Ministry of Defence of Finland
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The Ministry of Defence of Finland is the government body responsible for formulating Finland’s defence policy and overseeing the country’s military and national security affairs.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ministry of Defence of Finland canonical | 11 |
| Ministry of Defence (Finland) | 1 |
| MoD Finland | 1 |
| Puolustusministeriö | 1 |
| national defence of Finland | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T313895 — 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: Ministry of Defence of Finland Context triple: [Finnish Defence Forces, budgetControlledBy, Ministry of Defence of Finland]
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A.
Finnish Defence Forces
The Finnish Defence Forces are Finland’s unified military organization responsible for the country’s national defense, including its army, navy, and air force.
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B.
Defence Command Finland
Defence Command Finland is the central headquarters and strategic leadership body responsible for planning, directing, and overseeing the operations of the Finnish Defence Forces.
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C.
Finnish Defence Forces Logistics Command
The Finnish Defence Forces Logistics Command is the central authority responsible for procuring, maintaining, and supplying materiel and logistics support for Finland’s military.
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D.
Finnish Air Force
The Finnish Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of Finland’s Defence Forces, responsible for protecting the country’s airspace and conducting air operations.
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E.
Finnish Army
The Finnish Army is the land warfare branch of Finland’s Defence Forces, renowned for its determined resistance against the Soviet Union during the 1939–1940 Winter War.
- 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: Ministry of Defence of Finland Target entity description: The Ministry of Defence of Finland is the government body responsible for formulating Finland’s defence policy and overseeing the country’s military and national security affairs.
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A.
Finnish Defence Forces
The Finnish Defence Forces are Finland’s unified military organization responsible for the country’s national defense, including its army, navy, and air force.
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B.
Defence Command Finland
Defence Command Finland is the central headquarters and strategic leadership body responsible for planning, directing, and overseeing the operations of the Finnish Defence Forces.
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C.
Finnish Defence Forces Logistics Command
The Finnish Defence Forces Logistics Command is the central authority responsible for procuring, maintaining, and supplying materiel and logistics support for Finland’s military.
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D.
Finnish Air Force
The Finnish Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of Finland’s Defence Forces, responsible for protecting the country’s airspace and conducting air operations.
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E.
Finnish Army
The Finnish Army is the land warfare branch of Finland’s Defence Forces, renowned for its determined resistance against the Soviet Union during the 1939–1940 Winter War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defence ministry
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government ministry ⓘ |
| abbreviation | MOD ⓘ |
| budgetFunction |
defence budget planning
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defence procurement policy ⓘ |
| cooperatesWith |
European Union defence bodies
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Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland ⓘ Ministry of the Interior of Finland ⓘ NATO structures ⓘ |
| country | Finland ⓘ |
| employerOf |
civil servants
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military personnel in administrative roles ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Finnish government
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surface form:
Government of Finland
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| headedBy | Minister of Defence of Finland ⓘ |
| headquartersCountry | Finland ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Helsinki ⓘ |
| inception | 1918 ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Finland
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surface form:
Republic of Finland
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| languageOfWork |
Finnish
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Swedish ⓘ |
| locatedInBuilding | Government Palace, Helsinki ⓘ |
| ministerialPost | Minister of Defence ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Ministry of Defence of Finland
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Puolustusministeriö
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| nativeNameLanguage | Finnish ⓘ |
| oversees |
Finnish Defence Forces
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Finnish Defence Intelligence Agency ⓘ defence administration of Finland ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Finnish government
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surface form:
Finnish Government
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| partOf |
Finnish government
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surface form:
Government of Finland
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| policyArea |
crisis management
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international defence cooperation ⓘ national defence ⓘ security policy ⓘ |
| precededBy | War Department of the Grand Duchy of Finland ⓘ |
| regionServed | Finland ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
defence policy of Finland
ⓘ
military defence of Finland ⓘ national security policy in defence sector ⓘ |
| seat | Helsinki ⓘ |
| shortName |
Ministry of Defence of Finland
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
MoD Finland
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| subordinateTo |
Prime Minister
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surface form:
Prime Minister of Finland
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| task |
international defence agreements preparation
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oversight of defence materiel policy ⓘ preparation of defence legislation ⓘ readiness and resilience planning in defence sector ⓘ strategic planning of Finland’s defence ⓘ |
| website | https://www.defmin.fi ⓘ |
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: Ministry of Defence of Finland Description of subject: The Ministry of Defence of Finland is the government body responsible for formulating Finland’s defence policy and overseeing the country’s military and national security affairs.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Ministry of Defence of Finland
→
nativeName
→
Ministry of Defence of Finland
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Puolustusministeriö
Ministry of Defence of Finland
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shortName
→
Ministry of Defence of Finland
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
MoD Finland
this entity surface form:
Ministry of Defence (Finland)
this entity surface form:
national defence of Finland