NAICS codes
E325296
NAICS codes are a standardized classification system used in North America to categorize businesses and industries for statistical, regulatory, and procurement purposes.
All labels observed (5)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3072967 — 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: NAICS codes Context triple: [GSA eLibrary, providesInformationOn, NAICS codes]
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A.
United Nations Central Product Classification for services
The United Nations Central Product Classification for services is an international standard taxonomy that organizes and codes service activities to facilitate consistent statistical reporting, trade negotiations, and policy analysis across countries and sectors.
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B.
Industry Classification Benchmark
The Industry Classification Benchmark is a globally used system that categorizes companies and securities into sectors and industries to facilitate investment analysis and benchmarking.
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C.
Census Code
The Census Code is the body of U.S. federal law that governs the collection, confidentiality, and publication of national statistical and census data.
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D.
Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System
The Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System is an internationally standardized system of names and numbers used to classify traded products for customs and trade statistics worldwide.
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E.
N-codes staff directorates
N-codes staff directorates are the numbered functional directorates within the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations that manage major areas of U.S. Navy policy, planning, and operations.
- 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: NAICS codes Target entity description: NAICS codes are a standardized classification system used in North America to categorize businesses and industries for statistical, regulatory, and procurement purposes.
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A.
United Nations Central Product Classification for services
The United Nations Central Product Classification for services is an international standard taxonomy that organizes and codes service activities to facilitate consistent statistical reporting, trade negotiations, and policy analysis across countries and sectors.
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B.
Industry Classification Benchmark
The Industry Classification Benchmark is a globally used system that categorizes companies and securities into sectors and industries to facilitate investment analysis and benchmarking.
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C.
Census Code
The Census Code is the body of U.S. federal law that governs the collection, confidentiality, and publication of national statistical and census data.
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D.
Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System
The Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System is an internationally standardized system of names and numbers used to classify traded products for customs and trade statistics worldwide.
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E.
N-codes staff directorates
N-codes staff directorates are the numbered functional directorates within the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations that manage major areas of U.S. Navy policy, planning, and operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
industrial classification system
ⓘ
standard ⓘ statistical classification ⓘ |
| abbreviationFor |
NAICS codes
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
North American Industry Classification System codes
|
| alignmentGoal | ensure comparability of economic statistics across North American countries ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
business establishments
ⓘ
government units engaged in market production ⓘ |
| basedOn | similarity of production processes ⓘ |
| codeLength | 2 to 6 digits ⓘ |
| codeType | numeric ⓘ |
| coordinatedBy | Office of Management and Budget ⓘ |
| developedBy |
INEGI
ⓘ
surface form:
Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía
Office of Management and Budget ⓘ Statistics Canada ⓘ |
| exampleSector |
11 Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting
ⓘ
23 Construction ⓘ 31-33 Manufacturing ⓘ 44-45 Retail Trade ⓘ 62 Health Care and Social Assistance ⓘ |
| fifthLevelName | national industry ⓘ |
| firstVersionYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| fourthLevelName | NAICS industry ⓘ |
| fullName |
NAICS codes
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
North American Industry Classification System codes
|
| governingDocument |
NAICS codes
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
North American Industry Classification System manual
|
| introducedInYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| latestMajorRevisionApproxYear | 2022 ⓘ |
| levelCount | 5 or 6 ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
INEGI
ⓘ
surface form:
Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía
Statistics Canada ⓘ |
| purpose |
classify business establishments by type of economic activity
ⓘ
support economic statistical data collection ⓘ support government procurement classification ⓘ support regulatory reporting ⓘ |
| region | North America ⓘ |
| replaced | Standard Industrial Classification system ⓘ |
| replacesInUS | SIC codes ⓘ |
| revisionCycle | approximately every 5 years ⓘ |
| scope | North American economies ⓘ |
| secondLevelName | subsector ⓘ |
| sectorCountApprox | 20 ⓘ |
| structureType | hierarchical ⓘ |
| thirdLevelName | industry group ⓘ |
| topLevelName | sector ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Bureau of Labor Statistics
ⓘ
Internal Revenue Service ⓘ U.S. Small Business Administration ⓘ
surface form:
Small Business Administration
Bureau of the Census ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Census Bureau
federal procurement agencies ⓘ |
| usedFor |
business survey sampling frames
ⓘ
contracting set-aside determinations ⓘ economic census classification ⓘ industry-based economic analysis ⓘ small business size standards ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Canada
ⓘ
Mexico ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
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: NAICS codes Description of subject: NAICS codes are a standardized classification system used in North America to categorize businesses and industries for statistical, regulatory, and procurement purposes.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
North American Industry Classification System
this entity surface form:
North American Industry Classification System
this entity surface form:
Product and Service Codes
this entity surface form:
North American Industry Classification System
this entity surface form:
North American Industry Classification System codes
this entity surface form:
North American Industry Classification System codes
this entity surface form:
North American Industry Classification System manual
this entity surface form:
North American Industry Classification System