National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
E4920
National Institutes of Health institute
U.S. federal research institute
medical research organization
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders is a U.S. federal research institute that leads scientific efforts to understand, prevent, and treat hearing, balance, taste, smell, voice, speech, and language disorders.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NIDCD | 1 |
| National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T77693 — 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: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Context triple: [National Institutes of Health, hasPart, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders]
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National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health is the United States’ primary federal biomedical research agency, supporting and conducting medical research to improve public health.
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B.
National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled
The National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled is a U.S. federal program that provides free accessible reading materials, including braille and audio books, to people with visual or print disabilities.
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C.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is a collective advisory organization in the United States that provides independent, evidence-based guidance on scientific, engineering, and medical issues to policymakers and the public.
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D.
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation is an independent U.S. government agency that funds and promotes fundamental research and education in all non-medical fields of science and engineering.
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E.
Carnegie Institution of Washington
The Carnegie Institution of Washington is a private, nonprofit scientific research organization founded by Andrew Carnegie that supports advanced research across fields such as astronomy, biology, and earth sciences.
- 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: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Target entity description: The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders is a U.S. federal research institute that leads scientific efforts to understand, prevent, and treat hearing, balance, taste, smell, voice, speech, and language disorders.
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A.
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health is the United States’ primary federal biomedical research agency, supporting and conducting medical research to improve public health.
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B.
National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled
The National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled is a U.S. federal program that provides free accessible reading materials, including braille and audio books, to people with visual or print disabilities.
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C.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is a collective advisory organization in the United States that provides independent, evidence-based guidance on scientific, engineering, and medical issues to policymakers and the public.
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D.
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation is an independent U.S. government agency that funds and promotes fundamental research and education in all non-medical fields of science and engineering.
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E.
Carnegie Institution of Washington
The Carnegie Institution of Washington is a private, nonprofit scientific research organization founded by Andrew Carnegie that supports advanced research across fields such as astronomy, biology, and earth sciences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
National Institutes of Health institute
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U.S. federal research institute ⓘ medical research organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
NIDCD
|
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| employerOf |
clinicians
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medical researchers ⓘ public health professionals ⓘ scientists ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
audiology
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balance disorders ⓘ communication sciences ⓘ hearing disorders ⓘ language disorders ⓘ neuroscience ⓘ otolaryngology ⓘ smell disorders ⓘ speech disorders ⓘ taste disorders ⓘ voice disorders ⓘ |
| focusesOn | improving quality of life for people with communication disorders ⓘ |
| foundedBy | United States Congress ⓘ |
| fundingSource |
United States government
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surface form:
U.S. federal government
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| headquartersLocation | Bethesda, Maryland ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States government
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surface form:
Federal government of the United States
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Bethesda, Maryland ⓘ |
| mission |
to lead scientific efforts to understand hearing, balance, taste, smell, voice, speech, and language
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to prevent hearing, balance, taste, smell, voice, speech, and language disorders ⓘ to treat hearing, balance, taste, smell, voice, speech, and language disorders ⓘ |
| offers |
fellowships
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research grants ⓘ training grants ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
National Institutes of Health
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United States Department of Health and Human Services ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
|
| partOf | National Institutes of Health ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
basic research on sensory systems
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clinical research on communication disorders ⓘ cochlear implants ⓘ epidemiology of hearing loss ⓘ gustation ⓘ language development ⓘ olfaction ⓘ tinnitus ⓘ voice and speech production ⓘ |
| sector | public health research ⓘ |
| website | https://www.nidcd.nih.gov ⓘ |
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: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Description of subject: The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders is a U.S. federal research institute that leads scientific efforts to understand, prevent, and treat hearing, balance, taste, smell, voice, speech, and language disorders.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
National Institutes of Health
→
hasPart
→
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
ⓘ
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
→
abbreviation
→
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
NIDCD