NPL
E278884
NPL is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency list that identifies the nation’s most hazardous waste sites prioritized for long-term cleanup under the Superfund program.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NPL canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2575328 — 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: NPL Context triple: [National Priorities List, abbreviation, NPL]
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A.
NPL
NPL is India’s premier national metrology institute responsible for establishing and maintaining the country’s standards of measurement and related scientific research.
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B.
NPL network
The NPL network was an early experimental packet-switching computer network developed in the United Kingdom that significantly influenced the design of the modern internet.
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C.
NZLP
NZLP is the commonly used abbreviation for the New Zealand Labour Party, a major centre-left political party in New Zealand.
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D.
NWL
NWL is the stock ticker symbol for Newell Brands Inc., a consumer goods company known for products under brands like Rubbermaid, Sharpie, and Coleman.
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E.
NNSC
NNSC is an international body established after the Korean War to monitor and supervise the implementation of the armistice agreement between North and South Korea.
- 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: NPL Target entity description: NPL is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency list that identifies the nation’s most hazardous waste sites prioritized for long-term cleanup under the Superfund program.
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A.
NPL
NPL is India’s premier national metrology institute responsible for establishing and maintaining the country’s standards of measurement and related scientific research.
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B.
NPL network
The NPL network was an early experimental packet-switching computer network developed in the United Kingdom that significantly influenced the design of the modern internet.
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C.
NZLP
NZLP is the commonly used abbreviation for the New Zealand Labour Party, a major centre-left political party in New Zealand.
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D.
NWL
NWL is the stock ticker symbol for Newell Brands Inc., a consumer goods company known for products under brands like Rubbermaid, Sharpie, and Coleman.
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E.
NNSC
NNSC is an international body established after the Korean War to monitor and supervise the implementation of the armistice agreement between North and South Korea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States federal government list
ⓘ
environmental cleanup list ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
ⓘ
surface form:
CERCLA
HRS ⓘ NPL self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| administeredBy |
United States Environmental Protection Agency
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. EPA
United States Environmental Protection Agency ⓘ |
| announcedBy |
Federal Register
ⓘ
surface form:
Federal Register notices
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criterion | Hazard Ranking System score ⓘ |
| dataFormat |
downloadable data files
ⓘ
online searchable database ⓘ |
| environmentalMedium |
air contamination
ⓘ
groundwater contamination ⓘ soil contamination ⓘ surface water contamination ⓘ |
| feature |
sites can be added
ⓘ
sites can be deleted after cleanup ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
hazardous waste sites
ⓘ
uncontrolled hazardous substance releases ⓘ |
| governedBy |
National Contingency Plan
ⓘ
surface form:
National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan
|
| hasCategory |
deleted NPL sites
ⓘ
final NPL sites ⓘ proposed NPL sites ⓘ |
| hasProcess |
site deletion process
ⓘ
site listing process ⓘ |
| hasType | dynamic list ⓘ |
| impact |
environmental risk reduction
ⓘ
human health risk reduction ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States federal law
ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal jurisdiction
|
| legalBasis | Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
United States Environmental Protection Agency
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
|
| partOf | Superfund program ⓘ |
| purpose |
identify the nation’s most hazardous waste sites
ⓘ
prioritize sites for long-term cleanup ⓘ |
| regulator | Office of Land and Emergency Management ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
National Contingency Plan
ⓘ
surface form:
National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan
U.S. EPA Superfund site ⓘ
surface form:
Superfund sites
|
| scope | national ⓘ |
| selectionMethod |
Hazard Ranking System evaluation
ⓘ
health advisory with significant contamination threat ⓘ state or tribal top-priority designations ⓘ |
| standsFor | National Priorities List ⓘ |
| usedFor |
allocating federal Superfund resources
ⓘ
guiding EPA decisions on Superfund site cleanups ⓘ |
| website | https://www.epa.gov/superfund/superfund-national-priorities-list-npl ⓘ |
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: NPL Description of subject: NPL is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency list that identifies the nation’s most hazardous waste sites prioritized for long-term cleanup under the Superfund program.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
National Priorities List