War Relocation Authority

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United States federal agency World War II-era agency

The War Relocation Authority was a U.S. government agency during World War II responsible for administering the forced relocation and incarceration of Japanese Americans in internment camps.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
War Relocation Authority canonical	6
The War Relocation Authority lacked authority to subject loyal citizens to continued detention	1
War Relocation Authority camps	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States federal agency ⓘ World War II-era agency ⓘ
administeredCamp	Gila River War Relocation Center ⓘ Granada War Relocation Center (Amache) ⓘ surface form: Granada (Amache) War Relocation Center Heart Mountain Relocation Center ⓘ surface form: Heart Mountain War Relocation Center Rohwer War Relocation Center ⓘ surface form: Jerome War Relocation Center Manzanar War Relocation Center ⓘ Minidoka War Relocation Center ⓘ Poston War Relocation Center ⓘ Rohwer War Relocation Center ⓘ Topaz War Relocation Center ⓘ Tule Lake Segregation Center ⓘ surface form: Tule Lake War Relocation Center
appliesToJurisdiction	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
archivesAt	National Archives and Records Administration ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
dissolved	1946 ⓘ
estimatedNumberOfPeopleAffected	over 110000 Japanese Americans ⓘ
foundedBy	President Franklin D. Roosevelt ⓘ surface form: Franklin D. Roosevelt
hasCriticism	racial discrimination against Japanese Americans ⓘ unconstitutional mass incarceration without due process ⓘ violation of civil liberties ⓘ
hasProgram	loyalty questionnaire program in camps ⓘ
hasRole	administration of forced relocation of Japanese Americans ⓘ administration of incarceration of Japanese Americans ⓘ construction and operation of internment camps ⓘ employment and education programs in camps ⓘ management of War Relocation Centers ⓘ public relations regarding Japanese American incarceration ⓘ resettlement of Japanese Americans from camps ⓘ
headOfGovernmentBody	Dillon S. Myer ⓘ Milton S. Eisenhower ⓘ
historicalAssessment	widely regarded as a grave injustice ⓘ
inception	1942 ⓘ
legalBasis	Executive Order 9102 ⓘ
locationOfHeadquarters	Washington, D.C. ⓘ
mainSubject	Japanese American incarceration ⓘ Japanese American internment camps ⓘ
notableWork	implementation of mass incarceration of Japanese Americans ⓘ
numberOfCampsAdministered	10 major War Relocation Centers ⓘ
operatedAlongside	Federal Bureau of Investigation ⓘ United States Department of War ⓘ surface form: War Department of the United States
operatedInConflict	World War II ⓘ
partOf	executive branch of the United States ⓘ surface form: Executive branch of the United States government
precededBy	initial removal operations by the U.S. Army ⓘ
replaced	Civilian Conservation Corps facilities for temporary use ⓘ
replacedBy	United States Department of the Interior ⓘ surface form: Department of the Interior (for some residual functions)
subordinateTo	Executive Office of the President of the United States ⓘ Office for Emergency Management ⓘ
targetedEthnicGroup	Japanese Americans ⓘ Japanese immigrants in the United States ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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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: War Relocation Authority
Description of subject: The War Relocation Authority was a U.S. government agency during World War II responsible for administering the forced relocation and incarceration of Japanese Americans in internment camps.

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

United States home front during World War II → involvedAgency → War Relocation Authority ⓘ

Manzanar National Historic Site → associatedWith → War Relocation Authority ⓘ

Dorothea Lange → employer → War Relocation Authority ⓘ

Japanese American internment → participant → War Relocation Authority ⓘ

Japanese American internment → includes → War Relocation Authority ⓘ

this entity surface form: War Relocation Authority camps

Ex parte Endo → holding → War Relocation Authority ⓘ

this entity surface form: The War Relocation Authority lacked authority to subject loyal citizens to continued detention

Ex parte Endo → relatedTo → War Relocation Authority ⓘ

Topaz War Relocation Center → operatedBy → War Relocation Authority ⓘ