TRI
E31167
United States federal government program
environmental database
pollutant release and transfer register
TRI is the Toxics Release Inventory, a U.S. EPA-managed public database that tracks the management and release of certain toxic chemicals by industrial and federal facilities.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| TRI canonical | 3 |
| EPA TRI | 1 |
| EPA TRI Explorer web tool | 1 |
| TRI Data and Tools | 1 |
| TRI Explorer | 1 |
| TRI National Analysis | 1 |
| TRI Program | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T241188 — 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: TRI Context triple: [Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, abbreviation, TRI]
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A.
TR
TR is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Turkey for international standardization and referencing.
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B.
TDI
TDI (Test Data In) is the serial input pin used in JTAG boundary-scan to feed test instructions and data into a device’s test access port.
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C.
LTRI
LTRI is a Japanese institution responsible for the professional training and research development of legal professionals, particularly judges and prosecutors.
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D.
TRPA
TRPA is a bi-state regional planning agency responsible for environmental protection and land-use regulation in the Lake Tahoe Basin.
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E.
TRST
TRST is an optional active-low reset signal used in JTAG (IEEE 1149.1) interfaces to asynchronously reset the test access port controller.
- 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: TRI Target entity description: TRI is the Toxics Release Inventory, a U.S. EPA-managed public database that tracks the management and release of certain toxic chemicals by industrial and federal facilities.
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A.
TR
TR is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Turkey for international standardization and referencing.
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B.
TDI
TDI (Test Data In) is the serial input pin used in JTAG boundary-scan to feed test instructions and data into a device’s test access port.
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C.
LTRI
LTRI is a Japanese institution responsible for the professional training and research development of legal professionals, particularly judges and prosecutors.
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D.
TRPA
TRPA is a bi-state regional planning agency responsible for environmental protection and land-use regulation in the Lake Tahoe Basin.
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E.
TRST
TRST is an optional active-low reset signal used in JTAG (IEEE 1149.1) interfaces to asynchronously reset the test access port controller.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States federal government program
ⓘ
environmental database ⓘ pollutant release and transfer register ⓘ |
| abbreviation | TRI ⓘ |
| administeredBy | EPA Office of Environmental Information ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
EPA TRI
ⓘ
linked to:
TRI
TRI Program ⓘ
linked to:
TRI
|
| appliesToJurisdiction |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| chemicalScope |
TRI chemical categories
ⓘ
TRI-listed toxic chemicals ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| covers |
certain industrial facilities
ⓘ
facilities in specified North American Industry Classification System codes ⓘ federal facilities ⓘ |
| dataAccessibleVia |
EPA TRI Explorer web tool
ⓘ
linked to:
TRI
downloadable data files ⓘ online public database ⓘ web APIs ⓘ |
| dataType |
chemical-specific release quantities
ⓘ
facility-level environmental data ⓘ pollution prevention information ⓘ waste management quantities ⓘ |
| geographicCoverage |
U.S. territories
ⓘ
all U.S. states ⓘ |
| hasPart |
TRI Data and Tools
ⓘ
linked to:
TRI
TRI Explorer ⓘ
linked to:
TRI
TRI National Analysis ⓘ
linked to:
TRI
|
| inception | 1987 ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986
ⓘ
Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 ⓘ |
| legislatedBy |
EPCRA Section 313
ⓘ
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ⓘ |
| managedBy | U.S. EPA ⓘ |
| operator | United States Environmental Protection Agency ⓘ |
| purpose |
to encourage pollution prevention and reduction of toxic chemical releases
ⓘ
to provide the public with information on releases and other waste management of toxic chemicals ⓘ to support community right-to-know about local chemical hazards ⓘ |
| regulates | reporting of listed toxic chemicals above threshold quantities ⓘ |
| reportingForm |
Form A
ⓘ
Form R ⓘ |
| reportingFrequency | annually ⓘ |
| tracks |
annual quantities of certain toxic chemicals managed as waste
ⓘ
off-site transfers of toxic chemicals for treatment or disposal ⓘ pollution prevention activities related to listed chemicals ⓘ releases of listed toxic chemicals to air ⓘ releases of listed toxic chemicals to land ⓘ releases of listed toxic chemicals to water ⓘ |
| usedBy |
community groups
ⓘ
industry ⓘ regulators ⓘ researchers ⓘ |
| usedFor |
environmental research
ⓘ
policy analysis ⓘ risk screening ⓘ tracking pollution prevention progress ⓘ |
| website | https://www.epa.gov/toxics-release-inventory-tri-program ⓘ |
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: TRI Description of subject: TRI is the Toxics Release Inventory, a U.S. EPA-managed public database that tracks the management and release of certain toxic chemicals by industrial and federal facilities.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.