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Human Subjects

nounid 4915·updated Aug 28, 2026
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a living individual about whom an investigator (whether professional or student) conducting research: (i) Obtains information or biospecimens through intervention or interaction with the individual, and uses, studies, or analyzes the information or biospecimens; or (ii) Obtains, uses, studies, analyzes, or generates identifiable private information or identifiable biospecimens.

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Classifications

Entity Type

Role100%manual revieweval-seeds-v0.3-2026-05-14

Sensitivity

Regulated90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

Phi75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

synonym
participant
possessive
Human Subjects's
pluralpossessive
Human Subjectses'

Framework definitions

2018 Requirements (2018 Common Rule)1 senseview framework →
§1
a living individual about whom an investigator (whether professional or student) conducting research: (i) Obtains information or biospecimens through intervention or interaction with the individual, and uses, studies, or analyzes the information or biospecimens; or (ii) Obtains, uses, studies, analyzes, or generates identifiable private information or identifiable biospecimens.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
a living individual about whom an investigator (whether professional or student) conducting research: (i) Obtains information or biospecimens through intervention or interaction with the individual, and uses, studies, or analyzes the information or biospecimens; or (ii) Obtains, uses, studies, analyzes, or generates identifiable private information or identifiable biospecimens.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

Outgoing relationships

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Incoming relationships

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