NSPS
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NSPS stands for New Source Performance Standards, a set of U.S. federal air pollution control regulations under the Clean Air Act that limit emissions from newly built or modified industrial sources.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NSPS canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T240923 — 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: NSPS Context triple: [Clean Air Act, abbreviation, NSPS]
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A.
NV
NV is the official two-letter United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Nevada.
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B.
NPS
NPS is the U.S. federal agency responsible for managing and preserving national parks, monuments, and other protected natural and historical sites.
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C.
SPS
SPS is a high-energy circular particle accelerator at CERN that serves as a key injector for the Large Hadron Collider and supports a wide range of physics experiments.
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D.
Nintendo
Nintendo is a Japanese video game company best known for creating iconic franchises such as Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Pokémon, as well as popular gaming consoles like the Nintendo Switch.
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E.
Sony
Sony is a Japanese multinational conglomerate best known for its consumer electronics, gaming (PlayStation), entertainment, and imaging products.
- 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: NSPS Target entity description: NSPS stands for New Source Performance Standards, a set of U.S. federal air pollution control regulations under the Clean Air Act that limit emissions from newly built or modified industrial sources.
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A.
NV
NV is the official two-letter United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Nevada.
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B.
NPS
NPS is the U.S. federal agency responsible for managing and preserving national parks, monuments, and other protected natural and historical sites.
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C.
SPS
SPS is a high-energy circular particle accelerator at CERN that serves as a key injector for the Large Hadron Collider and supports a wide range of physics experiments.
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D.
Nintendo
Nintendo is a Japanese video game company best known for creating iconic franchises such as Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Pokémon, as well as popular gaming consoles like the Nintendo Switch.
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E.
Sony
Sony is a Japanese multinational conglomerate best known for its consumer electronics, gaming (PlayStation), entertainment, and imaging products.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States federal air pollution regulation
ⓘ
environmental regulatory program ⓘ |
| acronymFor | New Source Performance Standards ⓘ |
| administeredBy |
United States Environmental Protection Agency
ⓘ
surface form:
EPA
United States Environmental Protection Agency ⓘ |
| appliesAt |
time of construction
ⓘ
time of modification ⓘ time of reconstruction ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
modified stationary sources
ⓘ
new stationary sources ⓘ reconstructed stationary sources ⓘ source categories listed by EPA under Section 111(b) ⓘ |
| authorityType | federal regulation ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| enforcedBy |
United States Environmental Protection Agency
ⓘ
state environmental agencies with delegated authority ⓘ |
| excludes | existing sources that are not modified or reconstructed ⓘ |
| fullName | New Source Performance Standards ⓘ |
| goal | to prevent deterioration of air quality from growth of new industrial sources ⓘ |
| implementedThrough |
40 CFR Part 60
ⓘ
Code of Federal Regulations ⓘ |
| legalBasis | Clean Air Act ⓘ |
| legalCitation | Section 111 of the Clean Air Act ⓘ |
| monitoredBy |
continuous emissions monitoring systems
ⓘ
emissions testing ⓘ |
| pollutantsCovered |
criteria air pollutants
ⓘ
greenhouse gases ⓘ nitrogen oxides ⓘ particulate matter ⓘ sulfur dioxide ⓘ volatile organic compounds ⓘ |
| purpose |
to ensure new sources use best demonstrated emission reduction technologies
ⓘ
to limit emissions of air pollutants from new and modified industrial sources ⓘ |
| regulates |
industrial facilities
ⓘ
manufacturing plants ⓘ other designated stationary sources ⓘ power plants ⓘ refineries ⓘ |
| regulatoryScope |
air pollution control
ⓘ
stationary sources of air emissions ⓘ |
| relationshipToOtherPrograms |
complements state implementation plans under the Clean Air Act
ⓘ
distinct from National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants ⓘ |
| requires |
emission limits based on best system of emission reduction
ⓘ
performance standards for specific source categories ⓘ recordkeeping and reporting by regulated sources ⓘ |
| sectionOfLaw |
Clean Air Act
ⓘ
surface form:
Clean Air Act Section 111(b)
|
| standardType |
performance-based emission standard
ⓘ
technology-based standard ⓘ |
| updateMechanism | EPA may revise standards as technology improves ⓘ |
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: NSPS Description of subject: NSPS stands for New Source Performance Standards, a set of U.S. federal air pollution control regulations under the Clean Air Act that limit emissions from newly built or modified industrial sources.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.