FEMA Region VIII
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FEMA Region VIII is the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency regional office responsible for coordinating disaster preparedness, response, and recovery across Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| FEMA Denver Regional Office | 1 |
| FEMA Region 8 | 1 |
| FEMA Region VIII canonical | 1 |
| FEMA Region VIII Regional Administrator | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T930599 — 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: FEMA Region VIII Context triple: [Federal Emergency Management Agency, hasSubdivision, FEMA Region VIII]
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A.
FEMA Region V
FEMA Region V is the Midwestern regional office of the Federal Emergency Management Agency responsible for coordinating disaster preparedness, response, and recovery efforts across several states in that area.
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B.
FEMA Region VII
FEMA Region VII is the regional office of the Federal Emergency Management Agency responsible for coordinating disaster preparedness, response, and recovery efforts in the central United States, including states such as Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska.
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C.
FEMA Region IV
FEMA Region IV is the southeastern regional office of the Federal Emergency Management Agency responsible for coordinating disaster preparedness, response, and recovery across several states in that part of the United States.
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D.
FEMA Region II
FEMA Region II is the regional office of the Federal Emergency Management Agency responsible for coordinating disaster preparedness, response, and recovery efforts in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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E.
FEMA Region VI
FEMA Region VI is the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency regional office responsible for coordinating disaster preparedness, response, and recovery efforts across Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.
- 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: FEMA Region VIII Target entity description: FEMA Region VIII is the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency regional office responsible for coordinating disaster preparedness, response, and recovery across Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming.
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A.
FEMA Region V
FEMA Region V is the Midwestern regional office of the Federal Emergency Management Agency responsible for coordinating disaster preparedness, response, and recovery efforts across several states in that area.
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B.
FEMA Region VII
FEMA Region VII is the regional office of the Federal Emergency Management Agency responsible for coordinating disaster preparedness, response, and recovery efforts in the central United States, including states such as Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska.
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C.
FEMA Region IV
FEMA Region IV is the southeastern regional office of the Federal Emergency Management Agency responsible for coordinating disaster preparedness, response, and recovery across several states in that part of the United States.
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D.
FEMA Region II
FEMA Region II is the regional office of the Federal Emergency Management Agency responsible for coordinating disaster preparedness, response, and recovery efforts in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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E.
FEMA Region VI
FEMA Region VI is the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency regional office responsible for coordinating disaster preparedness, response, and recovery efforts across Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
FEMA regional office
ⓘ
government agency regional office ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
FEMA Region VIII
ⓘ
surface form:
FEMA Denver Regional Office
FEMA Region VIII ⓘ
surface form:
FEMA Region 8
|
| coordinatesWith |
state emergency management agencies in Colorado
ⓘ
state emergency management agencies in Montana ⓘ state emergency management agencies in North Dakota ⓘ state emergency management agencies in South Dakota ⓘ state emergency management agencies in Utah ⓘ state emergency management agencies in Wyoming ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| focusesOnHazards |
drought
ⓘ
floods ⓘ hail storms ⓘ severe winter storms ⓘ tornadoes ⓘ wildfires ⓘ |
| governingLaw |
Stafford Act
ⓘ
surface form:
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act
|
| hasRegionalAdministrator |
FEMA Region VIII
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
FEMA Region VIII Regional Administrator
|
| headquartersFacility | Denver Federal Center ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Denver, Colorado ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Colorado
ⓘ
Montana ⓘ North Dakota ⓘ South Dakota ⓘ Utah ⓘ Wyoming ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Mountain Time Zone ⓘ |
| mandate |
continuity of operations support
ⓘ
disaster preparedness ⓘ disaster recovery ⓘ disaster response ⓘ emergency management coordination ⓘ hazard mitigation ⓘ |
| numberOfStatesCovered | 6 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Federal Emergency Management Agency ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Federal Emergency Management Agency
ⓘ
United States Department of Homeland Security ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
|
| partOf | FEMA regional operations ⓘ |
| regionNumber | 8 ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
coordinating federal disaster assistance in Region VIII states
ⓘ
implementing FEMA programs in Region VIII ⓘ public preparedness outreach in Region VIII ⓘ supporting state and local emergency management agencies ⓘ training and exercises for emergency management partners ⓘ |
| scope | interior western and northern Great Plains states of the United States ⓘ |
| sector | emergency management ⓘ |
| website | https://www.fema.gov/region-8 ⓘ |
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: FEMA Region VIII Description of subject: FEMA Region VIII is the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency regional office responsible for coordinating disaster preparedness, response, and recovery across Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
FEMA Region 8
this entity surface form:
FEMA Denver Regional Office
this entity surface form:
FEMA Region VIII Regional Administrator