Luftfahrt-Bundesamt
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The Luftfahrt-Bundesamt is Germany’s federal civil aviation authority responsible for overseeing aviation safety, certification, and regulatory compliance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Luftfahrt-Bundesamt canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2229947 — 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: Luftfahrt-Bundesamt Context triple: [Lufthansa, regulator, Luftfahrt-Bundesamt]
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Netherlands Civil Aviation Authority
The Netherlands Civil Aviation Authority is the national government body responsible for overseeing and regulating civil aviation safety, operations, and compliance within the Netherlands.
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B.
FAA
The FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA) is a U.S. federal law that updated and expanded government surveillance authorities under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, particularly for monitoring communications of non-U.S. persons abroad.
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C.
FAA
The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (FAA) is a landmark U.S. law that reorganized and governs most American foreign aid and development assistance programs.
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D.
FAA
FAA is the commonly used abbreviation for the College of Fine and Applied Arts, an academic unit focused on disciplines such as visual arts, design, and performance.
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E.
Civil Aeronautics Board
The Civil Aeronautics Board was a former U.S. federal agency responsible for regulating airline routes, fares, and accident investigations before its key functions were reassigned and it was ultimately dissolved.
- 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: Luftfahrt-Bundesamt Target entity description: The Luftfahrt-Bundesamt is Germany’s federal civil aviation authority responsible for overseeing aviation safety, certification, and regulatory compliance.
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A.
Netherlands Civil Aviation Authority
The Netherlands Civil Aviation Authority is the national government body responsible for overseeing and regulating civil aviation safety, operations, and compliance within the Netherlands.
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B.
FAA
The FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA) is a U.S. federal law that updated and expanded government surveillance authorities under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, particularly for monitoring communications of non-U.S. persons abroad.
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C.
FAA
The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (FAA) is a landmark U.S. law that reorganized and governs most American foreign aid and development assistance programs.
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D.
FAA
FAA is the commonly used abbreviation for the College of Fine and Applied Arts, an academic unit focused on disciplines such as visual arts, design, and performance.
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E.
Civil Aeronautics Board
The Civil Aeronautics Board was a former U.S. federal agency responsible for regulating airline routes, fares, and accident investigations before its key functions were reassigned and it was ultimately dissolved.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil aviation authority
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federal agency of Germany ⓘ |
| appliesRegulation |
European Union aviation regulations
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German aviation law ⓘ |
| cooperatesWith |
EASA
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surface form:
European Union Aviation Safety Agency
International Civil Aviation Organization ⓘ other national aviation authorities ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | LBA ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.lba.de ⓘ |
| headquartersCountry | Germany ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Braunschweig ⓘ |
| inception | 1954 ⓘ |
| industry | civil aviation ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Germany
ⓘ
surface form:
Federal Republic of Germany
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| legalForm | federal higher authority ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Lower Saxony ⓘ |
| mandate | ensure safe and orderly civil aviation in Germany ⓘ |
| nativeName | Luftfahrt-Bundesamt self-link ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | German ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure
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surface form:
Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport
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| performsFunction |
approval of flight operations manuals and procedures
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certification of air operators ⓘ certification of aircraft maintenance organizations ⓘ certification of aviation training organizations ⓘ licensing and examination of pilots ⓘ licensing of air traffic personnel within its competence ⓘ monitoring compliance with aviation safety standards ⓘ oversight of dangerous goods carriage by air ⓘ registration and supervision of air carriers selling tickets in Germany ⓘ safety oversight of civil aviation ⓘ |
| regionServed | Germany ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
approval and oversight of air operators
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approval and oversight of maintenance organizations ⓘ approval and oversight of training organizations ⓘ certification of aircraft and aviation products ⓘ civil aviation safety in Germany ⓘ consumer protection in air transport within its remit ⓘ dangerous goods transport by air oversight ⓘ enforcement of aviation regulations ⓘ licensing of aviation personnel ⓘ market surveillance of civil aviation products ⓘ oversight of air carriers operating in Germany ⓘ |
| sector |
aviation
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transport ⓘ |
| shortName | LBA ⓘ |
| subordinateTo |
Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure
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surface form:
Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr
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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: Luftfahrt-Bundesamt Description of subject: The Luftfahrt-Bundesamt is Germany’s federal civil aviation authority responsible for overseeing aviation safety, certification, and regulatory compliance.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.