Office for Intellectual Freedom
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The Office for Intellectual Freedom is a unit of the American Library Association that leads efforts to protect and promote intellectual freedom, privacy, and access to information in libraries.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Office for Intellectual Freedom canonical | 2 |
| ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee | 1 |
| Intellectual Freedom Round Table | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3500891 — 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: Office for Intellectual Freedom Context triple: [American Library Association, hasCommittee, Office for Intellectual Freedom]
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A.
American Library Association
The American Library Association is a leading professional organization in the United States that promotes libraries and librarianship, sets standards for library education, and accredits library and information science programs.
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B.
PEN America
PEN America is a U.S.-based literary and human rights organization that champions free expression and supports writers through advocacy, awards, and cultural programming.
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C.
Institute of Museum and Library Services
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is a U.S. federal agency that provides grants, policy leadership, and support to museums and libraries to enhance learning, innovation, and cultural preservation nationwide.
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D.
National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled
The National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled is a U.S. federal program that provides free accessible reading materials, including braille and audio books, to people with visual or print disabilities.
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E.
PEN Center USA
PEN Center USA is a regional branch of the international writers’ organization PEN that advocates for freedom of expression and supports writers through awards, programs, and literary initiatives in the western United States.
- 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: Office for Intellectual Freedom Target entity description: The Office for Intellectual Freedom is a unit of the American Library Association that leads efforts to protect and promote intellectual freedom, privacy, and access to information in libraries.
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A.
American Library Association
The American Library Association is a leading professional organization in the United States that promotes libraries and librarianship, sets standards for library education, and accredits library and information science programs.
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B.
PEN America
PEN America is a U.S.-based literary and human rights organization that champions free expression and supports writers through advocacy, awards, and cultural programming.
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C.
Institute of Museum and Library Services
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is a U.S. federal agency that provides grants, policy leadership, and support to museums and libraries to enhance learning, innovation, and cultural preservation nationwide.
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D.
National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled
The National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled is a U.S. federal program that provides free accessible reading materials, including braille and audio books, to people with visual or print disabilities.
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E.
PEN Center USA
PEN Center USA is a regional branch of the international writers’ organization PEN that advocates for freedom of expression and supports writers through awards, programs, and literary initiatives in the western United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
library organization unit
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office ⓘ unit of the American Library Association ⓘ |
| activity |
advocating for library users' privacy
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collecting and documenting library censorship incidents ⓘ developing intellectual freedom policies and guidelines ⓘ offering training and resources on intellectual freedom ⓘ providing guidance on challenged library materials ⓘ supporting librarians facing intellectual freedom challenges ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Office for Intellectual Freedom
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee
American Library Association ⓘ
surface form:
American Library Association Council
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| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| field |
access to information
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freedom of expression ⓘ intellectual freedom ⓘ library and information science ⓘ privacy ⓘ |
| focus | libraries in the United States ⓘ |
| industry | library services ⓘ |
| notableWork |
compilation of data on book challenges in libraries
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support for the Library Bill of Rights ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | American Library Association ⓘ |
| purpose |
to defend privacy rights of library users
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to oppose censorship in libraries ⓘ to promote intellectual freedom in libraries ⓘ to protect intellectual freedom in libraries ⓘ to support access to information ⓘ |
| sector | nonprofit ⓘ |
| shortName | OIF ⓘ |
| website | https://www.ala.org/oif ⓘ |
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: Office for Intellectual Freedom Description of subject: The Office for Intellectual Freedom is a unit of the American Library Association that leads efforts to protect and promote intellectual freedom, privacy, and access to information in libraries.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
American Library Association
this entity surface form:
Intellectual Freedom Round Table
Office for Intellectual Freedom
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affiliation
→
Office for Intellectual Freedom
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee