Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System
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The Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System is the FBI’s large-scale computerized system for storing, searching, and matching fingerprint and biometric data to support criminal identification and investigative work.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| IAFIS | 4 |
| Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System canonical | 3 |
| Automated Biometric Identification System | 1 |
| Next Generation Identification system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1052486 — 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.
Target entity: Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System Context triple: [FBI Laboratory, usesDatabase, Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System]
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A.
U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology
U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) is a U.S. government biometric entry–exit tracking system used to verify the identities and monitor the movements of foreign nationals entering and leaving the United States.
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B.
FBI information sharing environment
The FBI information sharing environment is the bureau’s integrated framework, systems, and policies for securely exchanging intelligence and investigative data with internal units and external partners across the law enforcement and intelligence communities.
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C.
Identification Friend or Foe system
An Identification Friend or Foe system is an electronic identification technology used primarily in military and aviation contexts to automatically distinguish friendly units or aircraft from potential threats.
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D.
FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit
The FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit is a specialized division of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation that provides criminal profiling and behavioral analysis to support investigations of violent and complex crimes.
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E.
FBI data governance policies
FBI data governance policies are the formal rules and standards that regulate how the FBI manages, protects, and uses its information and intelligence data across the organization.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System Target entity description: The Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System is the FBI’s large-scale computerized system for storing, searching, and matching fingerprint and biometric data to support criminal identification and investigative work.
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A.
U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology
U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) is a U.S. government biometric entry–exit tracking system used to verify the identities and monitor the movements of foreign nationals entering and leaving the United States.
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B.
FBI information sharing environment
The FBI information sharing environment is the bureau’s integrated framework, systems, and policies for securely exchanging intelligence and investigative data with internal units and external partners across the law enforcement and intelligence communities.
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C.
Identification Friend or Foe system
An Identification Friend or Foe system is an electronic identification technology used primarily in military and aviation contexts to automatically distinguish friendly units or aircraft from potential threats.
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D.
FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit
The FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit is a specialized division of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation that provides criminal profiling and behavioral analysis to support investigations of violent and complex crimes.
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E.
FBI data governance policies
FBI data governance policies are the formal rules and standards that regulate how the FBI manages, protects, and uses its information and intelligence data across the organization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
FBI information system
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biometric identification system ⓘ fingerprint identification system ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
IAFIS
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| alsoKnownAs |
Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System
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surface form:
IAFIS
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| componentOf |
FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division
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surface form:
FBI Criminal Justice Information Services systems
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| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| dataSource |
federal law enforcement agencies
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local law enforcement agencies ⓘ state law enforcement agencies ⓘ |
| dataType |
fingerprint images
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fingerprint templates ⓘ |
| developedBy | Federal Bureau of Investigation ⓘ |
| domain |
biometrics
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criminal justice ⓘ law enforcement ⓘ |
| governedBy |
FBI policies
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U.S. federal law ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
automated fingerprint matching algorithms
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electronic submission of fingerprints ⓘ rapid search response ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division ⓘ |
| operator | Federal Bureau of Investigation ⓘ |
| purpose |
background checks
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criminal identification ⓘ fingerprint matching ⓘ investigative support ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Next Generation Identification ⓘ |
| scale | large-scale ⓘ |
| searchCapability |
latent print searches
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rap sheet retrieval ⓘ ten-print searches ⓘ |
| sector |
homeland security
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public safety ⓘ |
| stores |
biometric data
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fingerprint records ⓘ |
| successor | Next Generation Identification ⓘ |
| supports |
interstate information sharing
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national criminal history record checks ⓘ |
| supportsProcess |
booking and arrest processing
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employment background checks ⓘ firearms purchase checks ⓘ security clearance checks ⓘ |
| technologyType | automated fingerprint identification system ⓘ |
| usedBy |
criminal justice agencies
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law enforcement agencies ⓘ |
| usedFor |
identifying suspects
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supporting criminal investigations ⓘ verifying identities ⓘ |
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.
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.
Subject: Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System Description of subject: The Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System is the FBI’s large-scale computerized system for storing, searching, and matching fingerprint and biometric data to support criminal identification and investigative work.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.