Australian National Bibliographic Database
E364984
The Australian National Bibliographic Database is a comprehensive national cataloging resource that aggregates and provides access to bibliographic records for materials held in libraries across Australia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Australian National Bibliographic Database canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3515924 — 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: Australian National Bibliographic Database Context triple: [National Library of Australia, maintains, Australian National Bibliographic Database]
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A.
United Nations bibliographic databases
United Nations bibliographic databases are specialized online resources that index and provide access to UN documents, publications, and related materials using standardized subject terminology and metadata.
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B.
National Library of Australia
The National Library of Australia is the country’s largest reference library and principal repository of Australia’s documentary heritage, including books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and digital collections.
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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.
National Archives of Australia
The National Archives of Australia is the federal institution responsible for preserving, managing, and providing public access to the Australian Government’s most important historical and administrative records.
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E.
Queensland Parliamentary Library
The Queensland Parliamentary Library is the research and information service that supports the members and work of the Parliament of Queensland.
- 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: Australian National Bibliographic Database Target entity description: The Australian National Bibliographic Database is a comprehensive national cataloging resource that aggregates and provides access to bibliographic records for materials held in libraries across Australia.
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A.
United Nations bibliographic databases
United Nations bibliographic databases are specialized online resources that index and provide access to UN documents, publications, and related materials using standardized subject terminology and metadata.
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B.
National Library of Australia
The National Library of Australia is the country’s largest reference library and principal repository of Australia’s documentary heritage, including books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and digital collections.
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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.
National Archives of Australia
The National Archives of Australia is the federal institution responsible for preserving, managing, and providing public access to the Australian Government’s most important historical and administrative records.
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E.
Queensland Parliamentary Library
The Queensland Parliamentary Library is the research and information service that supports the members and work of the Parliament of Queensland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
library catalog
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national bibliographic database ⓘ |
| accessMode | online ⓘ |
| accessPolicy | publicly accessible for searching ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| coversInstitutionType |
academic libraries
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government libraries ⓘ public libraries ⓘ special libraries ⓘ |
| coversMaterialType |
audio-visual materials
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books ⓘ electronic resources ⓘ government publications ⓘ serials ⓘ |
| describedAs | comprehensive national cataloging resource ⓘ |
| geographicCoverage | libraries across Australia ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
centralised bibliographic record repository
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searchable by author ⓘ searchable by keyword ⓘ searchable by subject ⓘ searchable by title ⓘ union catalogue of Australian library holdings ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
provide authoritative bibliographic records
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support cataloguing in publication ⓘ support cooperative cataloguing ⓘ support interlibrary resource sharing ⓘ |
| hasScope | national ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | National Library of Australia ⓘ |
| operator | National Library of Australia ⓘ |
| primaryUserGroup |
cataloguers
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general public ⓘ librarians ⓘ researchers ⓘ |
| purpose |
aggregate bibliographic records from Australian libraries
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provide access to bibliographic records for materials held in libraries across Australia ⓘ |
| sectorCoverage |
national library sector
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public library sector ⓘ state and territory library sector ⓘ university library sector ⓘ |
| supportsActivity |
bibliographic verification
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collection development ⓘ copy cataloguing ⓘ original cataloguing ⓘ |
| usesStandard |
MARC standards
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surface form:
MARC bibliographic format
standard name authorities ⓘ standard subject headings ⓘ |
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: Australian National Bibliographic Database Description of subject: The Australian National Bibliographic Database is a comprehensive national cataloging resource that aggregates and provides access to bibliographic records for materials held in libraries across Australia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.