ALA Midwinter Meeting
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The ALA Midwinter Meeting is a major annual conference of library and information professionals focused on governance, professional development, and shaping the policies and priorities of the American Library Association.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| ALA Midwinter Meeting canonical | 7 |
| ALA Midwinter | 1 |
| ALA Midwinter Meeting or LibLearnX | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3500908 — 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: ALA Midwinter Meeting Context triple: [American Library Association, organizes, ALA Midwinter Meeting]
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ACS Spring National Meeting
The ACS Spring National Meeting is a major annual scientific conference that brings together chemists and related professionals to present research, network, and discuss advances across the chemical sciences.
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ACS Fall National Meeting
The ACS Fall National Meeting is a major annual scientific conference that brings together chemists and researchers from around the world to present new findings, network, and discuss advances across all areas of chemistry.
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C.
AAPT Winter Meeting
The AAPT Winter Meeting is a major annual conference that brings together physics educators, researchers, and students to share teaching practices, resources, and developments in physics education.
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D.
AAPT Summer Meeting
AAPT Summer Meeting is a major annual conference that brings together physics educators to share teaching practices, resources, and research in physics education.
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E.
Joint Mathematics Meetings
The Joint Mathematics Meetings is the largest annual mathematics conference in the world, bringing together researchers, educators, and students across diverse mathematical disciplines.
- 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: ALA Midwinter Meeting Target entity description: The ALA Midwinter Meeting is a major annual conference of library and information professionals focused on governance, professional development, and shaping the policies and priorities of the American Library Association.
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A.
ACS Spring National Meeting
The ACS Spring National Meeting is a major annual scientific conference that brings together chemists and related professionals to present research, network, and discuss advances across the chemical sciences.
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B.
ACS Fall National Meeting
The ACS Fall National Meeting is a major annual scientific conference that brings together chemists and researchers from around the world to present new findings, network, and discuss advances across all areas of chemistry.
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C.
AAPT Winter Meeting
The AAPT Winter Meeting is a major annual conference that brings together physics educators, researchers, and students to share teaching practices, resources, and developments in physics education.
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D.
AAPT Summer Meeting
AAPT Summer Meeting is a major annual conference that brings together physics educators to share teaching practices, resources, and research in physics education.
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E.
Joint Mathematics Meetings
The Joint Mathematics Meetings is the largest annual mathematics conference in the world, bringing together researchers, educators, and students across diverse mathematical disciplines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
library conference
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professional conference ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| field | library and information science ⓘ |
| focus |
governance of the American Library Association
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policy-making for the American Library Association ⓘ professional development for library workers ⓘ strategic planning for the American Library Association ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| governingBodyActivities |
ALA Council meetings
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ALA Executive Board meetings ⓘ division board meetings ⓘ round table meetings ⓘ |
| includes |
author events
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committee meetings ⓘ exhibits ⓘ governance sessions ⓘ interest group meetings ⓘ networking events ⓘ policy discussions ⓘ professional development programs ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| organizedBy | American Library Association ⓘ |
| purpose |
to conduct official business of the American Library Association
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to facilitate collaboration among library organizations ⓘ to provide continuing education for library professionals ⓘ to set priorities for the American Library Association ⓘ |
| relatedEvent | ALA Annual Conference ⓘ |
| sector | nonprofit ⓘ |
| shortName |
ALA Midwinter
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linked to:
ALA Midwinter Meeting
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| sponsor |
ALA divisions
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ALA round tables ⓘ library vendors ⓘ |
| targetAudience | library and information professionals ⓘ |
| topic |
collection development
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information access ⓘ information technology in libraries ⓘ intellectual freedom ⓘ library advocacy ⓘ library management ⓘ library policy ⓘ |
| typicalAttendees |
librarians
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library administrators ⓘ library school students ⓘ library support staff ⓘ library trustees ⓘ library vendors ⓘ |
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: ALA Midwinter Meeting Description of subject: The ALA Midwinter Meeting is a major annual conference of library and information professionals focused on governance, professional development, and shaping the policies and priorities of the American Library Association.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: ALA Midwinter Meeting
linked to: ALA Midwinter Meeting