Swissmedic
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Swissmedic is the Swiss agency responsible for the authorization and supervision of therapeutic products, including medicines and medical devices, in Switzerland.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Swissmedic canonical | 3 |
| Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products | 1 |
| Swiss Drug Monitoring Centre | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5932617 — 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: Swissmedic Context triple: [ICH M4 Common Technical Document, adoptedBy, Swissmedic]
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A.
Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices
The Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices is Germany’s central regulatory authority responsible for the authorization, safety monitoring, and risk assessment of pharmaceuticals and medical devices.
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B.
European Medicines Agency
The European Medicines Agency is the European Union’s regulatory authority responsible for the scientific evaluation, supervision, and safety monitoring of medicines for human and veterinary use.
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C.
European medicines regulatory authorities
European medicines regulatory authorities are national and regional agencies in Europe responsible for evaluating, authorizing, and monitoring the safety, quality, and efficacy of medicinal products.
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D.
Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products
The Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products was a former scientific committee of the European Union responsible for evaluating and issuing opinions on the quality, safety, and efficacy of human medicinal products before it was replaced by the European Medicines Agency’s current committee structure.
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E.
Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences
The Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences is a leading Swiss institution that promotes excellence, ethics, and innovation in medical research and healthcare policy.
- 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: Swissmedic Target entity description: Swissmedic is the Swiss agency responsible for the authorization and supervision of therapeutic products, including medicines and medical devices, in Switzerland.
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A.
Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices
The Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices is Germany’s central regulatory authority responsible for the authorization, safety monitoring, and risk assessment of pharmaceuticals and medical devices.
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B.
European Medicines Agency
The European Medicines Agency is the European Union’s regulatory authority responsible for the scientific evaluation, supervision, and safety monitoring of medicines for human and veterinary use.
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C.
European medicines regulatory authorities
European medicines regulatory authorities are national and regional agencies in Europe responsible for evaluating, authorizing, and monitoring the safety, quality, and efficacy of medicinal products.
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D.
Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products
The Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products was a former scientific committee of the European Union responsible for evaluating and issuing opinions on the quality, safety, and efficacy of human medicinal products before it was replaced by the European Medicines Agency’s current committee structure.
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E.
Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences
The Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences is a leading Swiss institution that promotes excellence, ethics, and innovation in medical research and healthcare policy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
federal authority
ⓘ
government agency ⓘ medicines regulatory authority ⓘ |
| appliesRegulation |
Medical Devices Ordinance
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Medicinal Products Licensing Ordinance ⓘ Therapeutic Products Act ⓘ |
| cooperatesWith |
European Medicines Agency
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International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use ⓘ Pharmaceutical Inspection Co-operation Scheme ⓘ World Health Organization ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| fundingModel |
federal contributions
ⓘ
fees ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.swissmedic.ch ⓘ |
| headquartersCountry | Switzerland ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Bern ⓘ |
| inception | 2002 ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Switzerland ⓘ |
| languageOfWork |
French
ⓘ
German ⓘ Italian ⓘ |
| legalForm | public law institution ⓘ |
| mandate | to ensure that only high-quality, safe and effective therapeutic products are available in Switzerland ⓘ |
| officialName |
Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products
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linked to:
Swissmedic
|
| parentOrganization | Federal Department of Home Affairs ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Intercantonal Office for the Control of Medicines
ⓘ
Swiss Drug Monitoring Centre ⓘ
linked to:
Swissmedic
|
| regulates |
biotechnological medicinal products
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blood products ⓘ complementary and herbal medicines ⓘ human medicinal products ⓘ in vitro diagnostic medical devices ⓘ medical devices ⓘ vaccines ⓘ veterinary medicinal products ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
authorization of medical devices
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authorization of medicinal products ⓘ inspection of clinical trials with medicinal products ⓘ inspection of pharmaceutical manufacturers ⓘ licensing of pharmaceutical companies ⓘ market surveillance of therapeutic products ⓘ pharmacovigilance ⓘ supervision of therapeutic products ⓘ |
| sector |
health regulation
ⓘ
medical device regulation ⓘ pharmaceutical regulation ⓘ |
| shortName | Swissmedic ⓘ |
| supervisingAuthority | Federal Department of Home Affairs ⓘ |
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: Swissmedic Description of subject: Swissmedic is the Swiss agency responsible for the authorization and supervision of therapeutic products, including medicines and medical devices, in Switzerland.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Swissmedic
linked to: Swissmedic