Flood Insurance Rate Maps
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Flood Insurance Rate Maps are official maps created by the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency that delineate flood risk zones and guide floodplain management and insurance requirements.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Flood Insurance Rate Maps canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4892897 — 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: Flood Insurance Rate Maps Context triple: [National Flood Insurance Program, uses, Flood Insurance Rate Maps]
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A.
National Flood Insurance Program
The National Flood Insurance Program is a U.S. government initiative that provides flood insurance to property owners and encourages communities to adopt and enforce floodplain management regulations to reduce flood risk.
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B.
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program
The Hazard Mitigation Grant Program is a U.S. federal program that provides funding to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments to implement long-term measures that reduce the risk of future disasters.
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C.
MapInfo Professional
MapInfo Professional is a desktop geographic information system (GIS) software application used for mapping, spatial analysis, and visualization of geographic data.
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D.
USGS GloVis
USGS GloVis is an online portal provided by the U.S. Geological Survey for browsing, previewing, and downloading satellite imagery and other Earth observation data.
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E.
USGS National Map
The USGS National Map is a collaborative, online mapping platform that provides public access to high-quality, nationwide geospatial data and services for visualization, analysis, and download.
- 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: Flood Insurance Rate Maps Target entity description: Flood Insurance Rate Maps are official maps created by the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency that delineate flood risk zones and guide floodplain management and insurance requirements.
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A.
National Flood Insurance Program
The National Flood Insurance Program is a U.S. government initiative that provides flood insurance to property owners and encourages communities to adopt and enforce floodplain management regulations to reduce flood risk.
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B.
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program
The Hazard Mitigation Grant Program is a U.S. federal program that provides funding to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments to implement long-term measures that reduce the risk of future disasters.
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C.
MapInfo Professional
MapInfo Professional is a desktop geographic information system (GIS) software application used for mapping, spatial analysis, and visualization of geographic data.
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D.
USGS GloVis
USGS GloVis is an online portal provided by the U.S. Geological Survey for browsing, previewing, and downloading satellite imagery and other Earth observation data.
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E.
USGS National Map
The USGS National Map is a collaborative, online mapping platform that provides public access to high-quality, nationwide geospatial data and services for visualization, analysis, and download.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
FEMA product
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cartographic document ⓘ flood hazard map ⓘ regulatory map ⓘ |
| administeredBy | Federal Emergency Management Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | FIRMs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appliesTo | National Flood Insurance Program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| availableAt | FEMA Map Service Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
historical flood data
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hydraulic modeling ⓘ hydrologic studies ⓘ topographic data ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Federal Emergency Management Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| defines |
Special Flood Hazard Area
NERFINISHED
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base flood elevations ⓘ flood insurance risk zones ⓘ floodway boundaries ⓘ |
| governs |
community floodplain management ordinances
ⓘ
mandatory flood insurance purchase requirements ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
base flood elevation values
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floodway delineation ⓘ legend ⓘ map index ⓘ panel numbers ⓘ zone designations ⓘ |
| hasDigitalForm | Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps ⓘ |
| includes |
Zone A
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Zone AE ⓘ Zone VE ⓘ Zone X ⓘ coastal flood hazard zones ⓘ riverine flood hazard zones ⓘ |
| legalStatus | official map of flood hazards ⓘ |
| publisher | Federal Emergency Management Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regulates | floodplain management ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| requiredFor | federally backed mortgage in Special Flood Hazard Area ⓘ |
| subjectOf | National Flood Insurance Program regulations ⓘ |
| timeScope | 1-percent-annual-chance flood ⓘ |
| updatedBy |
FEMA map revision process
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Letter of Map Amendment ⓘ Letter of Map Revision ⓘ |
| usedFor |
building code enforcement
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flood insurance rating ⓘ flood risk assessment ⓘ land-use planning ⓘ mortgage lending decisions ⓘ |
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: Flood Insurance Rate Maps Description of subject: Flood Insurance Rate Maps are official maps created by the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency that delineate flood risk zones and guide floodplain management and insurance requirements.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.