Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System
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The Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) is a U.S. Department of Defense database that maintains personnel and benefits eligibility information for service members, retirees, and their dependents.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T701056 — 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: Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System Context triple: [DS Logon, dataSource, Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System]
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A.
No Child Left Behind
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B.
Head Start program
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C.
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
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D.
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E.
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- 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: Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System Target entity description: The Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) is a U.S. Department of Defense database that maintains personnel and benefits eligibility information for service members, retirees, and their dependents.
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A.
No Child Left Behind
"No Child Left Behind" is a song by Kanye West from his album *Donda*, known for its atmospheric production and reflective, emotionally charged lyrics.
-
B.
Head Start program
The Head Start program is a U.S. federal initiative that provides early childhood education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families.
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C.
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services is a federal agency that oversees programs and policies supporting special education and vocational rehabilitation services for individuals with disabilities in the United States.
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D.
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
The Office of Elementary and Secondary Education is a division of the U.S. Department of Education responsible for administering federal programs and policies that support and improve K–12 education nationwide.
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E.
Bureau of Indian Education
The Bureau of Indian Education is a U.S. federal agency responsible for providing and overseeing education services for American Indian and Alaska Native students, primarily through schools on or near reservations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Department of Defense system
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database ⓘ personnel information system ⓘ |
| contains |
benefits eligibility data
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demographic data ⓘ personally identifiable information ⓘ service status information ⓘ sponsorship relationships ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| dataSubject |
eligible DoD-affiliated civilians
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military retirees and their dependents ⓘ service member dependents ⓘ uniformed service members ⓘ |
| dataType |
benefits eligibility records
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enrollment records ⓘ personnel records ⓘ |
| governedBy |
Department of Defense privacy regulations
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U.S. federal privacy laws ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States Department of Defense
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linked to:
Department of Defense
|
| linkedTo |
Common Access Card issuance systems
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Real-Time Automated Personnel Identification System ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Defense Manpower Data Center ⓘ |
| operator |
United States Department of Defense
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linked to:
Department of Defense
|
| purpose |
determine eligibility for military benefits
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maintain personnel information for DoD-affiliated individuals ⓘ support delivery of healthcare benefits ⓘ support delivery of other DoD benefits and entitlements ⓘ |
| records |
National Guard members
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Reserve component members ⓘ active duty service members ⓘ certain DoD civilian employees ⓘ eligible family members ⓘ military retirees ⓘ other eligible beneficiaries ⓘ |
| regulatesAccessTo |
TRICARE health benefits
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certain education and survivor benefits ⓘ military installation privileges ⓘ |
| sector | defense ⓘ |
| securityClassification | sensitive but unclassified ⓘ |
| shortName | DEERS ⓘ |
| supportsProcess |
enrollment in TRICARE
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issuance and renewal of military ID cards ⓘ verification of dependent eligibility ⓘ |
| usedFor |
eligibility verification for TRICARE
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eligibility verification for commissary privileges ⓘ eligibility verification for exchange privileges ⓘ eligibility verification for military medical treatment facilities ⓘ issuance of Common Access Cards ⓘ issuance of Uniformed Services ID cards ⓘ |
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: Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System Description of subject: The Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) is a U.S. Department of Defense database that maintains personnel and benefits eligibility information for service members, retirees, and their dependents.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
DMDC
Real-Time Automated Personnel Identification System
→
integratesWith
→
Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System
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Real-Time Automated Personnel Identification System
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dataSource
→
Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System
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