VIS Regulation
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The VIS Regulation is the European Union law that establishes and governs the operation, data use, and security rules of the Visa Information System for processing Schengen visa applications.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| VIS Regulation canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10341870 — 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: VIS Regulation Context triple: [Visa Information System, legalBasis, VIS Regulation]
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A.
VIS
VIS is the IATA airport code for Visalia Municipal Airport in Visalia, California, United States.
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B.
Vis
Vis is a Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea known for its unspoiled nature, historic towns, and former role as a strategic military base.
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C.
VIAG
VIAG is the ICAO airport code for Agra Airport, a public and military airfield serving the city of Agra in Uttar Pradesh, India.
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D.
VIAG
VIAG was a major German industrial and energy conglomerate that later merged into E.ON.
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E.
VSI
VSI is the commonly used abbreviation for the "Very Short Introductions" series of concise, authoritative books published by Oxford University Press on a wide range of subjects.
- 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: VIS Regulation Target entity description: The VIS Regulation is the European Union law that establishes and governs the operation, data use, and security rules of the Visa Information System for processing Schengen visa applications.
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A.
VIS
VIS is the IATA airport code for Visalia Municipal Airport in Visalia, California, United States.
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B.
Vis
Vis is a Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea known for its unspoiled nature, historic towns, and former role as a strategic military base.
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C.
VIAG
VIAG is the ICAO airport code for Agra Airport, a public and military airfield serving the city of Agra in Uttar Pradesh, India.
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D.
VIAG
VIAG was a major German industrial and energy conglomerate that later merged into E.ON.
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E.
VSI
VSI is the commonly used abbreviation for the "Very Short Introductions" series of concise, authoritative books published by Oxford University Press on a wide range of subjects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
EU law
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European Union regulation ⓘ legal act on information systems ⓘ |
| adoptedBy |
Council of the European Union
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European Parliament ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
assist in the identification of persons
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combat fraud in visa procedures ⓘ enhance security of the Schengen area ⓘ facilitate visa application procedures ⓘ improve implementation of the common visa policy ⓘ prevent visa shopping ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Schengen visa applications
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airport transit visas ⓘ long-stay visas in certain cases ⓘ short-stay visas ⓘ |
| concerns | Visa Information System ⓘ |
| containsProvisionsOn |
alphanumeric data in VIS
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biometric data in VIS ⓘ data protection safeguards ⓘ logging and monitoring of data processing ⓘ responsibility and liability for unlawful data processing ⓘ statistics and reporting on VIS use ⓘ |
| defines |
categories of data to be stored in VIS
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conditions for consulting VIS ⓘ obligations of data controllers for VIS ⓘ purposes of processing VIS data ⓘ rights of visa applicants regarding VIS data ⓘ rules on data correction and deletion in VIS ⓘ |
| hasOfficialTitle |
Regulation (EC) No 767/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council
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linked to:
Regulation (EC) No 767/2008
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| implementedBy |
EU Member States participating in Schengen
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linked to:
Schengen Area
European Commission ⓘ |
| language | all official languages of the European Union ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
Treaty establishing the European Community
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linked to:
Treaty of Rome
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| linkedTo |
EU Visa Code
ⓘ
EU data protection framework ⓘ
linked to:
EU acquis on data protection
Schengen Borders Code ⓘ |
| policyArea |
border management
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internal security ⓘ migration and asylum ⓘ |
| regulates |
access to data in the Visa Information System
ⓘ
data retention in the Visa Information System ⓘ data security in the Visa Information System ⓘ establishment of the Visa Information System ⓘ operation of the Visa Information System ⓘ responsibilities of Member States in VIS ⓘ responsibilities of the Commission in VIS ⓘ use of data in the Visa Information System ⓘ |
| sector | justice and home affairs ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
oversight by national data protection authorities
ⓘ
oversight by the European Data Protection Supervisor ⓘ |
| territorialScope |
Schengen area
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linked to:
Schengen Area
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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: VIS Regulation Description of subject: The VIS Regulation is the European Union law that establishes and governs the operation, data use, and security rules of the Visa Information System for processing Schengen visa applications.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.