Veterinary Medicines Directorate
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The Veterinary Medicines Directorate is a UK government agency responsible for regulating veterinary medicines and ensuring their safety, quality, and effectiveness in animals and the food chain.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Veterinary Medicines Directorate canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T219244 — 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: Veterinary Medicines Directorate Context triple: [Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, oversees, Veterinary Medicines Directorate]
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A.
Committee for Medicinal Products for Veterinary Use
The Committee for Medicinal Products for Veterinary Use is the European Medicines Agency’s scientific committee responsible for evaluating and providing opinions on veterinary medicines in the European Union.
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B.
Animal and Plant Health Agency
The Animal and Plant Health Agency is a UK government body responsible for safeguarding animal health, plant health, and animal welfare, and supporting food safety and public health.
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C.
UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is the United Kingdom’s national authority responsible for regulating medicines, medical devices, and healthcare products to ensure their safety, quality, and effectiveness.
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D.
Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products
The Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products was a former scientific committee of the European Union responsible for evaluating and issuing opinions on the quality, safety, and efficacy of human medicinal products before it was replaced by the European Medicines Agency’s current committee structure.
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E.
Committee for Herbal Medicinal Products
The Committee for Herbal Medicinal Products is a scientific body within the European Medicines Agency that evaluates and provides guidance on the safety and efficacy of herbal medicines in the European Union.
- 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: Veterinary Medicines Directorate Target entity description: The Veterinary Medicines Directorate is a UK government agency responsible for regulating veterinary medicines and ensuring their safety, quality, and effectiveness in animals and the food chain.
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A.
Committee for Medicinal Products for Veterinary Use
The Committee for Medicinal Products for Veterinary Use is the European Medicines Agency’s scientific committee responsible for evaluating and providing opinions on veterinary medicines in the European Union.
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B.
Animal and Plant Health Agency
The Animal and Plant Health Agency is a UK government body responsible for safeguarding animal health, plant health, and animal welfare, and supporting food safety and public health.
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C.
UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is the United Kingdom’s national authority responsible for regulating medicines, medical devices, and healthcare products to ensure their safety, quality, and effectiveness.
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D.
Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products
The Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products was a former scientific committee of the European Union responsible for evaluating and issuing opinions on the quality, safety, and efficacy of human medicinal products before it was replaced by the European Medicines Agency’s current committee structure.
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E.
Committee for Herbal Medicinal Products
The Committee for Herbal Medicinal Products is a scientific body within the European Medicines Agency that evaluates and provides guidance on the safety and efficacy of herbal medicines in the European Union.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
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regulatory authority ⓘ |
| abbreviation | VMD ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
ensure safe food from animals treated with veterinary medicines
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protect animal health ⓘ protect public health ⓘ protect the environment ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
international regulatory bodies
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other UK government agencies ⓘ |
| collects | data on sales of veterinary antimicrobials ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| enforces | controls on illegal veterinary medicines ⓘ |
| field |
regulatory science
ⓘ
veterinary pharmacology ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/veterinary-medicines-directorate ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locationCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| monitors | compliance with veterinary medicines legislation ⓘ |
| oversees | Veterinary Medicines Regulations ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ⓘ |
| partOf | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ⓘ |
| publishes |
guidance on the use of veterinary medicines
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product information for authorised veterinary medicines ⓘ |
| regulates |
medicated animal feed
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veterinary medicinal products ⓘ veterinary medicines ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
authorisation of veterinary medicines
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efficacy of veterinary medicines ⓘ enforcement of veterinary medicines legislation ⓘ inspection of distributors of veterinary medicines ⓘ inspection of manufacturers of veterinary medicines ⓘ licensing of veterinary medicines ⓘ monitoring residues of veterinary medicines in the food chain ⓘ pharmacovigilance for veterinary medicines ⓘ quality of veterinary medicines ⓘ residues of veterinary medicines in food-producing animals ⓘ safety of veterinary medicines ⓘ surveillance of adverse reactions to veterinary medicines ⓘ |
| sector |
animal health
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food safety ⓘ public health ⓘ |
| supervises | marketing authorisation holders for veterinary medicines ⓘ |
| worksOn | antimicrobial resistance in animals ⓘ |
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: Veterinary Medicines Directorate Description of subject: The Veterinary Medicines Directorate is a UK government agency responsible for regulating veterinary medicines and ensuring their safety, quality, and effectiveness in animals and the food chain.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.