Gemeinsame Normdatei
E605009
The Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) is a comprehensive German authority file used to uniquely identify and standardize names of persons, organizations, works, and subjects across libraries, archives, and museums.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gemeinsame Normdatei canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6519357 — 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: Gemeinsame Normdatei Context triple: [German National Library, maintains, Gemeinsame Normdatei]
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A.
NORMARC
NORMARC is a Norwegian implementation of the MARC bibliographic metadata standard used by libraries to catalog and exchange information about their collections.
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B.
Samba
Samba is a figure in Hindu mythology, traditionally known as a son of the god Krishna and his wife Jambavati, whose life is associated with various legends and curses.
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C.
Samba
Samba is one of the four ESA Cluster mission spacecraft designed to study Earth's magnetosphere and its interaction with the solar wind.
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D.
Samba
Samba is an open-source software suite that enables file and print sharing and domain services between Unix/Linux systems and Windows clients using the SMB/CIFS protocol.
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E.
Samba
Samba is a 2014 French comedy-drama film directed by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, in which Charlotte Gainsbourg stars alongside Omar Sy and Tahar Rahim in a story about immigration and social inequality in contemporary France.
- 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: Gemeinsame Normdatei Target entity description: The Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) is a comprehensive German authority file used to uniquely identify and standardize names of persons, organizations, works, and subjects across libraries, archives, and museums.
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A.
NORMARC
NORMARC is a Norwegian implementation of the MARC bibliographic metadata standard used by libraries to catalog and exchange information about their collections.
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B.
Samba
Samba is a figure in Hindu mythology, traditionally known as a son of the god Krishna and his wife Jambavati, whose life is associated with various legends and curses.
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C.
Samba
Samba is one of the four ESA Cluster mission spacecraft designed to study Earth's magnetosphere and its interaction with the solar wind.
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D.
Samba
Samba is an open-source software suite that enables file and print sharing and domain services between Unix/Linux systems and Windows clients using the SMB/CIFS protocol.
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E.
Samba
Samba is a 2014 French comedy-drama film directed by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, in which Charlotte Gainsbourg stars alongside Omar Sy and Tahar Rahim in a story about immigration and social inequality in contemporary France.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
authority file
ⓘ
controlled vocabulary ⓘ library standard ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
conferences
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corporate bodies ⓘ geographic entities ⓘ persons ⓘ subjects ⓘ works ⓘ |
| cooperatesWith |
Austrian libraries
ⓘ
Swiss libraries ⓘ |
| country | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dataFormat |
MARC 21
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
RDF ⓘ |
| dataModel | entity-relationship model ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | GND NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCatalogingRules |
Resource Description and Access
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rules for alphabetical cataloging in scientific libraries (RAK-WB) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIdentifierFormat | GND-ID NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
GND corporate body authority records
ⓘ
GND person authority records ⓘ GND subject headings ⓘ GND work authority records ⓘ |
| inception | 2012 ⓘ |
| integratedInto | Integrated Authority File system of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | German ⓘ |
| linkedDataAvailable | true ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
German library networks ⓘ other German-speaking libraries ⓘ |
| operator | Deutsche Nationalbibliothek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| provides | URIs for authority records ⓘ |
| purpose |
authority control in catalogues
ⓘ
standardization of names ⓘ unique identification of entities ⓘ |
| region | German-speaking countries ⓘ |
| replaced |
Einheitssachtitel-Datei des Deutschen Musikarchivs
NERFINISHED
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Gemeinsame Körperschaftsdatei NERFINISHED ⓘ Personennamendatei ⓘ Schlagwortnormdatei ⓘ |
| shortName | GND NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
catalog enrichment
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data linking across institutions ⓘ disambiguation of names ⓘ subject indexing ⓘ |
| usedIn |
archives
ⓘ
bibliographic databases ⓘ libraries ⓘ museums ⓘ |
| website | https://www.dnb.de/gnd ⓘ |
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: Gemeinsame Normdatei Description of subject: The Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) is a comprehensive German authority file used to uniquely identify and standardize names of persons, organizations, works, and subjects across libraries, archives, and museums.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.