Refrigerator Safety Act
E341138
The Refrigerator Safety Act is a U.S. federal law that requires household refrigerators to be designed with safety features to prevent accidental entrapment, particularly of children.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Refrigerator Safety Act canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3245941 — 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: Refrigerator Safety Act Context triple: [Consumer Product Safety Commission, legalMandate, Refrigerator Safety Act]
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A.
Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011
The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011 is a major U.S. law that shifted the nation’s food safety system toward preventing contamination rather than responding to outbreaks, expanding the FDA’s regulatory and enforcement powers over the food supply.
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B.
Egg Products Inspection Act
The Egg Products Inspection Act is a U.S. federal law that regulates the processing, inspection, and labeling of egg products to ensure they are safe, wholesome, and accurately represented to consumers.
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C.
Food Security Act of 1985
The Food Security Act of 1985 is a major U.S. farm bill that overhauled agricultural commodity, conservation, and food assistance policies to stabilize farm incomes while promoting environmental stewardship.
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D.
Aldrich–Vreeland Act
The Aldrich–Vreeland Act was a 1908 U.S. law that created emergency currency provisions and laid groundwork for banking reform in response to the Panic of 1907.
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E.
Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921
The Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 is a U.S. federal law designed to prevent unfair, deceptive, and anti-competitive practices in the livestock, meatpacking, and poultry industries and to protect producers, consumers, and fair trade.
- 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: Refrigerator Safety Act Target entity description: The Refrigerator Safety Act is a U.S. federal law that requires household refrigerators to be designed with safety features to prevent accidental entrapment, particularly of children.
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A.
Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011
The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011 is a major U.S. law that shifted the nation’s food safety system toward preventing contamination rather than responding to outbreaks, expanding the FDA’s regulatory and enforcement powers over the food supply.
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B.
Egg Products Inspection Act
The Egg Products Inspection Act is a U.S. federal law that regulates the processing, inspection, and labeling of egg products to ensure they are safe, wholesome, and accurately represented to consumers.
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C.
Food Security Act of 1985
The Food Security Act of 1985 is a major U.S. farm bill that overhauled agricultural commodity, conservation, and food assistance policies to stabilize farm incomes while promoting environmental stewardship.
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D.
Aldrich–Vreeland Act
The Aldrich–Vreeland Act was a 1908 U.S. law that created emergency currency provisions and laid groundwork for banking reform in response to the Panic of 1907.
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E.
Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921
The Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 is a U.S. federal law designed to prevent unfair, deceptive, and anti-competitive practices in the livestock, meatpacking, and poultry industries and to protect producers, consumers, and fair trade.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | United States federal law ⓘ |
| addresses | hazards posed by discarded or abandoned refrigerators ⓘ |
| aimsToReduce |
risk of death from refrigerator entrapment
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risk of injury from refrigerator entrapment ⓘ |
| appliesTo | household refrigerators ⓘ |
| benefits |
children living in or visiting homes with refrigerators
ⓘ
household consumers ⓘ |
| concerns | mechanical latching or locking mechanisms on refrigerator doors ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| enforcedBy |
U.S. federal agencies
ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal authorities
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| focusesOn | prevention of suffocation hazards in refrigerators ⓘ |
| hasLegalEffectOn |
design standards for refrigerators
ⓘ
manufacturers of household refrigerators ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States government
ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal government
|
| legalDomain |
product safety regulation
ⓘ
public health and safety ⓘ |
| purpose |
to prevent accidental entrapment in household refrigerators
ⓘ
to protect children from being trapped in refrigerators ⓘ |
| regulates | design of household refrigerators ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
child safety
ⓘ
consumer product safety ⓘ home appliance safety ⓘ |
| requires |
refrigerator doors to be openable from the inside or easily opened from the outside
ⓘ
safety features on household refrigerators ⓘ |
| requiresComplianceFrom | refrigerator manufacturers selling in the United States ⓘ |
| safetyConcern |
accidental entrapment in closed refrigerators
ⓘ
suffocation of children in abandoned or unused refrigerators ⓘ |
| sector | household appliances ⓘ |
| targetGroup | children ⓘ |
| typeOf | consumer product safety law ⓘ |
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: Refrigerator Safety Act Description of subject: The Refrigerator Safety Act is a U.S. federal law that requires household refrigerators to be designed with safety features to prevent accidental entrapment, particularly of children.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.