United States Department of State
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The United States Department of State is the federal executive department responsible for the country’s foreign policy, international relations, and diplomatic missions abroad.
All labels observed (18)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1152 — 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: United States Department of State Context triple: [Washington, D.C., hostsInstitution, United States Department of State]
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A.
United States government
The United States government is the federal governing authority of the country, comprising executive, legislative, and judicial branches that create, enforce, and interpret national laws and policies.
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B.
Executive Office of the President of the United States
The Executive Office of the President of the United States is the group of federal agencies and staff that directly support the President in implementing policy, managing the executive branch, and providing specialized advice and administrative services.
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C.
United States Department of the Treasury
The United States Department of the Treasury is the federal executive department responsible for managing national finances, including collecting taxes, producing currency, and formulating economic and fiscal policy.
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D.
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 that brings together most of the world’s countries to promote peace, security, cooperation, and human rights.
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E.
.gov
.gov is the sponsored top-level domain primarily used by governmental entities in the 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: United States Department of State Target entity description: The United States Department of State is the federal executive department responsible for the country’s foreign policy, international relations, and diplomatic missions abroad.
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A.
United States government
The United States government is the federal governing authority of the country, comprising executive, legislative, and judicial branches that create, enforce, and interpret national laws and policies.
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B.
Executive Office of the President of the United States
The Executive Office of the President of the United States is the group of federal agencies and staff that directly support the President in implementing policy, managing the executive branch, and providing specialized advice and administrative services.
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C.
United States Department of the Treasury
The United States Department of the Treasury is the federal executive department responsible for managing national finances, including collecting taxes, producing currency, and formulating economic and fiscal policy.
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D.
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 that brings together most of the world’s countries to promote peace, security, cooperation, and human rights.
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E.
.gov
.gov is the sponsored top-level domain primarily used by governmental entities in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
federal executive department
ⓘ
foreign affairs ministry ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
DOS
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STATE ⓘ |
| budgetUnit |
US dollar
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surface form:
United States dollar
|
| cabinetLevel | yes ⓘ |
| cooperatesWith |
United States Agency for International Development (in coordination)
ⓘ
surface form:
United States Agency for International Development
Department of Defense ⓘ
surface form:
United States Department of Defense
United States Department of Homeland Security ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| employs |
Civil Service employees
ⓘ
United States Foreign Service ⓘ
surface form:
Foreign Service Officers
locally employed staff at overseas posts ⓘ |
| formedOn | 1789-07-27 ⓘ |
| hasSubOrganization |
Bureau of African Affairs
ⓘ
Bureau of Consular Affairs ⓘ Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor ⓘ Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs ⓘ Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs ⓘ Bureau of International Organization Affairs ⓘ Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs ⓘ Bureau of Political-Military Affairs ⓘ Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs ⓘ United States Agency for Global Media (historical oversight role) ⓘ |
| headedBy | United States Secretary of State ⓘ |
| headquartersBuilding | Harry S. Truman Building ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| legalBasis | Act for establishing an Executive Department, to be denominated the Department of Foreign Affairs (1789) ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
surface form:
District of Columbia
|
| memberOf |
Cabinet of the United States
ⓘ
surface form:
United States Cabinet
|
| nativeName |
United States Department of State
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Department of State
|
| oversees |
U.S. consulates
ⓘ
U.S. embassies ⓘ U.S. permanent missions to international organizations ⓘ United States Foreign Service ⓘ |
| partOf | executive branch of the United States government ⓘ |
| positionInCabinet | principal foreign policy advisor to the President of the United States ⓘ |
| precededBy |
United States Department of State
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Department of Foreign Affairs
|
| reportsTo | President of the United States ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
U.S. diplomatic missions abroad
ⓘ
foreign assistance policy guidance ⓘ foreign policy of the United States ⓘ human rights reporting ⓘ international relations of the United States ⓘ issuing U.S. passports ⓘ providing consular services to U.S. citizens abroad ⓘ public diplomacy ⓘ representation of the United States at the United Nations ⓘ treaty negotiation and ratification processes support ⓘ |
| shortName |
United States Department of State
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
State Department
United States Department of State self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Department of State
|
| website | https://www.state.gov/ ⓘ |
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: United States Department of State Description of subject: The United States Department of State is the federal executive department responsible for the country’s foreign policy, international relations, and diplomatic missions abroad.
Referenced by (1,074)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
U.S. Department of State
subject surface form:
Foreign Military Sales
this entity surface form:
U.S. Department of State
this entity surface form:
U.S. Department of State
Inner Circles: How America Changed the World
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portraysInstitution
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United States Department of State
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this entity surface form:
U.S. Department of State
Office of the Spokesperson (U.S. Department of State)
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partOf
→
United States Department of State
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Bureau of Legislative Affairs (U.S. Department of State)
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parentOrganization
→
United States Department of State
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Bureau of Legislative Affairs (U.S. Department of State)
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partOf
→
United States Department of State
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this entity surface form:
Office of the Secretary of State
this entity surface form:
U.S. Department of State
this entity surface form:
U.S. Department of State
this entity surface form:
U.S. Department of State
this entity surface form:
U.S. Department of State
this entity surface form:
U.S. Department of State
Washington, D.C. (periodically, during Joe Biden’s presidency)
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hosts
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United States Department of State
ⓘ
subject surface form:
Washington, D.C.
this entity surface form:
United States Department of State foreign mission network
subject surface form:
U.S. Consulate in Karachi
subject surface form:
U.S. Embassy in Ankara
subject surface form:
U.S. Embassy in Ankara
subject surface form:
Anthony Zinni
this entity surface form:
US Department of State
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Policy and International Affairs
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worksWith
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United States Department of State
ⓘ
subject surface form:
Hard Choices
this entity surface form:
U.S. Department of State
subject surface form:
Hard Choices
this entity surface form:
U.S. Department of State
this entity surface form:
U.S. Department of State
this entity surface form:
United States Department of State in Russia
this entity surface form:
U.S. Department of State
this entity surface form:
U.S. Department of State
subject surface form:
Foreign Service Institute
this entity surface form:
U.S. Department of State