World Customs Organization
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The World Customs Organization is an intergovernmental body that develops international customs standards and promotes cooperation among national customs administrations to facilitate trade and ensure border security.
All labels observed (18)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18464 — 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: World Customs Organization Context triple: [Belgium, hostsHeadquartersOf, World Customs Organization]
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A.
World Trade Organization
The World Trade Organization is an international body that regulates global trade rules between nations, aiming to ensure trade flows smoothly, predictably, and freely.
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B.
International Civil Aviation Organization
The International Civil Aviation Organization is a United Nations specialized agency that sets global standards and regulations to ensure safe, efficient, and orderly international civil aviation.
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C.
World Intellectual Property Organization
The World Intellectual Property Organization is a global intergovernmental body that develops and oversees international rules and services for the protection of intellectual property rights.
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D.
International Labour Organization
The International Labour Organization is a United Nations specialized agency that sets international labor standards and promotes decent work, social justice, and workers’ rights worldwide.
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E.
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization is a UN specialized agency that promotes inclusive and sustainable industrial development to reduce poverty and support economic growth in developing countries.
- 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: World Customs Organization Target entity description: The World Customs Organization is an intergovernmental body that develops international customs standards and promotes cooperation among national customs administrations to facilitate trade and ensure border security.
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A.
World Trade Organization
The World Trade Organization is an international body that regulates global trade rules between nations, aiming to ensure trade flows smoothly, predictably, and freely.
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B.
International Civil Aviation Organization
The International Civil Aviation Organization is a United Nations specialized agency that sets global standards and regulations to ensure safe, efficient, and orderly international civil aviation.
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C.
World Intellectual Property Organization
The World Intellectual Property Organization is a global intergovernmental body that develops and oversees international rules and services for the protection of intellectual property rights.
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D.
International Labour Organization
The International Labour Organization is a United Nations specialized agency that sets international labor standards and promotes decent work, social justice, and workers’ rights worldwide.
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E.
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization is a UN specialized agency that promotes inclusive and sustainable industrial development to reduce poverty and support economic growth in developing countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
intergovernmental organization
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international organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
World Customs Organization
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
WCO
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| cooperatesWith |
International Civil Aviation Organization
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International Maritime Organization ⓘ International Monetary Fund ⓘ Interpol ⓘ United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ⓘ World Bank ⓘ World Health Organization ⓘ World Trade Organization ⓘ |
| developsStandard |
Arusha Declaration on Integrity in Customs
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World Customs Organization self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Customs Data Model
Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System ⓘ Revised Kyoto Convention ⓘ SAFE Framework of Standards ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
border management
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customs ⓘ international trade facilitation ⓘ trade security ⓘ |
| formerName |
World Customs Organization
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Customs Co-operation Council
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| hasOrgan |
Capacity Building Committee
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Council ⓘ Enforcement Committee ⓘ Finance Committee ⓘ Harmonized System Committee ⓘ Permanent Technical Committee ⓘ Policy Commission ⓘ Secretariat ⓘ World Customs Organization self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Technical Committee on Customs Valuation
Technical Committee on Rules of Origin ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Belgium
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Brussels, Belgium ⓘ
surface form:
Brussels
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| inception | 1952 ⓘ |
| leaderTitle | Secretary General ⓘ |
| legalStatus | independent intergovernmental body ⓘ |
| mainGoverningBody |
World Customs Organization
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Council of the World Customs Organization
|
| memberCount | over 180 customs administrations ⓘ |
| membershipType | sovereign states and customs territories ⓘ |
| officialLanguage |
English
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French ⓘ |
| purpose |
combat customs fraud
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develop international customs standards ⓘ ensure border security ⓘ facilitate international trade ⓘ promote cooperation among customs administrations ⓘ protect society and public health at borders ⓘ support revenue collection by customs ⓘ |
| regionServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| renamed | 1994 ⓘ |
| website | http://www.wcoomd.org ⓘ |
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: World Customs Organization Description of subject: The World Customs Organization is an intergovernmental body that develops international customs standards and promotes cooperation among national customs administrations to facilitate trade and ensure border security.
Referenced by (98)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
WCO
this entity surface form:
Customs Co-operation Council
World Customs Organization
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developsStandard
→
World Customs Organization
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Customs Data Model
this entity surface form:
Technical Committee on Customs Valuation
World Customs Organization
→
mainGoverningBody
→
World Customs Organization
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Council of the World Customs Organization
subject surface form:
Brussels
this entity surface form:
World Customs Organization Secretariat
this entity surface form:
WCO SAFE Package
this entity surface form:
WCO Council
subject surface form:
Council of the World Customs Organization
subject surface form:
Council of the World Customs Organization
this entity surface form:
World Customs Organization headquarters in Brussels
subject surface form:
Council of the World Customs Organization
subject surface form:
Policy Commission (World Customs Organization)
subject surface form:
Policy Commission (World Customs Organization)
subject surface form:
Policy Commission (World Customs Organization)
this entity surface form:
WCO Strategic Plan
subject surface form:
Finance Committee (World Customs Organization)
subject surface form:
Finance Committee (World Customs Organization)
subject surface form:
Finance Committee (World Customs Organization)
this entity surface form:
World Customs Organization headquarters
this entity surface form:
World Customs Organization headquarters in Brussels
this entity surface form:
WCO Customs Enforcement Network
this entity surface form:
WCO risk management guidelines
this entity surface form:
WCO Members
this entity surface form:
WCO Capacity Building Directorate
this entity surface form:
World Customs Organization headquarters
subject surface form:
Secretariat of the World Customs Organization
subject surface form:
Secretariat of the World Customs Organization