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ArticleScientific data2025

An epidemiological knowledge graph extracted from the World Health Organization's Disease Outbreak News.

Sergio Consoli, Pietro Coletti, Peter V Markov, Lia Orfei, Indaco Biazzo, Lea Schuh, Nicolas Stefanovitch, Lorenzo Bertolini, Mario Ceresa, Nikolaos I Stilianakis

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Article in Scientific data, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Sergio ConsoliEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy. sergio.consoli@ec.europa.eu.ORCID 0000-0001-7357-5858
Pietro ColettiEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9935-1692
Peter V MarkovEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.
Lia OrfeiEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.
Indaco BiazzoEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.
Lea SchuhEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.
Nicolas StefanovitchEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.
Lorenzo BertoliniEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.
Mario CeresaEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.
Nikolaos I StilianakisEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI), together with the increased availability of social media and news for epidemiological surveillance, is marking a pivotal moment in epidemiology and public health research. By harnessing the capabilities of generative AI, we use an ensemble approach which incorporates multiple Large Language Models (LLMs) to extract useful epidemiological information for analysis from the World Health Organization (WHO) Disease Outbreak News (DONs). DONs is a collection of regular reports on global outbreaks curated by the WHO with the adopted decision-making processes to respond to them. The extracted information is made available in a knowledge graph, referred to as eKG, derived to provide a nuanced representation of the public health domain knowledge. We provide an overview of this new dataset and describe the structure of eKG, along with the services and tools used to access and utilize the data that we are building on top. These innovative data resources open altogether new opportunities for epidemiological research, and the analysis and surveillance of disease outbreaks.

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Artificial IntelligenceDisease OutbreaksHumansWorld Health Organization

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PMID40494870
PMCPMC12152149

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