United States Coast Guard search and rescue program
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The United States Coast Guard search and rescue program is a nationwide maritime emergency response system that deploys cutters, aircraft, and specialized crews to locate and assist people and vessels in distress in U.S. waters and beyond.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| United States Coast Guard search and rescue program canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12828144 — 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 search and rescue program Context triple: [USCGC Harriet Lane, partOfProgram, United States Coast Guard search and rescue program]
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A.
National Search and Rescue Plan of the United States
The National Search and Rescue Plan of the United States is a federal framework that coordinates civil search and rescue operations across U.S. agencies, defining responsibilities, procedures, and resource use for responding to distress incidents on land and at sea.
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B.
U.S. Coast Guard Marine Environmental Protection program
The U.S. Coast Guard Marine Environmental Protection program is a federal initiative that safeguards the marine environment by preventing, responding to, and mitigating pollution incidents in U.S. waters.
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C.
United States Life-Saving Service
The United States Life-Saving Service was a federal agency that operated coastal rescue stations and crews dedicated to saving lives and ships in distress along U.S. shorelines in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
United States Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Team
The United States Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Team is a specialized Coast Guard unit responsible for installing, maintaining, and inspecting navigational aids such as lighthouses, buoys, and beacons to ensure safe maritime navigation.
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E.
Search and Rescue Service
The Search and Rescue Service is a Galileo satellite navigation system feature that helps detect and locate distress signals from emergency beacons to support rapid rescue operations worldwide.
- 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 search and rescue program Target entity description: The United States Coast Guard search and rescue program is a nationwide maritime emergency response system that deploys cutters, aircraft, and specialized crews to locate and assist people and vessels in distress in U.S. waters and beyond.
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A.
National Search and Rescue Plan of the United States
The National Search and Rescue Plan of the United States is a federal framework that coordinates civil search and rescue operations across U.S. agencies, defining responsibilities, procedures, and resource use for responding to distress incidents on land and at sea.
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B.
U.S. Coast Guard Marine Environmental Protection program
The U.S. Coast Guard Marine Environmental Protection program is a federal initiative that safeguards the marine environment by preventing, responding to, and mitigating pollution incidents in U.S. waters.
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C.
United States Life-Saving Service
The United States Life-Saving Service was a federal agency that operated coastal rescue stations and crews dedicated to saving lives and ships in distress along U.S. shorelines in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
United States Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Team
The United States Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Team is a specialized Coast Guard unit responsible for installing, maintaining, and inspecting navigational aids such as lighthouses, buoys, and beacons to ensure safe maritime navigation.
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E.
Search and Rescue Service
The Search and Rescue Service is a Galileo satellite navigation system feature that helps detect and locate distress signals from emergency beacons to support rapid rescue operations worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
maritime emergency response system
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search and rescue program ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
assist persons in distress
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assist vessels in distress ⓘ enhance maritime safety ⓘ minimize loss of life ⓘ minimize property loss ⓘ save lives at sea ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
United States exclusive economic zone
NERFINISHED
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United States territorial waters ⓘ international waters ⓘ |
| basedOn |
International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea
NERFINISHED
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International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coordinatesWith |
Canadian Coast Guard
NERFINISHED
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United States Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ international search and rescue organizations ⓘ state and local maritime agencies ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Coast Guard Air Stations
NERFINISHED
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Coast Guard Rescue Coordination Centers NERFINISHED ⓘ Coast Guard Sector Command Centers NERFINISHED ⓘ Coast Guard boat stations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
Title 14 of the United States Code
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federal maritime safety statutes ⓘ |
| monitors |
Global Maritime Distress and Safety System alerts
NERFINISHED
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maritime distress frequencies ⓘ |
| operationalStatus | active ⓘ |
| operator | United States Coast Guard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Coast Guard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| respondsTo |
EPIRB distress signals
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capsized vessels ⓘ grounded vessels ⓘ man overboard incidents ⓘ mayday calls ⓘ medical emergencies at sea ⓘ severe weather maritime emergencies ⓘ vessel collision incidents ⓘ |
| scope |
maritime
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nationwide ⓘ |
| uses |
Automatic Identification System
NERFINISHED
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Coast Guard aircraft NERFINISHED ⓘ Coast Guard cutters NERFINISHED ⓘ command centers ⓘ distress and safety radio communications ⓘ fixed-wing aircraft ⓘ helicopters ⓘ radar ⓘ rescue swimmers ⓘ satellite-based distress alerting systems ⓘ search and rescue coordinators ⓘ search patterns and drift models ⓘ small boats ⓘ specialized rescue crews ⓘ |
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 search and rescue program Description of subject: The United States Coast Guard search and rescue program is a nationwide maritime emergency response system that deploys cutters, aircraft, and specialized crews to locate and assist people and vessels in distress in U.S. waters and beyond.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.