BNF bibliographic database
E569995
The BNF bibliographic database is the comprehensive online catalog of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, providing detailed bibliographic records for its collections of books, manuscripts, and other documents.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| BNF bibliographic database canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6119734 — 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: BNF bibliographic database Context triple: [FRBNF11864601, partOfDatabase, BNF bibliographic database]
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A.
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) is a conceptual model developed by the International Federation of Library Associations to define user-focused tasks and relationships for bibliographic records in library catalogs.
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B.
Z39.50
Z39.50 is a client-server protocol used primarily by libraries and information services to search and retrieve bibliographic and related data from remote databases in a standardized way.
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C.
Book Citation Index
Book Citation Index is a scholarly database within the Web of Science platform that indexes and tracks citation data for academic books and book chapters across disciplines.
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D.
BibTeX
BibTeX is a tool and file format used with LaTeX to manage and format bibliographic references in scholarly documents.
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E.
Maschinelles Austauschformat für Bibliotheken
Maschinelles Austauschformat für Bibliotheken (MAB) is a German machine-readable data exchange format historically used by libraries to encode and share bibliographic and authority records.
- 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: BNF bibliographic database Target entity description: The BNF bibliographic database is the comprehensive online catalog of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, providing detailed bibliographic records for its collections of books, manuscripts, and other documents.
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A.
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) is a conceptual model developed by the International Federation of Library Associations to define user-focused tasks and relationships for bibliographic records in library catalogs.
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B.
Z39.50
Z39.50 is a client-server protocol used primarily by libraries and information services to search and retrieve bibliographic and related data from remote databases in a standardized way.
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C.
Book Citation Index
Book Citation Index is a scholarly database within the Web of Science platform that indexes and tracks citation data for academic books and book chapters across disciplines.
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D.
BibTeX
BibTeX is a tool and file format used with LaTeX to manage and format bibliographic references in scholarly documents.
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E.
Maschinelles Austauschformat für Bibliotheken
Maschinelles Austauschformat für Bibliotheken (MAB) is a German machine-readable data exchange format historically used by libraries to encode and share bibliographic and authority records.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bibliographic database
ⓘ
online catalog ⓘ |
| accessMode |
online access
ⓘ
public web interface ⓘ |
| catalogingAgency | Bibliothèque nationale de France ⓘ |
| catalogs | collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France ⓘ |
| contentType |
authority data
ⓘ
bibliographic metadata ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| dataType | structured catalog records ⓘ |
| describes |
audiovisual documents
ⓘ
books ⓘ digital resources ⓘ iconographic documents ⓘ manuscripts ⓘ maps ⓘ periodicals ⓘ printed music ⓘ scores ⓘ sound recordings ⓘ |
| hasCoverage |
French publications
ⓘ
foreign publications held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
bibliographic control
ⓘ
collection management support ⓘ resource discovery ⓘ |
| hasPart |
authority records
ⓘ
bibliographic records ⓘ |
| isCatalogOf | Bibliothèque nationale de France collections ⓘ |
| isPartOf | services of the Bibliothèque nationale de France ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| locatedInJurisdiction | France ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Bibliothèque nationale de France ⓘ |
| medium | web-based interface ⓘ |
| operator | Bibliothèque nationale de France ⓘ |
| provides |
detailed bibliographic descriptions
ⓘ
searchable metadata ⓘ |
| recordType |
authority record
ⓘ
bibliographic record ⓘ |
| scope | national library collections of France ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
bibliography
ⓘ
information retrieval ⓘ library science ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
general public
ⓘ
librarians ⓘ researchers ⓘ |
| usesStandard |
authority control
ⓘ
bibliographic cataloging rules ⓘ |
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: BNF bibliographic database Description of subject: The BNF bibliographic database is the comprehensive online catalog of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, providing detailed bibliographic records for its collections of books, manuscripts, and other documents.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.