National Firearms Licensing Management System
E589729
The National Firearms Licensing Management System is a centralized UK database used by law enforcement to manage and track civilian firearms licensing information.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| National Firearms Licensing Management System canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6387958 — 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: National Firearms Licensing Management System Context triple: [UK law enforcement agencies, hasPart, National Firearms Licensing Management System]
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A.
Oregon State Police Firearms Instant Check System
The Oregon State Police Firearms Instant Check System is the state’s background check program used to determine the eligibility of individuals purchasing or transferring firearms in Oregon.
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B.
NICS
NICS (the National Instant Criminal Background Check System) is the U.S. system used to quickly determine whether a prospective firearm buyer is legally eligible to purchase guns.
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C.
Firearm Owners Protection Act
The Firearm Owners Protection Act is a 1986 U.S. federal law that revised and relaxed certain gun control provisions while adding new restrictions, including the ban on civilian ownership of newly manufactured machine guns.
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D.
Federal Firearms Licensees
Federal Firearms Licensees are individuals or businesses authorized under U.S. federal law to engage in the commercial manufacture, importation, and sale of firearms and ammunition.
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E.
National Firearms Act
The National Firearms Act is a U.S. federal law that tightly regulates certain categories of weapons—such as machine guns, short-barreled rifles and shotguns, and silencers—through registration, taxation, and transfer controls.
- 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: National Firearms Licensing Management System Target entity description: The National Firearms Licensing Management System is a centralized UK database used by law enforcement to manage and track civilian firearms licensing information.
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A.
Oregon State Police Firearms Instant Check System
The Oregon State Police Firearms Instant Check System is the state’s background check program used to determine the eligibility of individuals purchasing or transferring firearms in Oregon.
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B.
NICS
NICS (the National Instant Criminal Background Check System) is the U.S. system used to quickly determine whether a prospective firearm buyer is legally eligible to purchase guns.
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C.
Firearm Owners Protection Act
The Firearm Owners Protection Act is a 1986 U.S. federal law that revised and relaxed certain gun control provisions while adding new restrictions, including the ban on civilian ownership of newly manufactured machine guns.
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D.
Federal Firearms Licensees
Federal Firearms Licensees are individuals or businesses authorized under U.S. federal law to engage in the commercial manufacture, importation, and sale of firearms and ammunition.
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E.
National Firearms Act
The National Firearms Act is a U.S. federal law that tightly regulates certain categories of weapons—such as machine guns, short-barreled rifles and shotguns, and silencers—through registration, taxation, and transfer controls.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
firearms licensing database
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law enforcement information system ⓘ |
| centralized | true ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dataType |
firearm owners
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firearms certificates ⓘ licence conditions ⓘ licence history ⓘ shotgun certificates ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
England
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Scotland ⓘ Wales ⓘ |
| purpose |
manage civilian firearms licensing information
ⓘ
track civilian firearms licensing information ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
UK firearms licensing regime
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civilian firearms regulation in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| scope | national ⓘ |
| sector |
law enforcement
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public safety ⓘ |
| supportsActivity |
firearms licensing checks
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firearms licensing enforcement ⓘ risk assessment of firearms holders ⓘ |
| usedBy |
UK law enforcement agencies
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police forces in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| userType |
authorized law enforcement staff
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police firearms licensing units ⓘ |
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: National Firearms Licensing Management System Description of subject: The National Firearms Licensing Management System is a centralized UK database used by law enforcement to manage and track civilian firearms licensing information.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.