Public Buildings Service (GSA)
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The Public Buildings Service (GSA) is the branch of the U.S. General Services Administration responsible for designing, constructing, managing, and maintaining federal government buildings and real estate.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| GSA Public Buildings Service | 1 |
| General Services Administration Public Buildings Service | 1 |
| Public Buildings Administration | 1 |
| Public Buildings Service (GSA) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3181823 — 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 Buildings Service (GSA) Context triple: [Office of the Chief Architect (GSA), parentOrganization, Public Buildings Service (GSA)]
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Office of the Chief Architect (GSA)
The Office of the Chief Architect (GSA) is the U.S. General Services Administration’s central office responsible for federal public building design standards, architecture policy, and oversight of major capital construction projects.
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B.
U.S. General Services Administration
The U.S. General Services Administration is a federal agency that manages government buildings, procurement, and technology services to support the operations of other U.S. government agencies.
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C.
Office of Administrative Services of GSA
The Office of Administrative Services of GSA is an internal office within the U.S. General Services Administration responsible for providing agency-wide administrative support and services.
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Office of Government-wide Policy of GSA
The Office of Government-wide Policy of GSA is a U.S. federal office within the General Services Administration that develops and oversees government-wide policies on areas such as federal acquisition, travel, property, and information technology management.
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E.
Office of Civil Rights of GSA
The Office of Civil Rights of GSA is the division within the U.S. General Services Administration responsible for enforcing civil rights laws, ensuring equal opportunity, and handling discrimination complaints related to the agency’s programs and activities.
- 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 Buildings Service (GSA) Target entity description: The Public Buildings Service (GSA) is the branch of the U.S. General Services Administration responsible for designing, constructing, managing, and maintaining federal government buildings and real estate.
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A.
Office of the Chief Architect (GSA)
The Office of the Chief Architect (GSA) is the U.S. General Services Administration’s central office responsible for federal public building design standards, architecture policy, and oversight of major capital construction projects.
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B.
U.S. General Services Administration
The U.S. General Services Administration is a federal agency that manages government buildings, procurement, and technology services to support the operations of other U.S. government agencies.
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C.
Office of Administrative Services of GSA
The Office of Administrative Services of GSA is an internal office within the U.S. General Services Administration responsible for providing agency-wide administrative support and services.
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D.
Office of Government-wide Policy of GSA
The Office of Government-wide Policy of GSA is a U.S. federal office within the General Services Administration that develops and oversees government-wide policies on areas such as federal acquisition, travel, property, and information technology management.
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E.
Office of Civil Rights of GSA
The Office of Civil Rights of GSA is the division within the U.S. General Services Administration responsible for enforcing civil rights laws, ensuring equal opportunity, and handling discrimination complaints related to the agency’s programs and activities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
federal agency component
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real estate management organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation | PBS ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
federal judiciary of the United States
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surface form:
U.S. courts system
federal executive agencies ⓘ state and local governments on certain projects ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | federal civil service employees ⓘ |
| fullName | Public Buildings Service ⓘ |
| goal |
maintain safe and functional federal facilities
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preserve historic federal properties ⓘ provide workplaces for federal agencies at best value to the taxpayer ⓘ reduce federal real property footprint where appropriate ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Central Office business lines
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regional offices ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States government
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surface form:
federal government of the United States
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| notResponsibleFor |
Department of Defense real property
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Tennessee Valley Authority real property ⓘ U.S. Postal Service real property ⓘ |
| oversees |
GSA-leased office space portfolio
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GSA-owned federal buildings ⓘ |
| parentAgency | U.S. General Services Administration ⓘ |
| partOf | U.S. General Services Administration ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
acquisition of real property for federal civilian use
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border station facilities for civilian agencies ⓘ construction of federal civilian buildings ⓘ courthouse construction and modernization projects ⓘ design of federal civilian buildings ⓘ disposal of surplus federal real property ⓘ energy efficiency improvements in federal facilities ⓘ facility security in coordination with other agencies ⓘ federal office building projects ⓘ historic federal building stewardship ⓘ leasing of space for federal agencies ⓘ maintenance of federal civilian buildings ⓘ management of federal real estate portfolio ⓘ operation of federal civilian buildings ⓘ repair of federal civilian buildings ⓘ space planning for federal agencies ⓘ sustainability initiatives in federal buildings ⓘ |
| sector | civilian federal real property ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
federal environmental and historic preservation laws
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federal procurement regulations ⓘ |
| usesInstrument |
build-to-suit lease agreements
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design-build construction contracts ⓘ long-term leases ⓘ |
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 Buildings Service (GSA) Description of subject: The Public Buildings Service (GSA) is the branch of the U.S. General Services Administration responsible for designing, constructing, managing, and maintaining federal government buildings and real estate.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Office of the Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury
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successor
→
Public Buildings Service (GSA)
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this entity surface form:
Public Buildings Administration
Office of the Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury
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successor
→
Public Buildings Service (GSA)
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this entity surface form:
General Services Administration Public Buildings Service
this entity surface form:
GSA Public Buildings Service