National Personnel Records Center
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The National Personnel Records Center is a major U.S. federal facility responsible for storing and providing access to military and civilian personnel records.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Army personnel records centers | 1 |
| NPRC Military Personnel Records Center | 1 |
| National Personnel Records Center canonical | 1 |
| Official Military Personnel Files | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2782311 — 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: National Personnel Records Center Context triple: [Archivist of the United States, hasAuthorityOver, National Personnel Records Center]
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A.
National Archives and Records Administration
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent U.S. federal agency responsible for preserving and providing access to the nation’s government records and historical documents.
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B.
The National Archives
The National Archives is the official archive and publisher for the UK government, responsible for preserving and providing access to the nation’s historical and legal records.
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C.
National Archives Building
The National Archives Building is a historic federal building in Washington, D.C. that houses and displays foundational U.S. documents such as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
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D.
Washington Headquarters Services
Washington Headquarters Services is a U.S. Department of Defense support agency that provides administrative, operational, and management services to Pentagon leadership and various defense organizations.
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E.
Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Institution Archives is the official repository that preserves and provides access to the historical records and institutional memory of the Smithsonian Institution.
- 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: National Personnel Records Center Target entity description: The National Personnel Records Center is a major U.S. federal facility responsible for storing and providing access to military and civilian personnel records.
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A.
National Archives and Records Administration
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent U.S. federal agency responsible for preserving and providing access to the nation’s government records and historical documents.
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B.
The National Archives
The National Archives is the official archive and publisher for the UK government, responsible for preserving and providing access to the nation’s historical and legal records.
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C.
National Archives Building
The National Archives Building is a historic federal building in Washington, D.C. that houses and displays foundational U.S. documents such as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
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D.
Washington Headquarters Services
Washington Headquarters Services is a U.S. Department of Defense support agency that provides administrative, operational, and management services to Pentagon leadership and various defense organizations.
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E.
Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Institution Archives is the official repository that preserves and provides access to the historical records and institutional memory of the Smithsonian Institution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States federal government facility
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records center ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | NPRC ⓘ |
| archivesFrom |
Department of Defense
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federal civilian agencies ⓘ military service branches of the United States ⓘ |
| buildingType |
archives facility
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records storage facility ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| governedBy |
Freedom of Information Act
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Privacy Act of 1974 ⓘ federal records laws of the United States ⓘ |
| hasCollectionSize | millions of individual personnel files ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
NPRC
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surface form:
NPRC Civilian Personnel Records Center
National Personnel Records Center self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
NPRC Military Personnel Records Center
|
| hasWebsite | https://www.archives.gov/personnel-records-center ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Midwestern United States
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surface form:
Midwest
Missouri ⓘ St. Louis County, Missouri ⓘ St. Louis, Missouri, United States ⓘ
surface form:
St. Louis, Missouri
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| operatedBy | National Archives and Records Administration ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
United States government
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surface form:
United States federal government
|
| partOf | National Archives and Records Administration ⓘ |
| purpose |
access and reference services for personnel records
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preservation of federal personnel records ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
providing access to civilian personnel records
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providing access to military personnel records ⓘ responding to Freedom of Information Act requests for personnel records ⓘ responding to records requests from government agencies ⓘ responding to records requests from next of kin ⓘ responding to records requests from veterans ⓘ |
| serves |
federal agencies
ⓘ
general public ⓘ next of kin of deceased veterans ⓘ veterans ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
long-term preservation of personnel records
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reference services for personnel records ⓘ |
| stores |
National Personnel Records Center
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Official Military Personnel Files
Official Personnel Folders ⓘ United States civilian personnel records ⓘ United States military personnel records ⓘ medical treatment records of military personnel ⓘ organizational and pay records ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
historical and genealogical research
ⓘ
military service verification requests ⓘ veterans benefits claims processes ⓘ |
| supervisedBy |
National Archives and Records Administration
ⓘ
surface form:
Office of the Archivist of the United States
|
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: National Personnel Records Center Description of subject: The National Personnel Records Center is a major U.S. federal facility responsible for storing and providing access to military and civilian personnel records.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Army personnel records centers
National Personnel Records Center
→
hasFacility
→
National Personnel Records Center
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
NPRC Military Personnel Records Center
National Personnel Records Center
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stores
→
National Personnel Records Center
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Official Military Personnel Files