United States Federal Maritime Commission
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The United States Federal Maritime Commission is an independent federal agency responsible for regulating the U.S. international ocean transportation system to ensure a competitive and reliable maritime industry.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Federal Maritime Commission | 7 |
| Chair of the Federal Maritime Commission | 1 |
| United States Federal Maritime Commission canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2090731 — 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 Federal Maritime Commission Context triple: [United States Maritime Commission, replacedBy, United States Federal Maritime Commission]
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A.
Maritime Labor Board
The Maritime Labor Board was a U.S. federal body responsible for handling labor relations and disputes in the maritime industry under the authority of the United States Maritime Commission.
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B.
United States Maritime Commission
The United States Maritime Commission was a federal agency created in the 1930s to develop, regulate, and expand the American merchant marine and oversee the construction and operation of commercial and auxiliary ships.
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C.
Maritime Administration
The Maritime Administration is a U.S. federal agency responsible for promoting and regulating the nation’s merchant marine, maritime transportation system, and related infrastructure and workforce.
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D.
Maryland Port Administration
The Maryland Port Administration is the state agency responsible for managing and promoting Maryland’s public port facilities, including the Port of Baltimore, to support maritime commerce and economic development.
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E.
Panama Canal Commission
The Panama Canal Commission was the U.S. government agency that operated and maintained the Panama Canal until control was transferred to Panama at the end of 1999.
- 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 Federal Maritime Commission Target entity description: The United States Federal Maritime Commission is an independent federal agency responsible for regulating the U.S. international ocean transportation system to ensure a competitive and reliable maritime industry.
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A.
Maritime Labor Board
The Maritime Labor Board was a U.S. federal body responsible for handling labor relations and disputes in the maritime industry under the authority of the United States Maritime Commission.
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B.
United States Maritime Commission
The United States Maritime Commission was a federal agency created in the 1930s to develop, regulate, and expand the American merchant marine and oversee the construction and operation of commercial and auxiliary ships.
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C.
Maritime Administration
The Maritime Administration is a U.S. federal agency responsible for promoting and regulating the nation’s merchant marine, maritime transportation system, and related infrastructure and workforce.
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D.
Maryland Port Administration
The Maryland Port Administration is the state agency responsible for managing and promoting Maryland’s public port facilities, including the Port of Baltimore, to support maritime commerce and economic development.
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E.
Panama Canal Commission
The Panama Canal Commission was the U.S. government agency that operated and maintained the Panama Canal until control was transferred to Panama at the end of 1999.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
independent federal agency
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regulatory agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation | FMC ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
ensure a competitive maritime industry
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ensure a reliable maritime industry ⓘ promote a competitive and efficient U.S. ocean transportation system ⓘ protect the public from unfair ocean transportation practices ⓘ |
| appliesLaw |
Foreign Shipping Practices Act of 1988
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Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998 ⓘ Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 ⓘ Shipping Act of 1984 ⓘ |
| appointedBy | President of the United States ⓘ |
| chairpersonRole | chief executive and administrative officer of the Commission ⓘ |
| commissionersConfirmedBy | United States Senate ⓘ |
| commissionersTermLength | 5 years ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| formedAs | independent agency separate from the U.S. Maritime Administration ⓘ |
| governingBody | Board of Commissioners ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
adjudicate complaints involving alleged violations of shipping statutes
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collect and analyze data on ocean shipping ⓘ enforce U.S. shipping laws in its jurisdiction ⓘ investigate potentially anticompetitive ocean carrier agreements ⓘ license and regulate ocean transportation intermediaries ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfCommissioners | 5 ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| isPartOf | United States Government independent agencies ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States government
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surface form:
United States federal government
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| language | English ⓘ |
| monitors |
foreign shipping practices
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ocean freight rates and service conditions ⓘ |
| oversees |
agreements among marine terminal operators
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agreements among ocean common carriers ⓘ service contracts between shippers and ocean common carriers ⓘ tariffs of common carriers ⓘ |
| parentAgency | none ⓘ |
| regulates |
U.S. international ocean transportation system
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freight forwarders ⓘ marine terminal operators ⓘ non-vessel-operating common carriers ⓘ ocean common carriers ⓘ ocean transportation intermediaries ⓘ |
| sector |
international trade regulation
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maritime transportation ⓘ |
| supervises |
Bureau of Certification and Licensing
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Bureau of Enforcement, Investigations, and Compliance ⓘ Bureau of Trade Analysis ⓘ Office of Consumer Affairs and Dispute Resolution Services ⓘ |
| website | https://www.fmc.gov/ ⓘ |
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 Federal Maritime Commission Description of subject: The United States Federal Maritime Commission is an independent federal agency responsible for regulating the U.S. international ocean transportation system to ensure a competitive and reliable maritime industry.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Inland Waterway System of the United States
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regulator
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United States Federal Maritime Commission
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this entity surface form:
Federal Maritime Commission
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Federal Maritime Commission
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Federal Maritime Commission
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Federal Maritime Commission
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Federal Maritime Commission
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Federal Maritime Commission
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Federal Maritime Commission
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Chair of the Federal Maritime Commission