DETEC
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DETEC is the commonly used abbreviation for Switzerland’s Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications, which oversees national policy in these key infrastructure and environmental areas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DETEC canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3651054 — 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: DETEC Context triple: [Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications, abbreviation, DETEC]
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A.
DET
DET is the standard NHL abbreviation for the Detroit Red Wings professional ice hockey team.
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B.
ADT
ADT (Atlantic Daylight Time) is the daylight saving time zone used in parts of Atlantic Canada and the Caribbean, four hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−4).
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C.
DDC
DDC is a widely used library classification system that organizes books and other materials into numbered subject categories for easy retrieval.
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D.
NADECO
NADECO (the National Democratic Coalition) was a prominent Nigerian pro-democracy movement formed in the 1990s to oppose military rule and advocate for the validation of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election.
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E.
TEC
TEC is the commonly used acronym for the Episcopal Church, a mainline Anglican Christian denomination based in the United States.
- 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: DETEC Target entity description: DETEC is the commonly used abbreviation for Switzerland’s Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications, which oversees national policy in these key infrastructure and environmental areas.
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A.
DET
DET is the standard NHL abbreviation for the Detroit Red Wings professional ice hockey team.
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B.
ADT
ADT (Atlantic Daylight Time) is the daylight saving time zone used in parts of Atlantic Canada and the Caribbean, four hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−4).
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C.
DDC
DDC is a widely used library classification system that organizes books and other materials into numbered subject categories for easy retrieval.
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D.
NADECO
NADECO (the National Democratic Coalition) was a prominent Nigerian pro-democracy movement formed in the 1990s to oppose military rule and advocate for the validation of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election.
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E.
TEC
TEC is the commonly used acronym for the Episcopal Church, a mainline Anglican Christian denomination based in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Swiss federal department
ⓘ
government ministry ⓘ |
| abbreviation | DETEC self-link ⓘ |
| abbreviationInFrench | DETEC self-link ⓘ |
| abbreviationInGerman | UVEK ⓘ |
| abbreviationInItalian | DATEC ⓘ |
| belongsToBranch | executive branch of Switzerland ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
cantonal authorities of Switzerland
ⓘ
international organizations in environment, transport, energy and communications ⓘ other Swiss federal departments ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| employerOf | Swiss federal civil servants in its policy areas ⓘ |
| fullName | Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage |
French
ⓘ
German ⓘ Italian ⓘ Romansh language ⓘ
surface form:
Romansh
|
| hasWebsite | https://www.uvek.admin.ch/ ⓘ |
| headedBy | Federal Councillor ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Confoederatio Helvetica (Swiss Confederation)
ⓘ
surface form:
Swiss Confederation
|
| locatedIn | Bern, Switzerland ⓘ |
| overseesPolicyArea |
communications
ⓘ
energy ⓘ environment ⓘ transport ⓘ |
| partOf |
federal office of the Swiss Confederation
ⓘ
surface form:
Federal Administration of Switzerland
|
| policyGoal |
efficient transport infrastructure
ⓘ
protection of the environment ⓘ reliable communication networks ⓘ secure energy supply ⓘ sustainable development in Switzerland ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
implementation of federal legislation in communications
ⓘ
implementation of federal legislation in energy ⓘ implementation of federal legislation in environment ⓘ implementation of federal legislation in transport ⓘ national communications policy ⓘ national energy policy ⓘ national environmental policy ⓘ national transport policy ⓘ |
| seat | Bern ⓘ |
| supervises |
Federal Office of Civil Aviation
ⓘ
surface form:
Federal Office for Civil Aviation
Swiss Federal Office for the Environment ⓘ
surface form:
Federal Office for the Environment
Federal Office of Communications ⓘ Federal Office of Energy ⓘ Federal Office of Transport ⓘ Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss ⓘ Swiss Federal Roads Office ⓘ |
| typeOfOrganization | public authority ⓘ |
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: DETEC Description of subject: DETEC is the commonly used abbreviation for Switzerland’s Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications, which oversees national policy in these key infrastructure and environmental areas.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.