Natural and Built Environment Act 2023
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The Natural and Built Environment Act 2023 is a New Zealand law that overhauls the country’s resource management system, replacing much of the Resource Management Act 1991 to better integrate environmental protection with land use and development planning.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Natural and Built Environment Act 2023 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2368625 — 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: Natural and Built Environment Act 2023 Context triple: [Resource Management Act 1991, partiallySupersededBy, Natural and Built Environment Act 2023]
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A.
Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009
The Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 is a UK law that overhauled marine management by creating a comprehensive framework for marine planning, conservation, licensing, and public coastal access.
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B.
Environmental Protection Act 1990
The Environmental Protection Act 1990 is a key UK law that provides the framework for controlling pollution, managing waste, and protecting the environment.
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C.
Town and Country Planning Act 1990
The Town and Country Planning Act 1990 is a key piece of UK legislation that consolidates and governs the modern system of land-use planning and development control in England and Wales.
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D.
Historic Environment Scotland Act 2014
The Historic Environment Scotland Act 2014 is Scottish legislation that established Historic Environment Scotland as the lead public body for caring for, promoting, and managing Scotland’s historic environment.
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E.
Resource Management Act 1991
The Resource Management Act 1991 is New Zealand’s principal environmental and land-use planning law, establishing an integrated framework for managing natural and physical resources while recognizing Māori interests and Treaty of Waitangi principles.
- 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: Natural and Built Environment Act 2023 Target entity description: The Natural and Built Environment Act 2023 is a New Zealand law that overhauls the country’s resource management system, replacing much of the Resource Management Act 1991 to better integrate environmental protection with land use and development planning.
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A.
Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009
The Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 is a UK law that overhauled marine management by creating a comprehensive framework for marine planning, conservation, licensing, and public coastal access.
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B.
Environmental Protection Act 1990
The Environmental Protection Act 1990 is a key UK law that provides the framework for controlling pollution, managing waste, and protecting the environment.
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C.
Town and Country Planning Act 1990
The Town and Country Planning Act 1990 is a key piece of UK legislation that consolidates and governs the modern system of land-use planning and development control in England and Wales.
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D.
Historic Environment Scotland Act 2014
The Historic Environment Scotland Act 2014 is Scottish legislation that established Historic Environment Scotland as the lead public body for caring for, promoting, and managing Scotland’s historic environment.
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E.
Resource Management Act 1991
The Resource Management Act 1991 is New Zealand’s principal environmental and land-use planning law, establishing an integrated framework for managing natural and physical resources while recognizing Māori interests and Treaty of Waitangi principles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | New Zealand statute ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
built environment in New Zealand
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natural environment in New Zealand ⓘ |
| country | New Zealand ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
integration of environmental outcomes with planning decisions
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sustainable management of natural and physical resources ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | New Zealand ⓘ |
| legalForm | Act of Parliament ⓘ |
| legalSystem | New Zealand legal system ⓘ |
| legislature | New Zealand Parliament ⓘ |
| partOfReform | replacement of the Resource Management Act 1991 ⓘ |
| purpose |
to better integrate environmental protection with land use and development planning
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to overhaul New Zealand’s resource management system ⓘ |
| reformGoal |
to improve efficiency of resource management decision-making
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to provide clearer national direction on environmental outcomes ⓘ to reduce complexity and duplication in planning instruments ⓘ |
| regulates |
development activities
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environmental effects of activities ⓘ use of land ⓘ |
| replacesInPart | Resource Management Act 1991 ⓘ |
| shortName | NBE Act 2023 ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
development planning
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environmental protection ⓘ land use planning ⓘ resource management law ⓘ |
| typeOfLaw |
environmental law
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planning law ⓘ |
| year | 2023 ⓘ |
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: Natural and Built Environment Act 2023 Description of subject: The Natural and Built Environment Act 2023 is a New Zealand law that overhauls the country’s resource management system, replacing much of the Resource Management Act 1991 to better integrate environmental protection with land use and development planning.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.