United States Life-Saving Service
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The United States Life-Saving Service was a federal agency that operated coastal rescue stations and crews dedicated to saving lives and ships in distress along U.S. shorelines in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| United States Life-Saving Service canonical | 9 |
| U.S. Life-Saving Service | 1 |
| U.S. Life-Saving Service stations | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T45606 — 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: United States Life-Saving Service Context triple: [United States Coast Guard, mergedFrom, United States Life-Saving Service]
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A.
United States Coast Guard
The United States Coast Guard is a U.S. maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service responsible for safeguarding the nation’s coasts, waterways, and maritime interests.
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B.
United States Lighthouse Service
The United States Lighthouse Service was a former U.S. federal agency responsible for the construction, maintenance, and operation of lighthouses and other navigational aids before its functions were absorbed into the Coast Guard.
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C.
United States Revenue Cutter Service
The United States Revenue Cutter Service was a maritime law enforcement and rescue service of the U.S. Treasury Department that operated from 1790 until it became a founding component of the modern United States Coast Guard.
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D.
Maritime Administration
The Maritime Administration is a U.S. federal agency responsible for promoting and regulating the nation’s merchant marine, maritime transportation system, and related infrastructure and workforce.
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E.
NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps
The NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, composed of officers who operate ships, aircraft, and other platforms to support oceanic and atmospheric research, environmental monitoring, and related scientific missions.
- 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: United States Life-Saving Service Target entity description: The United States Life-Saving Service was a federal agency that operated coastal rescue stations and crews dedicated to saving lives and ships in distress along U.S. shorelines in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
United States Coast Guard
The United States Coast Guard is a U.S. maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service responsible for safeguarding the nation’s coasts, waterways, and maritime interests.
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B.
United States Lighthouse Service
The United States Lighthouse Service was a former U.S. federal agency responsible for the construction, maintenance, and operation of lighthouses and other navigational aids before its functions were absorbed into the Coast Guard.
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C.
United States Revenue Cutter Service
The United States Revenue Cutter Service was a maritime law enforcement and rescue service of the U.S. Treasury Department that operated from 1790 until it became a founding component of the modern United States Coast Guard.
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D.
Maritime Administration
The Maritime Administration is a U.S. federal agency responsible for promoting and regulating the nation’s merchant marine, maritime transportation system, and related infrastructure and workforce.
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E.
NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps
The NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, composed of officers who operate ships, aircraft, and other platforms to support oceanic and atmospheric research, environmental monitoring, and related scientific missions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
federal agency
ⓘ
maritime rescue organization ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
United States government
ⓘ
surface form:
federal government of the United States
|
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| dissolved | 1915 ⓘ |
| employs |
keepers of life-saving stations
ⓘ
surfmen ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
coastal safety
ⓘ
disaster response ⓘ maritime safety ⓘ |
| foundedBy | United States Congress ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
lifesaving operations
ⓘ
maintaining life-saving equipment ⓘ maritime search and rescue ⓘ shipwreck response ⓘ training surfmen ⓘ |
| hasHeadquartersLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| hasJurisdictionOver | coastal waters of the United States ⓘ |
| hasMainTask |
assisting vessels in distress
ⓘ
conducting beach patrols ⓘ conducting surf rescue operations ⓘ operating coastal rescue stations ⓘ providing aid during maritime disasters ⓘ rescuing shipwrecked mariners ⓘ saving lives from shipwrecks ⓘ |
| hasMotto | You have to go out, but you don’t have to come back ⓘ |
| hasNotableLeader | Sumner Increase Kimball ⓘ |
| hasOrganizationalUnit |
district office
ⓘ
life-saving station ⓘ |
| hasPosition | General Superintendent ⓘ |
| heritage | predecessor of modern United States Coast Guard search and rescue mission ⓘ |
| inception | 1878 ⓘ |
| mergedInto | United States Coast Guard ⓘ |
| mergedWith | United States Revenue Cutter Service ⓘ |
| mergerDate | 1915 ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Great Blizzard of 1888 rescue operations
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rescue operations during the 1893 Sea Islands hurricane ⓘ rescue operations during the 1900 Galveston hurricane ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
Atlantic coast of the United States
ⓘ
Great Lakes region ⓘ Gulf Coast of the United States ⓘ
surface form:
Gulf of Mexico coast
Pacific coast of the United States ⓘ United States coastline ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Department of the Treasury ⓘ |
| precededBy |
United States Revenue Cutter Service
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surface form:
United States Revenue Marine volunteer life-saving stations
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| usedEquipment |
Lyle gun
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breeches buoy ⓘ life car ⓘ lifeboats ⓘ surfboat ⓘ |
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: United States Life-Saving Service Description of subject: The United States Life-Saving Service was a federal agency that operated coastal rescue stations and crews dedicated to saving lives and ships in distress along U.S. shorelines in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
U.S. Life-Saving Service stations
this entity surface form:
U.S. Life-Saving Service