SIS II
E719084
SIS II (Schengen Information System II) is a large-scale European database that supports border control, law enforcement, and security cooperation among Schengen Area countries by sharing alerts on persons and objects.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SIS II canonical | 5 |
| SIS | 2 |
| Central SIS II (C.SIS II) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8219507 — 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: SIS II Context triple: [Europol Information System, relatedTo, SIS II]
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A.
SIS
SIS is the commonly used abbreviation for the United Kingdom’s Secret Intelligence Service, the foreign intelligence agency often referred to as MI6.
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B.
SIS
SIS is the CERN Scientific Information Service, responsible for managing and providing access to the organization’s scientific publications, data, and library resources.
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C.
Sis
Sis was the medieval capital city of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, serving as its political and cultural center.
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D.
Sis
Sis is a Turkish film written and directed by Zülfü Livaneli that explores political repression and personal trauma in the aftermath of the 1980 military coup in Turkey.
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E.
SIX SIS
SIX SIS is the central securities depository and post-trade services provider of the SIX Group, handling custody, clearing, and settlement of securities for the Swiss financial market and international clients.
- 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: SIS II Target entity description: SIS II (Schengen Information System II) is a large-scale European database that supports border control, law enforcement, and security cooperation among Schengen Area countries by sharing alerts on persons and objects.
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A.
SIS
SIS is the commonly used abbreviation for the United Kingdom’s Secret Intelligence Service, the foreign intelligence agency often referred to as MI6.
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B.
SIS
SIS is the CERN Scientific Information Service, responsible for managing and providing access to the organization’s scientific publications, data, and library resources.
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C.
Sis
Sis was the medieval capital city of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, serving as its political and cultural center.
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D.
Sis
Sis is a Turkish film written and directed by Zülfü Livaneli that explores political repression and personal trauma in the aftermath of the 1980 military coup in Turkey.
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E.
SIX SIS
SIX SIS is the central securities depository and post-trade services provider of the SIX Group, handling custody, clearing, and settlement of securities for the Swiss financial market and international clients.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
European Union database
ⓘ
Schengen Information System ⓘ large-scale information system ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SIS II ⓘ |
| architecture | central system with national interfaces ⓘ |
| centralSystemName |
Central SIS II (C.SIS II)
ⓘ
linked to:
SIS II
|
| dataCategory |
alphanumeric data
ⓘ
biometric data ⓘ personal data ⓘ |
| fullName |
Schengen Information System II
ⓘ
linked to:
Schengen Information System
|
| geographicalScope | Schengen Area ⓘ |
| governedBy |
Council of the European Union
ⓘ
European Parliament ⓘ |
| hasComponent | national SIS II systems (N.SIS II) ⓘ |
| includes |
fingerprint data
ⓘ
links between alerts ⓘ photographs ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
Council Decision 2007/533/JHA
ⓘ
Regulation (EC) No 1987/2006 ⓘ Regulation (EU) 2018/1860 ⓘ Regulation (EU) 2018/1861 ⓘ Regulation (EU) 2018/1862 ⓘ |
| managedBy | European Union ⓘ |
| monitoredBy |
European Data Protection Supervisor
ⓘ
national data protection authorities ⓘ |
| operatedBy | eu-LISA ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Schengen Information System (SIS I)
ⓘ
linked to:
Schengen Information System
|
| purposeLimitation |
maintenance of public security
ⓘ
management of migration and borders ⓘ |
| stores |
alerts on banknotes and payment instruments
ⓘ
alerts on firearms ⓘ alerts on lost or stolen identity documents ⓘ alerts on missing persons ⓘ alerts on objects ⓘ alerts on persons ⓘ alerts on persons refused entry or stay ⓘ alerts on stolen vehicles ⓘ alerts on wanted persons ⓘ |
| subjectTo | EU data protection law ⓘ |
| supports |
application of the Schengen acquis
ⓘ
external border checks ⓘ internal security ⓘ return of illegally staying third-country nationals ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Schengen Area countries
ⓘ
linked to:
Schengen Area
Schengen associated countries ⓘ |
| usedFor |
border control
ⓘ
judicial cooperation in criminal matters ⓘ law enforcement cooperation ⓘ police cooperation ⓘ security cooperation ⓘ visa policy implementation ⓘ |
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: SIS II Description of subject: SIS II (Schengen Information System II) is a large-scale European database that supports border control, law enforcement, and security cooperation among Schengen Area countries by sharing alerts on persons and objects.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: SIS II
linked to: SIS II
linked to: SIS II