National Animal Disease Center
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The National Animal Disease Center is a major U.S. federal research facility focused on studying and controlling diseases that affect livestock and other domestic animals.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| National Animal Disease Center canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8518199 — 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 Animal Disease Center Context triple: [Ames, Iowa, hasFacility, National Animal Disease Center]
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A.
Center for Veterinary Biologics
The Center for Veterinary Biologics is a U.S. Department of Agriculture unit responsible for regulating and licensing veterinary vaccines, diagnostic kits, and other biological products to ensure their safety, purity, potency, and effectiveness.
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B.
Center for Veterinary Medicine
The Center for Veterinary Medicine is a branch of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration responsible for regulating animal drugs, animal food, and related veterinary products to ensure their safety and effectiveness.
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C.
Plum Island Animal Disease Center
Plum Island Animal Disease Center is a high-security U.S. federal research facility dedicated to studying and diagnosing foreign animal diseases that threaten livestock and agriculture.
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D.
National Animal Health Monitoring System
The National Animal Health Monitoring System is a U.S. nationwide surveillance and data-collection program that tracks the health, management, and productivity of domestic livestock and poultry populations.
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E.
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is a U.S. federal agency responsible for protecting animal health, plant health, and animal welfare, and for facilitating safe agricultural trade.
- 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 Animal Disease Center Target entity description: The National Animal Disease Center is a major U.S. federal research facility focused on studying and controlling diseases that affect livestock and other domestic animals.
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A.
Center for Veterinary Biologics
The Center for Veterinary Biologics is a U.S. Department of Agriculture unit responsible for regulating and licensing veterinary vaccines, diagnostic kits, and other biological products to ensure their safety, purity, potency, and effectiveness.
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B.
Center for Veterinary Medicine
The Center for Veterinary Medicine is a branch of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration responsible for regulating animal drugs, animal food, and related veterinary products to ensure their safety and effectiveness.
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C.
Plum Island Animal Disease Center
Plum Island Animal Disease Center is a high-security U.S. federal research facility dedicated to studying and diagnosing foreign animal diseases that threaten livestock and agriculture.
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D.
National Animal Health Monitoring System
The National Animal Health Monitoring System is a U.S. nationwide surveillance and data-collection program that tracks the health, management, and productivity of domestic livestock and poultry populations.
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E.
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is a U.S. federal agency responsible for protecting animal health, plant health, and animal welfare, and for facilitating safe agricultural trade.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | research institute ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
international animal health organizations
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other federal agencies ⓘ state veterinary diagnostic laboratories ⓘ universities ⓘ |
| conductsResearchOn |
antimicrobial resistance in animal pathogens
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bacterial diseases of livestock ⓘ parasitic diseases of livestock ⓘ prion diseases ⓘ viral diseases of livestock ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| fieldOfWork |
animal health
ⓘ
epidemiology ⓘ immunology ⓘ infectious diseases ⓘ microbiology ⓘ pathology ⓘ veterinary medicine ⓘ zoonotic diseases ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | NADC ⓘ |
| hasLaboratoryType |
animal research facility
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biosafety level 3 laboratory ⓘ |
| inception | 1961 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Ames, Iowa
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Iowa ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| mission |
develop methods to prevent, control, or eradicate animal diseases
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protect and improve the health of livestock and other domestic animals ⓘ protect public health from animal disease threats ⓘ support U.S. livestock industries ⓘ support a safe and abundant food supply ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
USDA Agricultural Research Service
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linked to:
Agricultural Research Service
United States Department of Agriculture ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
United States federal government
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linked to:
United States government
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| parentOrganization | United States Department of Agriculture ⓘ |
| partOf | Agricultural Research Service ⓘ |
| primaryBeneficiary |
U.S. livestock industry
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animal health professionals ⓘ public health authorities ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
cattle diseases
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emerging animal diseases ⓘ foodborne pathogens ⓘ goat diseases ⓘ livestock diseases ⓘ poultry diseases ⓘ sheep diseases ⓘ swine diseases ⓘ zoonotic pathogens ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
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 Animal Disease Center Description of subject: The National Animal Disease Center is a major U.S. federal research facility focused on studying and controlling diseases that affect livestock and other domestic animals.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.