Environmental Protection Act 1990
E150258
The Environmental Protection Act 1990 is a key UK law that provides the framework for controlling pollution, managing waste, and protecting the environment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Environmental Protection Act 1990 canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1314758 — 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: Environmental Protection Act 1990 Context triple: [Joint Nature Conservation Committee, legalBasis, Environmental Protection Act 1990]
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A.
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 is Australia’s central environmental legislation, providing the legal framework for protecting nationally significant flora, fauna, ecological communities, and heritage places.
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B.
National Environmental Policy Act
The National Environmental Policy Act is a foundational U.S. environmental law that requires federal agencies to assess and disclose the environmental impacts of their proposed actions through processes like Environmental Impact Statements.
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C.
Resource Management Act 1991
The Resource Management Act 1991 is New Zealand’s principal environmental and land-use planning law, establishing an integrated framework for managing natural and physical resources while recognizing Māori interests and Treaty of Waitangi principles.
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D.
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act is a U.S. federal law that governs the management, treatment, storage, and disposal of solid and hazardous waste to protect human health and the environment.
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E.
Clean Air Act
The Clean Air Act is a landmark U.S. federal law that regulates air emissions from stationary and mobile sources to protect public health and the environment from air pollution.
- 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: Environmental Protection Act 1990 Target entity description: The Environmental Protection Act 1990 is a key UK law that provides the framework for controlling pollution, managing waste, and protecting the environment.
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A.
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 is Australia’s central environmental legislation, providing the legal framework for protecting nationally significant flora, fauna, ecological communities, and heritage places.
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B.
National Environmental Policy Act
The National Environmental Policy Act is a foundational U.S. environmental law that requires federal agencies to assess and disclose the environmental impacts of their proposed actions through processes like Environmental Impact Statements.
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C.
Resource Management Act 1991
The Resource Management Act 1991 is New Zealand’s principal environmental and land-use planning law, establishing an integrated framework for managing natural and physical resources while recognizing Māori interests and Treaty of Waitangi principles.
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D.
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act is a U.S. federal law that governs the management, treatment, storage, and disposal of solid and hazardous waste to protect human health and the environment.
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E.
Clean Air Act
The Clean Air Act is a landmark U.S. federal law that regulates air emissions from stationary and mobile sources to protect public health and the environment from air pollution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom
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environmental law ⓘ |
| citation | 1990 c. 43 ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createsDuty |
duty of care for waste holders
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duty of local authorities to keep land clear of litter ⓘ |
| createsOffence |
causing or permitting statutory nuisance
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failure to comply with waste management licence conditions ⓘ littering in a public place ⓘ unlawful deposit of controlled waste ⓘ |
| implementedBy |
Environment Agency (England)
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surface form:
Environment Agency
Scottish Environment Protection Agency ⓘ environmental regulators ⓘ local authorities ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
England
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Northern Ireland ⓘ Scotland ⓘ Wales ⓘ |
| longTitle | An Act to make provision for the improved control of pollution arising from certain industrial and other processes; to re-enact the provisions of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 relating to waste on land with modifications; to make new provision with respect to waste disposal, waste management, and litter; and for connected purposes ⓘ |
| mainPurpose |
control of pollution
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environmental protection ⓘ waste management ⓘ |
| parliament |
British Parliament
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surface form:
Parliament of the United Kingdom
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| part |
Part I: Prescribed processes and substances
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Part II: Waste on land ⓘ Part III: Statutory nuisances and clean air ⓘ Part IV: Litter ⓘ Part V: Radioactive substances ⓘ Part VI: Genetically modified organisms ⓘ Part VII: Miscellaneous provisions ⓘ |
| providesFrameworkFor |
integrated pollution control
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litter control regime ⓘ local air pollution control ⓘ statutory nuisance regime ⓘ waste management licensing system ⓘ |
| regulates |
controlled waste
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duty of care for waste ⓘ genetically modified organisms in the environment ⓘ litter ⓘ pollution from industrial processes ⓘ statutory nuisances ⓘ waste disposal ⓘ waste management licensing ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Environment Act 1995
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Environmental Protection Act 1995 ⓘ |
| replaces | parts of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 ⓘ |
| royalAssentDate | 1990-11-01 ⓘ |
| shortTitle | Environmental Protection Act 1990 self-link ⓘ |
| status | amended ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | environmental regulation in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| yearEnacted | 1990 ⓘ |
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: Environmental Protection Act 1990 Description of subject: The Environmental Protection Act 1990 is a key UK law that provides the framework for controlling pollution, managing waste, and protecting the environment.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Joint Nature Conservation Committee (sponsorship role)
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legalBasis
→
Environmental Protection Act 1990
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subject surface form:
Joint Nature Conservation Committee