Library Manual
E416708
"Library Manual" is a significant work on library science and practice by Indian librarian and scholar S. R. Ranganathan, reflecting his influential ideas on library organization and management.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Library Manual canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4163318 — 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: Library Manual Context triple: [S. R. Ranganathan, notableWork, Library Manual]
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A.
Library Association
The Library Association was a major professional body and publishing organization for librarians and information professionals in the United Kingdom, known for producing influential cataloguing standards and library science literature.
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B.
Library Resources & Technical Services
Library Resources & Technical Services is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal focusing on collection management, cataloging, preservation, and other technical services in libraries.
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C.
Library and Archives
Library and Archives is the research and historical collections center of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, housing botanical literature, manuscripts, and archival materials.
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D.
Librarian’s Records Room
The Librarian’s Records Room is a specialized archival space within the Library of Congress dedicated to housing and managing the official records and documentation of the Librarian of Congress.
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E.
Reading Room
The Reading Room is the iconic domed central library space of the British Museum, historically used by scholars and writers as a major research and study area.
- 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: Library Manual Target entity description: "Library Manual" is a significant work on library science and practice by Indian librarian and scholar S. R. Ranganathan, reflecting his influential ideas on library organization and management.
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A.
Library Association
The Library Association was a major professional body and publishing organization for librarians and information professionals in the United Kingdom, known for producing influential cataloguing standards and library science literature.
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B.
Library Resources & Technical Services
Library Resources & Technical Services is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal focusing on collection management, cataloging, preservation, and other technical services in libraries.
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C.
Library and Archives
Library and Archives is the research and historical collections center of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, housing botanical literature, manuscripts, and archival materials.
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D.
Librarian’s Records Room
The Librarian’s Records Room is a specialized archival space within the Library of Congress dedicated to housing and managing the official records and documentation of the Librarian of Congress.
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E.
Reading Room
The Reading Room is the iconic domed central library space of the British Museum, historically used by scholars and writers as a major research and study area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
work on library science ⓘ |
| associatedWith | S. R. Ranganathan’s school of library science ⓘ |
| author | S. R. Ranganathan ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | India ⓘ |
| describes |
methods of library management
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practical procedures for library work ⓘ principles of library organization ⓘ |
| field | library and information science ⓘ |
| genre |
library science
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professional manual ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | Indian ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
library education in India
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library management practices in Indian libraries ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
librarians
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library administrators ⓘ library science students ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
library management
ⓘ
library organization ⓘ library practice ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influencing library practice in India
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presenting S. R. Ranganathan’s ideas on library organization ⓘ |
| notableWork | Library Manual ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Colon Classification
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Five Laws of Library Science ⓘ |
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: Library Manual Description of subject: "Library Manual" is a significant work on library science and practice by Indian librarian and scholar S. R. Ranganathan, reflecting his influential ideas on library organization and management.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Library Manual