Eurodac system
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The Eurodac system is an EU-wide biometric database that stores and compares fingerprints of asylum seekers and certain irregular migrants to help determine which member state is responsible for examining an asylum application.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eurodac | 2 |
| Eurodac Regulation | 2 |
| EURODAC Regulation | 1 |
| EURODAC fingerprint database | 1 |
| Eurodac system canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2174272 — 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: Eurodac system Context triple: [European Union area of freedom, security and justice, includesInstrument, Eurodac system]
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A.
European Solidarity Centre
The European Solidarity Centre is a museum and cultural institution in Gdańsk, Poland, dedicated to the history and legacy of the Solidarity movement and the struggle for freedom and democracy in Central and Eastern Europe.
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B.
Europol Information System
The Europol Information System is a centralized EU law enforcement database that stores and shares criminal intelligence to support cross-border crime investigations among member states.
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C.
Eurojust
Eurojust is the European Union agency that coordinates judicial cooperation among member states to combat serious cross-border crime.
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D.
Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs
The Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs is the European Commission department responsible for EU policies on migration, security, borders, and asylum.
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E.
Frontex
Frontex is the European Union agency responsible for coordinating and strengthening the management and security of the EU’s external borders.
- 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: Eurodac system Target entity description: The Eurodac system is an EU-wide biometric database that stores and compares fingerprints of asylum seekers and certain irregular migrants to help determine which member state is responsible for examining an asylum application.
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A.
European Solidarity Centre
The European Solidarity Centre is a museum and cultural institution in Gdańsk, Poland, dedicated to the history and legacy of the Solidarity movement and the struggle for freedom and democracy in Central and Eastern Europe.
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B.
Europol Information System
The Europol Information System is a centralized EU law enforcement database that stores and shares criminal intelligence to support cross-border crime investigations among member states.
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C.
Eurojust
Eurojust is the European Union agency that coordinates judicial cooperation among member states to combat serious cross-border crime.
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D.
Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs
The Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs is the European Commission department responsible for EU policies on migration, security, borders, and asylum.
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E.
Frontex
Frontex is the European Union agency responsible for coordinating and strengthening the management and security of the EU’s external borders.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
European Union information system
ⓘ
asylum management tool ⓘ biometric database ⓘ |
| accessControlledBy | data protection rules of the European Union ⓘ |
| accessedBy |
European Union Agency for Asylum
ⓘ
designated authorities of EU Member States ⓘ |
| acronymOf |
European Dactyloscopy system
ⓘ
surface form:
European Dactyloscopy
|
| comparisonMethod | automated fingerprint identification system ⓘ |
| dataField |
Member State of origin
ⓘ
date of application or apprehension ⓘ place of application or apprehension ⓘ reference number ⓘ sex ⓘ |
| dataSubjectCategory |
asylum applicants
ⓘ
persons apprehended in connection with irregular border crossing ⓘ third-country nationals or stateless persons found illegally staying in a Member State ⓘ |
| dataType |
alphanumeric data
ⓘ
biometric data ⓘ fingerprint templates ⓘ |
| geographicScope |
Member States of the European Union
ⓘ
surface form:
European Union Member States
associated Dublin States ⓘ |
| hasArchitecture | centralised system with national access points ⓘ |
| hasCentralUnit | central database managed by eu-LISA ⓘ |
| hasFullName | European Dactyloscopy system ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
to compare fingerprints for identification
ⓘ
to help determine the responsible Member State for examining an asylum application ⓘ to store fingerprints of asylum applicants ⓘ to store fingerprints of certain irregular migrants ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
Eurodac system
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Eurodac Regulation
Regulation (EU) No 603/2013 ⓘ |
| managedBy | eu-LISA ⓘ |
| operatedBy | European Union ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Dublin Regulation
ⓘ
surface form:
Dublin III Regulation
Schengen Information System ⓘ Visa Information System ⓘ |
| startOfOperation | 2003 ⓘ |
| storesForPurpose |
asylum procedure management
ⓘ
migration control ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
EU data protection law
ⓘ
oversight by national data protection authorities ⓘ oversight by the European Data Protection Supervisor ⓘ |
| supportsPolicy |
Common European Asylum System
ⓘ
Dublin system ⓘ |
| supportsProcess |
asylum application examination
ⓘ
determination of first country of entry ⓘ prevention of multiple asylum applications in different Member States ⓘ |
| usesBiometricType | fingerprints ⓘ |
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: Eurodac system Description of subject: The Eurodac system is an EU-wide biometric database that stores and compares fingerprints of asylum seekers and certain irregular migrants to help determine which member state is responsible for examining an asylum application.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
EURODAC fingerprint database
this entity surface form:
EURODAC Regulation
this entity surface form:
Eurodac Regulation
this entity surface form:
Eurodac Regulation
this entity surface form:
Eurodac
this entity surface form:
Eurodac