National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
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The National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System is a nationwide public health surveillance program in the United States that collects, analyzes, and disseminates data on certain infectious and non-infectious diseases to support disease control and prevention efforts.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NNDSS | 1 |
| National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T435367 — 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: National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System Context triple: [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, notableProgram, National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System]
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A.
National Reporter System
The National Reporter System is a comprehensive set of regional and specialized case law reporters published by West that organizes and publishes judicial opinions from courts across the United States.
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B.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the leading U.S. public health agency responsible for disease surveillance, prevention, and health promotion domestically and globally.
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C.
Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics
The Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics is a research center focused on understanding, modeling, and controlling infectious disease transmission and outbreaks.
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D.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry is a U.S. federal public health agency that evaluates and prevents harmful health effects from exposure to hazardous substances in the environment.
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E.
World Health Statistics
World Health Statistics is the World Health Organization’s flagship annual report providing comprehensive global data and analysis on key health indicators and trends across countries.
- 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: National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System Target entity description: The National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System is a nationwide public health surveillance program in the United States that collects, analyzes, and disseminates data on certain infectious and non-infectious diseases to support disease control and prevention efforts.
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A.
National Reporter System
The National Reporter System is a comprehensive set of regional and specialized case law reporters published by West that organizes and publishes judicial opinions from courts across the United States.
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B.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the leading U.S. public health agency responsible for disease surveillance, prevention, and health promotion domestically and globally.
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C.
Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics
The Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics is a research center focused on understanding, modeling, and controlling infectious disease transmission and outbreaks.
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D.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry is a U.S. federal public health agency that evaluates and prevents harmful health effects from exposure to hazardous substances in the environment.
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E.
World Health Statistics
World Health Statistics is the World Health Organization’s flagship annual report providing comprehensive global data and analysis on key health indicators and trends across countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
disease surveillance program
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public health surveillance system ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
NNDSS
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| collectsDataOn |
infectious diseases
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nationally notifiable conditions ⓘ non-infectious diseases ⓘ |
| componentOf | U.S. national public health surveillance infrastructure ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| dataFlow | from states and territories to CDC ⓘ |
| dataSource |
U.S. jurisdictions
ⓘ
local health departments ⓘ state health departments ⓘ territorial health departments ⓘ tribal health departments ⓘ |
| dataType |
aggregate surveillance data
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case-based surveillance data ⓘ |
| dataUse |
evaluating public health interventions
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identifying emerging health threats ⓘ informing vaccination policies ⓘ monitoring disease incidence ⓘ supporting preparedness and response activities ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
data analysis and dissemination processes
ⓘ
data collection and reporting mechanisms ⓘ electronic disease surveillance systems ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| managedBy |
CDC Division of Health Informatics and Surveillance
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surface form:
CDC Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services
CDC Division of Health Informatics and Surveillance ⓘ |
| operator |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
ⓘ
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
|
| outputs |
disease trend data
ⓘ
national surveillance reports ⓘ summary statistics ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
United States Department of Health and Human Services
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surface form:
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
|
| purpose |
disease control
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disease prevention ⓘ monitoring notifiable diseases ⓘ public health surveillance ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
ⓘ
Nationally Notifiable Diseases list ⓘ |
| scope | nationwide ⓘ |
| supports |
epidemiologic investigations
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outbreak detection ⓘ policy development ⓘ public health decision-making ⓘ resource allocation ⓘ trend analysis ⓘ |
| usesStandard |
CSTE/CDC surveillance case definitions
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national notifiable disease case definitions ⓘ |
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: National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System Description of subject: The National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System is a nationwide public health surveillance program in the United States that collects, analyzes, and disseminates data on certain infectious and non-infectious diseases to support disease control and prevention efforts.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
→
notableProgram
→
National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
ⓘ
National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
→
abbreviation
→
National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
NNDSS