Gene Ontology (GO)
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Gene Ontology (GO) is a major bioinformatics initiative that provides a structured, controlled vocabulary to describe gene and gene product attributes across species in terms of their molecular functions, biological processes, and cellular components.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gene Ontology Consortium | 2 |
| Gene Ontology | 1 |
| Gene Ontology (GO) canonical | 1 |
| Gene Ontology annotation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7277846 — 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: Gene Ontology (GO) Context triple: [OWL 2 EL, usedIn, Gene Ontology (GO)]
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A.
Taxonomy Browser
Taxonomy Browser is an online NCBI tool that allows users to explore and retrieve information about the classification and nomenclature of organisms across the tree of life.
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B.
MeSH
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is a comprehensive controlled vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing, cataloging, and searching biomedical and health-related information.
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C.
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.
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D.
Genes and Signals
Genes and Signals is a molecular biology book by Mark Ptashne that explains how genes are regulated through signaling pathways and protein-DNA interactions.
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E.
FlyBase
FlyBase is a comprehensive online database of genetic and genomic information for the fruit fly Drosophila and related species.
- 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: Gene Ontology (GO) Target entity description: Gene Ontology (GO) is a major bioinformatics initiative that provides a structured, controlled vocabulary to describe gene and gene product attributes across species in terms of their molecular functions, biological processes, and cellular components.
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A.
Taxonomy Browser
Taxonomy Browser is an online NCBI tool that allows users to explore and retrieve information about the classification and nomenclature of organisms across the tree of life.
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B.
MeSH
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is a comprehensive controlled vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing, cataloging, and searching biomedical and health-related information.
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C.
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.
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D.
Genes and Signals
Genes and Signals is a molecular biology book by Mark Ptashne that explains how genes are regulated through signaling pathways and protein-DNA interactions.
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E.
FlyBase
FlyBase is a comprehensive online database of genetic and genomic information for the fruit fly Drosophila and related species.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bioinformatics ontology
ⓘ
biomedical ontology ⓘ controlled vocabulary ⓘ |
| abbreviation | GO ⓘ |
| coordinatedBy |
Gene Ontology Consortium
ⓘ
linked to:
Gene Ontology (GO)
|
| describes |
gene attributes
ⓘ
gene product attributes ⓘ |
| field |
bioinformatics
ⓘ
computational biology ⓘ molecular biology ⓘ |
| goal |
enable consistent annotation across species
ⓘ
provide structured vocabulary for gene annotation ⓘ support functional genomics research ⓘ |
| hasAnnotationFormat |
GAF
ⓘ
GPAD ⓘ GPI ⓘ Gene Association File ⓘ |
| hasAspect |
biological process
ⓘ
cellular component ⓘ molecular function ⓘ |
| hasFileFormat |
OBO
ⓘ
OWL ⓘ |
| hasLicense | open access ⓘ |
| hasPart |
biological process ontology
ⓘ
cellular component ontology ⓘ molecular function ontology ⓘ |
| hasReleaseType |
annotation file
ⓘ
ontology file ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Gene Ontology Consortium
ⓘ
linked to:
Gene Ontology (GO)
|
| relationType |
is_a
ⓘ
negatively_regulates ⓘ part_of ⓘ positively_regulates ⓘ regulates ⓘ |
| scope |
eukaryotes
ⓘ
multiple species ⓘ prokaryotes ⓘ viruses ⓘ |
| supports |
high-throughput data interpretation
ⓘ
machine-readable annotations ⓘ network analysis ⓘ systems biology ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Ensembl
ⓘ
NCBI Gene ⓘ
linked to:
NCBI Gene database
UniProt ⓘ
linked to:
UniProt Knowledgebase
model organism databases ⓘ |
| usedFor |
comparative genomics
ⓘ
enrichment analysis ⓘ functional annotation of genes ⓘ functional annotation of proteins ⓘ pathway analysis ⓘ |
| uses | directed acyclic graph structure ⓘ |
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: Gene Ontology (GO) Description of subject: Gene Ontology (GO) is a major bioinformatics initiative that provides a structured, controlled vocabulary to describe gene and gene product attributes across species in terms of their molecular functions, biological processes, and cellular components.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Gene Ontology (GO)
linked to: Gene Ontology (GO)
subject linked to:
Gene Ontology (GO)
linked to: Gene Ontology (GO)
linked to: Gene Ontology (GO)
linked to: Gene Ontology (GO)