ISTC
E851608
ISTC (Incunabula Short Title Catalogue) is an international database that records and describes editions of books printed in Europe before 1501.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ISTC canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10258662 — 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: ISTC Context triple: [ISTC (Incunabula Short Title Catalogue), abbreviation, ISTC]
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A.
ITCST
ITCST is the UN/LOCODE identifier for the city of Caserta in Italy, used in international trade and transport documentation.
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B.
ISCAS
ISCAS is a premier annual IEEE conference focused on research and innovation in circuits, systems, and related technologies.
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C.
IST
IST is the three-letter IATA airport code for Istanbul Airport, the main international gateway serving Istanbul, Turkey.
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D.
IST
IST is the time zone used throughout Israel, corresponding to UTC+2 in standard time and UTC+3 during daylight saving time.
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E.
IST
IST is the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo, a leading institution for advanced research and education in information science, computer science, and related fields.
- 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: ISTC Target entity description: ISTC (Incunabula Short Title Catalogue) is an international database that records and describes editions of books printed in Europe before 1501.
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A.
ITCST
ITCST is the UN/LOCODE identifier for the city of Caserta in Italy, used in international trade and transport documentation.
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B.
ISCAS
ISCAS is a premier annual IEEE conference focused on research and innovation in circuits, systems, and related technologies.
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C.
IST
IST is the three-letter IATA airport code for Istanbul Airport, the main international gateway serving Istanbul, Turkey.
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D.
IST
IST is the time zone used throughout Israel, corresponding to UTC+2 in standard time and UTC+3 during daylight saving time.
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E.
IST
IST is the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo, a leading institution for advanced research and education in information science, computer science, and related fields.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bibliographic database
ⓘ
incunabula catalogue ⓘ |
| accessMode |
online
ⓘ
open access ⓘ |
| acronym | ISTC ⓘ |
| aimsTo | provide a comprehensive record of 15th-century European printing ⓘ |
| countryOfOperator | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dataGranularity | edition-level ⓘ |
| dataSource |
contributions from libraries worldwide
ⓘ
published incunabula bibliographies ⓘ |
| describes | editions of books printed in Europe before 1501 ⓘ |
| excludes |
manuscripts
ⓘ
post-1500 editions ⓘ |
| focusesOn | incunabula ⓘ |
| fullName |
Incunabula Short Title Catalogue
ⓘ
linked to:
ISTC (Incunabula Short Title Catalogue)
|
| geographicCoverage | Europe ⓘ |
| hasCatalogueType | short-title catalogue ⓘ |
| hasFormat | web database ⓘ |
| hasIdentifierScheme | ISTC number ⓘ |
| hasUserInterface | searchable web interface ⓘ |
| hostInstitution |
British Library, London
ⓘ
linked to:
British Library
|
| hostInstitutionType | national library ⓘ |
| isComparableTo |
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke
ⓘ
Universal Short Title Catalogue ⓘ |
| languageOfInterface | English ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | British Library ⓘ |
| operator | British Library ⓘ |
| primaryChronologicalScope | 15th-century printing ⓘ |
| primaryMaterialType | printed books ⓘ |
| records |
ISTC identifiers for editions
ⓘ
format information ⓘ imprint information ⓘ locations of surviving copies ⓘ references to standard bibliographies ⓘ short-title bibliographic descriptions ⓘ |
| resourceType |
reference tool
ⓘ
research infrastructure ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
bibliography
ⓘ
book history ⓘ printing history ⓘ |
| temporalCoverageEnd | 1500 ⓘ |
| temporalCoverageStart | c. 1450 ⓘ |
| usedBy |
bibliographers
ⓘ
book historians ⓘ librarians ⓘ rare book cataloguers ⓘ |
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: ISTC Description of subject: ISTC (Incunabula Short Title Catalogue) is an international database that records and describes editions of books printed in Europe before 1501.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.