CAS
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CAS is a division of the American Chemical Society that provides authoritative chemical information services and databases, including the CAS Registry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CAS canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10025548 — 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: CAS Context triple: [CAS Common Chemistry, maintainedBy, CAS]
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A.
CAS
CAS is the commonly used abbreviation for the Chief of the Air Staff, the professional head of an air force in several countries.
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B.
CAS
CAS is the College of Arts & Sciences at Boston University, the university’s largest academic division offering a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs in the liberal arts and sciences.
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C.
CAS
CAS is the abbreviation for the International Labour Organization’s Committee on the Application of Standards, a key supervisory body that reviews how countries implement ILO conventions.
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CAS
CAS is the National Rail station code for Castleton railway station in Greater Manchester, England.
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CAS
CAS is an international institution that settles sports-related disputes through arbitration and mediation, often referred to as the "supreme court" of sport.
- 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: CAS Target entity description: CAS is a division of the American Chemical Society that provides authoritative chemical information services and databases, including the CAS Registry.
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CAS
CAS is the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China’s national scientific research institution and leading academic organization in natural sciences and high technology.
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CAS
CAS is the abbreviated name commonly used for Harvard University's Center for African Studies, an interdisciplinary hub for research, teaching, and engagement related to Africa.
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C.
CAS
CAS is the College of Arts & Sciences at Boston University, the university’s largest academic division offering a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs in the liberal arts and sciences.
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CAS
CAS is the abbreviation for the International Labour Organization’s Committee on the Application of Standards, a key supervisory body that reviews how countries implement ILO conventions.
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CAS
CAS is an international institution that settles sports-related disputes through arbitration and mediation, often referred to as the "supreme court" of sport.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
chemical information service
ⓘ
division of professional society ⓘ scientific information provider ⓘ |
| assigns | CAS Registry Numbers ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dataType |
bibliographic data
ⓘ
chemical properties ⓘ chemical structures ⓘ patent data ⓘ reactions ⓘ regulatory data ⓘ |
| field |
chemical information
ⓘ
chemistry ⓘ scientific information ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
agrochemical information
ⓘ
chemical reactions ⓘ chemical substances ⓘ drug discovery information ⓘ materials science information ⓘ patent information ⓘ regulatory chemical information ⓘ scientific literature ⓘ |
| fullName |
CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society
ⓘ
linked to:
Chemical Abstracts Service
|
| goal | to organize and make accessible chemical information worldwide ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Columbus, Ohio, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Columbus, Ohio
|
| knownFor |
CAS Registry
ⓘ
linked to:
CAS REGISTRY
assigning CAS Registry Numbers ⓘ comprehensive coverage of chemical literature ⓘ curated chemical data ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| maintains |
CAS Registry
ⓘ
linked to:
CAS REGISTRY
chemical substance database ⓘ reaction database ⓘ scientific literature index ⓘ |
| operatedBy | American Chemical Society ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | American Chemical Society ⓘ |
| provides |
CAS Registry
ⓘ
linked to:
CAS REGISTRY
CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform ⓘ
linked to:
SciFinder-n
STN International (with partners) ⓘ
linked to:
STN International
SciFinder-n ⓘ chemical information services ⓘ custom data solutions ⓘ research tools ⓘ scientific databases ⓘ |
| serves |
academic researchers
ⓘ
government researchers ⓘ industrial researchers ⓘ patent professionals ⓘ regulatory agencies ⓘ |
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: CAS Description of subject: CAS is a division of the American Chemical Society that provides authoritative chemical information services and databases, including the CAS Registry.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.