Royal Malaysian Customs Department
E1043008
The Royal Malaysian Customs Department is Malaysia’s national customs authority responsible for administering indirect taxes, enforcing customs laws, and controlling the movement of goods across the country’s borders.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Royal Malaysian Customs Department canonical | 4 |
| Jabatan Kastam Diraja Malaysia | 1 |
| Royal Malaysian Customs | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13475390 — 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: Royal Malaysian Customs Department Context triple: [Ministry of Finance (Malaysia), hasChildAgency, Royal Malaysian Customs Department]
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A.
Royal Malaysia Police
The Royal Malaysia Police is the national law enforcement agency of Malaysia responsible for maintaining public order, preventing and investigating crime, and ensuring internal security across the country.
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B.
Customs Department of Thailand
The Customs Department of Thailand is the national authority responsible for regulating and facilitating international trade, collecting customs duties, and enforcing import-export laws at the country’s borders.
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C.
Royal Malayan Police
The Royal Malayan Police was the colonial-era police force of Malaya, central to maintaining internal security and combating communist insurgency during the Malayan Emergency.
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D.
Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department
The Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department is the law enforcement agency responsible for customs control, revenue collection, and combating smuggling and illicit trade in Hong Kong.
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E.
Saudi customs authorities
Saudi customs authorities are the government bodies responsible for regulating and overseeing the import and export of goods, enforcing customs laws, and collecting duties at Saudi Arabia’s borders and ports.
- 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: Royal Malaysian Customs Department Target entity description: The Royal Malaysian Customs Department is Malaysia’s national customs authority responsible for administering indirect taxes, enforcing customs laws, and controlling the movement of goods across the country’s borders.
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A.
Royal Malaysia Police
The Royal Malaysia Police is the national law enforcement agency of Malaysia responsible for maintaining public order, preventing and investigating crime, and ensuring internal security across the country.
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B.
Customs Department of Thailand
The Customs Department of Thailand is the national authority responsible for regulating and facilitating international trade, collecting customs duties, and enforcing import-export laws at the country’s borders.
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C.
Royal Malayan Police
The Royal Malayan Police was the colonial-era police force of Malaya, central to maintaining internal security and combating communist insurgency during the Malayan Emergency.
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D.
Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department
The Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department is the law enforcement agency responsible for customs control, revenue collection, and combating smuggling and illicit trade in Hong Kong.
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E.
Saudi customs authorities
Saudi customs authorities are the government bodies responsible for regulating and overseeing the import and export of goods, enforcing customs laws, and collecting duties at Saudi Arabia’s borders and ports.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
customs authority
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government agency ⓘ |
| borderType |
air borders
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land borders ⓘ sea borders ⓘ |
| controls |
export of goods
ⓘ
import of goods ⓘ |
| cooperatesWith |
Immigration Department of Malaysia
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Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia ⓘ Malaysian Quarantine and Inspection Services ⓘ Royal Malaysia Police ⓘ |
| country | Malaysia ⓘ |
| enforces |
customs regulations
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trade-related prohibitions and restrictions ⓘ |
| goal |
protection of government revenue
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protection of society and environment through customs control ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Putrajaya ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Malaysia ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
English
ⓘ
Malay ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
Customs Act 1967 (Malaysia)
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Excise Act (Malaysia) ⓘ Free Zones Act (Malaysia) ⓘ Sales Tax Act (Malaysia) ⓘ Service Tax Act (Malaysia) ⓘ |
| memberOf | World Customs Organization ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Jabatan Kastam Diraja Malaysia
ⓘ
linked to:
Royal Malaysian Customs Department
|
| parentOrganization | Ministry of Finance (Malaysia) ⓘ |
| responsibility |
administration of Goods and Services Tax (historical)
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administration of free zones and bonded warehouses ⓘ administration of indirect taxes ⓘ border security related to goods ⓘ collection of customs duties ⓘ collection of excise duties ⓘ collection of sales tax ⓘ collection of service tax ⓘ control of movement of goods across borders ⓘ enforcement of customs laws ⓘ enforcement of import and export restrictions ⓘ implementation of customs valuation ⓘ implementation of tariff classification ⓘ prevention of smuggling ⓘ trade facilitation ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| shortName |
JKDM
ⓘ
Royal Malaysian Customs ⓘ
linked to:
Royal Malaysian Customs Department
|
| typeOfTaxAdministered |
consumption tax
ⓘ
indirect tax ⓘ |
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: Royal Malaysian Customs Department Description of subject: The Royal Malaysian Customs Department is Malaysia’s national customs authority responsible for administering indirect taxes, enforcing customs laws, and controlling the movement of goods across the country’s borders.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Royal Malaysian Customs Department
linked to: Royal Malaysian Customs Department