Personal Demographics Service
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The Personal Demographics Service is a core NHS system that maintains the national electronic database of patient demographic details to support identification and record sharing across healthcare services.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Personal Demographics Service canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6875866 — 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: Personal Demographics Service Context triple: [NHS Spine infrastructure, supportsService, Personal Demographics Service]
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A.
ID.me
ID.me is a digital identity verification platform widely used by government agencies and businesses to securely confirm users’ identities online.
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B.
Whitepages
Whitepages is a widely used online directory service that provides contact and background information on individuals and businesses.
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C.
Persona
Persona is a 1966 Swedish psychological drama film by Ingmar Bergman, renowned for its experimental narrative, intense character study, and exploration of identity and reality.
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D.
Universal Profile
Universal Profile is a standardized, interoperable user identity and service framework defined by the GSMA for Rich Communication Services (RCS) across mobile networks and devices.
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E.
Identity
"Identity" is a 2003 psychological thriller film, directed by James Mangold and starring John Cusack and Ray Liotta, known for its twist-filled plot about strangers stranded at a remote motel during a storm.
- 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: Personal Demographics Service Target entity description: The Personal Demographics Service is a core NHS system that maintains the national electronic database of patient demographic details to support identification and record sharing across healthcare services.
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A.
ID.me
ID.me is a digital identity verification platform widely used by government agencies and businesses to securely confirm users’ identities online.
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B.
Whitepages
Whitepages is a widely used online directory service that provides contact and background information on individuals and businesses.
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C.
Persona
Persona is a 1966 Swedish psychological drama film by Ingmar Bergman, renowned for its experimental narrative, intense character study, and exploration of identity and reality.
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D.
Universal Profile
Universal Profile is a standardized, interoperable user identity and service framework defined by the GSMA for Rich Communication Services (RCS) across mobile networks and devices.
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E.
Identity
"Identity" is a 2003 psychological thriller film, directed by James Mangold and starring John Cusack and Ray Liotta, known for its twist-filled plot about strangers stranded at a remote motel during a storm.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NHS core system
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national electronic database ⓘ patient demographics service ⓘ |
| accessControlledBy | role-based access controls ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dataController | NHS England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dataSubjects |
NHS patients
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people registered with NHS services ⓘ |
| dataType | demographic data ⓘ |
| excludes | detailed clinical information ⓘ |
| governedBy |
NHS information governance policies
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UK data protection legislation ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
centralised demographic record
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real-time updates from healthcare providers ⓘ trace patient records across organisations ⓘ unique patient identification via NHS number ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | NHS England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | NHS Spine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose |
maintain national patient demographic details
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support patient identification ⓘ support record sharing across healthcare services ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
NHS Number
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NHS Spine NERFINISHED ⓘ Summary Care Record NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scope |
England
NERFINISHED
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Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sector | healthcare ⓘ |
| stores |
NHS number
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patient address ⓘ patient date of birth ⓘ patient gender ⓘ patient name ⓘ |
| supports |
electronic health record matching
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interoperability between NHS systems ⓘ national screening programmes ⓘ patient identity verification ⓘ spine services ⓘ summary care records ⓘ |
| supportsProcess |
management of NHS numbers
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patient record linkage ⓘ patient registration ⓘ |
| usedBy |
GP practices
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NHS trusts NERFINISHED ⓘ acute hospitals ⓘ community health services ⓘ mental health services ⓘ |
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: Personal Demographics Service Description of subject: The Personal Demographics Service is a core NHS system that maintains the national electronic database of patient demographic details to support identification and record sharing across healthcare services.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.