International Standard Serial Number
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The International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is an eight-digit code used worldwide to uniquely identify serial publications such as journals, magazines, and newspapers.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| International Standard Serial Number canonical | 8 |
| ISSN | 7 |
| International Standard Serial Number system | 3 |
| ISSN-L | 2 |
| ISSN Register | 1 |
| ISSN system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T68093 — 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: International Standard Serial Number Context triple: [Library of Congress Online Catalog, usesIdentifier, International Standard Serial Number]
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A.
International Standard Book Number
The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a globally recognized numeric identifier assigned to books and similar publications to uniquely distinguish and catalog them.
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B.
Library of Congress Control Number
The Library of Congress Control Number is a unique identification system used by the Library of Congress to catalog and organize bibliographic records for books and other materials.
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C.
DOI
DOI is the commonly used abbreviation for the United States Department of the Interior, the federal executive department responsible for managing the nation’s natural resources and public lands.
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D.
Library of Congress Classification
Library of Congress Classification is a comprehensive alphanumeric library classification system used primarily by academic and research libraries to organize and arrange their collections by subject.
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E.
MARC standards
MARC standards are a set of bibliographic data formats used worldwide to structure and exchange library catalog information in a consistent, machine-readable way.
- 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: International Standard Serial Number Target entity description: The International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is an eight-digit code used worldwide to uniquely identify serial publications such as journals, magazines, and newspapers.
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A.
International Standard Book Number
The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a globally recognized numeric identifier assigned to books and similar publications to uniquely distinguish and catalog them.
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B.
Library of Congress Control Number
The Library of Congress Control Number is a unique identification system used by the Library of Congress to catalog and organize bibliographic records for books and other materials.
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C.
DOI
DOI is the commonly used abbreviation for the United States Department of the Interior, the federal executive department responsible for managing the nation’s natural resources and public lands.
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D.
Library of Congress Classification
Library of Congress Classification is a comprehensive alphanumeric library classification system used primarily by academic and research libraries to organize and arrange their collections by subject.
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E.
MARC standards
MARC standards are a set of bibliographic data formats used worldwide to structure and exchange library catalog information in a consistent, machine-readable way.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bibliographic identifier
ⓘ
identifier standard ⓘ linking ISSN ⓘ |
| abbreviation | ISSN ⓘ |
| administeredThrough |
ISSN International Centre
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surface form:
ISSN National Centres network
|
| appliesTo |
CD-ROM serials
ⓘ
electronic serials ⓘ online journals ⓘ print serials ⓘ |
| benefit |
disambiguation of serial titles
ⓘ
facilitation of interlibrary loan ⓘ support for electronic resource management ⓘ |
| category | standard for identification of serials ⓘ |
| checkDigitAlgorithm | modulus 11 ⓘ |
| countryOfHeadquarters | France ⓘ |
| databaseMaintainedBy | ISSN International Centre ⓘ |
| firstPublishedYear | 1975 ⓘ |
| governedBy |
ISO 3297
ⓘ
ISSN Manual ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
check digit
ⓘ
seven identifying digits ⓘ |
| hasDatabase |
International Standard Serial Number
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
ISSN Register
|
| hasDigitCount | 8 ⓘ |
| hasFormat | eight-digit code ⓘ |
| hasSeparator | hyphen between fourth and fifth digit ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
International Standard Serial Number
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
ISSN-L
|
| headquarteredIn | Paris ⓘ |
| language | multilingual documentation ⓘ |
| managedBy | ISSN International Centre ⓘ |
| notUsedFor |
monographs
ⓘ
single-volume books ⓘ |
| purpose |
collocation of different media versions of the same serial
ⓘ
unique identification of serial publications ⓘ |
| relatedStandard |
Digital Object Identifier system
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surface form:
Digital Object Identifier
International Standard Book Number ⓘ International Standard Name Identifier ⓘ |
| representationExample | ISSN 1234-5679 ⓘ |
| scope | worldwide ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | International Organization for Standardization ⓘ |
| usedFor |
academic journals
ⓘ
continuing resources ⓘ magazines ⓘ newspapers ⓘ serial publications ⓘ |
| usedIn |
citation systems
ⓘ
library cataloguing ⓘ publishing industry ⓘ serials management ⓘ |
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: International Standard Serial Number Description of subject: The International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is an eight-digit code used worldwide to uniquely identify serial publications such as journals, magazines, and newspapers.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
International Standard Serial Number
→
hasDatabase
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International Standard Serial Number
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
ISSN Register
International Standard Serial Number
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hasVariant
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International Standard Serial Number
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
ISSN-L
this entity surface form:
International Standard Serial Number system
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ISSN
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International Standard Serial Number system
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ISSN
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International Standard Serial Number system
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ISSN
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ISSN
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ISSN system
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ISSN-L
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ISSN