Australian Communications and Media Authority
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The Australian Communications and Media Authority is the Australian government regulator responsible for overseeing broadcasting, telecommunications, radiocommunications, and online content.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Australian Communications and Media Authority canonical | 31 |
| ACMA | 1 |
| Australian Broadcasting Authority | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2605449 — 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: Australian Communications and Media Authority Context triple: [Nine Network, regulatoryAuthority, Australian Communications and Media Authority]
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A.
Australian Classification Board
The Australian Classification Board is the Australian government body responsible for classifying and rating films, video games, and certain publications for legal distribution in Australia.
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B.
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is an independent public authority in Canada responsible for regulating and supervising broadcasting and telecommunications in the public interest.
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C.
Australian Securities and Investments Commission
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is Australia’s corporate, markets, financial services and consumer credit regulator, responsible for enforcing laws to protect investors and maintain fair and transparent financial markets.
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D.
Council of Australian Governments
The Council of Australian Governments was the peak intergovernmental forum in Australia where the federal, state, and territory leaders, along with the President of the Australian Local Government Association, met to coordinate national policy and reforms.
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E.
Australian Signals Directorate
The Australian Signals Directorate is Australia’s national signals intelligence and cyber security agency, responsible for foreign electronic intelligence gathering and protecting the country’s information infrastructure.
- 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: Australian Communications and Media Authority Target entity description: The Australian Communications and Media Authority is the Australian government regulator responsible for overseeing broadcasting, telecommunications, radiocommunications, and online content.
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A.
Australian Classification Board
The Australian Classification Board is the Australian government body responsible for classifying and rating films, video games, and certain publications for legal distribution in Australia.
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B.
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is an independent public authority in Canada responsible for regulating and supervising broadcasting and telecommunications in the public interest.
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C.
Australian Securities and Investments Commission
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is Australia’s corporate, markets, financial services and consumer credit regulator, responsible for enforcing laws to protect investors and maintain fair and transparent financial markets.
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D.
Council of Australian Governments
The Council of Australian Governments was the peak intergovernmental forum in Australia where the federal, state, and territory leaders, along with the President of the Australian Local Government Association, met to coordinate national policy and reforms.
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E.
Australian Signals Directorate
The Australian Signals Directorate is Australia’s national signals intelligence and cyber security agency, responsible for foreign electronic intelligence gathering and protecting the country’s information infrastructure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
communications regulator
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independent statutory authority ⓘ |
| allocates | radiofrequency spectrum ⓘ |
| approves | industry codes of practice ⓘ |
| canImpose |
fines
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licence cancellations ⓘ licence conditions ⓘ licence suspensions ⓘ |
| conducts | spectrum auctions ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| develops | industry codes of practice ⓘ |
| enforces |
Broadcasting Services Act 1992
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Do Not Call Register Act 2006 ⓘ Radiocommunications Act 1992 ⓘ Spam Act 2003 ⓘ Telecommunications Act 1997 ⓘ |
| formedByMergerOf |
Australian Broadcasting Authority
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Australian Communications Authority ⓘ |
| handles |
complaints about broadcasting content
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complaints about spam ⓘ complaints about telemarketing ⓘ |
| hasHeadquartersIn | Canberra ⓘ |
| hasOfficeIn | Sydney ⓘ |
| issues |
broadcasting licences
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radiocommunications licences ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Government of Australia
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linked to:
Australian government
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| monitors |
compliance with content standards
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compliance with licence conditions ⓘ |
| oversees |
commercial broadcasting services
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community broadcasting services ⓘ national broadcasting services ⓘ online safety codes ⓘ subscription television services ⓘ |
| parentAgency | Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts ⓘ |
| provides | consumer information on communications services ⓘ |
| regulates |
broadcasting
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broadcasting licences ⓘ content standards ⓘ online content ⓘ phone numbering ⓘ radiocommunications ⓘ spam ⓘ spectrum allocation ⓘ telecommunications ⓘ telemarketing ⓘ |
| responsibleTo | Minister for Communications ⓘ |
| shortName | ACMA ⓘ |
| website | https://www.acma.gov.au/ ⓘ |
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: Australian Communications and Media Authority Description of subject: The Australian Communications and Media Authority is the Australian government regulator responsible for overseeing broadcasting, telecommunications, radiocommunications, and online content.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Australian Communications and Media Authority
Australian Communications and Media Authority
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formedByMergerOf
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Australian Broadcasting Authority
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linked to: Australian Communications and Media Authority
subject linked to:
TLS
Australian Communications Authority
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hasSuccessor
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Australian Communications and Media Authority
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