Entity Type Registry¶
Canonical
type:values for this vault. Read before assigning a type; reuse the closest match. Append a new row (with a gloss and stub-eligibility) only when a source needs a type not listed, and log it.
(You may add domain-specific types here. The AI will not overwrite them.)
| Type | Gloss | Stub-eligible |
|---|---|---|
| Concept | An idea, topic, or method-family explained in prose | no |
| Method | A specific named analytical method | no |
| Reference | A referenceable definition: metric, schema, enum, formula | no |
| Source | An ingested paper, dataset card, or web-clip record | no |
| Entity | A named thing that doesn't fit a more specific type | yes |
| Tool | Software, package, or pipeline | yes |
| Dataset | A data resource | yes |
| Cohort | A study cohort or biobank | yes |
| Person | A researcher or contributor | yes |
| Lab | A research group or institution | yes |
| Project | An internal project or workstream | yes |
| Gene | A gene | yes |
| Pathway | A biological pathway | yes |
| Variant | A genetic variant (e.g. SNP, indel) | yes |