Federal Office of Public Health
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The Federal Office of Public Health is Switzerland’s national authority responsible for public health policy, disease prevention, and health system regulation.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Federal Office of Public Health canonical | 9 |
| Bundesamt für Gesundheit | 2 |
| Office fédéral de la santé publique | 1 |
| Ufficio federale della sanità pubblica | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3638541 — 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: Federal Office of Public Health Context triple: [Federal Department of Home Affairs, oversees, Federal Office of Public Health]
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A.
Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office
The Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office is a Swiss government authority responsible for protecting public health and animal welfare by overseeing food safety, animal health, and animal protection regulations.
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B.
Federal Ministry of Health
The Federal Ministry of Health is a German federal government department responsible for national health policy, healthcare regulation, and public health protection.
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C.
Federal Ministry of Health
The Federal Ministry of Health is Nigeria’s national government body responsible for formulating and implementing health policies, regulating healthcare services, and overseeing public health programs across the country.
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D.
Robert Koch Institute
The Robert Koch Institute is Germany’s national public health institute, renowned for its research in infectious diseases, epidemiology, and disease prevention.
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E.
Health Bureau
The Health Bureau is the Hong Kong government department responsible for formulating and overseeing public health, healthcare, and related policy for the territory.
- 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: Federal Office of Public Health Target entity description: The Federal Office of Public Health is Switzerland’s national authority responsible for public health policy, disease prevention, and health system regulation.
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A.
Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office
The Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office is a Swiss government authority responsible for protecting public health and animal welfare by overseeing food safety, animal health, and animal protection regulations.
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B.
Federal Ministry of Health
The Federal Ministry of Health is a German federal government department responsible for national health policy, healthcare regulation, and public health protection.
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C.
Federal Ministry of Health
The Federal Ministry of Health is Nigeria’s national government body responsible for formulating and implementing health policies, regulating healthcare services, and overseeing public health programs across the country.
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D.
Robert Koch Institute
The Robert Koch Institute is Germany’s national public health institute, renowned for its research in infectious diseases, epidemiology, and disease prevention.
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E.
Health Bureau
The Health Bureau is the Hong Kong government department responsible for formulating and overseeing public health, healthcare, and related policy for the territory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
federal office of Switzerland
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public health authority ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
BAG
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FOPH ⓘ OFSP ⓘ UFSP ⓘ |
| cooperatesWith |
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
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Swiss cantonal health authorities ⓘ World Health Organization ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| employerOf | public health professionals ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Bern
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Switzerland ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Confoederatio Helvetica (Swiss Confederation)
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surface form:
Swiss Confederation
|
| languageOfWork |
French
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German ⓘ Italian ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
Swiss Epidemics Act
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Swiss Health Insurance Act ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
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Central European Time ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Federal Office of Public Health
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Bundesamt für Gesundheit
Federal Office of Public Health self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Office fédéral de la santé publique
Federal Office of Public Health self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Ufficio federale della sanità pubblica
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| partOf | Federal Department of Home Affairs ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
HIV/AIDS prevention in Switzerland
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alcohol policy in Switzerland ⓘ biosafety in Switzerland ⓘ communicable disease surveillance in Switzerland ⓘ disease prevention in Switzerland ⓘ drug policy in Switzerland ⓘ environmental health in Switzerland ⓘ epidemic control in Switzerland ⓘ food safety policy coordination in Switzerland ⓘ health insurance supervision in Switzerland ⓘ health promotion in Switzerland ⓘ health statistics in Switzerland ⓘ health system regulation in Switzerland ⓘ international health relations of Switzerland ⓘ national vaccination policy in Switzerland ⓘ non-communicable disease prevention in Switzerland ⓘ pandemic preparedness in Switzerland ⓘ patient safety policy in Switzerland ⓘ public health policy in Switzerland ⓘ quality of health care policy in Switzerland ⓘ radiation protection in Switzerland ⓘ tobacco control policy in Switzerland ⓘ |
| sector | public health ⓘ |
| website | https://www.bag.admin.ch ⓘ |
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: Federal Office of Public Health Description of subject: The Federal Office of Public Health is Switzerland’s national authority responsible for public health policy, disease prevention, and health system regulation.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office
→
cooperatesWith
→
Federal Office of Public Health
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EDI – German (Eidgenössisches Departement des Innern)
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supervises
→
Federal Office of Public Health
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subject surface form:
Eidgenössisches Departement des Innern
subject surface form:
Département fédéral de l’intérieur
Federal Office of Public Health
→
nativeName
→
Federal Office of Public Health
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Bundesamt für Gesundheit
Federal Office of Public Health
→
nativeName
→
Federal Office of Public Health
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Office fédéral de la santé publique
Federal Office of Public Health
→
nativeName
→
Federal Office of Public Health
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Ufficio federale della sanità pubblica
this entity surface form:
Bundesamt für Gesundheit