OLA
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OLA is the commonly used acronym for the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, which provides legal advice and support to UN organs and specialized agencies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| OLA canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1268367 — 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: OLA Context triple: [Office of Legal Affairs, alternateName, OLA]
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A.
OL
OL is a UK postcode area covering Oldham and surrounding parts of Greater Manchester and nearby regions in North West England.
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B.
OLIN
OLIN is a prominent landscape architecture and urban design firm known for shaping major public spaces and environmentally responsive projects worldwide.
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C.
OLEM
OLEM is a division of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency responsible for overseeing land preservation, hazardous waste management, and emergency environmental response activities.
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D.
OM
OM is the post-nominal abbreviation used by members of the Order of Merit, a prestigious British honor recognizing distinguished service in the armed forces, science, art, literature, or the promotion of culture.
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E.
OM
OM is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Oman for international identification and data standards.
- 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: OLA Target entity description: OLA is the commonly used acronym for the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, which provides legal advice and support to UN organs and specialized agencies.
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A.
OL
OL is a UK postcode area covering Oldham and surrounding parts of Greater Manchester and nearby regions in North West England.
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B.
OLIN
OLIN is a prominent landscape architecture and urban design firm known for shaping major public spaces and environmentally responsive projects worldwide.
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C.
OLEM
OLEM is a division of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency responsible for overseeing land preservation, hazardous waste management, and emergency environmental response activities.
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D.
OM
OM is the post-nominal abbreviation used by members of the Order of Merit, a prestigious British honor recognizing distinguished service in the armed forces, science, art, literature, or the promotion of culture.
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E.
OM
OM is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Oman for international identification and data standards.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
legal office
ⓘ
office of the United Nations ⓘ |
| abbreviation | OLA self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | United Nations ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
international law
ⓘ
law of the United Nations ⓘ public international law ⓘ treaty law ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Codification Division
ⓘ
United Nations Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea ⓘ
surface form:
Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea
General Legal Division ⓘ United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Secretariat ⓘ
surface form:
International Trade Law Division
Office of Legal Counsel ⓘ
surface form:
Office of the Legal Counsel
Treaty Section ⓘ |
| hasRole |
providing legal advice
ⓘ
providing legal support ⓘ serving as central legal office of the United Nations ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
New York City
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| inception | 1946 ⓘ |
| isResponsibleFor |
advising on the legal aspects of UN administrative and budgetary matters
ⓘ
advising on the legal aspects of UN sanctions regimes ⓘ advising on the legal aspects of peacekeeping operations ⓘ advising on the legal status of the United Nations and its privileges and immunities ⓘ depositary functions for multilateral treaties ⓘ registration and publication of treaties ⓘ supporting the International Law Commission ⓘ |
| language |
Arabic
ⓘ
Chinese ⓘ English ⓘ French ⓘ Russian ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| legalForm | subsidiary organ of the United Nations ⓘ |
| locatedInOrganization | United Nations Headquarters ⓘ |
| operatedBy | United Nations ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | United Nations Secretariat ⓘ |
| partOf |
United Nations Secretariat
ⓘ
United Nations system ⓘ |
| serviceProvided |
assistance in drafting and interpreting international treaties
ⓘ
legal advice to United Nations organs ⓘ legal advice to United Nations specialized agencies ⓘ legal support for United Nations activities ⓘ representation of the United Nations in legal proceedings ⓘ support to codification of international law ⓘ support to progressive development of international law ⓘ support to the development of international law ⓘ |
| standsFor | United Nations Office of Legal Affairs ⓘ |
| website | https://legal.un.org/ ⓘ |
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: OLA Description of subject: OLA is the commonly used acronym for the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, which provides legal advice and support to UN organs and specialized agencies.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
United Nations Office of Legal Affairs