National Agricultural Library Thesaurus
E510681
The National Agricultural Library Thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary and indexing tool used to organize and retrieve agricultural and related scientific information in library catalogs and databases.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| National Agricultural Library Thesaurus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5308236 — 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: National Agricultural Library Thesaurus Context triple: [National Agricultural Library, hasPart, National Agricultural Library Thesaurus]
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A.
National Agricultural Library
The National Agricultural Library is a major U.S. federal research library and information center specializing in agriculture and related sciences, operated by the United States Department of Agriculture.
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B.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Library of Congress Subject Headings is a comprehensive controlled vocabulary used by libraries worldwide to provide standardized subject access to cataloged materials.
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C.
UNBIS Thesaurus
The UNBIS Thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary used by the United Nations for indexing and retrieving documents and information across its bibliographic and information systems.
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D.
Agricultural Experiment Station
The Agricultural Experiment Station is a research organization that conducts scientific studies to improve agriculture, natural resources, and related environmental and economic systems.
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E.
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.
- 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: National Agricultural Library Thesaurus Target entity description: The National Agricultural Library Thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary and indexing tool used to organize and retrieve agricultural and related scientific information in library catalogs and databases.
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A.
National Agricultural Library
The National Agricultural Library is a major U.S. federal research library and information center specializing in agriculture and related sciences, operated by the United States Department of Agriculture.
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B.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Library of Congress Subject Headings is a comprehensive controlled vocabulary used by libraries worldwide to provide standardized subject access to cataloged materials.
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C.
UNBIS Thesaurus
The UNBIS Thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary used by the United Nations for indexing and retrieving documents and information across its bibliographic and information systems.
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D.
Agricultural Experiment Station
The Agricultural Experiment Station is a research organization that conducts scientific studies to improve agriculture, natural resources, and related environmental and economic systems.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
controlled vocabulary
ⓘ
subject heading system ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
books
ⓘ
datasets ⓘ journal articles ⓘ multimedia resources ⓘ technical reports ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fieldOfUse |
agriculture
ⓘ
environmental science ⓘ food science ⓘ natural resources ⓘ nutrition ⓘ veterinary science ⓘ |
| followsStandard | thesaurus construction principles ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
broader terms
ⓘ
descriptors ⓘ narrower terms ⓘ non-descriptors ⓘ related terms ⓘ scope notes ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
to improve precision and recall in information retrieval
ⓘ
to provide consistent subject access to agricultural information ⓘ |
| isPartOf | National Agricultural Library information systems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
National Agricultural Library
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Department of Agriculture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
AGROVOC
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
CAB Thesaurus NERFINISHED ⓘ Library of Congress Subject Headings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| topicIncludes |
agricultural economics
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agricultural engineering ⓘ animal science ⓘ fisheries ⓘ food safety ⓘ forestry ⓘ plant science ⓘ rural development ⓘ soil science ⓘ sustainable agriculture ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cataloging
ⓘ
indexing ⓘ information retrieval ⓘ |
| usedIn |
bibliographic databases
ⓘ
digital repositories ⓘ library catalogs ⓘ |
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: National Agricultural Library Thesaurus Description of subject: The National Agricultural Library Thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary and indexing tool used to organize and retrieve agricultural and related scientific information in library catalogs and databases.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.