National Priorities List
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United States federal government program component
environmental cleanup list
hazardous waste site list
The National Priorities List is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s roster of the most serious uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites prioritized for long-term cleanup.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| National Priorities List canonical | 8 |
| National Priorities List sites | 1 |
| Superfund National Priorities List | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T460044 — 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 Priorities List Context triple: [Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, establishes, National Priorities List]
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A.
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System is a U.S. regulatory permitting program that controls water pollution by regulating point-source discharges of pollutants into waters of the United States.
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B.
NESHAP
NESHAP stands for National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants, a set of U.S. federal regulations that limit emissions of toxic air pollutants from industrial and commercial sources.
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C.
National Environmental Policy Act
The National Environmental Policy Act is a foundational U.S. environmental law that requires federal agencies to assess and disclose the environmental impacts of their proposed actions through processes like Environmental Impact Statements.
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D.
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act
The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act is a U.S. federal law that requires industries to report on the storage, use, and releases of hazardous chemicals to support emergency planning and inform the public about environmental risks.
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E.
National Ambient Air Quality Standards
The National Ambient Air Quality Standards are U.S. federal air pollution limits that set maximum allowable concentrations of key pollutants in outdoor air to protect public health and the environment.
- 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 Priorities List Target entity description: The National Priorities List is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s roster of the most serious uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites prioritized for long-term cleanup.
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A.
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System is a U.S. regulatory permitting program that controls water pollution by regulating point-source discharges of pollutants into waters of the United States.
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B.
NESHAP
NESHAP stands for National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants, a set of U.S. federal regulations that limit emissions of toxic air pollutants from industrial and commercial sources.
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C.
National Environmental Policy Act
The National Environmental Policy Act is a foundational U.S. environmental law that requires federal agencies to assess and disclose the environmental impacts of their proposed actions through processes like Environmental Impact Statements.
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D.
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act
The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act is a U.S. federal law that requires industries to report on the storage, use, and releases of hazardous chemicals to support emergency planning and inform the public about environmental risks.
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E.
National Ambient Air Quality Standards
The National Ambient Air Quality Standards are U.S. federal air pollution limits that set maximum allowable concentrations of key pollutants in outdoor air to protect public health and the environment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States federal government program component
ⓘ
environmental cleanup list ⓘ hazardous waste site list ⓘ |
| abbreviation | NPL ⓘ |
| administeredBy | United States Environmental Protection Agency ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
National Priorities List
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surface form:
Superfund National Priorities List
|
| appliesTo |
abandoned hazardous waste sites
ⓘ
uncontrolled hazardous waste sites ⓘ |
| contains |
Superfund program
ⓘ
surface form:
Superfund sites
federal facility sites ⓘ non-federal sites ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| establishedBy | United States Environmental Protection Agency ⓘ |
| establishedInYear | 1983 ⓘ |
| establishedUnder |
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
ⓘ
surface form:
CERCLA
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ⓘ |
| focus |
contaminated sites
ⓘ
hazardous waste ⓘ long-term remedial actions ⓘ |
| governedBy |
United States environmental law
ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal environmental law
|
| hasProcess |
deletion of sites after cleanup
ⓘ
final rulemaking to add sites ⓘ proposal of sites for listing ⓘ public comment period on proposed listings ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | United States Environmental Protection Agency ⓘ |
| legalBasis | Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ⓘ |
| monitoredBy | United States Environmental Protection Agency ⓘ |
| partOf | Superfund program ⓘ |
| purpose |
identify the most serious hazardous waste sites in the United States
ⓘ
prioritize sites for long-term remedial cleanup ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
ⓘ
Hazard Ranking System ⓘ Superfund trust fund ⓘ |
| resultOfListing |
eligibility for long-term remedial action funding
ⓘ
increased federal oversight of cleanup activities ⓘ |
| scope | national ⓘ |
| sector | environmental protection ⓘ |
| selectionCriteria |
actual or potential threat to human health
ⓘ
actual or potential threat to the environment ⓘ likelihood of release of hazardous substances ⓘ targets affected by contamination ⓘ waste characteristics ⓘ |
| selectionMethod | Hazard Ranking System ⓘ |
| usedFor |
guiding EPA Superfund cleanup decisions
ⓘ
informing the public about serious hazardous waste sites ⓘ |
| website | https://www.epa.gov/superfund/superfund-national-priorities-list-npl ⓘ |
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 Priorities List Description of subject: The National Priorities List is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s roster of the most serious uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites prioritized for long-term cleanup.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
→
establishes
→
National Priorities List
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Superfund National Priorities List
this entity surface form:
National Priorities List sites