United States Coast Guard
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The United States Coast Guard is a U.S. maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service responsible for safeguarding the nation’s coasts, waterways, and maritime interests.
All labels observed (42)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T782 — 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 Coast Guard Context triple: [United States of America, hasMilitaryBranch, United States Coast Guard]
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United States Navy
The United States Navy is the maritime service branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, responsible for naval warfare, power projection, and maintaining freedom of navigation across the world’s oceans.
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B.
United States Army
The United States Army is the primary land warfare service branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, responsible for ground-based military operations and national defense.
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C.
United States Army Signal Corps
The United States Army Signal Corps is the branch of the U.S. Army responsible for developing, managing, and supporting military communications and information systems.
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D.
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a New Deal work relief program that provided jobs to young men during the Great Depression through conservation and public lands projects across the United States.
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E.
Office of Naval Research
The Office of Naval Research is a U.S. government agency that coordinates, executes, and promotes science and technology programs for the United States Navy and Marine Corps.
- 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 Coast Guard Target entity description: The United States Coast Guard is a U.S. maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service responsible for safeguarding the nation’s coasts, waterways, and maritime interests.
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A.
United States Navy
The United States Navy is the maritime service branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, responsible for naval warfare, power projection, and maintaining freedom of navigation across the world’s oceans.
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B.
United States Army
The United States Army is the primary land warfare service branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, responsible for ground-based military operations and national defense.
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C.
United States Army Signal Corps
The United States Army Signal Corps is the branch of the U.S. Army responsible for developing, managing, and supporting military communications and information systems.
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D.
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a New Deal work relief program that provided jobs to young men during the Great Depression through conservation and public lands projects across the United States.
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E.
Office of Naval Research
The Office of Naval Research is a U.S. government agency that coordinates, executes, and promotes science and technology programs for the United States Navy and Marine Corps.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
maritime law enforcement agency
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military service branch ⓘ search and rescue organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
United States Coast Guard
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
USCG
|
| canEnforce |
U.S. federal maritime law
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international maritime conventions ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateFounded | 1790-08-04 ⓘ |
| emblem |
United States Coast Guard
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Coast Guard shield
|
| flag | Coast Guard ensign ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Alexander Hamilton ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
United States Coast Guard Auxiliary
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United States Coast Guard Reserve ⓘ |
| headquarters | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone
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U.S. navigable waterways ⓘ U.S. ports and harbors ⓘ U.S. territorial waters ⓘ |
| legalAuthority |
Title 14 of the United States Code
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Title 33 of the United States Code ⓘ Title 46 of the United States Code ⓘ |
| mergedFrom |
United States Life-Saving Service
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United States Revenue Cutter Service ⓘ |
| mission | safeguard U.S. coasts, waterways, and maritime interests ⓘ |
| motto | Semper Paratus ⓘ |
| mottoLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| mottoMeaning | Always Ready ⓘ |
| operates |
aircraft
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cutters ⓘ patrol boats ⓘ small boats ⓘ |
| origin |
United States Coast Guard
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
United States Life-Saving Service
United States Lighthouse Service ⓘ United States Coast Guard self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
United States Revenue-Marine
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| parentAgency | United States Department of Homeland Security ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Armed Forces ⓘ |
| peacetimeParent | United States Department of Homeland Security ⓘ |
| previousParentAgency |
United States Department of Transportation
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United States Department of the Treasury ⓘ |
| role |
aids to navigation management
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defense readiness ⓘ drug interdiction ⓘ icebreaking ⓘ living marine resources enforcement ⓘ marine environmental protection ⓘ marine safety ⓘ maritime law enforcement ⓘ maritime security ⓘ migrant interdiction ⓘ port and waterway security ⓘ search and rescue ⓘ |
| serviceBranchOf |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| type | armed service with law enforcement authority ⓘ |
| wartimeParent |
Department of the Navy
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surface form:
United States Department of the Navy
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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 Coast Guard Description of subject: The United States Coast Guard is a U.S. maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service responsible for safeguarding the nation’s coasts, waterways, and maritime interests.
Referenced by (548)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
U.S. Coast Guard
this entity surface form:
USCG
this entity surface form:
United States Revenue-Marine
this entity surface form:
United States Life-Saving Service
this entity surface form:
Coast Guard shield
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Coast Guard Intelligence
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U.S. Coast Guard (in peacetime for homeland security missions)
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United States Coast Guard Aids to Navigation system
this entity surface form:
U.S. Coast Guard
subject surface form:
Oil Pollution Act of 1990
this entity surface form:
U.S. Coast Guard
this entity surface form:
U.S. Coast Guard
this entity surface form:
U.S. Coast Guard
subject surface form:
United States Intelligence Community
this entity surface form:
Coast Guard Intelligence
this entity surface form:
Coast Guard Intelligence
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Hunter Army Airfield
this entity surface form:
United States Coast Guard units
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United States Department of Defense
this entity surface form:
United States Coast Guard (in wartime or when directed)
this entity surface form:
U.S. Coast Guard
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U.S. Coast Guard authorities
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United States Coast Guard forces assigned to Indo-Pacific