ALA Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table
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LGBTQ+ library organization
professional association subgroup
round table of the American Library Association
The ALA Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table is a professional group within the American Library Association that promotes LGBTQ+ inclusion and representation in library services and literature.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ALA Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table canonical | 1 |
| Gay and Lesbian Task Force of the American Library Association | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4979589 — 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 Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table Context triple: [Stonewall Book Award, presentedBy, ALA Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table]
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A.
LGB
LGB is the IATA airport code for Long Beach Airport, a public airport serving the Long Beach and greater Los Angeles area in California.
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B.
Center for Gender and Sexuality Law
The Center for Gender and Sexuality Law is an academic and advocacy hub that focuses on legal issues related to gender, sexuality, and reproductive rights through research, teaching, and policy work.
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C.
LGBT community
The LGBT community is a diverse group of people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or related sexual and gender minorities, sharing common social, cultural, and political experiences and interests.
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D.
HRC
HRC is the High Resolution Camera aboard NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, designed to capture extremely detailed images of cosmic X-ray sources.
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E.
HRC
HRC is the United States Army Human Resources Command, the organization responsible for managing personnel and career services for Army soldiers.
- 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 Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table Target entity description: The ALA Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table is a professional group within the American Library Association that promotes LGBTQ+ inclusion and representation in library services and literature.
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A.
LGB
LGB is the IATA airport code for Long Beach Airport, a public airport serving the Long Beach and greater Los Angeles area in California.
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B.
Center for Gender and Sexuality Law
The Center for Gender and Sexuality Law is an academic and advocacy hub that focuses on legal issues related to gender, sexuality, and reproductive rights through research, teaching, and policy work.
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C.
LGBT community
The LGBT community is a diverse group of people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or related sexual and gender minorities, sharing common social, cultural, and political experiences and interests.
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D.
HRC
HRC is the High Resolution Camera aboard NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, designed to capture extremely detailed images of cosmic X-ray sources.
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E.
HRC
HRC is the United States Army Human Resources Command, the organization responsible for managing personnel and career services for Army soldiers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
LGBTQ+ library organization
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professional association subgroup ⓘ round table of the American Library Association ⓘ |
| advocatesFor |
equitable library services for LGBTQ+ people
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inclusive library collections ⓘ representation of LGBTQ+ authors in libraries ⓘ |
| affiliation | ALA Council ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
improve access to LGBTQ+ information resources
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support LGBTQ+ library professionals ⓘ |
| associatedWith | ALA Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith | other ALA divisions and round tables ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| field |
librarianship
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library and information science ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
LGBTQ+ inclusion in libraries
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LGBTQ+ representation in library services ⓘ LGBTQ+ representation in literature ⓘ advocacy for LGBTQ+ library workers ⓘ intellectual freedom for LGBTQ+ materials ⓘ library services for LGBTQ+ communities ⓘ professional development on LGBTQ+ topics ⓘ |
| governingBody | GLBTRT executive board ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | GLBTRT ⓘ |
| hasMembershipType |
individual members
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institutional members ⓘ |
| hasParentOrganization | American Library Association ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| organizes |
LGBTQ+-themed professional development sessions
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programs at ALA conferences ⓘ |
| partOf | American Library Association ⓘ |
| promotes |
LGBTQ+ literature in libraries
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best practices for serving LGBTQ+ patrons ⓘ diversity and inclusion in librarianship ⓘ |
| sector |
nonprofit
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professional association ⓘ |
| serves |
LGBTQ+ communities
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librarians ⓘ library workers ⓘ |
| sponsors |
LGBTQ+-related awards and recognitions
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booklists highlighting LGBTQ+ materials ⓘ |
| topic |
bisexual issues in libraries
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gay issues in libraries ⓘ lesbian issues in libraries ⓘ queer representation in library collections ⓘ transgender issues in libraries ⓘ |
| website | https://www.ala.org/rt/glbtrt ⓘ |
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 Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table Description of subject: The ALA Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table is a professional group within the American Library Association that promotes LGBTQ+ inclusion and representation in library services and literature.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
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formerName
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Gay and Lesbian Task Force of the American Library Association
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linked to: ALA Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table