Ohio College Library Center
E397628
Ohio College Library Center was the original name of OCLC, a global nonprofit cooperative that provides shared technology services, original research, and community programs for libraries worldwide.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ohio College Library Center canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3900746 — 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: Ohio College Library Center Context triple: [OCLC, formerName, Ohio College Library Center]
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A.
Oberlin Group of Libraries
The Oberlin Group of Libraries is a consortium of selective liberal arts college libraries in the United States that collaborates to enhance academic resources, services, and innovation in support of undergraduate education.
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B.
Widener Library
Widener Library is Harvard University's principal humanities and social sciences library and one of the largest university libraries in the world.
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C.
Oviatt Library
Oviatt Library is the main academic library and research hub serving students and faculty at California State University, Northridge.
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D.
McKeldin Library
McKeldin Library is the main academic library of the University of Maryland, College Park, serving as a central hub for research, study, and campus resources.
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E.
Olin Library
Olin Library is a major academic library at Cornell University, serving as a central research and study hub on the Ithaca campus.
- 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: Ohio College Library Center Target entity description: Ohio College Library Center was the original name of OCLC, a global nonprofit cooperative that provides shared technology services, original research, and community programs for libraries worldwide.
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A.
Oberlin Group of Libraries
The Oberlin Group of Libraries is a consortium of selective liberal arts college libraries in the United States that collaborates to enhance academic resources, services, and innovation in support of undergraduate education.
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B.
Widener Library
Widener Library is Harvard University's principal humanities and social sciences library and one of the largest university libraries in the world.
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C.
Oviatt Library
Oviatt Library is the main academic library and research hub serving students and faculty at California State University, Northridge.
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D.
McKeldin Library
McKeldin Library is the main academic library of the University of Maryland, College Park, serving as a central hub for research, study, and campus resources.
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E.
Olin Library
Olin Library is a major academic library at Cornell University, serving as a central research and study hub on the Ithaca campus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
library cooperative
ⓘ
library service organization ⓘ nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| cooperatesWith |
libraries worldwide
ⓘ
library consortia ⓘ national library organizations ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fieldOfWork |
bibliographic control
ⓘ
digital preservation ⓘ information retrieval ⓘ library automation ⓘ |
| hasMotto | The world’s libraries. Connected. ⓘ |
| hasObjective |
to improve access to the world’s information in libraries
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to reduce library costs through cooperation ⓘ to support innovation in libraries through research ⓘ |
| hasPart | WorldCat ⓘ |
| hasResearchArea |
digital libraries
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library usage analytics ⓘ linked data for libraries ⓘ metadata standards ⓘ resource sharing ⓘ |
| hasSuccessor | OCLC ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Dublin, Ohio ⓘ |
| industry |
information technology
ⓘ
library and information science ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | nonprofit cooperative ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Ohio ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
UTC−04:00
ⓘ
UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
| operatesAs | OCLC ⓘ |
| operatesInSector |
academic libraries
ⓘ
national libraries ⓘ public libraries ⓘ special libraries ⓘ |
| productOrService | WorldCat ⓘ |
| scope | global ⓘ |
| serviceProvided |
bibliographic database services
ⓘ
interlibrary loan services ⓘ library management systems ⓘ research in library and information science ⓘ shared cataloging services ⓘ training and community programs for libraries ⓘ |
| use |
Dewey Decimal Classification
ⓘ
MARC standards ⓘ other library metadata standards ⓘ |
| website | https://www.oclc.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: Ohio College Library Center Description of subject: Ohio College Library Center was the original name of OCLC, a global nonprofit cooperative that provides shared technology services, original research, and community programs for libraries worldwide.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.