GenBank
E570176
GenBank is a comprehensive public database of nucleotide sequences and their associated annotation, widely used as a primary resource for genetic and genomic research.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| GenBank canonical | 9 |
| GenBank sequence records | 1 |
| Genetic Sequence Data Bank | 1 |
| NCBI nucleotide databases | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6098237 — 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: GenBank Context triple: [National Center for Biotechnology Information, hasDatabase, GenBank]
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A.
NCBI E-utilities API
The NCBI E-utilities API is a set of programmatic web services that allow automated querying, retrieval, and integration of data from NCBI databases such as PubMed.
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B.
National Center for Biotechnology Information
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is a U.S. government bioinformatics institution that develops and hosts major biological databases and tools for biomedical research.
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C.
UniGene database
The UniGene database is a now-retired NCBI resource that organized expressed sequence tags and other gene-oriented sequence data into non-redundant clusters representing unique genes in a given organism.
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D.
BioProject database
The BioProject database is an NCBI resource that organizes and links together data from large-scale biological research projects, such as genome sequencing and functional genomics studies.
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E.
RefSeq
RefSeq is a curated, non-redundant collection of reference DNA, RNA, and protein sequences maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information for use in genome annotation and biological research.
- 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: GenBank Target entity description: GenBank is a comprehensive public database of nucleotide sequences and their associated annotation, widely used as a primary resource for genetic and genomic research.
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A.
NCBI E-utilities API
The NCBI E-utilities API is a set of programmatic web services that allow automated querying, retrieval, and integration of data from NCBI databases such as PubMed.
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B.
National Center for Biotechnology Information
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is a U.S. government bioinformatics institution that develops and hosts major biological databases and tools for biomedical research.
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C.
UniGene database
The UniGene database is a now-retired NCBI resource that organized expressed sequence tags and other gene-oriented sequence data into non-redundant clusters representing unique genes in a given organism.
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D.
BioProject database
The BioProject database is an NCBI resource that organizes and links together data from large-scale biological research projects, such as genome sequencing and functional genomics studies.
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E.
RefSeq
RefSeq is a curated, non-redundant collection of reference DNA, RNA, and protein sequences maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information for use in genome annotation and biological research.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biological database
ⓘ
nucleotide sequence database ⓘ public database ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Genetic Sequence Data Bank
ⓘ
linked to:
GenBank
|
| accessibleVia |
NCBI E-utilities API
ⓘ
NCBI Entrez system ⓘ
linked to:
Entrez system
NCBI web interface ⓘ |
| accessPolicy |
free to use
ⓘ
publicly accessible ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
DDBJ
ⓘ
DNA Data Bank of Japan ⓘ ENA ⓘ European Nucleotide Archive ⓘ |
| contains |
bibliographic references
ⓘ
coding sequence features ⓘ gene features ⓘ nucleotide sequences ⓘ protein translation information ⓘ sequence annotations ⓘ sequence metadata ⓘ taxonomic information ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dataType |
DNA sequences
ⓘ
RNA sequences ⓘ bacterial genomes ⓘ eukaryotic genomes ⓘ genomic sequences ⓘ mRNA sequences ⓘ organellar genomes ⓘ viral genomes ⓘ |
| field |
bioinformatics
ⓘ
genomics ⓘ molecular biology ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
ASN.1
ⓘ
FASTA ⓘ GenBank flat file format ⓘ |
| hasIdentifier |
accession number
ⓘ
version number ⓘ |
| hostedBy | National Center for Biotechnology Information website ⓘ |
| isPrimaryResourceFor |
comparative genomics
ⓘ
genetic research ⓘ genomic research ⓘ molecular evolution studies ⓘ phylogenetic analysis ⓘ sequence analysis ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Bethesda, Maryland ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
NCBI
ⓘ
National Center for Biotechnology Information ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
NLM
ⓘ
linked to:
United States National Library of Medicine
U.S. National Library of Medicine ⓘ
linked to:
United States National Library of Medicine
|
| partOf | International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
biotechnology
ⓘ
life sciences ⓘ |
| synchronizesDataWith |
DNA Data Bank of Japan
ⓘ
European Nucleotide Archive ⓘ |
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: GenBank Description of subject: GenBank is a comprehensive public database of nucleotide sequences and their associated annotation, widely used as a primary resource for genetic and genomic research.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.