WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
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The WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia is the World Health Organization’s regional body responsible for coordinating international public health efforts and supporting health systems across countries in the South-East Asia region.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia | 2 |
| WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia canonical | 2 |
| WHO SEARO | 1 |
| WHO South-East Asia Region | 1 |
| WHO South-East Asia Region Member States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T33726 — 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: WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia Context triple: [World Health Organization, hasRegionalOffice, WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia]
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A.
World Health Organization
The World Health Organization is a specialized international agency that directs and coordinates global health efforts, including disease control, health policy, and emergency response.
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B.
Academy of Sciences for the Developing World
The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, now known as The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), is an international organization that supports scientific excellence and capacity building in developing countries.
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C.
United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Programme is the UN’s global development agency that works to eradicate poverty, reduce inequalities, and support sustainable development in countries worldwide.
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D.
UNESCO
UNESCO is a specialized agency of the United Nations that promotes international cooperation in education, science, culture, and communication to foster peace and sustainable development.
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E.
United Nations Economic and Social Council
The United Nations Economic and Social Council is a principal UN body responsible for coordinating international economic, social, and related work of the organization and its specialized agencies.
- 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: WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia Target entity description: The WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia is the World Health Organization’s regional body responsible for coordinating international public health efforts and supporting health systems across countries in the South-East Asia region.
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A.
World Health Organization
The World Health Organization is a specialized international agency that directs and coordinates global health efforts, including disease control, health policy, and emergency response.
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B.
Academy of Sciences for the Developing World
The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, now known as The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), is an international organization that supports scientific excellence and capacity building in developing countries.
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C.
United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Programme is the UN’s global development agency that works to eradicate poverty, reduce inequalities, and support sustainable development in countries worldwide.
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D.
UNESCO
UNESCO is a specialized agency of the United Nations that promotes international cooperation in education, science, culture, and communication to foster peace and sustainable development.
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E.
United Nations Economic and Social Council
The United Nations Economic and Social Council is a principal UN body responsible for coordinating international economic, social, and related work of the organization and its specialized agencies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
WHO regional office
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international organization body ⓘ |
| affiliation | United Nations ⓘ |
| focusArea |
HIV and hepatitis
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communicable disease control ⓘ emergency preparedness and response ⓘ environmental health and climate change ⓘ health security and International Health Regulations implementation ⓘ health systems strengthening ⓘ immunization ⓘ malaria and neglected tropical diseases ⓘ maternal and child health ⓘ mental health ⓘ noncommunicable disease prevention and control ⓘ nutrition ⓘ tuberculosis control ⓘ universal health coverage ⓘ |
| governingBody |
WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia
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| headquartersCountry | India ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
New Delhi, India
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surface form:
New Delhi
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| mandate |
coordinate international public health activities in the South-East Asia Region
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support health systems strengthening in member states ⓘ support implementation of WHO policies and programmes in the region ⓘ |
| memberState |
People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan)
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surface form:
Bangladesh
Bhutan ⓘ North Korea ⓘ
surface form:
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
India ⓘ Indonesia ⓘ Maldives ⓘ Myanmar ⓘ Nepal ⓘ Sri Lanka ⓘ Thailand ⓘ Timor-Leste ⓘ |
| numberOfMemberStates | 11 ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | English ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | World Health Organization ⓘ |
| partOf | World Health Organization ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Southeast Asia
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surface form:
South-East Asia
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| reportsTo |
Executive Board of the World Health Organization
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surface form:
WHO Executive Board
World Health Assembly ⓘ |
| role |
adapt global WHO strategies to regional context
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coordinate regional responses to health emergencies ⓘ monitor and evaluate regional health trends ⓘ provide technical assistance to ministries of health in member states ⓘ support development of national health policies and plans ⓘ |
| shortName |
WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
WHO SEARO
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| website | https://www.who.int/southeastasia ⓘ |
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: WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia Description of subject: The WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia is the World Health Organization’s regional body responsible for coordinating international public health efforts and supporting health systems across countries in the South-East Asia region.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
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shortName
→
WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
WHO SEARO
WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
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governingBody
→
WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia
World Health Organization regional committee system
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hasPart
→
WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
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this entity surface form:
WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia
World Health Organization regional committee system
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appliesTo
→
WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
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this entity surface form:
WHO South-East Asia Region
this entity surface form:
WHO South-East Asia Region Member States