Nansen passport
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The Nansen passport was an internationally recognized identity document issued by the League of Nations in the interwar period to stateless refugees, enabling them to cross borders and rebuild their lives.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nansen passport canonical | 3 |
| Nansen certificate | 1 |
| Nansen passport for stateless refugees | 1 |
| Nansen passport system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T47632 — 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.
Target entity: Nansen passport Context triple: [Nansen Refugee Award, relatedTo, Nansen passport]
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A.
The Crossroads of the World
The Crossroads of the World is a famous nickname for New York City's Times Square, a major commercial and entertainment hub renowned for its bright billboards, Broadway theaters, and bustling pedestrian traffic.
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Dag Hammarskjöld Library
The Dag Hammarskjöld Library is the main research and reference library of the United Nations, supporting the work of UN delegates and staff with specialized collections on international affairs and law.
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C.
Orteig Prize
The Orteig Prize was a $25,000 aviation challenge offered in the 1920s for the first nonstop flight between New York and Paris, famously won by Charles Lindbergh.
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D.
McClintock
McClintock is a surname most notably associated with Barbara McClintock, the pioneering American cytogeneticist and Nobel Prize laureate recognized for her discovery of genetic transposition.
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E.
International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia
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- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Nansen passport Target entity description: The Nansen passport was an internationally recognized identity document issued by the League of Nations in the interwar period to stateless refugees, enabling them to cross borders and rebuild their lives.
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A.
The Crossroads of the World
The Crossroads of the World is a famous nickname for New York City's Times Square, a major commercial and entertainment hub renowned for its bright billboards, Broadway theaters, and bustling pedestrian traffic.
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B.
Dag Hammarskjöld Library
The Dag Hammarskjöld Library is the main research and reference library of the United Nations, supporting the work of UN delegates and staff with specialized collections on international affairs and law.
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C.
Orteig Prize
The Orteig Prize was a $25,000 aviation challenge offered in the 1920s for the first nonstop flight between New York and Paris, famously won by Charles Lindbergh.
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D.
McClintock
McClintock is a surname most notably associated with Barbara McClintock, the pioneering American cytogeneticist and Nobel Prize laureate recognized for her discovery of genetic transposition.
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E.
International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia
The International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia was a UNESCO-led global effort in the 1960s to document, dismantle, and relocate ancient Nubian temples and archaeological sites threatened by flooding from the Aswan High Dam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
League of Nations document
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identity document ⓘ refugee document ⓘ travel document ⓘ |
| administeredBy |
League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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surface form:
Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees under the League of Nations
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| alsoKnownAs |
Nansen passport
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surface form:
Nansen certificate
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| appliesTo |
Armenian refugees
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Assyrian refugees ⓘ Turkish refugees ⓘ displaced persons ⓘ refugees from the Russian Empire ⓘ stateless refugees ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
ⓘ
League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ⓘ
surface form:
Nansen International Office for Refugees
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| beneficiaries |
Armenian genocide survivors
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Assyrian and other minority refugees ⓘ Russian refugees after the Russian Civil War ⓘ hundreds of thousands of refugees ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Switzerland ⓘ |
| documentType |
non-national passport
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substitute for national passport ⓘ |
| endTime | 1940s ⓘ |
| grantedRights |
ability to obtain visas
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permission to cross borders ⓘ right to reside temporarily in host countries ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Geneva ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | interwar period ⓘ |
| inception | 1922 ⓘ |
| influenced |
1951 Convention Travel Document for refugees
ⓘ
later international refugee travel documents ⓘ |
| introducedBy |
Fridtjof Nansen
ⓘ
League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ⓘ |
| issuedBy | League of Nations ⓘ |
| language | multiple languages depending on issuing authority ⓘ |
| legalStatus | internationally recognized identity document ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Fridtjof Nansen ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the first international mechanisms to protect stateless persons
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pioneering international refugee protection ⓘ |
| purpose |
to enable international travel for stateless persons
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to facilitate border crossing for refugees ⓘ to help refugees rebuild their lives ⓘ to provide identity papers for stateless refugees ⓘ |
| recognizedBy |
many European states
ⓘ
numerous League of Nations member states ⓘ some non-European countries ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Convention Travel Document under the 1951 Refugee Convention ⓘ |
| startTime | 1922 ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
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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.
Subject: Nansen passport Description of subject: The Nansen passport was an internationally recognized identity document issued by the League of Nations in the interwar period to stateless refugees, enabling them to cross borders and rebuild their lives.
Referenced by (6)
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