DEA Special Operations Division
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The DEA Special Operations Division is a specialized unit within the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that coordinates high-level, often international, counter-narcotics investigations and intelligence operations.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DEA special operations team | 2 |
| DEA Special Operations Division canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T108267 — 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: DEA Special Operations Division Context triple: [Drug Enforcement Administration, hasDivision, DEA Special Operations Division]
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A.
Special Operations Division
The Special Operations Division is a specialized unit of the United States Capitol Police responsible for handling high-risk security operations, tactical responses, and protective missions around the U.S. Capitol complex.
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B.
Drug Enforcement Administration
The Drug Enforcement Administration is a United States federal law enforcement agency responsible for combating drug trafficking and distribution and enforcing the nation’s controlled substances laws.
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C.
National Security Division
The National Security Division is a component of the U.S. Department of Justice responsible for coordinating and enforcing the nation’s counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and other national security-related legal efforts.
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D.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is a U.S. federal law enforcement agency responsible for enforcing federal firearms and explosives laws and regulating aspects of the alcohol and tobacco industries.
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E.
United States Secret Service
The United States Secret Service is a federal law enforcement agency best known for protecting the U.S. president and other national leaders, as well as investigating financial and cyber crimes.
- 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: DEA Special Operations Division Target entity description: The DEA Special Operations Division is a specialized unit within the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that coordinates high-level, often international, counter-narcotics investigations and intelligence operations.
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A.
Special Operations Division
The Special Operations Division is a specialized unit of the United States Capitol Police responsible for handling high-risk security operations, tactical responses, and protective missions around the U.S. Capitol complex.
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B.
Drug Enforcement Administration
The Drug Enforcement Administration is a United States federal law enforcement agency responsible for combating drug trafficking and distribution and enforcing the nation’s controlled substances laws.
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C.
National Security Division
The National Security Division is a component of the U.S. Department of Justice responsible for coordinating and enforcing the nation’s counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and other national security-related legal efforts.
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D.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is a U.S. federal law enforcement agency responsible for enforcing federal firearms and explosives laws and regulating aspects of the alcohol and tobacco industries.
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E.
United States Secret Service
The United States Secret Service is a federal law enforcement agency best known for protecting the U.S. president and other national leaders, as well as investigating financial and cyber crimes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
intelligence coordination unit
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law enforcement unit ⓘ |
| activity |
communications interception support
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deconfliction of investigations ⓘ intelligence analysis ⓘ intelligence collection ⓘ operational coordination ⓘ |
| classifiedAs | sensitive law enforcement unit ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Department of Homeland Security components
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Drug Enforcement Administration ⓘ
surface form:
Drug Enforcement Administration field divisions
Federal Bureau of Investigation ⓘ foreign law enforcement partners ⓘ state and local law enforcement agencies ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employs |
intelligence analysts
ⓘ
interagency liaison officers ⓘ special agents ⓘ |
| field |
counter-narcotics
ⓘ
law enforcement intelligence ⓘ organized crime investigations ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
cartel leadership targets
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major drug trafficking networks ⓘ transnational criminal organizations ⓘ |
| goal |
disrupt and dismantle major drug trafficking organizations
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improve information sharing among agencies ⓘ protect sensitive intelligence sources and methods ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
centralized intelligence hub
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highly classified operations ⓘ multi-agency staffing ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
federal
ⓘ
international ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| parentAgency | Drug Enforcement Administration ⓘ |
| partOf |
Drug Enforcement Administration
ⓘ
United States Department of Justice ⓘ |
| purpose |
coordinate high-level drug trafficking investigations
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facilitate multi-agency counterdrug operations ⓘ provide operational intelligence support ⓘ support international narcotics investigations ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
media reports on parallel construction practices
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public controversy over surveillance practices ⓘ |
| uses |
signals intelligence
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telecommunications metadata ⓘ undercover operations support ⓘ |
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: DEA Special Operations Division Description of subject: The DEA Special Operations Division is a specialized unit within the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that coordinates high-level, often international, counter-narcotics investigations and intelligence operations.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
DEA special operations team
this entity surface form:
DEA special operations team