Department of Disease Control (Thailand)
E1038414
The Department of Disease Control (Thailand) is a national public health agency responsible for preventing, monitoring, and controlling communicable and emerging diseases across Thailand.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Department of Disease Control (Thailand) canonical | 1 |
| กรมควบคุมโรค | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13428304 — 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: Department of Disease Control (Thailand) Context triple: [Ministry of Public Health (Thailand), oversees, Department of Disease Control (Thailand)]
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A.
Ministry of Public Health (Thailand)
The Ministry of Public Health (Thailand) is the national government agency responsible for overseeing public health policy, healthcare services, and disease prevention across Thailand.
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B.
Centre for Infectious Disease Control
The Centre for Infectious Disease Control is a specialized division of Norway’s public health authority responsible for surveillance, prevention, and management of infectious diseases.
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C.
Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives of Thailand
The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives of Thailand is the government agency responsible for national agricultural policy, rural development, and the promotion and regulation of cooperatives across the country.
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D.
Faculty of Tropical Medicine
The Faculty of Tropical Medicine is a specialized medical faculty of Mahidol University in Thailand, renowned for its research, education, and clinical work in tropical and infectious diseases.
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E.
Ministry of Interior of Thailand
The Ministry of Interior of Thailand is a key government ministry responsible for internal administration, local governance, public security, and oversight of provincial and municipal authorities across the country.
- 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: Department of Disease Control (Thailand) Target entity description: The Department of Disease Control (Thailand) is a national public health agency responsible for preventing, monitoring, and controlling communicable and emerging diseases across Thailand.
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A.
Ministry of Public Health (Thailand)
The Ministry of Public Health (Thailand) is the national government agency responsible for overseeing public health policy, healthcare services, and disease prevention across Thailand.
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B.
Centre for Infectious Disease Control
The Centre for Infectious Disease Control is a specialized division of Norway’s public health authority responsible for surveillance, prevention, and management of infectious diseases.
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C.
Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives of Thailand
The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives of Thailand is the government agency responsible for national agricultural policy, rural development, and the promotion and regulation of cooperatives across the country.
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D.
Faculty of Tropical Medicine
The Faculty of Tropical Medicine is a specialized medical faculty of Mahidol University in Thailand, renowned for its research, education, and clinical work in tropical and infectious diseases.
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E.
Ministry of Interior of Thailand
The Ministry of Interior of Thailand is a key government ministry responsible for internal administration, local governance, public security, and oversight of provincial and municipal authorities across the country.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
department of Thailand
ⓘ
government agency ⓘ public health agency ⓘ |
| appliesPolicy |
International Health Regulations (2005)
ⓘ
linked to:
international health regulations
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| collaboratesWith |
ASEAN health sector bodies
ⓘ
linked to:
ASEAN Sectoral Ministerial Bodies
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (United States) ⓘ
linked to:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
World Health Organization ⓘ |
| coordinatesWith |
disease surveillance networks in Thailand
ⓘ
hospitals in Thailand ⓘ provincial public health offices in Thailand ⓘ |
| country | Thailand ⓘ |
| employerOf |
epidemiologists in Thailand
ⓘ
public health officers in Thailand ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
epidemiology
ⓘ
infectious disease control ⓘ public health surveillance ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Mueang Nonthaburi District
ⓘ
Nonthaburi Province ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Thailand ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Thai ⓘ |
| locationCountry | Thailand ⓘ |
| nativeNameLanguage | th ⓘ |
| officialName |
Department of Disease Control
ⓘ
กรมควบคุมโรค ⓘ
linked to:
Department of Disease Control (Thailand)
|
| parentOrganization | Ministry of Public Health (Thailand) ⓘ |
| partOf | public health system of Thailand ⓘ |
| responsibility |
HIV/AIDS prevention and control
ⓘ
control of communicable diseases ⓘ control of emerging infectious diseases ⓘ disease control ⓘ disease prevention ⓘ disease surveillance ⓘ emergency response to disease outbreaks ⓘ epidemiological surveillance ⓘ health promotion related to infectious diseases ⓘ immunization programs ⓘ outbreak investigation ⓘ pandemic preparedness ⓘ tuberculosis control ⓘ vaccine-preventable disease control ⓘ vector-borne disease control ⓘ |
| role |
implementation of International Health Regulations in Thailand
ⓘ
national focal point for disease surveillance in Thailand ⓘ |
| sector | public health ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | Ministry of Public Health (Thailand) ⓘ |
| typeOfOrganization | non-profit government body ⓘ |
| website | https://ddc.moph.go.th ⓘ |
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: Department of Disease Control (Thailand) Description of subject: The Department of Disease Control (Thailand) is a national public health agency responsible for preventing, monitoring, and controlling communicable and emerging diseases across Thailand.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Department of Disease Control (Thailand)