World Meteorological Convention
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The World Meteorological Convention is the international treaty that created the World Meteorological Organization, establishing the framework for global cooperation in meteorology, climatology, and related geophysical sciences.
All labels observed (5)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T283731 — 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: World Meteorological Convention Context triple: [Executive Council (World Meteorological Organization), establishedBy, World Meteorological Convention]
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A.
World Meteorological Congress
The World Meteorological Congress is the supreme decision-making body of the World Meteorological Organization, where member states convene to set global policies and priorities for meteorology, climate, and related environmental services.
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B.
World Meteorological Organization
The World Meteorological Organization is a specialized UN agency that coordinates international cooperation on weather, climate, water resources, and related environmental issues.
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C.
WMO Executive Council
The WMO Executive Council is the governing body of the World Meteorological Organization responsible for coordinating its programs, implementing decisions of the World Meteorological Congress, and overseeing global meteorological and hydrological activities.
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D.
International Meridian Conference
The International Meridian Conference was an 1884 gathering of nations in Washington, D.C., that established the Greenwich meridian as the international prime meridian and laid the foundation for global time standardization.
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E.
WMO Secretariat
The WMO Secretariat is the administrative and technical body that supports and coordinates the global activities and programs of the World Meteorological Organization.
- 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: World Meteorological Convention Target entity description: The World Meteorological Convention is the international treaty that created the World Meteorological Organization, establishing the framework for global cooperation in meteorology, climatology, and related geophysical sciences.
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A.
World Meteorological Congress
The World Meteorological Congress is the supreme decision-making body of the World Meteorological Organization, where member states convene to set global policies and priorities for meteorology, climate, and related environmental services.
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B.
World Meteorological Organization
The World Meteorological Organization is a specialized UN agency that coordinates international cooperation on weather, climate, water resources, and related environmental issues.
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C.
WMO Executive Council
The WMO Executive Council is the governing body of the World Meteorological Organization responsible for coordinating its programs, implementing decisions of the World Meteorological Congress, and overseeing global meteorological and hydrological activities.
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D.
International Meridian Conference
The International Meridian Conference was an 1884 gathering of nations in Washington, D.C., that established the Greenwich meridian as the international prime meridian and laid the foundation for global time standardization.
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E.
WMO Secretariat
The WMO Secretariat is the administrative and technical body that supports and coordinates the global activities and programs of the World Meteorological Organization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
founding treaty
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international treaty ⓘ multilateral treaty ⓘ |
| appliesTo | member states of the World Meteorological Organization ⓘ |
| category | treaty establishing an intergovernmental organization ⓘ |
| creates | World Meteorological Organization ⓘ |
| defines |
financial provisions of the World Meteorological Organization
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functions of the World Meteorological Organization ⓘ governance structure of the World Meteorological Organization ⓘ legal personality of the World Meteorological Organization ⓘ mandate of the World Meteorological Organization ⓘ membership rules of the World Meteorological Organization ⓘ |
| establishesFrameworkFor |
global cooperation in climatology
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global cooperation in hydrology ⓘ global cooperation in meteorology ⓘ global cooperation in related geophysical sciences ⓘ |
| field |
environmental governance
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international environmental law ⓘ science and technology cooperation ⓘ |
| governs | relations between WMO and its member states ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
advancement of applied meteorology
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coordination of international programs in climatology ⓘ coordination of international programs in hydrology ⓘ exchange of meteorological information ⓘ promotion of international cooperation in meteorology ⓘ standardization of meteorological observations ⓘ support to agricultural meteorology ⓘ support to aviation meteorology ⓘ support to maritime meteorology ⓘ |
| language |
Arabic
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Chinese ⓘ English ⓘ French ⓘ Russian ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| legalBasisFor |
World Meteorological Convention
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
World Meteorological Organization Constitution
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| providesFor |
WMO Executive Council
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surface form:
Executive Council of the World Meteorological Organization
WMO Secretariat ⓘ
surface form:
Secretariat of the World Meteorological Organization
World Meteorological Congress ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
World Meteorological Organization
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surface form:
International Meteorological Organization
United Nations system ⓘ |
| shortName |
World Meteorological Convention
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
WMO Convention
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| subject |
climatology
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geophysics ⓘ hydrology ⓘ meteorology ⓘ |
| successorTo | arrangements under the International Meteorological Organization ⓘ |
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: World Meteorological Convention Description of subject: The World Meteorological Convention is the international treaty that created the World Meteorological Organization, establishing the framework for global cooperation in meteorology, climatology, and related geophysical sciences.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Executive Council (World Meteorological Organization)
this entity surface form:
WMO Convention
World Meteorological Convention
→
shortName
→
World Meteorological Convention
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
WMO Convention
World Meteorological Convention
→
legalBasisFor
→
World Meteorological Convention
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
World Meteorological Organization Constitution
this entity surface form:
WMO Convention
this entity surface form:
Convention of the World Meteorological Organization
subject surface form:
WMO Technical Regulations
this entity surface form:
WMO Convention
this entity surface form:
World Meteorological Organization Convention