Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
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The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is a U.S. federal agency responsible for protecting animal health, plant health, and animal welfare, and for facilitating safe agricultural trade.
All labels observed (12)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T175531 — 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: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Context triple: [United States Department of Agriculture, oversees, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service]
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A.
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.
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B.
United States Department of Agriculture
The United States Department of Agriculture is a federal executive department responsible for developing and executing national policies on farming, forestry, rural economic development, and food safety.
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C.
Agricultural Research Service
The Agricultural Research Service is the principal in-house scientific research agency of the U.S. federal government focused on agriculture, food, and related environmental issues.
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D.
Farm Service Agency
The Farm Service Agency is a U.S. government agency that administers agricultural policies and programs to support farmers, ranchers, and rural communities.
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E.
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration
The Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration is a former USDA agency responsible for ensuring fair trading practices, accurate grain inspection and weighing, and competitive livestock and poultry markets in the United States.
- 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: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Target entity description: The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is a U.S. federal agency responsible for protecting animal health, plant health, and animal welfare, and for facilitating safe agricultural trade.
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A.
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.
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B.
United States Department of Agriculture
The United States Department of Agriculture is a federal executive department responsible for developing and executing national policies on farming, forestry, rural economic development, and food safety.
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C.
Agricultural Research Service
The Agricultural Research Service is the principal in-house scientific research agency of the U.S. federal government focused on agriculture, food, and related environmental issues.
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D.
Farm Service Agency
The Farm Service Agency is a U.S. government agency that administers agricultural policies and programs to support farmers, ranchers, and rural communities.
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E.
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration
The Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration is a former USDA agency responsible for ensuring fair trading practices, accurate grain inspection and weighing, and competitive livestock and poultry markets in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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| instanceOf |
United States government agency
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federal agency ⓘ regulatory agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
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APHIS
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| appliesRegulation |
Animal Health Protection Act
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Animal Welfare Act ⓘ Horse Protection Act ⓘ Plant Protection Act ⓘ Virus-Serum-Toxin Act ⓘ select agent regulations for certain animal and plant pathogens ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| hasDivision |
Animal Care
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Biotechnology Regulatory Services ⓘ International Services ⓘ Marketing and Regulatory Programs Business Services ⓘ Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service self-linksurface differs ⓘ
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Plant Protection and Quarantine
Policy and Program Development ⓘ Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service self-linksurface differs ⓘ
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Veterinary Services
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Wildlife Services
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| hasMission |
certify animals and plants for export
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coordinate emergency response to animal disease outbreaks ⓘ enforce the Animal Welfare Act ⓘ enforce the Horse Protection Act ⓘ facilitate safe agricultural trade ⓘ implement animal health surveillance programs ⓘ inspect imported animals, plants, and related products ⓘ manage wildlife damage that threatens agriculture and natural resources ⓘ prevent introduction of invasive species ⓘ protect U.S. agriculture from pests and diseases ⓘ protect animal health in the United States ⓘ protect animal welfare in the United States ⓘ protect plant health in the United States ⓘ regulate animal disease diagnostics ⓘ regulate genetically engineered organisms under U.S. law ⓘ regulate veterinary biologics ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| inception | 1972 ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States government
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surface form:
federal government of the United States
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| operatesProgram |
Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey
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National Animal Health Monitoring System ⓘ National Veterinary Accreditation Program ⓘ Smuggling Interdiction and Trade Compliance program ⓘ Wildlife damage management programs ⓘ |
| parentAgency | United States Department of Agriculture ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Department of Agriculture ⓘ |
| replaces |
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
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surface form:
Animal Health Division of the Agricultural Research Service
Agricultural Research Administration ⓘ
surface form:
Plant Protection Division of the Agricultural Research Service
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| website | https://www.aphis.usda.gov ⓘ |
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: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Description of subject: The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is a U.S. federal agency responsible for protecting animal health, plant health, and animal welfare, and for facilitating safe agricultural trade.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
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Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
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APHIS
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Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
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Animal Health Division of the Agricultural Research Service
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Veterinary Services
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
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Plant Protection and Quarantine
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Wildlife Services
Biotechnology Regulatory Services
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Marketing and Regulatory Programs Business Services
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USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
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USDA Animal Care program
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USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
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APHIS Plant Protection and Quarantine program
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USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
National Animal Health Monitoring System
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Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
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USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
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USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Veterinary Services
National Veterinary Accreditation Program
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USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
National Veterinary Accreditation Program
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Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
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USDA APHIS Veterinary Services
Smuggling Interdiction and Trade Compliance program
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Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
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subject surface form:
Title 9 of the Code of Federal Regulations