government ministry

C3428
concept

A government ministry is a specialized administrative department within a government, headed by a minister, responsible for formulating and implementing public policies in a specific sector such as health, education, or finance.

All labels observed (144)

Label Occurrences
government ministry canonical 1,432
provincial government department 72
federal ministry 38

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: government ministry
Generated description
A government ministry is a specialized administrative department within a government, headed by a minister, responsible for formulating and implementing public policies in a specific sector such as health, education, or finance.

Instances (1,821)

Instance Via concept surface
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union
Ministry of Higher Education of Libya
interior and public security ministry type of government ministry
United Kingdom Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage
Department of Finance of the Philippines
surface form: Department of Finance (Philippines)
Department of Education of the Philippines
surface form: Department of Education (Philippines)
Department of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines
Department of the Interior and Local Government of the Philippines
Auswärtiges Amt federal ministry of Germany
Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (Uganda)
Ministry of Health (Uganda)
Ministry of Education and Sports (Uganda)
Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs (Uganda)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Uganda)
Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (Uganda)
Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development (Uganda)
Ministry of Works and Transport (Uganda)
Ministry of Water and Environment (Uganda)
Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (Uganda)
Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (Uganda)
Ministry of National Defence of Turkey
Nigerien Ministry of Interior
Vietnamese Ministry of Health
Brazilian Ministry of the Environment
MINSAL
Ministry of State Security of North Korea
Ministry of Defence (Sweden)
Malian Ministry of Security and Civil Protection
Danish Ministry of Defence
Ministerio de Educación y Cultura
surface form: Ministerio de Educación y Cultura (Uruguay)
MEC
Ministry of Defence of the Netherlands
Ministry of Defence of Hungary
Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
Nigerien Ministry of Justice
Nigerien Ministry of Defence
Malian Ministry of Justice
people's commissariat
Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence
Saudi Ministry of Culture
MDN (informal English abbreviation)
surface form: Ministerio de Defensa Nacional (Chile)
MDN (Spanish abbreviation)
surface form: MDN (Chile)
Cabinet of Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec provincial government department
Ministry of Economy and Planning of Saudi Arabia
Palestinian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research
Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation
Cabinet of H. H. Asquith
Ministry of Education (Quebec) provincial government ministry