TPS
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TPS is a U.S. immigration designation that allows nationals of certain countries facing conflict or disaster to live and work temporarily in the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| TPS canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7537511 — 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: TPS Context triple: [Temporary Protected Status, abbreviation, TPS]
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A.
TPS
TPS is the IATA airport code for Trapani–Birgi Airport, a civil and military airport serving the Trapani area in western Sicily, Italy.
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B.
TPS
TPS is a renowned lean manufacturing and management philosophy developed by Toyota that emphasizes waste reduction, continuous improvement, and respect for people.
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C.
TS
TS is the Technical Secretariat of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the body responsible for implementing and verifying compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention.
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D.
TS
TS is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the Province of Trieste in northeastern Italy.
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E.
TS
TS is the IATA airline designator assigned to Air Transat, a Canadian leisure airline based in Montreal.
- 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: TPS Target entity description: TPS is a U.S. immigration designation that allows nationals of certain countries facing conflict or disaster to live and work temporarily in the United States.
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A.
TPS
TPS is the IATA airport code for Trapani–Birgi Airport, a civil and military airport serving the Trapani area in western Sicily, Italy.
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B.
TPS
TPS is a renowned lean manufacturing and management philosophy developed by Toyota that emphasizes waste reduction, continuous improvement, and respect for people.
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C.
TS
TS is the Technical Secretariat of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the body responsible for implementing and verifying compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention.
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D.
TS
TS is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the Province of Trieste in northeastern Italy.
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E.
TS
TS is the IATA airline designator assigned to Air Transat, a Canadian leisure airline based in Montreal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | U.S. immigration designation ⓘ |
| abbreviation | TPS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| administeredBy |
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Department of Homeland Security NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
certain stateless persons who last habitually resided in a designated country
ⓘ
nationals of designated foreign countries ⓘ noncitizens already present in the United States at the time of designation or specified dates ⓘ |
| beneficiaryMay |
apply for advance parole travel authorization
ⓘ
apply for certain immigration benefits for qualifying family members ⓘ apply for employment authorization ⓘ |
| beneficiaryMust | re-register during designated re-registration periods ⓘ |
| benefitType | temporary humanitarian protection ⓘ |
| codifiedIn | 8 U.S.C. § 1254a ⓘ |
| consequenceOfTermination |
loss of TPS-based work authorization
ⓘ
renewed vulnerability to removal ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | U.S. Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designationAuthority | Secretary of Homeland Security NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designationProcess |
country designated based on environmental disaster
ⓘ
country designated based on epidemic ⓘ country designated based on ongoing armed conflict ⓘ country designated based on other extraordinary and temporary conditions ⓘ |
| doesNotProvide |
direct path to U.S. citizenship
ⓘ
direct path to lawful permanent residence ⓘ |
| duration | time-limited and subject to extension, redesignation, or termination ⓘ |
| eligibilityCriterion |
admissibility to the United States
ⓘ
continuous physical presence in the United States since a specified date ⓘ continuous residence in the United States since a specified date ⓘ nationality of a country designated for TPS by the U.S. government ⓘ no disqualifying criminal convictions ⓘ |
| grants |
eligibility for employment authorization document
ⓘ
protection from removal from the United States ⓘ temporary permission to live in the United States ⓘ temporary permission to work in the United States ⓘ |
| hasScope | does not apply outside the territory of the United States ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
Immigration Act of 1990
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Immigration and Nationality Act NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| policyArea |
U.S. immigration law
ⓘ
humanitarian immigration ⓘ |
| purpose | to provide temporary immigration protection to nationals of certain countries facing conflict or disaster ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
asylum in the United States
ⓘ
deferred enforced departure ⓘ withholding of removal ⓘ |
| requires |
filing of Form I-821 Application for Temporary Protected Status
ⓘ
payment of filing fees or request for fee waiver ⓘ |
| supervisedBy | Secretary of Homeland Security NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearEstablished | 1990 ⓘ |
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: TPS Description of subject: TPS is a U.S. immigration designation that allows nationals of certain countries facing conflict or disaster to live and work temporarily in the United States.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.