Federal Institute for Risk Assessment
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The Federal Institute for Risk Assessment is a German government agency that conducts independent scientific evaluations of health risks related to food, chemicals, and consumer products to inform public policy and consumer protection.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung | 1 |
| Federal Institute for Risk Assessment canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4783715 — 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: Federal Institute for Risk Assessment Context triple: [Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety, cooperatesWith, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment]
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A.
Paul Ehrlich Institute
The Paul Ehrlich Institute is Germany’s federal agency and research institution responsible for the evaluation, authorization, and monitoring of vaccines and biomedicines.
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B.
Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices
The Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices is Germany’s central regulatory authority responsible for the authorization, safety monitoring, and risk assessment of pharmaceuticals and medical devices.
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C.
European Food Safety Authority
The European Food Safety Authority is an EU agency that provides independent scientific advice and risk assessment on food and feed safety to support European policymaking and consumer protection.
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D.
Robert Koch Institute
The Robert Koch Institute is Germany’s national public health institute, renowned for its research in infectious diseases, epidemiology, and disease prevention.
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E.
Federal Office for Radiation Protection of Germany
The Federal Office for Radiation Protection of Germany is the national authority responsible for protecting the public and the environment from the harmful effects of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation through research, regulation, and monitoring.
- 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: Federal Institute for Risk Assessment Target entity description: The Federal Institute for Risk Assessment is a German government agency that conducts independent scientific evaluations of health risks related to food, chemicals, and consumer products to inform public policy and consumer protection.
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A.
Paul Ehrlich Institute
The Paul Ehrlich Institute is Germany’s federal agency and research institution responsible for the evaluation, authorization, and monitoring of vaccines and biomedicines.
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B.
Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices
The Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices is Germany’s central regulatory authority responsible for the authorization, safety monitoring, and risk assessment of pharmaceuticals and medical devices.
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C.
European Food Safety Authority
The European Food Safety Authority is an EU agency that provides independent scientific advice and risk assessment on food and feed safety to support European policymaking and consumer protection.
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D.
Robert Koch Institute
The Robert Koch Institute is Germany’s national public health institute, renowned for its research in infectious diseases, epidemiology, and disease prevention.
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E.
Federal Office for Radiation Protection of Germany
The Federal Office for Radiation Protection of Germany is the national authority responsible for protecting the public and the environment from the harmful effects of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation through research, regulation, and monitoring.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (72)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
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scientific research institute ⓘ |
| abbreviation | BfR ⓘ |
| advises |
Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
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German federal government ⓘ
linked to:
Federal Government of Germany
other federal ministries in Germany ⓘ |
| cooperatesWith |
European Food Safety Authority
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German federal states authorities ⓘ international risk assessment bodies ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| employerType | public sector ⓘ |
| employs |
epidemiologists
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risk assessors ⓘ risk communicators ⓘ scientists ⓘ toxicologists ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
animal feed safety
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animal health related to food safety ⓘ biocides risk assessment ⓘ chemical risk assessment ⓘ chemical safety ⓘ consumer health protection ⓘ contaminants in food ⓘ cosmetics safety ⓘ exposure assessment ⓘ food hygiene ⓘ food safety ⓘ foodborne infections ⓘ genetically modified food and feed ⓘ materials in contact with food ⓘ microbiological risk assessment ⓘ nanomaterials safety ⓘ pesticide risk assessment ⓘ poisoning documentation and assessment ⓘ product safety ⓘ residue evaluation in food ⓘ risk assessment ⓘ risk communication ⓘ toxicology ⓘ |
| formedBy | reorganization of German federal health and food safety institutions ⓘ |
| hasSection |
Biological Safety Department
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Chemical and Product Safety Department ⓘ Experimental Toxicology and ZEBET ⓘ Food Safety Department ⓘ Risk Communication Department ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Berlin ⓘ |
| inception | 2002 ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Federal Republic of Germany
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linked to:
Germany
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| legalStatus | federal institute under public law ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Berlin
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Germany ⓘ |
| mission |
independent scientific assessment of health risks
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protection of human health ⓘ support of consumer protection ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung
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linked to:
Federal Institute for Risk Assessment
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| objective |
improve consumer safety through science-based risk assessment
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provide transparent risk communication to the public ⓘ support harmonization of risk assessment at European and international level ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture ⓘ |
| participatesIn | European food safety and chemical safety networks ⓘ |
| performs |
health risk evaluations for chemicals
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health risk evaluations for consumer products ⓘ health risk evaluations for food ⓘ independent scientific risk assessments ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | German ⓘ |
| role |
consumer health protection authority in risk assessment
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scientific advisory body for risk assessment ⓘ support for regulatory decision-making ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture ⓘ |
| website | https://www.bfr.bund.de ⓘ |
| workLanguage |
English
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German ⓘ |
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: Federal Institute for Risk Assessment Description of subject: The Federal Institute for Risk Assessment is a German government agency that conducts independent scientific evaluations of health risks related to food, chemicals, and consumer products to inform public policy and consumer protection.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety
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cooperatesWith
→
Federal Institute for Risk Assessment
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linked to: Federal Institute for Risk Assessment