Texas Division of Emergency Management
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The Texas Division of Emergency Management is the state agency responsible for coordinating disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation efforts across Texas.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Texas Division of Emergency Management canonical | 7 |
| State of Texas Emergency Management Plan | 1 |
| Texas State Operations Center | 1 |
| Texas emergency management system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T808947 — 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: Texas Division of Emergency Management Context triple: [Texas A&M University System, hasAgency, Texas Division of Emergency Management]
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A.
Texas Department of Public Safety
The Texas Department of Public Safety is a statewide law enforcement and public safety agency responsible for highway patrol, criminal investigations, driver licensing, and emergency management across Texas.
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B.
Dallas County Sheriff’s Office
The Dallas County Sheriff’s Office is the Alabama law enforcement agency historically known for its central role in violently opposing civil rights demonstrators during the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965.
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C.
Government of Texas
The Government of Texas is the state’s political and administrative authority, comprising the executive, legislative, and judicial branches that create and enforce laws for Texas.
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D.
Denton County Sheriff's Office
The Denton County Sheriff's Office is the primary law enforcement agency responsible for policing unincorporated areas, operating the county jail, and providing related public safety services in Denton County, Texas.
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E.
Rockwall County, Texas
Rockwall County, Texas is a small, rapidly growing suburban county in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area known for being the smallest county by land area in the state.
- 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: Texas Division of Emergency Management Target entity description: The Texas Division of Emergency Management is the state agency responsible for coordinating disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation efforts across Texas.
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A.
Texas Department of Public Safety
The Texas Department of Public Safety is a statewide law enforcement and public safety agency responsible for highway patrol, criminal investigations, driver licensing, and emergency management across Texas.
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B.
Dallas County Sheriff’s Office
The Dallas County Sheriff’s Office is the Alabama law enforcement agency historically known for its central role in violently opposing civil rights demonstrators during the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965.
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C.
Government of Texas
The Government of Texas is the state’s political and administrative authority, comprising the executive, legislative, and judicial branches that create and enforce laws for Texas.
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D.
Denton County Sheriff's Office
The Denton County Sheriff's Office is the primary law enforcement agency responsible for policing unincorporated areas, operating the county jail, and providing related public safety services in Denton County, Texas.
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E.
Rockwall County, Texas
Rockwall County, Texas is a small, rapidly growing suburban county in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area known for being the smallest county by land area in the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
ⓘ
state emergency management agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation | TDEM ⓘ |
| city | Austin ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Federal Emergency Management Agency
ⓘ
Texas Department of Public Safety ⓘ Texas Military Department ⓘ
linked to:
Texas Military Forces
local governments in Texas ⓘ volunteer organizations active in disasters in Texas ⓘ |
| coordinates |
requests for federal disaster assistance
ⓘ
state disaster declarations ⓘ statewide emergency communications during disasters ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| employer | Texas state government employees ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
disaster risk reduction
ⓘ
emergency management ⓘ public safety ⓘ |
| formerParentOrganization | Texas Department of Public Safety ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Austin, Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
Austin
|
| jurisdiction |
State of Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
Texas
|
| legalBasis |
Texas Government Code Chapter 418
ⓘ
linked to:
Texas Government Code
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| mandate |
coordinate state emergency management activities
ⓘ
develop and maintain the state emergency management plan ⓘ provide training and exercises for emergency management personnel ⓘ support local jurisdictions during disasters ⓘ |
| oversees | local emergency management programs in Texas ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Texas A&M University System ⓘ |
| provides |
disaster response coordination
ⓘ
emergency management training ⓘ hazard mitigation planning support ⓘ public information during disasters ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
coordination with federal emergency management agencies
ⓘ
coordination with local emergency management offices ⓘ disaster mitigation in Texas ⓘ disaster preparedness in Texas ⓘ disaster recovery in Texas ⓘ disaster response in Texas ⓘ implementation of the Texas Emergency Management Plan ⓘ state emergency management program coordination ⓘ state emergency operations center coordination ⓘ statewide disaster planning ⓘ |
| scope | all 254 counties in Texas ⓘ |
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| website | https://tdem.texas.gov/ ⓘ |
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: Texas Division of Emergency Management Description of subject: The Texas Division of Emergency Management is the state agency responsible for coordinating disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation efforts across Texas.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
DPS
linked to: Texas Division of Emergency Management
linked to: Texas Division of Emergency Management