department for food safety and veterinary affairs
E106424
The department for food safety and veterinary affairs is a specialized division within Germany’s Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture responsible for regulating food safety standards and overseeing animal health and veterinary policy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| department for food safety and veterinary affairs canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T903110 — 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 for food safety and veterinary affairs Context triple: [Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, hasDivision, department for food safety and veterinary affairs]
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A.
Department of Food Control
The Department of Food Control is an academic unit within Cairo University's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine that focuses on the safety, quality, and regulation of food of animal origin.
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B.
Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety
The Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety is the European Commission department responsible for EU policy on public health, food safety, and related consumer protection.
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C.
Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office
The Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office is a Swiss government authority responsible for protecting public health and animal welfare by overseeing food safety, animal health, and animal protection regulations.
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D.
Animal and Plant Health Agency
The Animal and Plant Health Agency is a UK government body responsible for safeguarding animal health, plant health, and animal welfare, and supporting food safety and public health.
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E.
Food Safety and Inspection Service
The Food Safety and Inspection Service is a U.S. federal agency responsible for ensuring the safety, wholesomeness, and proper labeling of meat, poultry, and certain egg products.
- 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 for food safety and veterinary affairs Target entity description: The department for food safety and veterinary affairs is a specialized division within Germany’s Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture responsible for regulating food safety standards and overseeing animal health and veterinary policy.
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A.
Department of Food Control
The Department of Food Control is an academic unit within Cairo University's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine that focuses on the safety, quality, and regulation of food of animal origin.
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B.
Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety
The Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety is the European Commission department responsible for EU policy on public health, food safety, and related consumer protection.
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C.
Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office
The Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office is a Swiss government authority responsible for protecting public health and animal welfare by overseeing food safety, animal health, and animal protection regulations.
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D.
Animal and Plant Health Agency
The Animal and Plant Health Agency is a UK government body responsible for safeguarding animal health, plant health, and animal welfare, and supporting food safety and public health.
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E.
Food Safety and Inspection Service
The Food Safety and Inspection Service is a U.S. federal agency responsible for ensuring the safety, wholesomeness, and proper labeling of meat, poultry, and certain egg products.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government department
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specialized division ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
animal health
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consumer protection in food ⓘ food safety ⓘ veterinary public health ⓘ |
| goal |
ensure safe food supply
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protect animal health ⓘ protect public health through food safety ⓘ |
| governmentBranch | executive branch of Germany ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Germany ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Berlin
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surface form:
Berlin, Germany
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| oversees |
implementation of food safety regulations
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implementation of veterinary regulations ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
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surface form:
Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (Germany)
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| partOf |
Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
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surface form:
Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (Germany)
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| regulates |
food safety within its jurisdiction
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veterinary practices at policy level ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
animal health policy
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food safety standards ⓘ veterinary policy ⓘ |
| sector | food and agriculture ⓘ |
| task |
contributing to consumer health protection
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coordination of veterinary policy ⓘ monitoring animal health risks ⓘ regulation of food safety standards ⓘ |
| worksWith |
Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety
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surface form:
European Union food safety bodies
German federal states ⓘ veterinary authorities ⓘ |
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 for food safety and veterinary affairs Description of subject: The department for food safety and veterinary affairs is a specialized division within Germany’s Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture responsible for regulating food safety standards and overseeing animal health and veterinary policy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
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hasDivision
→
department for food safety and veterinary affairs
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