DEA
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DEA is an early U.S. government–standardized symmetric-key block cipher algorithm that was widely used for data encryption before being superseded by more secure standards.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DEA canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7636651 — 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: DEA Context triple: [Data Encryption Standard, alsoKnownAs, DEA]
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A.
DEA
DEA is an abbreviation commonly used for the Department of Economic Affairs, a government body responsible for formulating and implementing economic policy.
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B.
DEA Intelligence Division
The DEA Intelligence Division is the branch of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating drug-related intelligence to support law enforcement operations and policy decisions.
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C.
DEA Office of Diversion Control
The DEA Office of Diversion Control is the division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration responsible for preventing, investigating, and regulating the diversion of legal controlled substances into illegal channels.
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D.
DEA Headquarters
DEA Headquarters is the central administrative and operational office complex of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, overseeing the agency’s nationwide and international counter-narcotics efforts.
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E.
DEA Training Academy
The DEA Training Academy is the primary facility where the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration trains its special agents and other personnel in law enforcement, investigative techniques, and drug control operations.
- 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: DEA Target entity description: DEA is an early U.S. government–standardized symmetric-key block cipher algorithm that was widely used for data encryption before being superseded by more secure standards.
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A.
DEA
DEA is an abbreviation commonly used for the Department of Economic Affairs, a government body responsible for formulating and implementing economic policy.
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B.
DEA Intelligence Division
The DEA Intelligence Division is the branch of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating drug-related intelligence to support law enforcement operations and policy decisions.
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C.
DEA Office of Diversion Control
The DEA Office of Diversion Control is the division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration responsible for preventing, investigating, and regulating the diversion of legal controlled substances into illegal channels.
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D.
DEA Headquarters
DEA Headquarters is the central administrative and operational office complex of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, overseeing the agency’s nationwide and international counter-narcotics efforts.
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E.
DEA Training Academy
The DEA Training Academy is the primary facility where the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration trains its special agents and other personnel in law enforcement, investigative techniques, and drug control operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
block cipher
ⓘ
symmetric-key algorithm ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf |
Data Encryption Algorithm
ⓘ
linked to:
Data Encryption Standard
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| algorithmClass | symmetric-key block cipher ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | DEA cipher ⓘ |
| applicationDomain |
commercial data encryption
ⓘ
government data protection ⓘ |
| blockCipherProperty | fixed-size data blocks ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| cryptographicPrimitive | block cipher ⓘ |
| designGoal | confidentiality of digital data ⓘ |
| eraOfProminence | late 20th century ⓘ |
| fullName |
Data Encryption Algorithm
ⓘ
linked to:
Data Encryption Standard
|
| historicalUsage | widely used for data encryption ⓘ |
| keyManagementRequirement | shared secret key ⓘ |
| keyType | symmetric key ⓘ |
| operationDomain | data encryption ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Data Encryption Standard
ⓘ
block cipher modes of operation ⓘ symmetric cryptography ⓘ |
| replacedInPracticeBy | AES-based schemes ⓘ |
| securityStatus | considered insecure for many applications ⓘ |
| standardizationScope |
U.S. federal government
ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
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| standardizedBy |
NIST
ⓘ
National Bureau of Standards ⓘ United States government ⓘ |
| standardType | federal information processing standard component ⓘ |
| supersededBy |
AES
ⓘ
Advanced Encryption Standard ⓘ |
| usedInStandard | Data Encryption Standard ⓘ |
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: DEA Description of subject: DEA is an early U.S. government–standardized symmetric-key block cipher algorithm that was widely used for data encryption before being superseded by more secure standards.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.