UniGene database
E569464
The UniGene database is a now-retired NCBI resource that organized expressed sequence tags and other gene-oriented sequence data into non-redundant clusters representing unique genes in a given organism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| UniGene database canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6098301 — 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: UniGene database Context triple: [Entrez system, hasPart, UniGene database]
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A.
National Center for Biotechnology Information
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is a U.S. government bioinformatics institution that develops and hosts major biological databases and tools for biomedical research.
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B.
NCBI E-utilities API
The NCBI E-utilities API is a set of programmatic web services that allow automated querying, retrieval, and integration of data from NCBI databases such as PubMed.
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C.
Edico Genome
Edico Genome was a biotechnology company specializing in high-speed genomic data analysis through its DRAGEN bio-IT platform and FPGA-based acceleration technology.
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D.
UniProt protein sequences
UniProt protein sequences are a comprehensive, curated collection of protein sequence data that serves as a primary reference resource for protein information in biological and biomedical research.
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E.
DBIO
DBIO is the Division of Biological Physics within the American Physical Society, focusing on research at the interface of physics and the life 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: UniGene database Target entity description: The UniGene database is a now-retired NCBI resource that organized expressed sequence tags and other gene-oriented sequence data into non-redundant clusters representing unique genes in a given organism.
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A.
National Center for Biotechnology Information
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is a U.S. government bioinformatics institution that develops and hosts major biological databases and tools for biomedical research.
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B.
BioProject database
The BioProject database is an NCBI resource that organizes and links together data from large-scale biological research projects, such as genome sequencing and functional genomics studies.
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C.
RefSeq
RefSeq is a curated, non-redundant collection of reference DNA, RNA, and protein sequences maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information for use in genome annotation and biological research.
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D.
NCBI E-utilities API
The NCBI E-utilities API is a set of programmatic web services that allow automated querying, retrieval, and integration of data from NCBI databases such as PubMed.
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E.
Edico Genome
Edico Genome was a biotechnology company specializing in high-speed genomic data analysis through its DRAGEN bio-IT platform and FPGA-based acceleration technology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCBI database
ⓘ
biological database ⓘ |
| accessibleVia | NCBI website ⓘ |
| clusterCriterion |
genomic location
ⓘ
sequence similarity ⓘ transcript overlap ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
ESTs
ⓘ
expressed sequence tags ⓘ gene-oriented sequence data ⓘ transcript sequences ⓘ |
| hasDataType |
EST sequences
ⓘ
gene-oriented clusters ⓘ mRNA sequences ⓘ nucleotide sequences ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
clusters of transcript sequences per gene
ⓘ
species-specific gene indices ⓘ |
| hasFullName | UniGene database ⓘ |
| hasOrganismCoverage |
Arabidopsis thaliana
ⓘ
Bos taurus ⓘ Caenorhabditis elegans ⓘ Danio rerio ⓘ Drosophila melanogaster ⓘ Gallus gallus ⓘ
linked to:
chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus)
Homo sapiens ⓘ Mus musculus ⓘ
linked to:
house mouse (Mus musculus)
Oryza sativa ⓘ Rattus norvegicus ⓘ
linked to:
Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus)
Sus scrofa ⓘ Zea mays ⓘ |
| hasScope | organism-specific gene sets ⓘ |
| hostedAt | National Library of Medicine infrastructure ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
NCBI
ⓘ
National Center for Biotechnology Information ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
NCBI Entrez system
ⓘ
linked to:
Entrez system
|
| organizesInto | non-redundant clusters ⓘ |
| provides |
links to related NCBI resources
ⓘ
putative gene indices for genomes ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
GenBank
ⓘ
Gene database (NCBI Gene) ⓘ RefSeq ⓘ dbEST ⓘ |
| represents | unique genes ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
| usedFor |
expression analysis support
ⓘ
gene discovery ⓘ gene-oriented clustering of ESTs ⓘ microarray annotation ⓘ probe design ⓘ transcript characterization ⓘ |
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: UniGene database Description of subject: The UniGene database is a now-retired NCBI resource that organized expressed sequence tags and other gene-oriented sequence data into non-redundant clusters representing unique genes in a given organism.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
UniGene database