AWA
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AWA is the commonly used abbreviation for the Animal Welfare Act, the primary U.S. federal law regulating the treatment of animals in research, exhibition, transport, and by dealers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| AWA canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5880889 — 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: AWA Context triple: [Animal Welfare Act, shortName, AWA]
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A.
AAWU
AAWU, short for the Athletic Association of Western Universities, was a former NCAA athletic conference that served as a predecessor to today’s Pac-12 Conference.
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B.
WWA
WWA is the National Rail station code for Woolwich Arsenal railway station in southeast London.
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C.
AWC
AWC is the U.S. Aviation Weather Center, a National Weather Service unit that provides critical weather forecasts and warnings for aviation safety.
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D.
WAWA
WAWA is the station code for Wawa railway station, a train stop located in Wawa, New South Wales, Australia.
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E.
WAKA
"WAKA" is a track from 6ix9ine's 2018 studio album "Dummy Boy," known for its aggressive trap sound and high-energy delivery.
- 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: AWA Target entity description: AWA is the commonly used abbreviation for the Animal Welfare Act, the primary U.S. federal law regulating the treatment of animals in research, exhibition, transport, and by dealers.
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A.
AAWU
AAWU, short for the Athletic Association of Western Universities, was a former NCAA athletic conference that served as a predecessor to today’s Pac-12 Conference.
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B.
WWA
WWA is the National Rail station code for Woolwich Arsenal railway station in southeast London.
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C.
AWC
AWC is the U.S. Aviation Weather Center, a National Weather Service unit that provides critical weather forecasts and warnings for aviation safety.
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D.
WAWA
WAWA is the station code for Wawa railway station, a train stop located in Wawa, New South Wales, Australia.
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E.
WAKA
"WAKA" is a track from 6ix9ine's 2018 studio album "Dummy Boy," known for its aggressive trap sound and high-energy delivery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States federal law
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abbreviation ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
warm-blooded animals used by dealers
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warm-blooded animals used in exhibition ⓘ warm-blooded animals used in research ⓘ warm-blooded animals used in transport ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| covers |
animals held by licensed dealers in covered species
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animals in commercial transport in covered species ⓘ animals in zoos and circuses in covered species ⓘ laboratory animals in covered species ⓘ |
| enforcedBy |
USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
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linked to:
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
United States Department of Agriculture ⓘ |
| exempts |
farm animals used for food and fiber
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purpose-bred mice of the genus Mus ⓘ purpose-bred rats of the genus Rattus ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| legalArea |
animal law
ⓘ
animal welfare law ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose | regulate treatment of certain animals in research, exhibition, transport, and by dealers ⓘ |
| regulates |
treatment of animals by dealers
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treatment of animals in exhibition ⓘ treatment of animals in research ⓘ treatment of animals in transport ⓘ |
| requires |
licensing of animal dealers
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licensing of animal exhibitors ⓘ minimum standards of care and treatment for covered animals ⓘ registration of research facilities using regulated animals ⓘ |
| shortName | AWA ⓘ |
| standsFor | Animal Welfare Act ⓘ |
| subject | animal welfare ⓘ |
| typeOfLaw | regulatory law ⓘ |
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: AWA Description of subject: AWA is the commonly used abbreviation for the Animal Welfare Act, the primary U.S. federal law regulating the treatment of animals in research, exhibition, transport, and by dealers.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.