OCLC
E90481
bibliographic utility
library service organization
nonprofit cooperative organization
research organization
OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) is a global nonprofit cooperative organization that provides shared technology services, original research, and programs to help libraries catalog, manage, and share their collections worldwide.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| OCLC canonical | 21 |
| WorldCat | 3 |
| Melvyl | 1 |
| OCLC 13722135 | 1 |
| OCLC Global Council | 1 |
| OCLC PICA | 1 |
| OCLC PURL service | 1 |
| OCLC Regional Councils | 1 |
| OCLC Research | 1 |
| OCLC organization code LEXPL | 1 |
| WorldShare Management Services | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T759010 — 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: OCLC Context triple: [Dewey Decimal Classification, publisher, OCLC]
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A.
Library of Congress Online Catalog
The Library of Congress Online Catalog is the digital search system that provides public access to the Library of Congress’s vast collections of books, recordings, photographs, maps, and other materials.
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B.
Library of Congress Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate
The Library of Congress Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate is the division of the Library of Congress responsible for acquiring materials and creating the cataloging and bibliographic records that support access to the library’s collections.
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C.
Open Library project
The Open Library project is an online initiative to create a comprehensive, publicly accessible catalog of every book ever published, offering digital borrowing and reading where possible.
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D.
American Library Association
The American Library Association is a leading professional organization in the United States that promotes libraries and librarianship, sets standards for library education, and accredits library and information science programs.
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E.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the national library of the United States and one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive research libraries, serving as the research arm of the U.S. Congress.
- 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: OCLC Target entity description: OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) is a global nonprofit cooperative organization that provides shared technology services, original research, and programs to help libraries catalog, manage, and share their collections worldwide.
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A.
Library of Congress Online Catalog
The Library of Congress Online Catalog is the digital search system that provides public access to the Library of Congress’s vast collections of books, recordings, photographs, maps, and other materials.
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B.
Library of Congress Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate
The Library of Congress Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate is the division of the Library of Congress responsible for acquiring materials and creating the cataloging and bibliographic records that support access to the library’s collections.
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C.
Open Library project
The Open Library project is an online initiative to create a comprehensive, publicly accessible catalog of every book ever published, offering digital borrowing and reading where possible.
-
D.
American Library Association
The American Library Association is a leading professional organization in the United States that promotes libraries and librarianship, sets standards for library education, and accredits library and information science programs.
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E.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the national library of the United States and one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive research libraries, serving as the research arm of the U.S. Congress.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bibliographic utility
ⓘ
library service organization ⓘ nonprofit cooperative organization ⓘ research organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation | OCLC ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
archives
ⓘ
libraries ⓘ museums ⓘ |
| coreService |
discovery services
ⓘ
interlibrary loan ⓘ library management systems ⓘ metadata services ⓘ research and analytics ⓘ shared cataloging ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| developed |
WorldCat
ⓘ
linked to:
OCLC
|
| formerName | Ohio College Library Center ⓘ |
| founded | 1967 ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Fred Kilgour ⓘ |
| fullName | Online Computer Library Center ⓘ |
| fundingModel |
member fees
ⓘ
service fees ⓘ |
| hasMemberType |
academic libraries
ⓘ
national libraries ⓘ public libraries ⓘ school libraries ⓘ special libraries ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Dublin, Ohio ⓘ |
| legalStatus | nonprofit ⓘ |
| mission | to help libraries share resources and improve access to information ⓘ |
| operates |
WorldCat
ⓘ
linked to:
OCLC
|
| operatesIn | worldwide ⓘ |
| organizationalStructure | membership cooperative ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| researchArea |
information science
ⓘ
library science ⓘ library usage patterns ⓘ linked data ⓘ metadata standards ⓘ |
| sector | library and information science ⓘ |
| serviceType |
bibliographic database services
ⓘ
digital collection management services ⓘ library automation software ⓘ resource sharing services ⓘ union catalog services ⓘ |
| supportsStandard |
BIBFRAME
ⓘ
Dublin Core ⓘ MARC ⓘ
linked to:
MARC standards
OAI-PMH ⓘ Z39.50 ⓘ |
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: OCLC Description of subject: OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) is a global nonprofit cooperative organization that provides shared technology services, original research, and programs to help libraries catalog, manage, and share their collections worldwide.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: OCLC
linked to: OCLC
linked to: OCLC
linked to: OCLC
linked to: OCLC
linked to: OCLC
linked to: OCLC
linked to: OCLC
linked to: OCLC
linked to: OCLC