Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reference laboratory partner
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The Wadsworth Center is a major public health laboratory and research institution that serves as New York State’s primary reference lab and collaborates closely with federal agencies on disease surveillance, diagnostics, and outbreak response.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reference laboratory partner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3656955 — 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: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reference laboratory partner Context triple: [Wadsworth Center, hasRole, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reference laboratory partner]
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A.
Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences
The Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences is a division of Massachusetts’ state public health system that oversees infectious disease surveillance, prevention, and diagnostic laboratory services.
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B.
Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics
The Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics is a research center focused on understanding, modeling, and controlling infectious disease transmission and outbreaks.
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C.
Bureau of Communicable Disease
The Bureau of Communicable Disease is a public health division in New York City responsible for monitoring, investigating, and helping control infectious disease outbreaks.
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D.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the leading U.S. public health agency responsible for disease surveillance, prevention, and health promotion domestically and globally.
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E.
MCCDC
MCCDC is the U.S. Marine Corps’ primary command responsible for developing warfighting concepts, doctrine, training, and capabilities to prepare the Corps for future combat.
- 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: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reference laboratory partner Target entity description: The Wadsworth Center is a major public health laboratory and research institution that serves as New York State’s primary reference lab and collaborates closely with federal agencies on disease surveillance, diagnostics, and outbreak response.
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A.
Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences
The Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences is a division of Massachusetts’ state public health system that oversees infectious disease surveillance, prevention, and diagnostic laboratory services.
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B.
Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics
The Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics is a research center focused on understanding, modeling, and controlling infectious disease transmission and outbreaks.
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C.
Bureau of Communicable Disease
The Bureau of Communicable Disease is a public health division in New York City responsible for monitoring, investigating, and helping control infectious disease outbreaks.
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D.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the leading U.S. public health agency responsible for disease surveillance, prevention, and health promotion domestically and globally.
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E.
MCCDC
MCCDC is the U.S. Marine Corps’ primary command responsible for developing warfighting concepts, doctrine, training, and capabilities to prepare the Corps for future combat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public health laboratory
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research institution ⓘ |
| activity |
development of diagnostic tests
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disease surveillance ⓘ support for outbreak investigations ⓘ training of public health laboratory personnel ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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federal public health agencies ⓘ local health departments in New York State ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| field |
environmental health sciences
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immunology ⓘ microbiology ⓘ molecular diagnostics ⓘ public health ⓘ virology ⓘ |
| focus | protection of population health in New York State ⓘ |
| function |
environmental health testing
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infectious disease diagnostics ⓘ laboratory research ⓘ outbreak response support ⓘ public health surveillance ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
New York State
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surface form:
State of New York
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| locatedIn | New York State ⓘ |
| operatedBy | New York State Department of Health ⓘ |
| role |
New York State’s primary reference laboratory
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reference laboratory partner of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ⓘ |
| typeOfOrganization | state public health laboratory ⓘ |
| worksOn |
emerging infectious diseases
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environmental exposures ⓘ foodborne diseases ⓘ vaccine-preventable diseases ⓘ |
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: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reference laboratory partner Description of subject: The Wadsworth Center is a major public health laboratory and research institution that serves as New York State’s primary reference lab and collaborates closely with federal agencies on disease surveillance, diagnostics, and outbreak response.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Wadsworth Center
→
hasRole
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reference laboratory partner
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