German Postal Act
E459822
The German Postal Act is the primary legal framework regulating postal services and market oversight in Germany, including licensing, competition rules, and consumer protection.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| German Postal Act canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4687236 — 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: German Postal Act Context triple: [Federal Network Agency, follows, German Postal Act]
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A.
German Civil Code
The German Civil Code is Germany’s comprehensive codification of private law, governing areas such as contracts, property, family, and obligations.
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B.
German Banking Act
The German Banking Act is the central legal framework governing the licensing, supervision, and operation of banks and financial institutions in Germany.
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C.
German Social Code
The German Social Code is the comprehensive body of German federal law that regulates the country’s social security system, including health, pension, unemployment, and long-term care insurance.
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D.
General Regulations of the Universal Postal Union
The General Regulations of the Universal Postal Union are a core legal instrument that set out the detailed organizational, administrative, and procedural rules governing the functioning of the Universal Postal Union and its member countries.
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E.
Verband der Reichspostangestellten
Der Verband der Reichspostangestellten war eine deutsche Gewerkschaft der Angestellten der Reichspost in der Weimarer Republik.
- 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: German Postal Act Target entity description: The German Postal Act is the primary legal framework regulating postal services and market oversight in Germany, including licensing, competition rules, and consumer protection.
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A.
German Civil Code
The German Civil Code is Germany’s comprehensive codification of private law, governing areas such as contracts, property, family, and obligations.
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B.
German Banking Act
The German Banking Act is the central legal framework governing the licensing, supervision, and operation of banks and financial institutions in Germany.
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C.
German Social Code
The German Social Code is the comprehensive body of German federal law that regulates the country’s social security system, including health, pension, unemployment, and long-term care insurance.
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D.
General Regulations of the Universal Postal Union
The General Regulations of the Universal Postal Union are a core legal instrument that set out the detailed organizational, administrative, and procedural rules governing the functioning of the Universal Postal Union and its member countries.
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E.
Verband der Reichspostangestellten
Der Verband der Reichspostangestellten war eine deutsche Gewerkschaft der Angestellten der Reichspost in der Weimarer Republik.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German federal law
ⓘ
postal regulation law ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
ensure effective competition in the postal market
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guarantee universal postal service ⓘ protect consumers of postal services ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
postal service providers in Germany
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universal postal service obligations in Germany ⓘ |
| authorizes |
regulatory authority to collect market data from postal operators
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regulatory authority to impose fines for violations ⓘ |
| basedOn | European Union postal directives ⓘ |
| concerns |
cross-border postal services
ⓘ
letter mail services ⓘ parcel services ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| defines |
complaint procedures for postal customers
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conditions for providing postal services commercially ⓘ licensing requirements for postal operators ⓘ obligations for universal service providers ⓘ rights of postal service users ⓘ rules on access to postal infrastructure ⓘ rules on postal service quality standards ⓘ supervisory powers of the regulatory authority in the postal sector ⓘ |
| enforcedBy |
German postal regulatory authority
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federal authorities responsible for economic regulation ⓘ |
| establishes |
framework for licensing postal services
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framework for monitoring postal markets ⓘ framework for postal tariff regulation ⓘ rules on confidentiality of postal items ⓘ rules on liability for loss or damage of postal items ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
to align German postal law with EU law
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to balance interests of postal operators and users ⓘ |
| implements | EU internal market rules for postal services ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Federal Republic of Germany
ⓘ
linked to:
Germany
|
| languageOfDocument | German ⓘ |
| legalForm | statute ⓘ |
| partOf | German economic regulatory framework ⓘ |
| regulates |
competition rules in the postal sector
ⓘ
consumer protection in postal services ⓘ licensing of postal service providers ⓘ postal market oversight in Germany ⓘ postal services in Germany ⓘ |
| requires |
postal operators to inform customers about terms and conditions
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postal operators to maintain service quality standards ⓘ postal operators to provide transparent pricing ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
postal law
ⓘ
telecommunications and postal regulation ⓘ |
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: German Postal Act Description of subject: The German Postal Act is the primary legal framework regulating postal services and market oversight in Germany, including licensing, competition rules, and consumer protection.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.