NFA
E269915
NFA is a common abbreviation for the National Firearms Act, a U.S. federal law regulating certain classes of firearms and related devices.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NFA canonical | 2 |
| nondeterministic finite automaton | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2478494 — 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: NFA Context triple: [National Firearms Act, shortName, NFA]
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A.
DFA
DFA is an online advertising management and ad-serving platform originally developed by DoubleClick and later integrated into Google's marketing and ad technology stack.
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B.
FSM
FSM is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for the Federated States of Micronesia, a Pacific island nation.
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C.
FSM
FSM is the abbreviation for the French Submarine Forces, the branch of the French Navy responsible for operating and maintaining France’s submarine fleet, including its nuclear deterrent.
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D.
.nf
.nf is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Norfolk Island for use in internet addresses.
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E.
Nfk
Nfk is the standard postal abbreviation used for the English county of Norfolk.
- 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: NFA Target entity description: NFA is a common abbreviation for the National Firearms Act, a U.S. federal law regulating certain classes of firearms and related devices.
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A.
DFA
DFA is an online advertising management and ad-serving platform originally developed by DoubleClick and later integrated into Google's marketing and ad technology stack.
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B.
FSM
FSM is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for the Federated States of Micronesia, a Pacific island nation.
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C.
FSM
FSM is the abbreviation for the French Submarine Forces, the branch of the French Navy responsible for operating and maintaining France’s submarine fleet, including its nuclear deterrent.
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D.
.nf
.nf is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Norfolk Island for use in internet addresses.
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E.
Nfk
Nfk is the standard postal abbreviation used for the English county of Norfolk.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States federal statute
ⓘ
firearms regulation law ⓘ |
| administeredBy | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
dealers in NFA firearms
ⓘ
individual possessors of NFA firearms ⓘ manufacturers of NFA firearms ⓘ |
| codifiedAs | 26 U.S.C. Chapter 53 ⓘ |
| codifiedIn | Title 26 of the United States Code ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateEnacted | 1934-06-26 ⓘ |
| definesTerm |
any other weapon
ⓘ
destructive device ⓘ machine gun ⓘ short-barreled rifle ⓘ short-barreled shotgun ⓘ silencer ⓘ |
| effectiveDate | 1934-07-26 ⓘ |
| enactedBy | United States Congress ⓘ |
| enforcedBy | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ⓘ |
| hasAmendment |
Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986
ⓘ
linked to:
Firearm Owners Protection Act
Gun Control Act of 1968 ⓘ |
| imposes |
tax on making NFA firearms
ⓘ
tax on transferring NFA firearms ⓘ |
| legalDomain |
firearms law
ⓘ
tax law ⓘ |
| legislativeBody |
United States House of Representatives
ⓘ
United States Senate ⓘ |
| partOf | United States federal firearms laws ⓘ |
| penalizes |
unlawful making of NFA firearms
ⓘ
unlawful transfer of NFA firearms ⓘ unregistered possession of NFA firearms ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose | regulate certain classes of firearms and related devices through taxation and registration ⓘ |
| regulates |
certain concealable firearms classified as "any other weapon"
ⓘ
destructive devices ⓘ machine guns ⓘ short-barreled rifles ⓘ short-barreled shotguns ⓘ silencers ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Arms Export Control Act
ⓘ
Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986 ⓘ
linked to:
Firearm Owners Protection Act
Gun Control Act of 1968 ⓘ National Instant Criminal Background Check System ⓘ |
| requires |
approval of transfer by ATF
ⓘ
background check for transferees of NFA firearms ⓘ federal registration of NFA firearms ⓘ serial number identification on NFA firearms ⓘ |
| shortName | NFA ⓘ |
| signedBy |
Franklin D. Roosevelt
ⓘ
linked to:
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
|
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: NFA Description of subject: NFA is a common abbreviation for the National Firearms Act, a U.S. federal law regulating certain classes of firearms and related devices.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: NFA