online catalogue Discovery
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Online catalogue Discovery is The National Archives’ primary digital search platform that allows users to explore and access millions of records held by the UK government and other archives.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| online catalogue Discovery canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1134711 — 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: online catalogue Discovery Context triple: [The National Archives, hasService, online catalogue Discovery]
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A.
Discovery+ (service)
Discovery+ is a subscription-based streaming service focused on non-fiction, reality, and lifestyle programming from Discovery’s portfolio of channels and brands.
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B.
iDiscover
iDiscover is the online search and discovery platform used to access Cambridge University’s library collections, including books, journals, and electronic resources.
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C.
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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D.
Search and Discovery
Search and Discovery is a regular Physics Today section that highlights notable recent advances and findings across the physical sciences.
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E.
Whitney Portal Store
Whitney Portal Store is a small, high-elevation general store and café near the Mount Whitney trailhead that serves hikers and campers with food, supplies, and information.
- 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: online catalogue Discovery Target entity description: Online catalogue Discovery is The National Archives’ primary digital search platform that allows users to explore and access millions of records held by the UK government and other archives.
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A.
Discovery+ (service)
Discovery+ is a subscription-based streaming service focused on non-fiction, reality, and lifestyle programming from Discovery’s portfolio of channels and brands.
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B.
iDiscover
iDiscover is the online search and discovery platform used to access Cambridge University’s library collections, including books, journals, and electronic resources.
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C.
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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D.
Search and Discovery
Search and Discovery is a regular Physics Today section that highlights notable recent advances and findings across the physical sciences.
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E.
Whitney Portal Store
Whitney Portal Store is a small, high-elevation general store and café near the Mount Whitney trailhead that serves hikers and campers with food, supplies, and information.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
digital search platform
ⓘ
online catalogue ⓘ service of The National Archives (UK) ⓘ |
| accessModel |
free search access
ⓘ
public web access ⓘ |
| contentType |
catalogue descriptions of records
ⓘ
digital records ⓘ metadata about archival holdings ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dataSource |
The National Archives’ catalogue data
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catalogue data supplied by other UK archives ⓘ |
| describedAs |
The National Archives’ primary digital search platform
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online catalogue Discovery is The National Archives’ primary digital search platform that allows users to explore and access millions of records held by the UK government and other archives ⓘ |
| domain | archives and records management ⓘ |
| feature |
download some digitised records
ⓘ
filter search results by archive ⓘ filter search results by date ⓘ filter search results by subject ⓘ link to ordering copies of records ⓘ link to visiting information for archives holding the records ⓘ search by keyword ⓘ search by reference ⓘ view catalogue descriptions of records ⓘ |
| hasUser |
genealogists
ⓘ
historians ⓘ members of the public ⓘ researchers ⓘ |
| hostedBy | The National Archives’ web infrastructure ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| location |
Kew, London, United Kingdom
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linked to:
Kew
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| maintainedBy |
The National Archives (United Kingdom)
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linked to:
The National Archives
|
| name | Discovery ⓘ |
| operator |
The National Archives (United Kingdom)
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linked to:
The National Archives
|
| purpose |
to enable users to search archival records
ⓘ
to help users identify and locate records held by The National Archives and other archives ⓘ to provide online access to catalogue information about records ⓘ |
| recordType |
descriptions of born-digital records
ⓘ
descriptions of physical records ⓘ links to digitised images of records ⓘ |
| replaces | earlier online catalogue services of The National Archives ⓘ |
| scope |
millions of records
ⓘ
records from central UK government ⓘ records from local and other participating archives ⓘ |
| sector |
cultural heritage
ⓘ
public sector information services ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
UK government records
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archival records ⓘ records held by other archives in the UK ⓘ |
| website | https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk ⓘ |
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: online catalogue Discovery Description of subject: Online catalogue Discovery is The National Archives’ primary digital search platform that allows users to explore and access millions of records held by the UK government and other archives.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.