Medsafe
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Medsafe is New Zealand’s national medicines and medical devices safety authority responsible for regulating and monitoring their quality, safety, and efficacy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Medsafe canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11045810 — 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: Medsafe Context triple: [New Zealand regulatory agencies, include, Medsafe]
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A.
Health Sciences Authority
The Health Sciences Authority is Singapore’s national regulator for health products and a key agency overseeing blood services, forensic medicine, and related public health and safety functions.
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B.
Centre for Drug Safety
The Centre for Drug Safety is a specialized unit within the Norwegian Institute of Public Health that focuses on monitoring, researching, and improving the safe use of medicines.
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C.
Ministry of Health (New Zealand)
The Ministry of Health (New Zealand) is the government department responsible for leading the country’s health system, including policy, regulation, and oversight of public health services.
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D.
UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is the United Kingdom’s national authority responsible for regulating medicines, medical devices, and healthcare products to ensure their safety, quality, and effectiveness.
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E.
Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products
The Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products was a former scientific committee of the European Union responsible for evaluating and issuing opinions on the quality, safety, and efficacy of human medicinal products before it was replaced by the European Medicines Agency’s current committee structure.
- 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: Medsafe Target entity description: Medsafe is New Zealand’s national medicines and medical devices safety authority responsible for regulating and monitoring their quality, safety, and efficacy.
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A.
Health Sciences Authority
The Health Sciences Authority is Singapore’s national regulator for health products and a key agency overseeing blood services, forensic medicine, and related public health and safety functions.
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B.
Centre for Drug Safety
The Centre for Drug Safety is a specialized unit within the Norwegian Institute of Public Health that focuses on monitoring, researching, and improving the safe use of medicines.
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C.
Ministry of Health (New Zealand)
The Ministry of Health (New Zealand) is the government department responsible for leading the country’s health system, including policy, regulation, and oversight of public health services.
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D.
UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is the United Kingdom’s national authority responsible for regulating medicines, medical devices, and healthcare products to ensure their safety, quality, and effectiveness.
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E.
Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products
The Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products was a former scientific committee of the European Union responsible for evaluating and issuing opinions on the quality, safety, and efficacy of human medicinal products before it was replaced by the European Medicines Agency’s current committee structure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
medical device regulatory authority
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medicines regulatory authority ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Australia Therapeutic Goods Administration
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linked to:
Therapeutic Goods Administration
World Health Organization ⓘ other international regulatory agencies ⓘ |
| country | New Zealand ⓘ |
| hasOffice |
Auckland
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Wellington ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | New Zealand ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
Medicines Act 1981
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Medicines Regulations 1984 ⓘ related New Zealand health legislation ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
New Zealand Ministry of Health
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linked to:
Ministry of Health (New Zealand)
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| parentOrganization |
New Zealand Ministry of Health
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linked to:
Ministry of Health (New Zealand)
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| publishes |
guidelines for sponsors
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medicine safety communications ⓘ prescriber updates ⓘ |
| responsibility |
advising the Minister of Health on medical device safety
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advising the Minister of Health on medicine safety ⓘ benefit–risk assessment of medicines ⓘ classification of medicines ⓘ enforcement of medical devices legislation ⓘ enforcement of medicines legislation ⓘ ensuring efficacy of medicines ⓘ ensuring quality of medical devices ⓘ ensuring quality of medicines ⓘ licensing of medicines ⓘ maintaining product registers ⓘ monitoring medical device safety ⓘ monitoring medicine safety ⓘ pharmacovigilance ⓘ post‑market surveillance of medical devices ⓘ post‑market surveillance of medicines ⓘ pre‑market approval of medicines ⓘ publishing consumer medicine information ⓘ publishing medicine data sheets ⓘ publishing safety alerts ⓘ regulation of medical devices ⓘ regulation of medicines ⓘ |
| scope |
clinical trials oversight (medicines)
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human medicines ⓘ medical devices ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
general public
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healthcare professionals ⓘ medical device sponsors ⓘ medicine sponsors ⓘ |
| website | https://www.medsafe.govt.nz ⓘ |
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: Medsafe Description of subject: Medsafe is New Zealand’s national medicines and medical devices safety authority responsible for regulating and monitoring their quality, safety, and efficacy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.