Public Health Agency of Sweden
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The Public Health Agency of Sweden is the national government authority responsible for public health, disease prevention, and health promotion in Sweden.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Public Health Agency of Sweden canonical | 7 |
| Folkhälsomyndigheten | 1 |
| Swedish Public Health Agency | 1 |
| Swedish national health authorities | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7651440 — 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: Public Health Agency of Sweden Context triple: [Anders Tegnell, employer, Public Health Agency of Sweden]
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A.
Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare
The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare is a central government agency responsible for overseeing public health, social services, and healthcare standards in Sweden.
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B.
Norwegian Institute of Public Health
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health is Norway’s national public health agency responsible for disease surveillance, health research, and providing evidence-based advice to authorities and the public.
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C.
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control is an EU agency based in Stockholm that identifies, assesses, and communicates threats from infectious diseases to strengthen Europe’s defenses against epidemics and pandemics.
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D.
Swedish Social Insurance Agency
The Swedish Social Insurance Agency is the national authority responsible for administering Sweden’s social security benefits, including parental leave, sickness benefits, and pensions.
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E.
Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare is a national expert agency that conducts research, produces statistics, and provides guidance to support public health, social welfare, and evidence-based policymaking in Finland.
- 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: Public Health Agency of Sweden Target entity description: The Public Health Agency of Sweden is the national government authority responsible for public health, disease prevention, and health promotion in Sweden.
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A.
Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare
The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare is a central government agency responsible for overseeing public health, social services, and healthcare standards in Sweden.
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B.
Norwegian Institute of Public Health
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health is Norway’s national public health agency responsible for disease surveillance, health research, and providing evidence-based advice to authorities and the public.
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C.
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control is an EU agency based in Stockholm that identifies, assesses, and communicates threats from infectious diseases to strengthen Europe’s defenses against epidemics and pandemics.
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D.
Swedish Social Insurance Agency
The Swedish Social Insurance Agency is the national authority responsible for administering Sweden’s social security benefits, including parental leave, sickness benefits, and pensions.
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E.
Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare is a national expert agency that conducts research, produces statistics, and provides guidance to support public health, social welfare, and evidence-based policymaking in Finland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
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public health agency ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | Sweden ⓘ |
| coordinatesWith |
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
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Swedish regions ⓘ World Health Organization ⓘ |
| country | Sweden ⓘ |
| employerOf |
behavioral scientist
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biostatistician ⓘ data analyst ⓘ epidemiologist ⓘ health economist ⓘ medical doctor ⓘ microbiologist ⓘ nurse ⓘ policy analyst ⓘ public health specialist ⓘ |
| formedByMergerOf |
Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control
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Swedish National Institute of Public Health ⓘ |
| hasDuties |
communicable disease surveillance
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disease prevention ⓘ environmental health monitoring ⓘ epidemiological analysis ⓘ health promotion ⓘ health promotion campaigns ⓘ health statistics ⓘ infection control guidance ⓘ non-communicable disease prevention ⓘ pandemic preparedness ⓘ public health ⓘ vaccination program coordination ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Solna
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linked to:
Solna Municipality
Östersund ⓘ |
| inception | 2014 ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Sweden ⓘ |
| legalForm | Swedish government agency ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Jämtland County
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Stockholm County ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Folkhälsomyndigheten
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linked to:
Public Health Agency of Sweden
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| officialLanguage | Swedish ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Government of Sweden
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linked to:
Swedish government
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| responsibleFor |
issuing public health guidelines in Sweden
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national communicable disease surveillance in Sweden ⓘ national public health reporting in Sweden ⓘ national vaccination recommendations in Sweden ⓘ |
| sector |
healthcare
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public health ⓘ |
| shortName | FoHM ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | Ministry of Health and Social Affairs (Sweden) ⓘ |
| website | https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/ ⓘ |
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: Public Health Agency of Sweden Description of subject: The Public Health Agency of Sweden is the national government authority responsible for public health, disease prevention, and health promotion in Sweden.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Public Health Agency of Sweden
Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control
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linked to: Public Health Agency of Sweden
linked to: Public Health Agency of Sweden