United States Customs Service
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The United States Customs Service was a federal agency responsible for collecting import duties and enforcing customs and trade laws at U.S. borders and ports of entry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| United States Customs Service canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9562810 — 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: United States Customs Service Context triple: [Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation, dissolvedInPart, United States Customs Service]
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A.
Bureau of Customs
The Bureau of Customs is the Philippine government agency responsible for collecting customs duties and taxes and regulating the flow of goods into and out of the country.
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B.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the federal law enforcement agency responsible for securing U.S. borders and regulating the flow of people and goods into and out of the country.
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C.
Administraciones Generales de Aduanas
Administraciones Generales de Aduanas is the Mexican federal customs authority responsible for managing and controlling the country’s customs operations and enforcement.
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D.
Federal Office for Customs and Border Security
The Federal Office for Customs and Border Security is Switzerland’s national authority responsible for customs control, border security, and related law enforcement tasks.
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E.
Federal Customs Administration
The Federal Customs Administration is Switzerland’s national authority responsible for customs control, border security, and the collection of certain federal duties and taxes.
- 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: United States Customs Service Target entity description: The United States Customs Service was a federal agency responsible for collecting import duties and enforcing customs and trade laws at U.S. borders and ports of entry.
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A.
Bureau of Customs
The Bureau of Customs is the Philippine government agency responsible for collecting customs duties and taxes and regulating the flow of goods into and out of the country.
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B.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the federal law enforcement agency responsible for securing U.S. borders and regulating the flow of people and goods into and out of the country.
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C.
Administraciones Generales de Aduanas
Administraciones Generales de Aduanas is the Mexican federal customs authority responsible for managing and controlling the country’s customs operations and enforcement.
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D.
Federal Office for Customs and Border Security
The Federal Office for Customs and Border Security is Switzerland’s national authority responsible for customs control, border security, and related law enforcement tasks.
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E.
Federal Customs Administration
The Federal Customs Administration is Switzerland’s national authority responsible for customs control, border security, and the collection of certain federal duties and taxes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defunct government agency
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federal agency ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Customs Service
NERFINISHED
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U.S. Customs Service NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Drug Enforcement Administration
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Immigration and Naturalization Service NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Coast Guard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collected |
customs duties
ⓘ
tariffs ⓘ |
| combated |
customs fraud
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drug trafficking at ports of entry ⓘ smuggling ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateEstablished | 1789 ⓘ |
| dissolvedBy | Homeland Security Act of 2002 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dissolvedOn | March 1, 2003 ⓘ |
| enforced |
export regulations
ⓘ
import regulations ⓘ intellectual property rights at the border ⓘ trade embargoes ⓘ |
| establishedBy | Tariff Act of 1789 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| functionedAs |
border law enforcement agency
ⓘ
border revenue agency ⓘ |
| hadAbbreviation | USCS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States government
ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal government
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| legislatedBy | United States Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintained | customs ports of entry ⓘ |
| movedTo | United States Department of Homeland Security NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedAt |
U.S. borders
ⓘ
U.S. ports of entry ⓘ |
| oversaw | collection of customs user fees ⓘ |
| parentAgencyAtDissolution | United States Department of the Treasury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Department of the Treasury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedRoleIn |
implementation of U.S. trade policy
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protection of U.S. borders from illegal goods ⓘ protection of U.S. economic interests ⓘ |
| primaryRevenueSourceFor | United States federal government (19th century) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regulated |
classification and valuation of imported goods
ⓘ
entry of merchandise into the United States ⓘ |
| reportedTo | Secretary of the Treasury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
collection of import duties
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enforcement of customs laws ⓘ enforcement of trade laws ⓘ |
| successor |
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
NERFINISHED
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supervised |
customs brokers
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customs inspectors ⓘ |
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: United States Customs Service Description of subject: The United States Customs Service was a federal agency responsible for collecting import duties and enforcing customs and trade laws at U.S. borders and ports of entry.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation (in part, later transferred)
→
dissolvedInPart
→
United States Customs Service
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subject surface form:
Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation