U.S. Entity List
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The U.S. Entity List is a U.S. government trade-restriction tool that identifies foreign persons, companies, and organizations subject to specific export control licensing requirements due to national security or foreign policy concerns.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| U.S. Entity List canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1274820 — 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: U.S. Entity List Context triple: [Bureau of Industry and Security, oversees, U.S. Entity List]
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A.
Bureau of Industry and Security
The Bureau of Industry and Security is a U.S. government agency responsible for regulating exports, enforcing export control laws, and protecting national security and foreign policy interests through oversight of sensitive technologies and dual-use items.
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B.
Office of Foreign Assets Control
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is a U.S. Treasury Department agency responsible for administering and enforcing economic and trade sanctions based on U.S. foreign policy and national security goals.
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C.
Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine
The Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine (TRACE) is FINRA’s centralized system for collecting and disseminating real-time transaction data on U.S. corporate and other fixed-income securities to enhance market transparency and regulatory oversight.
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D.
Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act
The Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act is a U.S. federal law that imposes wide-ranging sanctions on Russia, Iran, and North Korea in response to activities such as election interference, regional aggression, and human rights abuses.
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E.
US Organization
US Organization was a Black nationalist political group active in the 1960s and 1970s, known for its cultural nationalism and leadership under Maulana Karenga, including the creation and promotion of Kwanzaa.
- 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: U.S. Entity List Target entity description: The U.S. Entity List is a U.S. government trade-restriction tool that identifies foreign persons, companies, and organizations subject to specific export control licensing requirements due to national security or foreign policy concerns.
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A.
Bureau of Industry and Security
The Bureau of Industry and Security is a U.S. government agency responsible for regulating exports, enforcing export control laws, and protecting national security and foreign policy interests through oversight of sensitive technologies and dual-use items.
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B.
Office of Foreign Assets Control
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is a U.S. Treasury Department agency responsible for administering and enforcing economic and trade sanctions based on U.S. foreign policy and national security goals.
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C.
Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine
The Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine (TRACE) is FINRA’s centralized system for collecting and disseminating real-time transaction data on U.S. corporate and other fixed-income securities to enhance market transparency and regulatory oversight.
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D.
Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act
The Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act is a U.S. federal law that imposes wide-ranging sanctions on Russia, Iran, and North Korea in response to activities such as election interference, regional aggression, and human rights abuses.
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E.
US Organization
US Organization was a Black nationalist political group active in the 1960s and 1970s, known for its cultural nationalism and leadership under Maulana Karenga, including the creation and promotion of Kwanzaa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. government trade-restriction tool
ⓘ
export control list ⓘ |
| administeredBy |
Bureau of Industry and Security
ⓘ
U.S. Department of Commerce ⓘ |
| administeredUnder | U.S. dual-use export control system ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
foreign companies
ⓘ
foreign organizations ⓘ foreign persons ⓘ |
| appliesToPersons |
U.S. exporters
ⓘ
in-country transferors of U.S.-origin items ⓘ reexporters of U.S.-origin items ⓘ |
| consequenceOfNoncompliance |
loss of export privileges
ⓘ
potential civil penalties ⓘ potential criminal penalties ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criteriaForListing |
foreign policy concerns
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involvement in military or intelligence activities of concern ⓘ involvement in proliferation of weapons of mass destruction ⓘ national security risks ⓘ |
| effect |
can effectively bar certain exports without a license
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imposes additional license requirements ⓘ imposes license review policies ⓘ restricts access to U.S.-origin items ⓘ |
| governingAuthority |
U.S. Secretary of Commerce
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linked to:
Secretary of Commerce of the United States
|
| includesInformation |
addresses of listed entities
ⓘ
license requirements for each entity ⓘ license review policy for each entity ⓘ names of listed entities ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | items subject to U.S. Export Administration Regulations ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
15 C.F.R. Part 744
ⓘ
Export Administration Regulations ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Bureau of Industry and Security ⓘ |
| partOf | U.S. export control regime ⓘ |
| purpose |
address U.S. foreign policy concerns
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address U.S. national security concerns ⓘ identify foreign persons subject to specific license requirements ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Denied Persons List
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Military End User List ⓘ Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List ⓘ Unverified List ⓘ |
| scope |
exports
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in-country transfers ⓘ items subject to the Export Administration Regulations ⓘ reexports ⓘ |
| updatedBy | Federal Register notices ⓘ |
| updateFrequency | periodically ⓘ |
| usedFor |
enforcing U.S. export control policy
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restricting technology transfer to certain foreign entities ⓘ |
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: U.S. Entity List Description of subject: The U.S. Entity List is a U.S. government trade-restriction tool that identifies foreign persons, companies, and organizations subject to specific export control licensing requirements due to national security or foreign policy concerns.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.