MEA
E481971
MEA is India’s Ministry of External Affairs, the government body responsible for managing the country’s foreign relations and diplomacy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MEA canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4951293 — 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: MEA Context triple: [Ministry of External Affairs of India, abbreviation, MEA]
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A.
MEA
MEA is the ICAO airline designator for Middle East Airlines, the flag carrier of Lebanon.
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B.
ME
ME is the official two-letter United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Maine.
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C.
ME
ME is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Montenegro.
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D.
MEI
MEI is a climate index that quantifies the strength and phase of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation by combining multiple atmospheric and oceanic variables over the tropical Pacific.
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E.
MEI
MEI is the vehicle registration code for the German town of Meissen in the state of Saxony.
- 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: MEA Target entity description: MEA is India’s Ministry of External Affairs, the government body responsible for managing the country’s foreign relations and diplomacy.
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A.
MEA
MEA is the ICAO airline designator for Middle East Airlines, the flag carrier of Lebanon.
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B.
ME
ME is the official two-letter United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Maine.
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C.
ME
ME is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Montenegro.
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D.
MEI
MEI is a climate index that quantifies the strength and phase of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation by combining multiple atmospheric and oceanic variables over the tropical Pacific.
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E.
MEI
MEI is the vehicle registration code for the German town of Meissen in the state of Saxony.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Government agency
ⓘ
Ministry ⓘ |
| coordinatesWith | Other ministries of the Government of India on external aspects of their policies ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| employs |
Civil servants of India
ⓘ
Indian Foreign Service officers ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Administration division
ⓘ
Consular, Passport and Visa division ⓘ Development Partnership Administration ⓘ Economic Relations division ⓘ Functional divisions ⓘ Policy Planning and Research division ⓘ Public Diplomacy division ⓘ Territorial divisions ⓘ |
| headquartersBuilding |
South Block, Secretariat Building, New Delhi
ⓘ
linked to:
South Block, Raisina Hill, New Delhi
|
| headquartersLocation |
New Delhi
ⓘ
linked to:
New Delhi, India
|
| jurisdiction | Government of India ⓘ |
| nativeName | विदेश मंत्रालय ⓘ |
| officialLanguage |
English
ⓘ
Hindi ⓘ |
| oversees |
Indian Council for Cultural Relations
ⓘ
Indian Council of World Affairs ⓘ Indian consulates ⓘ Indian embassies ⓘ Indian high commissions ⓘ Permanent missions of India to international organizations ⓘ Research and Information System for Developing Countries ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Government of India ⓘ |
| policyArea |
Bilateral relations of India
ⓘ
Multilateral diplomacy of India ⓘ Regional cooperation involving India ⓘ |
| providesService |
Assistance to Indians in distress abroad
ⓘ
Passport services through the Passport Seva system ⓘ |
| responsibility |
Administration of Indian missions abroad
ⓘ
Consular services for Indian citizens abroad ⓘ Diplomacy of India ⓘ
linked to:
India’s foreign relations
Foreign relations of India ⓘ
linked to:
India’s foreign relations
Formulation of India’s foreign policy ⓘ Management of India’s external affairs ⓘ Representation of India in international organizations ⓘ Treaty and agreement negotiations with foreign states ⓘ |
| seat |
New Delhi
ⓘ
linked to:
New Delhi, India
|
| sector |
Diplomacy
ⓘ
Foreign affairs ⓘ International relations ⓘ |
| shortName | MEA ⓘ |
| subordinateTo |
Prime Minister’s Office (India)
ⓘ
linked to:
Prime Minister's Office of India
|
| website | https://www.mea.gov.in ⓘ |
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: MEA Description of subject: MEA is India’s Ministry of External Affairs, the government body responsible for managing the country’s foreign relations and diplomacy.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
External Affairs