GND
E605010
GND is a standardized authority file system used in German-speaking countries to uniquely identify and organize information about persons, organizations, works, and subjects in library and archival catalogs.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| GND canonical | 4 |
| GND-ID | 1 |
| GND:118539991 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6519358 — 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: GND Context triple: [German National Library, abbreviation, GND]
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A.
GND
GND is the IATA airport code for Maurice Bishop International Airport, the main international gateway to Grenada in the Caribbean.
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B.
GN
GN is a fast, meta-build system tool used primarily by the Chromium project to generate build files for Ninja.
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C.
GD
GD is the stock ticker symbol for General Dynamics, a major American aerospace and defense corporation.
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D.
GD
GD is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for cars registered in the city of Gdańsk, Poland.
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E.
ND
ND is the commonly used abbreviation for New Democracy, a major center-right political party in Greece.
- 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: GND Target entity description: GND is a standardized authority file system used in German-speaking countries to uniquely identify and organize information about persons, organizations, works, and subjects in library and archival catalogs.
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A.
GND
GND is the IATA airport code for Maurice Bishop International Airport, the main international gateway to Grenada in the Caribbean.
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B.
GN
GN is a fast, meta-build system tool used primarily by the Chromium project to generate build files for Ninja.
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C.
GD
GD is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for cars registered in the city of Gdańsk, Poland.
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D.
GD
GD is the stock ticker symbol for General Dynamics, a major American aerospace and defense corporation.
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E.
ND
ND is the commonly used abbreviation for New Democracy, a major center-right political party in Greece.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
authority control system
ⓘ
integrated authority file ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
conferences
ⓘ
corporate bodies ⓘ geographic entities ⓘ persons ⓘ subjects ⓘ works ⓘ |
| coordinatedBy |
Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Verbundsysteme
ⓘ
Expertengremium GND ⓘ |
| countryOfUse |
Austria
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ Switzerland ⓘ |
| dataLicense | CC0 ⓘ |
| dataModel | entity-relationship model ⓘ |
| fieldOfUse |
archival cataloging
ⓘ
information science ⓘ library cataloging ⓘ |
| fullName | Gemeinsame Normdatei ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | GND ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
name authority records
ⓘ
subject authority records ⓘ work authority records ⓘ |
| hasIdentifierType | GND-ID ⓘ |
| identifierFormat | numeric identifier ⓘ |
| introduced | 2012 ⓘ |
| language | German ⓘ |
| linkedDataAvailability | yes ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
ⓘ
linked to:
German National Library
|
| operator |
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
ⓘ
linked to:
German National Library
|
| provides | URIs for entities ⓘ |
| purpose |
authority control
ⓘ
disambiguation of names and subjects ⓘ standardization of catalog data ⓘ unique identification of entities ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Library of Congress Name Authority File
ⓘ
linked to:
Library of Congress Linked Data Service
VIAF ⓘ |
| replaced |
Einheitssachtitel-Dateien
ⓘ
Gemeinsame Körperschaftsdatei ⓘ Personennamendatei ⓘ Schlagwortnormdatei ⓘ |
| supports | linked open data ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Austrian libraries
ⓘ
German library networks ⓘ Swiss libraries ⓘ |
| usedFor |
authority data exchange
ⓘ
catalog enrichment ⓘ data integration ⓘ |
| usesStandard | RDA-based cataloging rules ⓘ |
| 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: GND Description of subject: GND is a standardized authority file system used in German-speaking countries to uniquely identify and organize information about persons, organizations, works, and subjects in library and archival catalogs.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.