World Data System
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The World Data System is an international program that promotes trusted scientific data services and long-term data stewardship across diverse research disciplines.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| World Data Center system | 1 |
| World Data System canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6938815 — 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: World Data System Context triple: [Committee on Data of the International Science Council, collaboratesWith, World Data System]
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A.
GAW World Data Centres
GAW World Data Centres are specialized international facilities that collect, manage, and distribute atmospheric and environmental data to support the scientific and monitoring activities of the Global Atmosphere Watch program.
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B.
International Data Centre
The International Data Centre is the global analysis hub that collects, processes, and distributes monitoring data to help verify compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.
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C.
NSIDC DAAC
NSIDC DAAC is NASA’s National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center, which archives and distributes satellite and field data related to Earth’s cryosphere.
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D.
National Centers for Environmental Information
The National Centers for Environmental Information is a U.S. federal organization that archives, manages, and provides public access to extensive environmental, atmospheric, oceanic, and geophysical data.
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E.
NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers
NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers are specialized facilities within NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System that archive, manage, and provide public access to a wide range of Earth science data products.
- 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: World Data System Target entity description: The World Data System is an international program that promotes trusted scientific data services and long-term data stewardship across diverse research disciplines.
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A.
GAW World Data Centres
GAW World Data Centres are specialized international facilities that collect, manage, and distribute atmospheric and environmental data to support the scientific and monitoring activities of the Global Atmosphere Watch program.
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B.
International Data Centre
The International Data Centre is the global analysis hub that collects, processes, and distributes monitoring data to help verify compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.
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C.
NSIDC DAAC
NSIDC DAAC is NASA’s National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center, which archives and distributes satellite and field data related to Earth’s cryosphere.
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D.
National Centers for Environmental Information
The National Centers for Environmental Information is a U.S. federal organization that archives, manages, and provides public access to extensive environmental, atmospheric, oceanic, and geophysical data.
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E.
NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers
NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers are specialized facilities within NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System that archive, manage, and provide public access to a wide range of Earth science data products.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
data infrastructure program
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international scientific organization ⓘ research data network ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
enhance open and equitable access to scientific data
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promote trusted scientific data services ⓘ support international collaborative research ⓘ support long-term data stewardship ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
data policy bodies
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disciplinary data centers ⓘ international research programs ⓘ research data repositories ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
data preservation
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data sharing ⓘ data stewardship ⓘ interdisciplinary research data ⓘ scientific data management ⓘ |
| goal |
ensure long-term stewardship of scientific data
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foster a culture of data sharing in science ⓘ improve availability of quality-assessed scientific data ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | WDS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
capacity building in data management
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certification of trustworthy data repositories ⓘ coordination of international data services ⓘ development of data policies and guidelines ⓘ organization of conferences and workshops ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
WDS International Program Office
NERFINISHED
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WDS Scientific Committee NERFINISHED ⓘ WDS member organizations ⓘ |
| hasParentOrganization | International Science Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasScope | global ⓘ |
| membershipType |
institutional membership
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network membership ⓘ |
| operatedBy | International Science Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical Data Analysis Services
NERFINISHED
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World Data Centres NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| promotesPrinciple |
FAIR data principles
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data integrity ⓘ data quality assurance ⓘ long-term data preservation ⓘ open data ⓘ |
| servesCommunity |
Earth and environmental sciences
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life sciences ⓘ social sciences ⓘ space sciences ⓘ |
| supportsStandard |
interoperability standards
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metadata standards ⓘ persistent identifiers for data ⓘ |
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: World Data System Description of subject: The World Data System is an international program that promotes trusted scientific data services and long-term data stewardship across diverse research disciplines.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
World Data Center system