UN Comtrade database
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The UN Comtrade database is the United Nations’ official global repository of detailed international trade statistics, providing standardized import and export data reported by countries worldwide.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| UN Comtrade database canonical | 2 |
| UN Comtrade | 1 |
| United Nations Comtrade database | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8717678 — 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: UN Comtrade database Context triple: [United Nations Statistics Division, notableWork, UN Comtrade database]
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A.
International Trade Statistics
International Trade Statistics is an annual World Trade Organization publication that provides comprehensive data and analysis on global trade flows in goods and services.
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B.
World Development Indicators
World Development Indicators is the World Bank’s primary collection of internationally comparable statistics on global development, covering topics such as poverty, health, education, the environment, and economic performance.
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C.
World Trade Report
The World Trade Report is the World Trade Organization’s flagship annual publication analyzing key trends, issues, and developments in global trade policy and the multilateral trading system.
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D.
OECD Development Assistance Committee statistics
OECD Development Assistance Committee statistics are the official international data and indicators on countries’ development aid flows, used to track, compare, and analyze official development assistance worldwide.
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E.
BIS international banking statistics
BIS international banking statistics are comprehensive data compiled by the Bank for International Settlements that track cross-border banking activities and exposures worldwide, supporting analysis of global financial stability and international capital flows.
- 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: UN Comtrade database Target entity description: The UN Comtrade database is the United Nations’ official global repository of detailed international trade statistics, providing standardized import and export data reported by countries worldwide.
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A.
International Trade Statistics
International Trade Statistics is an annual World Trade Organization publication that provides comprehensive data and analysis on global trade flows in goods and services.
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B.
World Development Indicators
World Development Indicators is the World Bank’s primary collection of internationally comparable statistics on global development, covering topics such as poverty, health, education, the environment, and economic performance.
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C.
World Trade Report
The World Trade Report is the World Trade Organization’s flagship annual publication analyzing key trends, issues, and developments in global trade policy and the multilateral trading system.
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D.
OECD Development Assistance Committee statistics
OECD Development Assistance Committee statistics are the official international data and indicators on countries’ development aid flows, used to track, compare, and analyze official development assistance worldwide.
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E.
BIS international banking statistics
BIS international banking statistics are comprehensive data compiled by the Bank for International Settlements that track cross-border banking activities and exposures worldwide, supporting analysis of global financial stability and international capital flows.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United Nations database
ⓘ
international trade statistics database ⓘ |
| accessMethod |
API
ⓘ
bulk download ⓘ online interface ⓘ |
| accessPolicy | open access with some limits on bulk downloads ⓘ |
| containsDataType |
exports data
ⓘ
imports data ⓘ international merchandise trade statistics ⓘ re-exports data ⓘ re-imports data ⓘ |
| dataCoverage |
bilateral trade flows
ⓘ
commodity-level trade ⓘ global ⓘ |
| dataReportedBy | reporting countries and areas worldwide ⓘ |
| dataSource |
customs authorities
ⓘ
official national statistical authorities ⓘ |
| describedAs | official global repository of detailed international trade statistics ⓘ |
| granularity |
detailed commodity level
ⓘ
flow level ⓘ reporter-partner-country level ⓘ year or period level ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation |
UN Comtrade
ⓘ
linked to:
UN Comtrade database
|
| hasFullName |
United Nations Comtrade database
ⓘ
linked to:
UN Comtrade database
|
| maintainedBy | United Nations Statistics Division ⓘ |
| partOf | United Nations ⓘ |
| providesMeasure |
trade in US dollars
ⓘ
trade quantity ⓘ trade value ⓘ unit of quantity ⓘ |
| providesMetadata | information on reporting practices and coverage ⓘ |
| qualityControl | standardized processing and validation by UN Statistics Division ⓘ |
| timeCoverage |
multiple decades of annual data
ⓘ
multiple years of monthly data ⓘ |
| usedBy |
business analysts
ⓘ
governments ⓘ international organizations ⓘ researchers ⓘ |
| usedFor |
economic modeling
ⓘ
market research ⓘ monitoring global trade patterns ⓘ trade policy analysis ⓘ |
| usesClassification |
BEC
ⓘ
Broad Economic Categories ⓘ Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System ⓘ Harmonized System ⓘ SITC ⓘ Standard International Trade Classification ⓘ |
| website |
https://comtrade.un.org
ⓘ
https://comtradeplus.un.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: UN Comtrade database Description of subject: The UN Comtrade database is the United Nations’ official global repository of detailed international trade statistics, providing standardized import and export data reported by countries worldwide.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: UN Comtrade database
linked to: UN Comtrade database