Mine Action Service
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The Mine Action Service is a United Nations body responsible for coordinating and implementing efforts to reduce the threat and impact of landmines and explosive remnants of war worldwide.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| UNMAS | 2 |
| Mine Action Service canonical | 1 |
| United Nations mine action | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1113152 — 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: Mine Action Service Context triple: [Department of Peace Operations, hasPart, Mine Action Service]
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A.
United Nations Security and Safety Service
The United Nations Security and Safety Service is the specialized unit responsible for protecting UN personnel, facilities, and visitors, particularly at UN Headquarters in New York.
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B.
Explosives Unit
The Explosives Unit is a specialized section of the FBI Laboratory that analyzes bombs, explosive devices, and related evidence to support criminal and counterterrorism investigations.
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C.
Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement
The Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement is a U.S. State Department office responsible for reducing the threat of conventional weapons, landmines, and explosive remnants of war worldwide through clearance, stockpile management, and related security assistance programs.
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D.
United Nations Truce Supervision Organization
The United Nations Truce Supervision Organization is a UN peacekeeping mission established in 1948 to monitor ceasefires and armistice agreements in the Middle East.
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E.
Joint Warfare Centre
The Joint Warfare Centre is a NATO training and doctrine facility that designs and conducts complex joint and combined exercises to enhance the Alliance’s operational readiness and interoperability.
- 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: Mine Action Service Target entity description: The Mine Action Service is a United Nations body responsible for coordinating and implementing efforts to reduce the threat and impact of landmines and explosive remnants of war worldwide.
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A.
United Nations Security and Safety Service
The United Nations Security and Safety Service is the specialized unit responsible for protecting UN personnel, facilities, and visitors, particularly at UN Headquarters in New York.
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B.
Explosives Unit
The Explosives Unit is a specialized section of the FBI Laboratory that analyzes bombs, explosive devices, and related evidence to support criminal and counterterrorism investigations.
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C.
Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement
The Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement is a U.S. State Department office responsible for reducing the threat of conventional weapons, landmines, and explosive remnants of war worldwide through clearance, stockpile management, and related security assistance programs.
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D.
United Nations Truce Supervision Organization
The United Nations Truce Supervision Organization is a UN peacekeeping mission established in 1948 to monitor ceasefires and armistice agreements in the Middle East.
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E.
Joint Warfare Centre
The Joint Warfare Centre is a NATO training and doctrine facility that designs and conducts complex joint and combined exercises to enhance the Alliance’s operational readiness and interoperability.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United Nations office
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humanitarian organization ⓘ mine action organization ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | worldwide ⓘ |
| coordinatesWith |
International Committee of the Red Cross
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UNICEF ⓘ
surface form:
United Nations Children’s Fund
United Nations Development Programme ⓘ UNHCR ⓘ
surface form:
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
United Nations Office for Project Services ⓘ World Food Programme ⓘ World Health Organization ⓘ national mine action authorities ⓘ non-governmental organizations ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | United Nations Mine Action Service Director ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
advocacy against landmines
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arms control ⓘ clearance of explosive remnants of war ⓘ explosive ordnance disposal ⓘ humanitarian demining ⓘ improvised explosive device threat mitigation ⓘ mine action ⓘ post-conflict recovery ⓘ protection of civilians ⓘ risk education ⓘ victim assistance ⓘ |
| foundedBy | United Nations ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation |
Mine Action Service
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
UNMAS
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| hasRole | UN system focal point for mine action ⓘ |
| headquarteredIn |
New York City
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| inception | 1997 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Arabic
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Chinese ⓘ English ⓘ French ⓘ Russian ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
New York
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surface form:
New York (state)
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| mandate |
reduce the threat and impact of explosive remnants of war worldwide
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reduce the threat and impact of landmines worldwide ⓘ support implementation of Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons ⓘ support implementation of mine action components of UN peace operations ⓘ support implementation of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention ⓘ support implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
active conflict settings
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post-conflict countries ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | United Nations ⓘ |
| partOf | United Nations Secretariat ⓘ |
| shortName |
Mine Action Service
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
UNMAS
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| website | https://www.unmas.org ⓘ |
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: Mine Action Service Description of subject: The Mine Action Service is a United Nations body responsible for coordinating and implementing efforts to reduce the threat and impact of landmines and explosive remnants of war worldwide.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Special Envoy of the Government of Belgium for the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention
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relatedTo
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Mine Action Service
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this entity surface form:
United Nations mine action
subject surface form:
United Nations Mine Action Service
this entity surface form:
UNMAS
subject surface form:
United Nations Mine Action Service
this entity surface form:
UNMAS