Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (India)
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The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution is an Indian central government ministry responsible for consumer protection, regulation of food supply and prices, and management of the public distribution system.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Department of Food and Public Distribution, Government of India | 1 |
| Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (India) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4686910 — 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 Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (India) Context triple: [Union government ministries of India, includes, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (India)]
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A.
Ministry of Food
The Ministry of Food was a British government department during World War II responsible for managing food supplies, rationing, and public nutrition campaigns on the home front.
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B.
Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare is the central government ministry in India responsible for formulating and implementing national policies, programs, and initiatives related to agriculture, farmers’ welfare, and rural agrarian development.
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C.
Tamil Nadu Cooperation, Food and Consumer Protection Department
The Tamil Nadu Cooperation, Food and Consumer Protection Department is a state government department responsible for regulating cooperatives, ensuring food security, and safeguarding consumer rights in Tamil Nadu.
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D.
Minister of Food and Agriculture (India)
The Minister of Food and Agriculture (India) was a central government cabinet post responsible for formulating and overseeing national policies on food supply, distribution, and agricultural development.
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E.
People's Commissariat for Food
The People's Commissariat for Food was a Soviet government body responsible for overseeing food production, distribution, and supply during the early years of the USSR.
- 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 Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (India) Target entity description: The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution is an Indian central government ministry responsible for consumer protection, regulation of food supply and prices, and management of the public distribution system.
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A.
Ministry of Food
The Ministry of Food was a British government department during World War II responsible for managing food supplies, rationing, and public nutrition campaigns on the home front.
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B.
Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare is the central government ministry in India responsible for formulating and implementing national policies, programs, and initiatives related to agriculture, farmers’ welfare, and rural agrarian development.
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C.
Tamil Nadu Cooperation, Food and Consumer Protection Department
The Tamil Nadu Cooperation, Food and Consumer Protection Department is a state government department responsible for regulating cooperatives, ensuring food security, and safeguarding consumer rights in Tamil Nadu.
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D.
Minister of Food and Agriculture (India)
The Minister of Food and Agriculture (India) was a central government cabinet post responsible for formulating and overseeing national policies on food supply, distribution, and agricultural development.
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E.
People's Commissariat for Food
The People's Commissariat for Food was a Soviet government body responsible for overseeing food production, distribution, and supply during the early years of the USSR.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ministry of the Government of India
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Union government ministry ⓘ |
| abbreviation | MoCAF&PD NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| governmentType | central government ministry ⓘ |
| hasDepartment |
Department of Consumer Affairs
NERFINISHED
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Department of Food and Public Distribution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
policy on consumer rights
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policy on foodgrain procurement for PDS ⓘ policy on storage and movement of foodgrains ⓘ |
| hasRole |
administration of laws relating to consumer protection (Union level)
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coordination of activities of state food and civil supplies departments ⓘ formulation of policy on consumer affairs ⓘ formulation of policy on food and public distribution ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
New Delhi, India
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surface form:
New Delhi
|
| jurisdiction | Government of India ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Delhi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeNameLanguage | en ⓘ |
| oversees |
Essential Commodities Act implementation (policy oversight)
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Public Distribution System NERFINISHED ⓘ buffer stock management of foodgrains (policy) ⓘ consumer cooperatives policy ⓘ consumer grievance redressal framework (policy) ⓘ price stabilization measures for essential commodities ⓘ standards of weights and measures (policy) ⓘ targeted public distribution to poor households ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Government of India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Union Council of Ministers of India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
consumer awareness programmes (policy)
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consumer protection in India ⓘ coordination with state governments on PDS ⓘ food security-related policies ⓘ management of the Public Distribution System in India ⓘ monitoring availability of essential commodities ⓘ policy on edible oils distribution (public distribution component) ⓘ policy on sugar distribution (public distribution component) ⓘ prevention of black marketing of essential commodities (policy) ⓘ regulation of food prices in India ⓘ regulation of food supply in India ⓘ regulation of packaged commodities (policy) ⓘ |
| sector |
consumer affairs
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food ⓘ public distribution ⓘ |
| uses |
English
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Hindi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website |
https://consumeraffairs.nic.in/
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https://dfpd.gov.in/ ⓘ |
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 Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (India) Description of subject: The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution is an Indian central government ministry responsible for consumer protection, regulation of food supply and prices, and management of the public distribution system.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Union government ministries of India
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includes
→
Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (India)
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Tamil Nadu Cooperation, Food and Consumer Protection Department
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worksWith
→
Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (India)
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this entity surface form:
Department of Food and Public Distribution, Government of India