Federal Office of Police (fedpol)
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The Federal Office of Police (fedpol) is Switzerland’s national police authority responsible for coordinating law enforcement across cantons, combating serious and organized crime, and supporting domestic and international security operations.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Federal Office of Police | 2 |
| Federal Office of Police (fedpol) canonical | 1 |
| Federal Office of Police fedpol | 1 |
| federal police (fedpol) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7919434 — 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: Federal Office of Police (fedpol) Context triple: [cantonalPoliceForces, cooperateWith, Federal Office of Police (fedpol)]
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A.
Federal Department of Justice and Police
The Federal Department of Justice and Police is a key Swiss federal department responsible for national security, law enforcement, migration, and the administration of justice.
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B.
Federal Ministry of Police Affairs
The Federal Ministry of Police Affairs is a Nigerian government ministry responsible for overseeing and formulating policies for the Nigeria Police Force and related internal security matters.
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C.
Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany
The Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany is the country’s central investigative law enforcement agency responsible for coordinating national and international criminal investigations, including serious and organized crime.
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D.
Federal Office of Justice of Germany
The Federal Office of Justice of Germany is the central federal authority responsible for implementing and supporting judicial and legal administrative tasks at the national level.
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E.
Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz
The Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz is Germany’s domestic intelligence agency responsible for protecting the democratic constitutional order from extremist and espionage threats.
- 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: Federal Office of Police (fedpol) Target entity description: The Federal Office of Police (fedpol) is Switzerland’s national police authority responsible for coordinating law enforcement across cantons, combating serious and organized crime, and supporting domestic and international security operations.
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A.
Federal Department of Justice and Police
The Federal Department of Justice and Police is a key Swiss federal department responsible for national security, law enforcement, migration, and the administration of justice.
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B.
Federal Ministry of Police Affairs
The Federal Ministry of Police Affairs is a Nigerian government ministry responsible for overseeing and formulating policies for the Nigeria Police Force and related internal security matters.
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C.
Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany
The Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany is the country’s central investigative law enforcement agency responsible for coordinating national and international criminal investigations, including serious and organized crime.
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D.
Federal Office of Justice of Germany
The Federal Office of Justice of Germany is the central federal authority responsible for implementing and supporting judicial and legal administrative tasks at the national level.
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E.
Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz
The Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz is Germany’s domestic intelligence agency responsible for protecting the democratic constitutional order from extremist and espionage threats.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
federal agency of Switzerland
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law enforcement agency ⓘ national police authority ⓘ |
| abbreviation | fedpol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cooperatesWith |
Europol
NERFINISHED
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Interpol NERFINISHED ⓘ cantonal police forces of Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ international law enforcement agencies ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| employerType | federal government ⓘ |
| governedBy | Swiss Federal Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasScope |
domestic security
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international security cooperation ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.fedpol.admin.ch ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Bern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Swiss Confederation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork |
French
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German ⓘ Italian ⓘ |
| legalBasis | Swiss federal law on police and criminal matters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mandate |
coordinate national responses to major criminal threats
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manage federal police databases and information exchange ⓘ support cantonal authorities in complex investigations ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Bundesamt für Polizei
NERFINISHED
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Office fédéral de la police NERFINISHED ⓘ Ufficio federale di polizia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| oversees | Swiss National Central Bureau of Interpol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Federal Department of Justice and Police NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
combating organized crime
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combating serious crime ⓘ combating terrorism ⓘ combating violent extremism ⓘ coordination of law enforcement between Swiss cantons ⓘ federal criminal police tasks ⓘ international police cooperation ⓘ police information systems at federal level ⓘ protection of persons under federal protection ⓘ witness protection at federal level ⓘ |
| sector |
law enforcement
ⓘ
public security ⓘ |
| supervisedBy | Federal Department of Justice and Police NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typeOfCrimeAddressed |
cybercrime
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human trafficking ⓘ money laundering ⓘ organized crime ⓘ serious violent crime ⓘ terrorism ⓘ |
| uses | national criminal intelligence systems ⓘ |
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: Federal Office of Police (fedpol) Description of subject: The Federal Office of Police (fedpol) is Switzerland’s national police authority responsible for coordinating law enforcement across cantons, combating serious and organized crime, and supporting domestic and international security operations.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
federal police (fedpol)
this entity surface form:
Federal Office of Police
this entity surface form:
Federal Office of Police fedpol
this entity surface form:
Federal Office of Police