Form W-3
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Form W-3 is a transmittal form used by employers to summarize and submit all employees’ W-2 wage and tax statements to the Social Security Administration.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Form W-3 canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1605611 — 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: Form W-3 Context triple: [Form W-2, relatedForm, Form W-3]
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A.
Form W-2
Form W-2 is an IRS tax document that employers must provide to employees each year summarizing their wages and the taxes withheld from their pay.
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B.
Form 941
Form 941 is a quarterly IRS tax return that employers use to report wages paid, income tax withheld, and Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes.
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C.
Form I-9
Form I-9 is a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services document used by employers to verify the identity and employment authorization of individuals hired for work in the United States.
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D.
FATCA Form 8938
FATCA Form 8938 is an IRS tax form used by certain U.S. taxpayers to report specified foreign financial assets under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act.
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E.
Form U4
Form U4 is the uniform registration form used by broker-dealer and investment adviser representatives in the United States to apply for and update their licensing and disclosure information with regulators.
- 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: Form W-3 Target entity description: Form W-3 is a transmittal form used by employers to summarize and submit all employees’ W-2 wage and tax statements to the Social Security Administration.
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A.
Form W-2
Form W-2 is an IRS tax document that employers must provide to employees each year summarizing their wages and the taxes withheld from their pay.
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B.
Form 941
Form 941 is a quarterly IRS tax return that employers use to report wages paid, income tax withheld, and Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes.
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C.
Form I-9
Form I-9 is a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services document used by employers to verify the identity and employment authorization of individuals hired for work in the United States.
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D.
FATCA Form 8938
FATCA Form 8938 is an IRS tax form used by certain U.S. taxpayers to report specified foreign financial assets under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act.
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E.
Form U4
Form U4 is the uniform registration form used by broker-dealer and investment adviser representatives in the United States to apply for and update their licensing and disclosure information with regulators.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States tax form
ⓘ
information return ⓘ |
| administeredBy | Social Security Administration ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Transmittal of Wage and Tax Statements ⓘ |
| appliesTo | U.S. employers with employees receiving Form W-2 ⓘ |
| associatedWithSystem | SSA wage reporting system ⓘ |
| containsSummaryOf |
total Medicare tax withheld for all employees
ⓘ
total Medicare wages reported on all attached Forms W-2 ⓘ total Social Security tax withheld for all employees ⓘ total Social Security wages reported on all attached Forms W-2 ⓘ total federal income tax withheld for all employees ⓘ total wages reported on all attached Forms W-2 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distributionChannel | IRS and SSA websites (instructions and samples) ⓘ |
| documentFormat | preprinted red-ink form for Copy A ⓘ |
| filedBy | employers filing paper wage reports ⓘ |
| filedWith | Social Security Administration ⓘ |
| filingFrequency | annual ⓘ |
| governingBody | Internal Revenue Service ⓘ |
| includesField |
contact person information
ⓘ
employer address ⓘ employer identification number ⓘ employer name ⓘ kind of employer ⓘ kind of payer ⓘ number of Forms W-2 transmitted ⓘ |
| instructionDocument | General Instructions for Forms W-2 and W-3 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalArea |
Social Security reporting
ⓘ
U.S. federal tax law ⓘ |
| mustMatch | totals on attached Forms W-2 ⓘ |
| notRequiredWhen | W-2 information is filed electronically ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose |
summarize employees’ Form W-2 information
ⓘ
transmit Forms W-2 to the Social Security Administration ⓘ |
| publicationType | annual form ⓘ |
| regulatesFilingMethod | paper wage reporting ⓘ |
| relatedToForm | Form W-2 ⓘ |
| reportsOnBehalfOf | employees ⓘ |
| requiredWhen | paper Forms W-2 are filed with SSA ⓘ |
| requiresAttachment | Copy A of all Forms W-2 ⓘ |
| sector | payroll reporting ⓘ |
| submissionMedium | paper ⓘ |
| usedBy | employers ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Medicare wage reporting
ⓘ
Social Security wage reporting ⓘ federal income tax reporting ⓘ |
| usedForTaxYear | calendar year reporting ⓘ |
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: Form W-3 Description of subject: Form W-3 is a transmittal form used by employers to summarize and submit all employees’ W-2 wage and tax statements to the Social Security Administration.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.