Darwin Core
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Darwin Core is a widely adopted biodiversity data standard that provides a structured set of terms for sharing information about species and their occurrences across different databases and platforms.
All labels observed (16)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7940099 — 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: Darwin Core Context triple: [Global Biodiversity Information Facility, usesStandard, Darwin Core]
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A.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international open-data infrastructure that provides free access to biodiversity occurrence records from institutions and citizen-science projects worldwide.
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B.
Wikispecies
Wikispecies is a Wikimedia Foundation project that serves as a free, collaborative directory of species and taxonomic information.
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C.
Taxonomy Browser
Taxonomy Browser is an online NCBI tool that allows users to explore and retrieve information about the classification and nomenclature of organisms across the tree of life.
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D.
Darwin Information Typing Architecture
Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based, topic-oriented architecture and standard for authoring, organizing, and publishing technical content in a modular and reusable way.
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E.
Tropicos botanical database
Tropicos botanical database is an online resource maintained by the Missouri Botanical Garden that provides comprehensive taxonomic and nomenclatural information on plant species worldwide.
- 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: Darwin Core Target entity description: Darwin Core is a widely adopted biodiversity data standard that provides a structured set of terms for sharing information about species and their occurrences across different databases and platforms.
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A.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international open-data infrastructure that provides free access to biodiversity occurrence records from institutions and citizen-science projects worldwide.
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B.
Wikispecies
Wikispecies is a Wikimedia Foundation project that serves as a free, collaborative directory of species and taxonomic information.
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C.
Taxonomy Browser
Taxonomy Browser is an online NCBI tool that allows users to explore and retrieve information about the classification and nomenclature of organisms across the tree of life.
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D.
Darwin Information Typing Architecture
Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based, topic-oriented architecture and standard for authoring, organizing, and publishing technical content in a modular and reusable way.
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E.
Tropicos botanical database
Tropicos botanical database is an online resource maintained by the Missouri Botanical Garden that provides comprehensive taxonomic and nomenclatural information on plant species worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (96)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biodiversity data standard
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data exchange standard ⓘ metadata standard ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
fossils
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living collections ⓘ observations ⓘ species ⓘ specimens ⓘ |
| basedOn | simple flat data model ⓘ |
| compatibleWith |
Darwin Core Archive format
ⓘ
linked to:
Darwin Core
DwC-A ⓘ
linked to:
Darwin Core
|
| designPrinciple |
backward compatibility
ⓘ
extensibility ⓘ simplicity of implementation ⓘ use of controlled vocabularies where possible ⓘ |
| developedBy | Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) ⓘ |
| domain |
biodiversity informatics
ⓘ
natural history collections data ⓘ species occurrence data ⓘ |
| governedBy | TDWG Darwin Core maintenance group ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Darwin Core classes
ⓘ
linked to:
Darwin Core
Darwin Core event terms ⓘ
linked to:
Darwin Core
Darwin Core geological context terms ⓘ Darwin Core identification terms ⓘ
linked to:
Darwin Core
Darwin Core location terms ⓘ
linked to:
Darwin Core
Darwin Core multimedia terms ⓘ
linked to:
Darwin Core
Darwin Core occurrence terms ⓘ
linked to:
Darwin Core
Darwin Core properties ⓘ
linked to:
Darwin Core
Darwin Core record-level terms ⓘ Darwin Core taxon terms ⓘ Darwin Core terms ⓘ
linked to:
Darwin Core
|
| hasDocumentation |
Darwin Core Quick Reference Guide
ⓘ
linked to:
Darwin Core
Darwin Core RDF guide ⓘ
linked to:
Darwin Core
Darwin Core term definitions ⓘ
linked to:
Darwin Core
|
| hasFullName |
Darwin Core biodiversity data standard
ⓘ
linked to:
Darwin Core
|
| hasKeyTerm |
associatedMedia
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basisOfRecord ⓘ catalogNumber ⓘ class ⓘ collectionCode ⓘ coordinateUncertaintyInMeters ⓘ country ⓘ decimalLatitude ⓘ decimalLongitude ⓘ eventDate ⓘ eventTime ⓘ family ⓘ genus ⓘ geodeticDatum ⓘ habitat ⓘ identifiedBy ⓘ individualCount ⓘ institutionCode ⓘ kingdom ⓘ license ⓘ locality ⓘ occurrenceID ⓘ occurrenceStatus ⓘ order ⓘ phylum ⓘ recordedBy ⓘ references ⓘ rightsHolder ⓘ scientificName ⓘ specificEpithet ⓘ taxonRank ⓘ |
| hasNamespace | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/ ⓘ |
| hasSerialization |
CSV
ⓘ
Darwin Core Archive ⓘ
linked to:
Darwin Core
RDF ⓘ XML ⓘ |
| hasStatus | widely adopted ⓘ |
| hasVersioning | TDWG ratified versions ⓘ |
| intendedFor |
biodiversity data aggregators
ⓘ
biodiversity data publishers ⓘ biodiversity researchers ⓘ natural history collections managers ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) ⓘ |
| purpose |
to facilitate data integration across biodiversity databases
ⓘ
to provide a standard set of terms for sharing biodiversity information ⓘ to support interoperability of species occurrence records ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
ABCD schema
ⓘ
Access to Biological Collection Data standard ⓘ TDWG standards ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | TDWG ⓘ |
| supports |
checklist data exchange
ⓘ
integration of heterogeneous biodiversity datasets ⓘ sampling event data exchange ⓘ species occurrence data exchange ⓘ |
| usedBy |
GBIF
ⓘ
linked to:
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ⓘ VertNet ⓘ biodiversity data aggregators ⓘ herbaria ⓘ iDigBio ⓘ many natural history museums ⓘ |
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: Darwin Core Description of subject: Darwin Core is a widely adopted biodiversity data standard that provides a structured set of terms for sharing information about species and their occurrences across different databases and platforms.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Darwin Core
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linked to: Darwin Core
linked to: Darwin Core
linked to: Darwin Core
linked to: Darwin Core