Ensembl
E736812
Ensembl is a comprehensive genome annotation and browsing platform that provides detailed, regularly updated genomic data for a wide range of species.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ensembl canonical | 9 |
| Ensembl Genomes | 3 |
| Ensembl Bacteria | 1 |
| Ensembl Fungi | 1 |
| Ensembl Metazoa | 1 |
| Ensembl Plants | 1 |
| Ensembl Protists | 1 |
| Ensembl genome browser | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8482720 — 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: Ensembl Context triple: [EMBL-EBI AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, relatedTo, Ensembl]
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A.
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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B.
GenBank
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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C.
ENSB
ENSB is the ICAO airport code for Svalbard Airport, Longyear, the main air gateway to the Svalbard archipelago in Norway.
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D.
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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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: Ensembl Target entity description: Ensembl is a comprehensive genome annotation and browsing platform that provides detailed, regularly updated genomic data for a wide range of species.
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A.
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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B.
GenBank
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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C.
ENSB
ENSB is the ICAO airport code for Svalbard Airport, Longyear, the main air gateway to the Svalbard archipelago in Norway.
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D.
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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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 (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genome annotation platform
ⓘ
genome browser ⓘ |
| accessModel | free to use ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dataType |
comparative genomics data
ⓘ
functional genomics data ⓘ gene annotation ⓘ genome annotation ⓘ regulatory annotation ⓘ transcript annotation ⓘ variation data ⓘ |
| developer |
European Bioinformatics Institute
ⓘ
Wellcome Sanger Institute ⓘ |
| feature |
BioMart data mining tool
ⓘ
linked to:
biomaRt package
FTP data downloads ⓘ Perl API ⓘ
linked to:
Perl
REST API ⓘ gene trees ⓘ graphical genome browser ⓘ integrated external database cross-references ⓘ multiple genome alignments ⓘ programmatic API access ⓘ regulatory build ⓘ variant effect prediction ⓘ |
| field |
bioinformatics
ⓘ
computational biology ⓘ genomics ⓘ |
| focus |
comparative genomics
ⓘ
genetic variation ⓘ reference genome annotation ⓘ regulatory genomics ⓘ |
| hasSubProject |
Ensembl Bacteria
ⓘ
linked to:
Ensembl
Ensembl Fungi ⓘ
linked to:
Ensembl
Ensembl Genomes ⓘ
linked to:
Ensembl
Ensembl Metazoa ⓘ
linked to:
Ensembl
Ensembl Plants ⓘ
linked to:
Ensembl
Ensembl Protists ⓘ
linked to:
Ensembl
|
| license | open access ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
European Bioinformatics Institute
ⓘ
Wellcome Sanger Institute ⓘ |
| supportsSpecies |
Arabidopsis thaliana
ⓘ
Danio rerio ⓘ Drosophila melanogaster ⓘ Homo sapiens ⓘ Mus musculus ⓘ
linked to:
house mouse (Mus musculus)
Saccharomyces cerevisiae ⓘ selected invertebrate species ⓘ wide range of vertebrate species ⓘ |
| targetUser |
bioinformaticians
ⓘ
clinicians ⓘ research scientists ⓘ students and educators ⓘ |
| updateFrequency | regularly updated ⓘ |
| usedFor |
comparative genomics analyses
ⓘ
functional genomics integration ⓘ gene annotation retrieval ⓘ genome browsing ⓘ variant interpretation ⓘ |
| website | https://www.ensembl.org ⓘ |
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: Ensembl Description of subject: Ensembl is a comprehensive genome annotation and browsing platform that provides detailed, regularly updated genomic data for a wide range of species.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ensembl
subject linked to:
Gene Ontology (GO)
linked to: Ensembl
linked to: Ensembl
linked to: Ensembl
linked to: Ensembl
linked to: Ensembl
linked to: Ensembl
linked to: Ensembl
subject linked to:
Pfam domains
subject linked to:
InterPro entries