Interstate Photo System
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Interstate Photo System is a component of the FBI’s Next Generation Identification program that manages and analyzes interstate photographic records for biometric identification and criminal justice purposes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Interstate Photo System canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5890196 — 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: Interstate Photo System Context triple: [NGI, hasComponent, Interstate Photo System]
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A.
Kodak
Kodak is an unincorporated community in Sevier County, Tennessee, known as a growing residential and commercial area near the Great Smoky Mountains and the city of Knoxville.
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B.
The Haloid Photographic Company
The Haloid Photographic Company was the original name of the American firm that evolved into Xerox, a pioneering corporation in photocopying and document technology.
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C.
Kodak All-American
Kodak All-American is a prestigious collegiate basketball honor recognizing the top women’s players in the United States, historically sponsored by Eastman Kodak Company.
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D.
Kodak Limited
Kodak Limited is the United Kingdom-based subsidiary of the Eastman Kodak Company, historically involved in photographic film, imaging, and related technologies.
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E.
Eastman Kodak Company
Eastman Kodak Company is an American technology and photography company historically known for pioneering consumer and professional film, cameras, and imaging products.
- 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: Interstate Photo System Target entity description: Interstate Photo System is a component of the FBI’s Next Generation Identification program that manages and analyzes interstate photographic records for biometric identification and criminal justice purposes.
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A.
Kodak
Kodak is an unincorporated community in Sevier County, Tennessee, known as a growing residential and commercial area near the Great Smoky Mountains and the city of Knoxville.
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B.
The Haloid Photographic Company
The Haloid Photographic Company was the original name of the American firm that evolved into Xerox, a pioneering corporation in photocopying and document technology.
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C.
Kodak All-American
Kodak All-American is a prestigious collegiate basketball honor recognizing the top women’s players in the United States, historically sponsored by Eastman Kodak Company.
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D.
Kodak Limited
Kodak Limited is the United Kingdom-based subsidiary of the Eastman Kodak Company, historically involved in photographic film, imaging, and related technologies.
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E.
Eastman Kodak Company
Eastman Kodak Company is an American technology and photography company historically known for pioneering consumer and professional film, cameras, and imaging products.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biometric identification system
ⓘ
component of Next Generation Identification ⓘ |
| accessControlledBy | criminal justice information security policies ⓘ |
| administeredBy | FBI CJIS Division ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dataSource |
civil applicant records
ⓘ
federal law enforcement agencies ⓘ state and local law enforcement agencies ⓘ |
| dataType |
civil photographs
ⓘ
digital photographs ⓘ mugshots ⓘ |
| domain |
criminal justice information services
ⓘ
law enforcement ⓘ |
| governedBy |
FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division policies
ⓘ
federal privacy and criminal justice information regulations ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | IPS ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
automated facial image search
ⓘ
interstate data sharing ⓘ photo repository management ⓘ |
| hasModality | face recognition ⓘ |
| locatedIn | United States federal information systems infrastructure ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division ⓘ |
| manages | interstate photographic records ⓘ |
| operator | Federal Bureau of Investigation ⓘ |
| partOf |
Next Generation Identification program
ⓘ
linked to:
Next Generation Identification
|
| purpose |
to store and search photographs for biometric matching
ⓘ
to support identification in criminal investigations ⓘ to support identity verification for authorized civil uses ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System
ⓘ
Next Generation Identification biometric services ⓘ |
| scope | interstate ⓘ |
| supportsFunction |
identity verification
ⓘ
investigative leads ⓘ record management ⓘ suspect identification ⓘ |
| technologyType |
automated facial recognition system
ⓘ
biometric database ⓘ |
| usedBy |
criminal justice agencies
ⓘ
law enforcement agencies ⓘ |
| usedFor |
biometric identification
ⓘ
criminal justice purposes ⓘ |
| usedIn |
background checks
ⓘ
criminal investigations ⓘ identity verification processes ⓘ |
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: Interstate Photo System Description of subject: Interstate Photo System is a component of the FBI’s Next Generation Identification program that manages and analyzes interstate photographic records for biometric identification and criminal justice purposes.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.