BLAST
E569115
BLAST is a widely used bioinformatics tool for comparing biological sequences, such as DNA, RNA, or proteins, to sequence databases to identify similarities and infer functional or evolutionary relationships.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| BLAST canonical | 5 |
| Basic Local Alignment Search Tool | 1 |
| DELTA-BLAST | 1 |
| NCBI BLAST | 1 |
| NCBI BLAST services | 1 |
| NCBI BLAST web server | 1 |
| PSI-BLAST | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6098247 — 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: BLAST Context triple: [National Center for Biotechnology Information, hasService, BLAST]
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A.
BLAST
BLAST was the short-lived but influential literary and art magazine that served as the principal mouthpiece of the Vorticist movement in early 20th-century Britain.
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B.
BWA
BWA is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Botswana for international identification and data standards.
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C.
The Blast
The Blast is a component or segment of the creative work "Train of Thought," likely representing an intense or climactic part of that larger piece.
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D.
B.I.B.L.E.
B.I.B.L.E. is the debut studio album by Brooklyn drill rapper Fivio Foreign, showcasing his melodic drill style and high-profile collaborations.
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E.
Blix
Blix is a Swedish surname most notably associated with Hans Blix, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and UN weapons inspector.
- 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: BLAST Target entity description: BLAST is a widely used bioinformatics tool for comparing biological sequences, such as DNA, RNA, or proteins, to sequence databases to identify similarities and infer functional or evolutionary relationships.
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A.
BLAST
BLAST was the short-lived but influential literary and art magazine that served as the principal mouthpiece of the Vorticist movement in early 20th-century Britain.
-
B.
BWA
BWA is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Botswana for international identification and data standards.
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C.
The Blast
The Blast is a component or segment of the creative work "Train of Thought," likely representing an intense or climactic part of that larger piece.
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D.
B.I.B.L.E.
B.I.B.L.E. is the debut studio album by Brooklyn drill rapper Fivio Foreign, showcasing his melodic drill style and high-profile collaborations.
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E.
Blix
Blix is a 19th-century novel by American naturalist writer Frank Norris that follows a young woman’s coming-of-age and romantic experiences in San Francisco.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bioinformatics software
ⓘ
sequence alignment tool ⓘ similarity search algorithm ⓘ |
| algorithmType | heuristic ⓘ |
| alignmentType | local alignment ⓘ |
| application |
functional prediction
ⓘ
gene annotation ⓘ homology search ⓘ ortholog detection ⓘ phylogenetic analysis ⓘ sequence database searching ⓘ |
| blastnFor | nucleotide vs nucleotide ⓘ |
| blastpFor | protein vs protein ⓘ |
| blastxFor | translated nucleotide vs protein ⓘ |
| commonlyUsedAt |
NCBI BLAST web server
ⓘ
linked to:
BLAST
|
| DELTA-BLASTFor | protein domain-based search ⓘ |
| developedBy |
NCBI
ⓘ
National Center for Biotechnology Information ⓘ |
| field |
bioinformatics
ⓘ
computational biology ⓘ |
| fullName |
Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
ⓘ
linked to:
BLAST
|
| hasInterface |
command-line interface
ⓘ
web interface ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
DELTA-BLAST
ⓘ
linked to:
BLAST
MEGABLAST ⓘ PSI-BLAST ⓘ
linked to:
BLAST
blastn ⓘ blastp ⓘ blastx ⓘ tblastn ⓘ tblastx ⓘ |
| infers |
evolutionary relationships
ⓘ
functional relationships ⓘ |
| MEGABLASTFor | highly similar nucleotide sequences ⓘ |
| output |
E-value
ⓘ
alignment score ⓘ percent identity ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
compare biological sequences
ⓘ
identify local sequence similarity ⓘ search sequence databases ⓘ |
| PSI-BLASTFor | iterative protein sequence search ⓘ |
| supportsSequenceType |
DNA
ⓘ
RNA ⓘ protein ⓘ |
| tblastnFor | protein vs translated nucleotide ⓘ |
| tblastxFor | translated nucleotide vs translated nucleotide ⓘ |
| usedIn |
genomics
ⓘ
molecular biology research ⓘ proteomics ⓘ |
| uses |
scoring schemes
ⓘ
substitution matrices ⓘ |
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: BLAST Description of subject: BLAST is a widely used bioinformatics tool for comparing biological sequences, such as DNA, RNA, or proteins, to sequence databases to identify similarities and infer functional or evolutionary relationships.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: BLAST
linked to: BLAST
linked to: BLAST
linked to: BLAST
linked to: BLAST