International Classification of Diseases is a globally used diagnostic system that standardizes codes for diseases, health conditions, and related medical problems to support clinical care, research, and health statistics.
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C.
SNOMED International
SNOMED International is a global not-for-profit organization responsible for developing and promoting the SNOMED CT clinical terminology standard used in healthcare systems worldwide.
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D.
MEDLINE
MEDLINE is a premier bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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E.
Current Procedural Terminology
Current Procedural Terminology is a standardized medical code set used in the United States to document and bill for medical, surgical, and diagnostic services.
- 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: Medical Subject Headings Target entity description: Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is a comprehensive controlled vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing, cataloging, and searching biomedical and health-related information.
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A.
SNOMED CT
SNOMED CT is a comprehensive, multilingual clinical healthcare terminology used worldwide to standardize the recording and sharing of medical information in electronic health records.
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B.
International Classification of Diseases
The International Classification of Diseases is a globally used diagnostic system that standardizes codes for diseases, health conditions, and related medical problems to support clinical care, research, and health statistics.
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C.
SNOMED International
SNOMED International is a global not-for-profit organization responsible for developing and promoting the SNOMED CT clinical terminology standard used in healthcare systems worldwide.
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D.
MEDLINE
MEDLINE is a premier bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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E.
Current Procedural Terminology
Current Procedural Terminology is a standardized medical code set used in the United States to document and bill for medical, surgical, and diagnostic services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (74)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biomedical ontology
ⓘ
controlled vocabulary ⓘ subject heading system ⓘ thesaurus ⓘ |
| abbreviation | MeSH ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| field |
biomedicine
ⓘ
health sciences ⓘ life sciences ⓘ |
| governedBy | National Library of Medicine policies ⓘ |
| hasAccessURL | https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov ⓘ |
| hasApplication |
bibliometric analysis
ⓘ
clinical guideline development ⓘ systematic reviews ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
MeSH descriptors
ⓘ
MeSH publication types ⓘ
linked to:
MeSH
MeSH qualifiers ⓘ MeSH supplementary concept records ⓘ
linked to:
MeSH Supplementary Concept Records
MeSH tree structures ⓘ |
| hasDownloadURL | https://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/download/mesh.html ⓘ |
| hasGovernanceBody |
NLM MeSH Section
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linked to:
NLM bibliographic services
|
| hasNotationSystem | tree numbers ⓘ |
| hasTopLevelCategory |
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
ⓘ
Anatomy ⓘ Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena ⓘ Chemicals and Drugs ⓘ Disciplines and Occupations ⓘ Diseases ⓘ Geographicals ⓘ Health Care ⓘ Humanities ⓘ Information Science ⓘ Named Groups ⓘ Organisms ⓘ Phenomena and Processes ⓘ Psychiatry and Psychology ⓘ Publication Characteristics ⓘ Technology, Industry, Agriculture ⓘ |
| hasTranslation |
Chinese
ⓘ
French ⓘ German ⓘ Japanese ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ Russian ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| isUpdated | annually ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| license | freely available for download and use with some restrictions ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | United States National Library of Medicine ⓘ |
| organizesConceptsBy |
alphabetical structure
ⓘ
categorical structure ⓘ hierarchical structure ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Subject Heading Authority List of the National Library of Medicine
ⓘ
linked to:
MeSH
|
| publisher | United States National Library of Medicine ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
ICD
ⓘ
SNOMED CT ⓘ Unified Medical Language System ⓘ |
| startTime | 1960 ⓘ |
| supports |
information retrieval in health sciences
ⓘ
literature curation ⓘ semantic search in biomedical databases ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Index Medicus (historical)
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MEDLINE ⓘ PubMed ⓘ biomedical libraries ⓘ database providers ⓘ indexers ⓘ |
| usedFor |
MEDLINE indexing
ⓘ
NLM Catalog indexing ⓘ
linked to:
NLM bibliographic services
PubMed indexing ⓘ cataloging biomedical information ⓘ indexing biomedical literature ⓘ searching biomedical databases ⓘ |
| usesConceptIdentifier | unique identifier (UI) ⓘ |
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: Medical Subject Headings Description of subject: Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is a comprehensive controlled vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing, cataloging, and searching biomedical and health-related information.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Medical Subject Headings