Federal Works Agency

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United States federal agency

The Federal Works Agency was a U.S. government agency created in 1939 to consolidate and oversee federal public works and construction programs, including major New Deal infrastructure projects.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Federal Works Agency canonical	7
Federal Works Agency (in certain transferred functions)	1
United States Federal Works Agency	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States federal agency ⓘ
appliesToJurisdiction	United States of America ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ
createdBy	Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1939 ⓘ surface form: Reorganization Act of 1939 Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1939 ⓘ surface form: Reorganization Plan No. I of 1939
dissolved	1949 ⓘ
executiveBranchAgency	true ⓘ
formedByMergerOf	Branch of Buildings Management of the National Park Service ⓘ Federal Highway Administration ⓘ surface form: Bureau of Public Roads Public Buildings Service ⓘ surface form: Public Buildings Branch of the Procurement Division Public Works Administration (PWA) ⓘ surface form: Public Works Administration Public Housing Administration ⓘ surface form: United States Housing Authority
hasPart	Bureau of Community Facilities ⓘ Civilian War Services Division ⓘ surface form: Division of War Public Service Public Buildings Service ⓘ surface form: Public Buildings Administration Public Buildings Service ⓘ surface form: Public Buildings Bureau Federal Highway Administration ⓘ surface form: Public Roads Administration Federal Highway Administration ⓘ surface form: Public Roads Bureau Public Works Administration (PWA) ⓘ surface form: Public Works Administration Public Housing Administration ⓘ surface form: United States Housing Authority Works Progress Administration ⓘ surface form: Work Projects Administration
headquartersLocation	Washington, D.C. ⓘ
inception	1939 ⓘ
jurisdiction	United States government ⓘ surface form: Federal government of the United States
legislativeBody	United States Congress ⓘ
notableWork	administration of New Deal public works programs ⓘ construction of federal office buildings ⓘ development of public housing projects ⓘ expansion of the federal highway system ⓘ
parentOrganization	executive branch of the United States ⓘ surface form: Executive branch of the United States government
purpose	administration of public housing programs ⓘ construction and maintenance of federal public buildings ⓘ coordination of federal public works programs ⓘ development and maintenance of federal highways and roads ⓘ support of New Deal infrastructure projects ⓘ
replaced	Branch of Buildings Management of the National Park Service ⓘ Public Buildings Service ⓘ surface form: Public Buildings Branch of the Procurement Division Federal Highway Administration ⓘ surface form: Public Roads Administration Public Works Administration (PWA) ⓘ surface form: Public Works Administration Public Housing Administration ⓘ surface form: United States Housing Authority
replacedBy	United States Department of the Interior ⓘ surface form: Department of the Interior U.S. General Services Administration ⓘ surface form: General Services Administration Housing and Home Finance Agency ⓘ
responsibleFor	federal building management ⓘ federal highway construction and maintenance ⓘ federal public works construction ⓘ slum clearance and low-rent housing projects ⓘ war-related public works during World War II ⓘ
timePeriod	New Deal ⓘ surface form: New Deal era World War II ⓘ surface form: World War II era

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: Federal Works Agency
Description of subject: The Federal Works Agency was a U.S. government agency created in 1939 to consolidate and oversee federal public works and construction programs, including major New Deal infrastructure projects.

Referenced by (9)

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

PWA → replacedBy → Federal Works Agency ⓘ

subject surface form: Public Works Administration

WPA → replacedBy → Federal Works Agency ⓘ

subject surface form: Works Progress Administration

U.S. General Services Administration → replaced → Federal Works Agency ⓘ

FSA → oversaw → Federal Works Agency ⓘ

subject surface form: Federal Security Agency

this entity surface form: Federal Works Agency (in certain transferred functions)

Bureau of Community Facilities → operatedBy → Federal Works Agency ⓘ

Bureau of Community Facilities → partOf → Federal Works Agency ⓘ

Bureau of Community Facilities → parentOrganization → Federal Works Agency ⓘ

United States Housing Authority → subordinateTo → Federal Works Agency ⓘ

this entity surface form: United States Federal Works Agency

United States Housing Authority → parentOrganization → Federal Works Agency ⓘ