MEPS
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MEPS is a large-scale set of surveys conducted in the United States that collects detailed data on individuals’ and families’ health care use, expenditures, insurance coverage, and payment sources.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MEPS canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7115981 — 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: MEPS Context triple: [Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, acronym, MEPS]
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A.
MEPS
MEPS is a U.S. Department of Defense facility where prospective military recruits undergo medical examinations, aptitude testing, and enlistment processing before entering active service.
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B.
MPEA
MPEA is the commonly used abbreviation for the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, the public agency that owns and operates Chicago’s McCormick Place convention center and Navy Pier.
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C.
MPS
MPS is a language workbench and integrated development environment by JetBrains designed for creating and working with domain-specific languages using projectional editing.
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D.
MPS
MPS is a leading German research institute specializing in the study of the Sun and the solar system, operating under the Max Planck Society.
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E.
MECP
MECP is the provincial government ministry in Ontario responsible for environmental protection, conservation, and managing the province’s parks system.
- 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: MEPS Target entity description: MEPS is a large-scale set of surveys conducted in the United States that collects detailed data on individuals’ and families’ health care use, expenditures, insurance coverage, and payment sources.
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A.
MEPS
MEPS is a U.S. Department of Defense facility where prospective military recruits undergo medical examinations, aptitude testing, and enlistment processing before entering active service.
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B.
MPEA
MPEA is the commonly used abbreviation for the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, the public agency that owns and operates Chicago’s McCormick Place convention center and Navy Pier.
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C.
MPS
MPS is a language workbench and integrated development environment by JetBrains designed for creating and working with domain-specific languages using projectional editing.
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D.
MPS
MPS is a leading German research institute specializing in the study of the Sun and the solar system, operating under the Max Planck Society.
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E.
MECP
MECP is the provincial government ministry in Ontario responsible for environmental protection, conservation, and managing the province’s parks system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cross-sectional survey
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federal statistical survey ⓘ health survey program ⓘ longitudinal survey ⓘ |
| acronymFor | Medical Expenditure Panel Survey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collects |
employment-related health insurance information
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family-level health care utilization data ⓘ health care expenditure data ⓘ health insurance enrollment data ⓘ health insurance premiums data ⓘ health status measures ⓘ individual-level health care utilization data ⓘ out-of-pocket spending data ⓘ socio-demographic characteristics ⓘ third-party payer spending data ⓘ |
| conductedIn | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coSponsor | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| dataAccess |
public use data files
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restricted use data files ⓘ |
| dataType |
household survey data
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insurance component data ⓘ medical provider survey data ⓘ |
| focus |
health care access
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health care expenditures ⓘ health care quality ⓘ health care use ⓘ health insurance coverage ⓘ sources of payment for health care ⓘ |
| frequency | annual data release ⓘ |
| fullName | Medical Expenditure Panel Survey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Household Component
NERFINISHED
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Insurance Component ⓘ Medical Provider Component NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| populationCovered | U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population ⓘ |
| predecessor | National Medical Expenditure Survey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sponsor |
AHRQ
NERFINISHED
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startDate | 1996 ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
health economics
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health services research ⓘ public health ⓘ |
| timeDimension | panel survey with multiple interview rounds ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cost-effectiveness studies
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estimating national health care expenditures ⓘ evaluating health insurance coverage trends ⓘ health policy analysis ⓘ health services research ⓘ |
| website | https://www.meps.ahrq.gov ⓘ |
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: MEPS Description of subject: MEPS is a large-scale set of surveys conducted in the United States that collects detailed data on individuals’ and families’ health care use, expenditures, insurance coverage, and payment sources.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.