Search and Rescue Service
E410440
The Search and Rescue Service is a Galileo satellite navigation system feature that helps detect and locate distress signals from emergency beacons to support rapid rescue operations worldwide.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Search and Rescue Service canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4065417 — 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: Search and Rescue Service Context triple: [Galileo satellite navigation system, service, Search and Rescue Service]
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A.
Rescue Aid Society
The Rescue Aid Society is an international mouse organization in Disney's "The Rescuers" films, dedicated to rescuing and helping those in distress.
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B.
Joint Task Force–Civil Support
Joint Task Force–Civil Support is a U.S. military headquarters responsible for planning and coordinating Department of Defense support to civil authorities during chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosive (CBRNE) incidents within the United States.
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C.
Crisis Response Center
The Crisis Response Center is a specialized unit of Germany’s Federal Foreign Office responsible for coordinating diplomatic and consular responses to international crises and emergencies.
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D.
Emergency Service Unit
The Emergency Service Unit is a specialized tactical and rescue division of the New York City Police Department that handles high-risk operations, technical rescues, and critical incident response.
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E.
Urban Search and Rescue Task Forces
Urban Search and Rescue Task Forces are specialized, highly trained teams equipped to locate, extricate, and provide initial medical care to victims trapped in collapsed structures or other complex disaster environments.
- 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: Search and Rescue Service Target entity description: The Search and Rescue Service is a Galileo satellite navigation system feature that helps detect and locate distress signals from emergency beacons to support rapid rescue operations worldwide.
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A.
Rescue Aid Society
The Rescue Aid Society is an international mouse organization in Disney's "The Rescuers" films, dedicated to rescuing and helping those in distress.
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B.
Joint Task Force–Civil Support
Joint Task Force–Civil Support is a U.S. military headquarters responsible for planning and coordinating Department of Defense support to civil authorities during chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosive (CBRNE) incidents within the United States.
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C.
Crisis Response Center
The Crisis Response Center is a specialized unit of Germany’s Federal Foreign Office responsible for coordinating diplomatic and consular responses to international crises and emergencies.
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D.
Emergency Service Unit
The Emergency Service Unit is a specialized tactical and rescue division of the New York City Police Department that handles high-risk operations, technical rescues, and critical incident response.
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E.
Urban Search and Rescue Task Forces
Urban Search and Rescue Task Forces are specialized, highly trained teams equipped to locate, extricate, and provide initial medical care to victims trapped in collapsed structures or other complex disaster environments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Galileo service
ⓘ
satellite navigation system feature ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
increase survival chances of people in distress
ⓘ
reduce search and rescue response time ⓘ |
| contributesTo | Cospas-Sarsat MEOSAR constellation ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
automatic relay of distress messages
ⓘ
enhanced localization through multiple satellite visibility ⓘ |
| hasGlobalCoverage | true ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
detection of distress signals
ⓘ
global search and rescue support ⓘ location of distress beacons ⓘ support of rapid rescue operations ⓘ |
| hasUser |
aircraft
ⓘ
maritime vessels ⓘ outdoor users carrying emergency beacons ⓘ |
| isComponentOf | Galileo service portfolio ⓘ |
| isCoordinatedBy | European Union ⓘ |
| isHostedOn |
Galileo programme
ⓘ
surface form:
Galileo satellites
|
| isImplementedBy |
European Union Agency for the Space Programme
ⓘ
surface form:
European GNSS Agency
European Space Agency ⓘ |
| isRelatedTo |
Galileo Commercial Service
ⓘ
Galileo Open Service ⓘ Galileo programme ⓘ
surface form:
Galileo Public Regulated Service
|
| isSpaceSegmentOf | MEOSAR system ⓘ |
| operatesFrequencyBand | 406 MHz band ⓘ |
| operatesOn | emergency beacons ⓘ |
| partOf |
Galileo
ⓘ
Galileo satellite navigation system ⓘ |
| providesCapability |
improved location accuracy
ⓘ
independent localization of distress beacons ⓘ near real-time distress alert detection ⓘ reduced time to locate persons in distress ⓘ |
| supportsBeaconType | 406 MHz distress beacons ⓘ |
| supportsDomain |
aviation search and rescue
ⓘ
land-based search and rescue ⓘ maritime search and rescue ⓘ |
| supportsOrganization |
aeronautical rescue coordination centers
ⓘ
maritime rescue coordination centers ⓘ national search and rescue authorities ⓘ |
| supportsStandard |
Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking payload
ⓘ
surface form:
Cospas-Sarsat 406 MHz beacon standard
|
| usesOrbitType | medium Earth orbit ⓘ |
| usesPayloadType | search and rescue transponder payload ⓘ |
| usesSystem | Cospas-Sarsat ⓘ |
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: Search and Rescue Service Description of subject: The Search and Rescue Service is a Galileo satellite navigation system feature that helps detect and locate distress signals from emergency beacons to support rapid rescue operations worldwide.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.