Revenue Marine Service
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customs enforcement agency
maritime law enforcement agency
predecessor organization of the United States Coast Guard
The Revenue Marine Service was an early maritime law enforcement and customs organization of the United States that later evolved into the U.S. Coast Guard.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Revenue Marine Service canonical | 2 |
| Revenue Marine | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T559433 — 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: Revenue Marine Service Context triple: [United States Revenue Cutter Service, alsoKnownAs, Revenue Marine Service]
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A.
Maritime Operations Center
The Maritime Operations Center is a command and control facility of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force responsible for monitoring, coordinating, and directing the nation’s naval operations.
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B.
Maritime Security Program
The Maritime Security Program is a U.S. government initiative that ensures a fleet of commercially operated, militarily useful vessels is available to support national defense and emergency sealift needs.
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C.
Maritime Administration
The Maritime Administration is a U.S. federal agency responsible for promoting and regulating the nation’s merchant marine, maritime transportation system, and related infrastructure and workforce.
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D.
Secretariat of the Navy
The Secretariat of the Navy is Mexico’s federal government department responsible for naval operations, maritime security, and administration of the Mexican Navy.
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E.
National Defense Reserve Fleet
The National Defense Reserve Fleet is a collection of U.S. government-owned merchant and military support ships maintained in reserve for use during national emergencies, military operations, and other critical sealift needs.
- 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: Revenue Marine Service Target entity description: The Revenue Marine Service was an early maritime law enforcement and customs organization of the United States that later evolved into the U.S. Coast Guard.
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A.
Maritime Operations Center
The Maritime Operations Center is a command and control facility of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force responsible for monitoring, coordinating, and directing the nation’s naval operations.
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B.
Maritime Security Program
The Maritime Security Program is a U.S. government initiative that ensures a fleet of commercially operated, militarily useful vessels is available to support national defense and emergency sealift needs.
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C.
Maritime Administration
The Maritime Administration is a U.S. federal agency responsible for promoting and regulating the nation’s merchant marine, maritime transportation system, and related infrastructure and workforce.
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D.
Secretariat of the Navy
The Secretariat of the Navy is Mexico’s federal government department responsible for naval operations, maritime security, and administration of the Mexican Navy.
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E.
National Defense Reserve Fleet
The National Defense Reserve Fleet is a collection of U.S. government-owned merchant and military support ships maintained in reserve for use during national emergencies, military operations, and other critical sealift needs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
customs enforcement agency
ⓘ
maritime law enforcement agency ⓘ predecessor organization of the United States Coast Guard ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Revenue Service
ⓘ
United States Revenue Cutter Service ⓘ
surface form:
United States Revenue-Marine
|
| conflictParticipation |
American Civil War
ⓘ
Mexican–American War ⓘ Spanish–American War ⓘ War of 1812 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dateDissolved | 1915 ⓘ |
| dissolutionEvent | creation of the United States Coast Guard in 1915 ⓘ |
| equipment |
sailing cutters
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steam-powered cutters ⓘ |
| fleetType | revenue cutters ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Alexander Hamilton ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
19th century United States
ⓘ
early national period of the United States ⓘ |
| inception | 1790 ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
coastal waters of the United States
ⓘ
navigable waters of the United States ⓘ |
| legalBasis | Tariff Act of 1790 ⓘ |
| mergedInto | United States Coast Guard ⓘ |
| mergedWith | United States Life-Saving Service ⓘ |
| notableRole |
early federal maritime law enforcement in the United States
ⓘ
foundation of the modern United States Coast Guard ⓘ protection of American shipping and commerce ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
United States government
ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal government
|
| parentAgency | United States Department of the Treasury ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Department of the Treasury ⓘ |
| primaryTask |
enforcement of customs laws
ⓘ
maritime law enforcement ⓘ prevention of smuggling ⓘ protection of federal revenue from import duties ⓘ |
| regulates |
collection of customs duties on imports
ⓘ
enforcement of federal tariff laws ⓘ |
| secondaryTask |
assistance to vessels in distress
ⓘ
support to the United States Navy during wartime ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | armed service of the United States in time of war ⓘ |
| serviceMotto | Semper Paratus (later adopted by the U.S. Coast Guard) ⓘ |
| serviceType | uniformed service ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | Secretary of the Treasury ⓘ |
| successor | United States Coast Guard ⓘ |
| usedFor |
coastal patrol
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enforcement of neutrality laws ⓘ enforcement of quarantine regulations ⓘ harbor patrol ⓘ |
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: Revenue Marine Service Description of subject: The Revenue Marine Service was an early maritime law enforcement and customs organization of the United States that later evolved into the U.S. Coast Guard.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Revenue Marine