Integrated Taxonomic Information System
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The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) is a standardized, authoritative database that provides consistent and reliable taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Integrated Taxonomic Information System canonical | 4 |
| ITIS | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9541562 — 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: Integrated Taxonomic Information System Context triple: [Pimelodidae, recognizedBy, Integrated Taxonomic Information System]
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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.
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) standards
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) standards are a set of internationally recognized technical specifications and protocols that enable consistent sharing, integration, and use of biodiversity data across institutions and platforms.
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C.
Darwin Core
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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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.
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.
- 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: Integrated Taxonomic Information System Target entity description: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) is a standardized, authoritative database that provides consistent and reliable taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes.
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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.
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) standards
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) standards are a set of internationally recognized technical specifications and protocols that enable consistent sharing, integration, and use of biodiversity data across institutions and platforms.
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C.
Darwin Core
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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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.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biodiversity information system
ⓘ
online database ⓘ taxonomic database ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
ITIS
ⓘ
linked to:
Integrated Taxonomic Information System
|
| accessibleVia |
web interface
ⓘ
web services ⓘ |
| acronym | TSN ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| covers |
animals
ⓘ
fungi ⓘ microbes ⓘ plants ⓘ |
| dataQuality | reviewed by taxonomic specialists ⓘ |
| dataType |
common names
ⓘ
scientific names ⓘ synonymy ⓘ taxonomic hierarchy ⓘ taxonomic serial numbers ⓘ |
| describedAs | standardized, authoritative database of taxonomic information ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
biological taxonomy
ⓘ
classification ⓘ nomenclature ⓘ |
| goal |
provide authoritative taxonomic information
ⓘ
standardize taxonomic data across agencies ⓘ |
| hasFullName | Integrated Taxonomic Information System ⓘ |
| hasPartner |
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
ⓘ
CONABIO ⓘ Canadian Forest Service ⓘ
linked to:
Natural Resources Canada
EPA ⓘ ITIS-Canada ⓘ NOAA ⓘ National Museum of Natural History ⓘ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ⓘ NatureServe ⓘ Smithsonian Institution ⓘ USGS ⓘ
linked to:
United States Geological Survey
United States Environmental Protection Agency ⓘ United States Geological Survey ⓘ |
| hasScope |
North American taxa
ⓘ
global taxa ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.itis.gov/ ⓘ |
| integrates | data from multiple taxonomic experts ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| maintains | standardized taxonomic checklists ⓘ |
| provides |
consistent taxonomic information
ⓘ
reliable taxonomic information ⓘ |
| supportedBy |
Canadian federal agencies
ⓘ
Mexican federal agencies ⓘ U.S. federal agencies ⓘ |
| usedBy |
educators
ⓘ
general public ⓘ policy makers ⓘ resource managers ⓘ scientists ⓘ |
| usesIdentifier | Taxonomic Serial Number ⓘ |
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: Integrated Taxonomic Information System Description of subject: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) is a standardized, authoritative database that provides consistent and reliable taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Integrated Taxonomic Information System