United States Revenue Cutter Service
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defunct organization
maritime law enforcement agency
predecessor organization of the United States Coast Guard
sea rescue service
The United States Revenue Cutter Service was a maritime law enforcement and rescue service of the U.S. Treasury Department that operated from 1790 until it became a founding component of the modern United States Coast Guard.
All labels observed (8)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T45605 — 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 Revenue Cutter Service Context triple: [United States Coast Guard, mergedFrom, United States Revenue Cutter Service]
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A.
United States Coast Guard
The United States Coast Guard is a U.S. maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service responsible for safeguarding the nation’s coasts, waterways, and maritime interests.
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B.
United States Lighthouse Service
The United States Lighthouse Service was a former U.S. federal agency responsible for the construction, maintenance, and operation of lighthouses and other navigational aids before its functions were absorbed into the Coast Guard.
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C.
USRC
USRC is a nonprofit organization responsible for the preservation, operation, and redevelopment of Washington, D.C.’s historic Union Station.
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D.
Continental Navy
The Continental Navy was the nascent naval force established by the American colonies during the Revolutionary War to challenge British maritime power.
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E.
United States Navy
The United States Navy is the maritime service branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, responsible for naval warfare, power projection, and maintaining freedom of navigation across the world’s oceans.
- 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 Revenue Cutter Service Target entity description: The United States Revenue Cutter Service was a maritime law enforcement and rescue service of the U.S. Treasury Department that operated from 1790 until it became a founding component of the modern United States Coast Guard.
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A.
United States Coast Guard
The United States Coast Guard is a U.S. maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service responsible for safeguarding the nation’s coasts, waterways, and maritime interests.
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B.
United States Lighthouse Service
The United States Lighthouse Service was a former U.S. federal agency responsible for the construction, maintenance, and operation of lighthouses and other navigational aids before its functions were absorbed into the Coast Guard.
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C.
USRC
USRC is a nonprofit organization responsible for the preservation, operation, and redevelopment of Washington, D.C.’s historic Union Station.
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D.
Continental Navy
The Continental Navy was the nascent naval force established by the American colonies during the Revolutionary War to challenge British maritime power.
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E.
United States Navy
The United States Navy is the maritime service branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, responsible for naval warfare, power projection, and maintaining freedom of navigation across the world’s oceans.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defunct organization
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maritime law enforcement agency ⓘ predecessor organization of the United States Coast Guard ⓘ sea rescue service ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Revenue Marine Service
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United States Revenue Cutter Service ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Revenue Cutter Service
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| combinedResult | creation of the United States Coast Guard in 1915 ⓘ |
| combinedWith | United States Life-Saving Service ⓘ |
| componentOf | United States armed forces during wartime ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| dissolved | 1915 ⓘ |
| fleetType | revenue cutters ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Alexander Hamilton ⓘ |
| founderRole | first United States Secretary of the Treasury ⓘ |
| hasPart |
United States Revenue Cutter Service enlisted personnel
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United States Revenue Cutter Service self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
United States Revenue Cutter Service officers
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| headquartersLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| inception | 1790 ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
U.S. customs waters
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U.S. territorial waters ⓘ coastal waters of the United States ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
Tariff Act of 1790
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act of the First United States Congress ⓘ |
| mergedInto | United States Coast Guard ⓘ |
| notableConflict |
American Civil War
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Mexican–American War ⓘ Quasi-War ⓘ Spanish–American War ⓘ War of 1812 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | United States Department of the Treasury ⓘ |
| operationalArea |
Atlantic Ocean
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Great Lakes ⓘ Gulf of Mexico ⓘ Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| originalName |
United States Revenue Cutter Service
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Revenue-Marine
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| parentOrganization | United States Department of the Treasury ⓘ |
| peacetimeControl | United States Department of the Treasury ⓘ |
| primaryRole |
aid to navigation
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customs enforcement ⓘ icebreaking ⓘ maritime law enforcement ⓘ search and rescue ⓘ support to U.S. Navy during wartime ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | maritime service ⓘ |
| successor | United States Coast Guard ⓘ |
| task |
assistance to vessels in distress
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enforcement of federal tariff laws ⓘ enforcement of neutrality laws ⓘ enforcement of quarantine laws ⓘ protection of American shipping ⓘ suppression of smuggling ⓘ |
| wartimeControl | United States Navy ⓘ |
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 Revenue Cutter Service Description of subject: The United States Revenue Cutter Service was a maritime law enforcement and rescue service of the U.S. Treasury Department that operated from 1790 until it became a founding component of the modern United States Coast Guard.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
U.S. Coast Guard precursor (Revenue Cutter Service)
this entity surface form:
USRC
United States Revenue Cutter Service
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hasPart
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United States Revenue Cutter Service
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
United States Revenue Cutter Service officers
United States Revenue Cutter Service
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originalName
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United States Revenue Cutter Service
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Revenue-Marine
this entity surface form:
U.S. Revenue Cutter Service
this entity surface form:
United States Revenue Marine volunteer life-saving stations
this entity surface form:
United States Revenue-Marine
Revenue Cutter Service School of Instruction
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serviceBranch
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United States Revenue Cutter Service
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