Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)
E454871
The Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD) is the European Parliament’s service responsible for providing translation and language support to ensure the institution’s work is accessible in all official EU languages.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Directorate-General for Translation | 1 |
| Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4593403 — 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: Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD) Context triple: [Directorates-General of the European Parliament, hasPart, Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)]
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A.
Directorate-General for Trade
The Directorate-General for Trade is the European Commission department responsible for developing and implementing the European Union’s common commercial policy and external trade relations.
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B.
Directorate-General for Communication
The Directorate-General for Communication is the European Commission’s department responsible for informing the public about EU policies and activities and managing the institution’s communication strategy.
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C.
Directorate of European Affairs
The Directorate of European Affairs is a specialized division within Switzerland’s Federal Department of Foreign Affairs responsible for shaping and coordinating the country’s policies and relations with the European Union and other European partners.
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D.
Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union
The Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union is the European Commission department responsible for developing and implementing EU policies on taxation and customs to support the single market and ensure fair, efficient revenue collection.
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E.
Directorate-General for Archives
The Directorate-General for Archives is the central Italian government body responsible for overseeing, preserving, and promoting the nation’s archival heritage and records management.
- 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: Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD) Target entity description: The Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD) is the European Parliament’s service responsible for providing translation and language support to ensure the institution’s work is accessible in all official EU languages.
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A.
Directorate-General for Trade
The Directorate-General for Trade is the European Commission department responsible for developing and implementing the European Union’s common commercial policy and external trade relations.
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B.
Directorate-General for Communication
The Directorate-General for Communication is the European Commission’s department responsible for informing the public about EU policies and activities and managing the institution’s communication strategy.
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C.
Directorate of European Affairs
The Directorate of European Affairs is a specialized division within Switzerland’s Federal Department of Foreign Affairs responsible for shaping and coordinating the country’s policies and relations with the European Union and other European partners.
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D.
Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union
The Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union is the European Commission department responsible for developing and implementing EU policies on taxation and customs to support the single market and ensure fair, efficient revenue collection.
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E.
Directorate-General for Archives
The Directorate-General for Archives is the central Italian government body responsible for overseeing, preserving, and promoting the nation’s archival heritage and records management.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
directorate-general of the European Parliament
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translation service ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
ensure legal certainty across language versions of EU legislation
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guarantee equal treatment of all official EU languages in parliamentary work ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | European Union ⓘ |
| country | European Union ⓘ |
| employer |
language assistants
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lawyer-linguists ⓘ translators ⓘ |
| hasMainResponsibility |
ensuring accessibility of parliamentary work in all official EU languages
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language support for Members of the European Parliament ⓘ multilingual communication of the European Parliament ⓘ translation of European Parliament documents ⓘ |
| hasTask |
cooperation with other EU translation services
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management of translation technologies ⓘ provision of language advice to Members of the European Parliament ⓘ quality control of translations ⓘ support for multilingual drafting ⓘ terminology work ⓘ translation of amendments ⓘ translation of correspondence ⓘ translation of legislative texts ⓘ translation of parliamentary reports ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Brussels
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linked to:
Brussels, Belgium
Luxembourg City ⓘ
linked to:
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
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| languageOfWork | all official languages of the European Union ⓘ |
| motto | multilingualism in the European Parliament ⓘ |
| partOf | European Parliament ⓘ |
| shortName | DG TRAD ⓘ |
| usesOfficialLanguage |
Bulgarian
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Croatian ⓘ Czech ⓘ Danish ⓘ Dutch ⓘ English ⓘ Estonian ⓘ Finnish ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Greek ⓘ Hungarian ⓘ Irish ⓘ Italian ⓘ Latvian ⓘ Lithuanian ⓘ Maltese ⓘ Polish ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ Romanian ⓘ Slovak ⓘ Slovene ⓘ Spanish ⓘ Swedish ⓘ |
| website | https://www.europarl.europa.eu/translation ⓘ |
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: Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD) Description of subject: The Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD) is the European Parliament’s service responsible for providing translation and language support to ensure the institution’s work is accessible in all official EU languages.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Directorates-General of the European Parliament
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hasPart
→
Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)
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linked to: Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)