eTrace
E269919
eTrace is an online firearms tracing system used by law enforcement agencies worldwide to track the history and movement of recovered guns.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| eTrace canonical | 1 |
| eTrace system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2478668 — 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: eTrace Context triple: [National Tracing Center, supportsProgram, eTrace]
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A.
TRACE
TRACE is a U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) system that provides real-time public reporting and transparency for over-the-counter corporate bond and other fixed-income securities transactions.
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B.
Tracklacers
Tracklacers is a music production team known for working on pop and R&B records, including tracks on Christina Aguilera’s album "Lotus."
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C.
Trace
Trace is a large-scale installation by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei composed of thousands of LEGO portraits depicting political prisoners and activists from around the world.
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D.
TRC
TRC is the premier annual international rugby union competition in the Southern Hemisphere, contested by Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
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E.
Human Traces
Human Traces is a historical novel by Sebastian Faulks that explores the early development of psychiatry and the complexities of the human mind through the intertwined lives of two 19th-century doctors.
- 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: eTrace Target entity description: eTrace is an online firearms tracing system used by law enforcement agencies worldwide to track the history and movement of recovered guns.
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A.
TRACE
TRACE is a U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) system that provides real-time public reporting and transparency for over-the-counter corporate bond and other fixed-income securities transactions.
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B.
Tracklacers
Tracklacers is a music production team known for working on pop and R&B records, including tracks on Christina Aguilera’s album "Lotus."
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C.
Trace
Trace is a large-scale installation by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei composed of thousands of LEGO portraits depicting political prisoners and activists from around the world.
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D.
TRC
TRC is the premier annual international rugby union competition in the Southern Hemisphere, contested by Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
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E.
Human Traces
Human Traces is a historical novel by Sebastian Faulks that explores the early development of psychiatry and the complexities of the human mind through the intertwined lives of two 19th-century doctors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
law enforcement information system
ⓘ
online firearms tracing system ⓘ |
| accessibleVia | web browser ⓘ |
| accessModel | online system ⓘ |
| countryOfOperator |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dataSource |
ATF firearms tracing databases
ⓘ
firearms importers ⓘ firearms manufacturers ⓘ firearms retailers ⓘ firearms wholesalers ⓘ |
| developedBy |
ATF
ⓘ
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ⓘ |
| domain |
criminal justice
ⓘ
firearms regulation ⓘ law enforcement ⓘ |
| enables |
identification of firearms trafficking patterns
ⓘ
identification of firearms trafficking routes ⓘ identification of first retail purchaser of a firearm ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
identify sources of crime guns
ⓘ
support criminal investigations involving firearms ⓘ support firearms trafficking investigations ⓘ trace the history of recovered firearms ⓘ track the movement of recovered firearms ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
ATF National Tracing Center
ⓘ
linked to:
National Tracing Center
National Tracing Center ⓘ |
| requires |
law enforcement authorization
ⓘ
user registration ⓘ |
| scope |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
international ⓘ |
| securityFeature |
restricted access
ⓘ
user authentication ⓘ |
| supportsActivity |
analysis of firearms trafficking patterns
ⓘ
electronic submission of trace requests ⓘ firearms trace requests ⓘ retrieval of trace results ⓘ |
| supportsLanguage |
English
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| targetUser |
authorized investigative personnel
ⓘ
sworn law enforcement officers ⓘ |
| usedBy |
federal law enforcement agencies
ⓘ
international law enforcement agencies ⓘ law enforcement agencies ⓘ local law enforcement agencies ⓘ state law enforcement agencies ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Caribbean
ⓘ
Central America ⓘ Mexico ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
other partner countries ⓘ |
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: eTrace Description of subject: eTrace is an online firearms tracing system used by law enforcement agencies worldwide to track the history and movement of recovered guns.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: eTrace