OCR
E137600
OCR is the Office for Civil Rights, a U.S. government agency responsible for enforcing civil rights laws and ensuring equal access and non-discrimination in federally funded programs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| OCR canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1205115 — 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: OCR Context triple: [Office for Civil Rights, abbreviation, OCR]
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A.
Gradient-based learning applied to document recognition
"Gradient-based learning applied to document recognition" is a seminal 1998 paper by Yann LeCun and colleagues that introduced and demonstrated the effectiveness of convolutional neural networks for tasks like handwritten digit recognition, helping to lay the foundations of modern deep learning.
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B.
CLIP
CLIP is an OpenAI model that learns joint representations of images and text, enabling tasks like zero-shot image classification and natural language-based image retrieval.
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C.
TCSVT
TCSVT is a leading IEEE journal that publishes research on circuits, systems, and technologies for video and multimedia processing.
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D.
ODS
ODS is a major Czech centre-right political party known for its liberal-conservative ideology and significant role in the country’s post-communist politics.
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E.
CIFAR
CIFAR (the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research) is a Canadian global research organization that supports long-term, collaborative, interdisciplinary research, including major initiatives in artificial intelligence.
- 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: OCR Target entity description: OCR is the Office for Civil Rights, a U.S. government agency responsible for enforcing civil rights laws and ensuring equal access and non-discrimination in federally funded programs.
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A.
Gradient-based learning applied to document recognition
"Gradient-based learning applied to document recognition" is a seminal 1998 paper by Yann LeCun and colleagues that introduced and demonstrated the effectiveness of convolutional neural networks for tasks like handwritten digit recognition, helping to lay the foundations of modern deep learning.
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B.
CLIP
CLIP is an OpenAI model that learns joint representations of images and text, enabling tasks like zero-shot image classification and natural language-based image retrieval.
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C.
TCSVT
TCSVT is a leading IEEE journal that publishes research on circuits, systems, and technologies for video and multimedia processing.
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D.
ODS
ODS is a major Czech centre-right political party known for its liberal-conservative ideology and significant role in the country’s post-communist politics.
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E.
CIFAR
CIFAR (the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research) is a Canadian global research organization that supports long-term, collaborative, interdisciplinary research, including major initiatives in artificial intelligence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil rights enforcement agency
ⓘ
federal agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation | OCR self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employs |
attorneys
ⓘ
civil rights compliance specialists ⓘ civil rights investigators ⓘ policy analysts ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/index.html ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States government
ⓘ
surface form:
federal government of the United States
|
| legalMandate |
ADA Title II regulations for public entities in education
ⓘ
Age Discrimination Act of 1975 ⓘ Age Discrimination Act of 1975 ⓘ
surface form:
Age Discrimination Act regulations in education programs
Boy Scouts of America Equal Access Act ⓘ FERPA regulations on student education records ⓘ Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act ⓘ PPRA regulations on student surveys and parental rights ⓘ Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment ⓘ Rehabilitation Act of 1973 ⓘ
surface form:
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Section 504 regulations on disability discrimination in education ⓘ Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act ⓘ
surface form:
Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) employment provisions (for certain employers) ⓘ
surface form:
Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008
Title IX ⓘ
surface form:
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972
Title IX regulations on sex discrimination in education ⓘ Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ⓘ Title VI regulations on race, color, and national origin discrimination ⓘ |
| missionStatement | to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence through vigorous enforcement of civil rights in our nation’s schools ⓘ |
| oversees |
colleges and universities receiving federal financial assistance
ⓘ
libraries and museums receiving federal education funds ⓘ local educational agencies receiving federal financial assistance ⓘ schools receiving federal financial assistance ⓘ state educational agencies receiving federal financial assistance ⓘ vocational schools receiving federal financial assistance ⓘ |
| parentAgency |
United States Department of Education
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Department of Education
|
| partOf |
United States Department of Education
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Department of Education
|
| reportsTo |
United States Secretary of Education
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Secretary of Education
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| responsibleFor |
conducting compliance reviews of educational institutions
ⓘ
eliminating discrimination in programs receiving federal financial assistance from the U.S. Department of Education ⓘ enforcement of federal civil rights laws in education programs ⓘ enforcing privacy protections for student education records ⓘ enforcing protections against age discrimination in education programs ⓘ enforcing protections against race and national origin discrimination in education ⓘ enforcing protections against sex discrimination in education ⓘ enforcing protections for students with disabilities in education ⓘ ensuring equal access to education ⓘ investigating civil rights complaints in education ⓘ issuing policy guidance on civil rights in education ⓘ providing technical assistance on civil rights compliance to schools and institutions ⓘ |
| sector | education ⓘ |
| supervisingOfficial | Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights ⓘ |
| typeOfOrganization | regulatory agency ⓘ |
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: OCR Description of subject: OCR is the Office for Civil Rights, a U.S. government agency responsible for enforcing civil rights laws and ensuring equal access and non-discrimination in federally funded programs.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Office for Civil Rights (HHS)
subject surface form:
Office for Civil Rights