Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international open-data infrastructure that provides free access to biodiversity occurrence records from institutions and citizen-science projects worldwide.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Global Biodiversity Information Facility canonical | 2 |
| GBIF | 1 |
| GBIF data portal | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1636697 — 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: Global Biodiversity Information Facility Context triple: [eBird, integratesWith, Global Biodiversity Information Facility]
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A.
Tropicos botanical database
Tropicos botanical database is an online resource maintained by the Missouri Botanical Garden that provides comprehensive taxonomic and nomenclatural information on plant species worldwide.
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B.
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Naturalis Biodiversity Center is a major Dutch natural history museum and research institute renowned for its extensive biodiversity collections and scientific work in taxonomy, evolution, and conservation.
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C.
E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation
The E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation is a conservation-focused nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the protection of global biodiversity through science, education, and initiatives like the Half-Earth Project.
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D.
Conservation Biology Institute
The Conservation Biology Institute is a research and conservation center of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo focused on studying and protecting biodiversity and endangered species.
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E.
National Center for Biotechnology Information
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is a U.S. government bioinformatics institution that develops and hosts major biological databases and tools for biomedical research.
- 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: Global Biodiversity Information Facility Target entity description: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international open-data infrastructure that provides free access to biodiversity occurrence records from institutions and citizen-science projects worldwide.
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A.
Tropicos botanical database
Tropicos botanical database is an online resource maintained by the Missouri Botanical Garden that provides comprehensive taxonomic and nomenclatural information on plant species worldwide.
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B.
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Naturalis Biodiversity Center is a major Dutch natural history museum and research institute renowned for its extensive biodiversity collections and scientific work in taxonomy, evolution, and conservation.
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C.
E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation
The E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation is a conservation-focused nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the protection of global biodiversity through science, education, and initiatives like the Half-Earth Project.
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D.
Conservation Biology Institute
The Conservation Biology Institute is a research and conservation center of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo focused on studying and protecting biodiversity and endangered species.
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E.
National Center for Biotechnology Information
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is a U.S. government bioinformatics institution that develops and hosts major biological databases and tools for biomedical research.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biodiversity data infrastructure
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international organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
GBIF
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| country | Denmark ⓘ |
| dataAccessPolicy | open access ⓘ |
| dataCoverage | global ⓘ |
| dataLicense |
CC BY
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CC0 ⓘ |
| dataSources |
citizen science projects
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government agencies ⓘ natural history collections ⓘ research institutions ⓘ |
| dataType |
biodiversity observations
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checklists ⓘ sampling-event data ⓘ species occurrence records ⓘ specimen records ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biodiversity
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biodiversity informatics ⓘ conservation biology ⓘ ecology ⓘ environmental science ⓘ open data ⓘ |
| founded | 2001 ⓘ |
| fundingSource |
grants
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participant contributions ⓘ |
| governanceType | intergovernmental organization ⓘ |
| hasFullName | Global Biodiversity Information Facility self-link ⓘ |
| hasMotto | Free and open access to biodiversity data ⓘ |
| hasParticipant |
countries
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economies ⓘ international organizations ⓘ |
| hasPortal |
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
GBIF data portal
|
| headquartersLocation |
Copenhagen
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surface form:
Copenhagen, Denmark
|
| inception | 2001 ⓘ |
| legalForm | international treaty-based organization ⓘ |
| memberType |
associate participants
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observer organizations ⓘ voting participants ⓘ |
| offersService |
application programming interface
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capacity building programs ⓘ data download ⓘ data publishing support ⓘ species occurrence search ⓘ |
| operatesInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose |
facilitate sharing of biodiversity occurrence records
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provide free and open access to biodiversity data ⓘ support biodiversity research and policy ⓘ |
| sector |
environment
ⓘ
science and research ⓘ |
| supportsCommunity |
citizen scientists
ⓘ
conservation practitioners ⓘ policymakers ⓘ researchers ⓘ |
| supportsPolicyProcess |
Convention on Biological Diversity
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Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ⓘ |
| supportsUseCase |
climate change impact assessment
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conservation planning ⓘ environmental impact assessment ⓘ invasive species monitoring ⓘ species distribution modelling ⓘ |
| usesStandard |
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) standards
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Darwin Core ⓘ |
| website | https://www.gbif.org ⓘ |
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: Global Biodiversity Information Facility Description of subject: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international open-data infrastructure that provides free access to biodiversity occurrence records from institutions and citizen-science projects worldwide.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
→
abbreviation
→
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
GBIF
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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hasFullName
→
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
self-link
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Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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hasPortal
→
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
GBIF data portal