FRAD
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FRAD (Functional Requirements for Authority Data) is an IFLA conceptual model that defines how authority data about names, titles, and subjects should be structured and related to support library cataloging and information retrieval.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| FRAD canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4425805 — 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: FRAD Context triple: [RDA, basedOn, FRAD]
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A.
FRAS
FRAS is a professional post-nominal title indicating fellowship in the Royal Astronomical Society, typically awarded to individuals who have made significant contributions to astronomy or geophysics.
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B.
FRD
FRD is the station code for a railway station named after U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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C.
FRE
FRE is the standard abbreviation used for the Fremantle Dockers, an Australian Football League (AFL) club based in Fremantle, Western Australia.
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D.
FRE
FRE is the standard abbreviation used for the Fresno Grizzlies minor league baseball team.
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E.
FRS
FRS is the post-nominal title used by Fellows of the Royal Society, denoting distinguished scientists elected to the United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences.
- 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: FRAD Target entity description: FRAD (Functional Requirements for Authority Data) is an IFLA conceptual model that defines how authority data about names, titles, and subjects should be structured and related to support library cataloging and information retrieval.
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A.
FRAS
FRAS is a professional post-nominal title indicating fellowship in the Royal Astronomical Society, typically awarded to individuals who have made significant contributions to astronomy or geophysics.
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B.
FRD
FRD is the station code for a railway station named after U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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C.
FRE
FRE is the standard abbreviation used for the Fremantle Dockers, an Australian Football League (AFL) club based in Fremantle, Western Australia.
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D.
FRE
FRE is the standard abbreviation used for the Fresno Grizzlies minor league baseball team.
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E.
FRS
FRS is the post-nominal title used by Fellows of the Royal Society, denoting distinguished scientists elected to the United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IFLA standard
ⓘ
conceptual model ⓘ library metadata model ⓘ |
| abbreviation | FRAD ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
authority records
ⓘ
name authority files ⓘ subject authority files ⓘ |
| defines |
attributes of authority entities
ⓘ
entities for authority data ⓘ relationships among authority entities ⓘ user tasks for authority data ⓘ |
| developedBy |
IFLA
ⓘ
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions ⓘ |
| domain |
authority data
ⓘ
bibliographic control ⓘ library cataloging ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
names
ⓘ
subjects ⓘ titles ⓘ |
| fullName | Functional Requirements for Authority Data ⓘ |
| goal |
to improve interoperability of authority data
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to standardize the structure of authority data ⓘ to support user tasks in authority data contexts ⓘ |
| hasEntityType |
Agency
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Controlled Access Point ⓘ Corporate Body ⓘ Family ⓘ Identifier ⓘ Name ⓘ Person ⓘ Rules ⓘ |
| hasUserTask |
clarify
ⓘ
find ⓘ identify ⓘ understand ⓘ |
| influenced |
IFLA Library Reference Model
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RDA ⓘ Resource Description and Access ⓘ |
| partOf |
IFLA Functional Requirements family of models
ⓘ
linked to:
IFLA Library Reference Model
|
| publicationType | IFLA report ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
FRBR
ⓘ
FRSAD ⓘ |
| status |
superseded by IFLA LRM
ⓘ
linked to:
IFLA Library Reference Model
|
| supports |
authority control
ⓘ
disambiguation of names ⓘ information retrieval ⓘ library catalog navigation ⓘ linking variant forms of names ⓘ |
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: FRAD Description of subject: FRAD (Functional Requirements for Authority Data) is an IFLA conceptual model that defines how authority data about names, titles, and subjects should be structured and related to support library cataloging and information retrieval.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.