Public Law 99-502
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Public Law 99-502 is the 1986 U.S. federal statute that strengthened technology transfer by promoting cooperative research and development partnerships between federal laboratories and the private sector.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Public Law 99-502 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1635434 — 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: Public Law 99-502 Context triple: [Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986, publicLawNumber, Public Law 99-502]
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Public Law 99-508
Public Law 99-508 is the 1986 U.S. federal statute, known as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, that expanded and updated government restrictions on wiretaps and electronic surveillance to cover modern digital and wireless communications.
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Public Law 92-500
Public Law 92-500 is the 1972 U.S. federal statute that established the modern Clean Water Act framework for regulating water pollution and protecting the nation’s surface waters.
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C.
Public Law 99-499
Public Law 99-499 is a U.S. federal statute enacted in 1986 that, among other provisions, established the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act to improve community safety through hazardous chemical reporting and emergency planning requirements.
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D.
Public Law 96-510
Public Law 96-510 is the formal designation of the U.S. federal statute commonly known as the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund), which governs the cleanup of hazardous waste sites and assigns liability for environmental contamination.
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E.
Public Law 99-272
Public Law 99-272 is the formal designation of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, a major U.S. federal law best known for establishing COBRA health insurance continuation coverage.
- 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: Public Law 99-502 Target entity description: Public Law 99-502 is the 1986 U.S. federal statute that strengthened technology transfer by promoting cooperative research and development partnerships between federal laboratories and the private sector.
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A.
Public Law 99-508
Public Law 99-508 is the 1986 U.S. federal statute, known as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, that expanded and updated government restrictions on wiretaps and electronic surveillance to cover modern digital and wireless communications.
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B.
Public Law 92-500
Public Law 92-500 is the 1972 U.S. federal statute that established the modern Clean Water Act framework for regulating water pollution and protecting the nation’s surface waters.
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C.
Public Law 99-499
Public Law 99-499 is a U.S. federal statute enacted in 1986 that, among other provisions, established the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act to improve community safety through hazardous chemical reporting and emergency planning requirements.
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D.
Public Law 96-510
Public Law 96-510 is the formal designation of the U.S. federal statute commonly known as the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund), which governs the cleanup of hazardous waste sites and assigns liability for environmental contamination.
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E.
Public Law 99-272
Public Law 99-272 is the formal designation of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, a major U.S. federal law best known for establishing COBRA health insurance continuation coverage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States federal statute
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public law ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
encourage collaboration between government and industry
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enhance commercialization of federally funded research ⓘ increase utilization of federal laboratory technologies ⓘ |
| appliesTo | federal laboratories ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| dateEnacted | 1986 ⓘ |
| enactedBy | 99th United States Congress ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
cooperative research and development
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technology transfer ⓘ |
| governmentBranch | legislative branch of the United States ⓘ |
| hasEffectOn |
federal research and development system
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technology commercialization practices in the United States ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States government
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surface form:
United States federal government
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| language | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | statute ⓘ |
| legislativeSession | 99th United States Congress ⓘ |
| policyArea |
innovation policy
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research and development policy ⓘ science and technology policy ⓘ |
| purpose |
to promote cooperative research and development partnerships between federal laboratories and non-federal entities
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to strengthen technology transfer from federal laboratories to the private sector ⓘ |
| regulates | cooperative research and development agreements ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
public–private research partnerships
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technology transfer from federal laboratories ⓘ |
| sectorInvolved |
industry
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private sector ⓘ |
| signedBy | Ronald Reagan ⓘ |
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: Public Law 99-502 Description of subject: Public Law 99-502 is the 1986 U.S. federal statute that strengthened technology transfer by promoting cooperative research and development partnerships between federal laboratories and the private sector.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986