ELink
E569470
ELink is an NCBI E-utilities tool that retrieves and navigates links between related records across NCBI databases.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ELink canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6098400 — 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: ELink Context triple: [NCBI E-utilities API, hasComponent, ELink]
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A.
Getlink
Getlink is a French-based company that owns and operates the infrastructure of the Channel Tunnel rail link between the United Kingdom and continental Europe.
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B.
Fieldlink
Fieldlink was an early digital payments and security startup co-founded by Max Levchin that later evolved into the company behind PayPal.
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C.
XLink
XLink is an XML standard that extends basic linking capabilities by enabling rich, multidirectional, and metadata-enhanced hyperlinks between resources.
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D.
The Link
The Link is a key University College Birmingham facility that provides modern teaching, learning, and student support spaces.
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E.
LinkPass
LinkPass is a type of transit fare product used within the same system as the CharlieTicket, providing riders with a pass-based option for public transportation access.
- 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: ELink Target entity description: ELink is an NCBI E-utilities tool that retrieves and navigates links between related records across NCBI databases.
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A.
Getlink
Getlink is a French-based company that owns and operates the infrastructure of the Channel Tunnel rail link between the United Kingdom and continental Europe.
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B.
Fieldlink
Fieldlink was an early digital payments and security startup co-founded by Max Levchin that later evolved into the company behind PayPal.
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C.
XLink
XLink is an XML standard that extends basic linking capabilities by enabling rich, multidirectional, and metadata-enhanced hyperlinks between resources.
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D.
The Link
The Link is a key University College Birmingham facility that provides modern teaching, learning, and student support spaces.
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E.
LinkPass
LinkPass is a type of transit fare product used within the same system as the CharlieTicket, providing riders with a pass-based option for public transportation access.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCBI E-utilities tool
ⓘ
bioinformatics software component ⓘ web API method ⓘ |
| accessMethod |
HTTP GET
ⓘ
HTTP POST ⓘ |
| baseURL | https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi ⓘ |
| developer | National Center for Biotechnology Information ⓘ |
| documentationURL | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25501/#chapter4.ELink ⓘ |
| hostedBy |
NCBI Entrez system
ⓘ
linked to:
Entrez system
|
| inputParameter |
api_key
ⓘ
cmd ⓘ db ⓘ dbfrom ⓘ id ⓘ idtype ⓘ linkname ⓘ retmode ⓘ term ⓘ version ⓘ |
| license | free to use with NCBI usage policies ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | NCBI ⓘ |
| operatesOn |
Entrez records
ⓘ
NCBI databases ⓘ |
| outputFormat |
JSON
ⓘ
XML ⓘ text ⓘ |
| partOf |
NCBI E-utilities
ⓘ
linked to:
NCBI E-utilities API
NCBI Entrez Programming Utilities ⓘ
linked to:
NCBI E-utilities API
|
| purpose |
navigate links across NCBI databases
ⓘ
retrieve links between related records ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
EFetch
ⓘ
EInfo ⓘ ESearch ⓘ ESummary ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
bioinformatics
ⓘ
computational biology ⓘ |
| supportsDatabase |
Gene
ⓘ
Nucleotide ⓘ Protein ⓘ PubMed ⓘ Structure ⓘ Taxonomy ⓘ |
| supportsFunction |
database cross-linking
ⓘ
finding linked sequence records ⓘ finding related articles ⓘ link retrieval ⓘ neighbor discovery ⓘ |
| useCase |
building automated literature-to-sequence links
ⓘ
integrating NCBI links into pipelines ⓘ programmatic navigation of NCBI resources ⓘ |
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: ELink Description of subject: ELink is an NCBI E-utilities tool that retrieves and navigates links between related records across NCBI databases.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.