Vitamin B

UNMAPPED_0005 complex UNMAPPED NCIT NARROW_MATCH

Ontology mapping

Primary identifier
UNMAPPED_0005
Ontology term
NCIT:C944 — Vitamin
Ontology label
Vitamin
Notes
CultureMech placeholder_id: 8; reviewed on 2026-05-11 and left unmapped because "Vitamin B" is ambiguous and the raw Vitamin B12 surface form should not force identity mapping to either B vitamin or cobalamin; classified as an undefined mixture/category term rather than a specific ingredient.

Synonyms (3)

SynonymTypeSourceOccurrences
Vitamin B12 RAW_TEXT CultureMech
Vitamin B (Thiamine.HCl) RAW_TEXT culturemech:output/ingredient_occurrences.tsv
Vitamin B . (Cyanocobalamin) RAW_TEXT culturemech:output/ingredient_occurrences.tsv

Evidence (1)

DATABASE_MATCH via NCIT via OLS (label-exact)

Parent class identified via label-exact; matched_via='Vitamin'

Occurrence statistics

Total occurrences
23
Distinct media
23

Curation history

TimestampCuratorActionNew statusChanges
2026-03-09T06:54:18.022301+00:00 import_from_culturemech IMPORTED UNMAPPED Initial import from CultureMech pipeline
2026-04-05T19:54:56.149441+00:00 fetch_cas_rn_from_pubchem ADDED_CAS_RN UNMAPPED Added CAS-RN:98-92-0 from PubChem API via name lookup (Vitamin B)
2026-05-02T07:19:58.115354+00:00 backfill_parent_terms BACKFILL_PARENT_NCIT set ontology_mapping parent=NCIT:C944 (label-exact)
2026-05-11T05:44:00Z mediaingredientmech-agentic-curation LLM REVIEWED_AMBIGUOUS_VITAMIN_TERM UNMAPPED Left unmapped because the record combines a broad "Vitamin B" label with a Vitamin B12 raw source synonym. Removed CAS-RN 98-92-0 from the ambiguous record because that CAS is locally represented by mapped nicotinamide, not by the whole B-vitamin group.
2026-05-11T10:05:00Z mediaingredientmech-agentic-curation LLM CLASSIFIED_AMBIGUOUS_VITAMIN_TERM UNMAPPED Set ingredient_type=UNDEFINED_MIXTURE because the label is a broad B-vitamin category and the raw source synonym conflicts with a specific Vitamin B12 identity.
2026-08-06T00:00:00+00:00 edison_literature_identity LLM ANNOTATED Edison LITERATURE (PaperQA3) identity research; report at research/ingredients/Vitamin_B-edison-literature.md (local artifact — research/ is gitignored, so the findings are quoted here rather than linked). Report verdict: **Recommendation: retain `UNMAPPED` and `UNDEFINED_MIXTURE`.** The bare label **“Vitamin B” is not a single chemical identity**. In modern nomenclature, the B complex comprises eight distinct vitamins: B1/thiamine, B2/riboflavin, B3/niacin, B5/pantothenic acid, B6/pyridoxine-family vitamers, B7/biotin, B9/folate, and B12/cobalamins. These compounds do not share one molecular formula, salt state, c CURIEs discussed: NCIT:C944. Recorded as provenance only — no grounding applied from this run. Edison's recommendations are deliberately conservative, and a plausible identifier promoted by a mechanism that never decided anything is what #203 and #263 exist to undo. Any CURIE above is a curator's to accept or reject.
2026-08-30T06:20:04.233651+00:00 claude_culturemech_alias_backfill ADDED_SYNONYMS Added 2 CultureMech recipe surface form(s) that folded onto this record's published label but were absent from MIM's label index, so CultureMech could not resolve them: 'Vitamin B (Thiamine.HCl)' (x1 CultureMech mentions); 'Vitamin B . (Cyanocobalamin)' (x1 CultureMech mentions). Source: culturemech:output/ingredient_occurrences.tsv.