Texas Department of State Health Services
E682274
The Texas Department of State Health Services is the state’s public health agency responsible for protecting and promoting the health of Texans through disease prevention, health regulation, and community health programs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Texas Department of State Health Services canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7697567 — 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: Texas Department of State Health Services Context triple: [Texas state agencies, includes, Texas Department of State Health Services]
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A.
Texas Health and Human Services Commission
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is the state agency responsible for overseeing and administering Texas’s major health, Medicaid, and social services programs for residents in need.
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B.
Texas Department of Community Affairs
The Texas Department of Community Affairs was a state agency responsible for administering community development, housing, and anti-poverty programs in Texas.
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C.
Texas Department of Public Safety
The Texas Department of Public Safety is a statewide law enforcement and public safety agency responsible for highway patrol, criminal investigations, driver licensing, and emergency management across Texas.
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D.
Texas Facilities Commission
The Texas Facilities Commission is a state agency responsible for managing, maintaining, and providing support services for Texas government buildings and properties.
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E.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is the state agency responsible for protecting Texas’s public health and natural resources by regulating air, water, and waste management.
- 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: Texas Department of State Health Services Target entity description: The Texas Department of State Health Services is the state’s public health agency responsible for protecting and promoting the health of Texans through disease prevention, health regulation, and community health programs.
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A.
Texas Health and Human Services Commission
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is the state agency responsible for overseeing and administering Texas’s major health, Medicaid, and social services programs for residents in need.
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B.
Texas Department of Community Affairs
The Texas Department of Community Affairs was a state agency responsible for administering community development, housing, and anti-poverty programs in Texas.
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C.
Texas Department of Public Safety
The Texas Department of Public Safety is a statewide law enforcement and public safety agency responsible for highway patrol, criminal investigations, driver licensing, and emergency management across Texas.
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D.
Texas Facilities Commission
The Texas Facilities Commission is a state agency responsible for managing, maintaining, and providing support services for Texas government buildings and properties.
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E.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is the state agency responsible for protecting Texas’s public health and natural resources by regulating air, water, and waste management.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
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public health agency ⓘ state health department ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| hasPart |
Consumer Protection Division
NERFINISHED
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Environmental Epidemiology and Disease Registry NERFINISHED ⓘ HIV/STD Prevention and Care Branch NERFINISHED ⓘ Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Section NERFINISHED ⓘ Immunization Unit ⓘ Mental Health and Substance Use programs ⓘ Office of Asbestos and Lead Services NERFINISHED ⓘ Office of Border Environmental Health NERFINISHED ⓘ Office of Border Health NERFINISHED ⓘ Office of Border Infectious Disease Surveillance NERFINISHED ⓘ Office of Border Public Health NERFINISHED ⓘ Office of Chronic Disease Epidemiology NERFINISHED ⓘ Office of Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Systems Coordination NERFINISHED ⓘ Office of Food Establishments and Retail Food Safety NERFINISHED ⓘ Office of Health Care Quality NERFINISHED ⓘ Office of Health Emergency Preparedness and Response NERFINISHED ⓘ Office of Immunization Services NERFINISHED ⓘ Office of Injury Epidemiology and Surveillance NERFINISHED ⓘ Office of Injury Prevention NERFINISHED ⓘ Office of Laboratory Services NERFINISHED ⓘ Office of Manufactured Housing and Lodging Regulation NERFINISHED ⓘ Office of Oral Health NERFINISHED ⓘ Office of Public Health Informatics NERFINISHED ⓘ Office of Public Health Policy and Performance NERFINISHED ⓘ Office of Public Health Practice NERFINISHED ⓘ Office of Radiation Control NERFINISHED ⓘ Office of Refugee Health NERFINISHED ⓘ Office of Regulatory Services NERFINISHED ⓘ Office of Special Needs Services NERFINISHED ⓘ Office of Title V and Family Health NERFINISHED ⓘ Office of Tobacco Prevention and Control NERFINISHED ⓘ Office of Vital Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Office of Zoonosis Control NERFINISHED ⓘ Public Health Preparedness Program NERFINISHED ⓘ Regional and Local Health Operations NERFINISHED ⓘ State Laboratory of Public Health NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas Center for Infectious Disease NERFINISHED ⓘ Vital Statistics Section NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Austin, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Travis County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialName | Texas Department of State Health Services NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatesInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | State of Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Texas Health and Human Services system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shortName | DSHS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | Texas Health and Human Services Commission NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Texas Department of State Health Services Description of subject: The Texas Department of State Health Services is the state’s public health agency responsible for protecting and promoting the health of Texans through disease prevention, health regulation, and community health programs.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Texas Health and Human Services Commission
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coordinatesWith
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Texas Department of State Health Services
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