ALA-LC
E1041159
ALA-LC is a widely used romanization standard developed by the American Library Association and the Library of Congress for converting non-Latin scripts into the Latin alphabet.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ALA-LC canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13451876 — 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: ALA-LC Context triple: [Nabi, transliterationSystem, ALA-LC]
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A.
ALA (historical)
ALA (historical) was the former stock ticker symbol used to represent the French telecommunications company Alcatel on securities exchanges.
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B.
ARLC
ARLC is the governing body responsible for overseeing and administering professional rugby league in Australia, including the National Rugby League (NRL).
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C.
ALA
ALA is the leading professional organization in the United States dedicated to supporting libraries, librarians, and information services.
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D.
ALA
ALA is the stock ticker symbol for Alcatel Alsthom, a former French telecommunications and electronics conglomerate.
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E.
ALA
ALA is the IATA airport code for Almaty International Airport, the main air gateway to Almaty, Kazakhstan.
- 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: ALA-LC Target entity description: ALA-LC is a widely used romanization standard developed by the American Library Association and the Library of Congress for converting non-Latin scripts into the Latin alphabet.
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A.
ALA (historical)
ALA (historical) was the former stock ticker symbol used to represent the French telecommunications company Alcatel on securities exchanges.
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B.
ARLC
ARLC is the governing body responsible for overseeing and administering professional rugby league in Australia, including the National Rugby League (NRL).
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C.
ALA
ALA is the leading professional organization in the United States dedicated to supporting libraries, librarians, and information services.
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D.
ALA
ALA is the stock ticker symbol for Alcatel Alsthom, a former French telecommunications and electronics conglomerate.
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E.
ALA
ALA is the IATA airport code for Almaty International Airport, the main air gateway to Almaty, Kazakhstan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
romanization standard
ⓘ
transliteration system ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Arabic script
ⓘ
Armenian script ⓘ
linked to:
Armenian alphabet
Bengali script ⓘ Chinese characters ⓘ Cyrillic script ⓘ Devanagari script ⓘ Ethiopic script ⓘ Georgian script ⓘ Geʽez script ⓘ Greek script ⓘ Gujarati script ⓘ Gurmukhi script ⓘ
linked to:
Gurmukhi
Hebrew script ⓘ Japanese script ⓘ Kannada script ⓘ Khmer script ⓘ Korean script ⓘ Lao script ⓘ Malayalam script ⓘ Mongolian script ⓘ
linked to:
Classical Mongolian script
Persian script ⓘ Syriac script ⓘ
linked to:
Syriac alphabet
Tamil script ⓘ Telugu script ⓘ Thai script ⓘ Tibetan script ⓘ Urdu script ⓘ Yiddish script ⓘ |
| basedOn |
principles of consistency
ⓘ
principles of reversibility ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| developer |
American Library Association
ⓘ
Library of Congress ⓘ |
| distinctFrom |
ISO romanization standards
ⓘ
linked to:
ISO standards for transliteration
UNGEGN romanization systems ⓘ |
| field | library and information science ⓘ |
| goal |
facilitate cataloging and retrieval of materials
ⓘ
standardized representation of non-Latin scripts in Latin characters ⓘ |
| hasPart |
ALA-LC Romanization Tables
ⓘ
linked to:
ALA-LC Romanization for Arabic
|
| publicationVenue | Library of Congress romanization tables ⓘ |
| scriptTarget | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| use |
authority control
ⓘ
bibliographic description ⓘ library cataloging ⓘ romanization of non-Latin scripts ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Library of Congress
ⓘ
academic libraries ⓘ bibliographic databases ⓘ national libraries ⓘ research libraries ⓘ |
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: ALA-LC Description of subject: ALA-LC is a widely used romanization standard developed by the American Library Association and the Library of Congress for converting non-Latin scripts into the Latin alphabet.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.