Food and Nutrition Information Center
E510682
United States Department of Agriculture unit
government information service
nutrition information center
The Food and Nutrition Information Center is a U.S. government resource that provides science-based information and educational materials on food, nutrition, and dietary guidance to professionals and the public.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Food and Nutrition Information Center canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5308237 — 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: Food and Nutrition Information Center Context triple: [National Agricultural Library, hasPart, Food and Nutrition Information Center]
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A.
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition is a branch of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration responsible for ensuring the safety and proper labeling of food, dietary supplements, and cosmetics.
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B.
Nutrition Policy Institute
The Nutrition Policy Institute is a research and policy organization focused on improving nutrition, food environments, and public health through evidence-based policy and program development.
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C.
Linus Pauling Institute
The Linus Pauling Institute is a research center at Oregon State University focused on the roles of vitamins, minerals, and other micronutrients in promoting health and preventing disease.
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D.
Food and Nutrition Service
The Food and Nutrition Service is a U.S. federal agency that administers national food assistance and nutrition programs such as SNAP and school meals to improve food security and dietary health.
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E.
Faculty of Nutrition
The Faculty of Nutrition is an academic division of Kobe Gakuin University specializing in education and research related to food, dietetics, and health 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: Food and Nutrition Information Center Target entity description: The Food and Nutrition Information Center is a U.S. government resource that provides science-based information and educational materials on food, nutrition, and dietary guidance to professionals and the public.
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A.
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition is a branch of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration responsible for ensuring the safety and proper labeling of food, dietary supplements, and cosmetics.
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B.
Nutrition Policy Institute
The Nutrition Policy Institute is a research and policy organization focused on improving nutrition, food environments, and public health through evidence-based policy and program development.
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C.
Linus Pauling Institute
The Linus Pauling Institute is a research center at Oregon State University focused on the roles of vitamins, minerals, and other micronutrients in promoting health and preventing disease.
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D.
Food and Nutrition Service
The Food and Nutrition Service is a U.S. federal agency that administers national food assistance and nutrition programs such as SNAP and school meals to improve food security and dietary health.
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E.
Faculty of Nutrition
The Faculty of Nutrition is an academic division of Kobe Gakuin University specializing in education and research related to food, dietetics, and health sciences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Department of Agriculture unit
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government information service ⓘ nutrition information center ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
dietary guidance
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food and nutrition education ⓘ food safety information ⓘ nutrition ⓘ public health nutrition ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Dietary Guidelines for Americans
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child nutrition programs ⓘ food composition ⓘ food labeling and policy ⓘ food safety and storage ⓘ food security and hunger ⓘ life cycle nutrition ⓘ nutrition assistance programs ⓘ nutrition education resources ⓘ weight management and obesity prevention ⓘ |
| foundedBy | United States Department of Agriculture ⓘ |
| fundedBy |
United States federal government
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linked to:
United States government
|
| hasAbbreviation | FNIC ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://www.nal.usda.gov/programs/food-and-nutrition-information-center ⓘ |
| inception | 1971 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Beltsville, Maryland
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Maryland ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| locatedInFacility |
National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, Maryland
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linked to:
National Agricultural Library
|
| missionStatement | to provide science-based food and nutrition information for health professionals, educators, and consumers ⓘ |
| operatedBy | United States Department of Agriculture ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
National Agricultural Library
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United States Department of Agriculture ⓘ |
| partOf | National Agricultural Library ⓘ |
| provides |
dietary guidance resources
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educational materials on food and nutrition ⓘ nutrition policy and program information ⓘ science-based food and nutrition information ⓘ |
| publishes |
bibliographies and literature reviews
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nutrition education materials ⓘ online resource collections ⓘ policy and program summaries ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
dietitians
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general public ⓘ health professionals ⓘ nutrition educators ⓘ researchers ⓘ |
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: Food and Nutrition Information Center Description of subject: The Food and Nutrition Information Center is a U.S. government resource that provides science-based information and educational materials on food, nutrition, and dietary guidance to professionals and the public.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.