Public Land Survey System
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The Public Land Survey System is a standardized method used in the United States to divide and describe land into rectangular parcels for ownership and development.
All labels observed (7)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T343572 — 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 Land Survey System Context triple: [Mount Diablo meridian, partOf, Public Land Survey System]
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A.
Nevada land survey system
The Nevada land survey system is a cadastral framework used to define and organize land boundaries and property descriptions across the state of Nevada.
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B.
National Geodetic Survey
The National Geodetic Survey is the U.S. federal agency responsible for defining, maintaining, and providing access to the national coordinate system used for mapping, charting, and navigation.
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C.
Historic American Landscapes Survey
The Historic American Landscapes Survey is a federal program that documents and preserves significant historic landscapes across the United States through detailed records, drawings, and photographs.
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D.
Fundamentals of Surveying exam
The Fundamentals of Surveying exam is a standardized professional licensing test in the United States that assesses entry-level knowledge and skills in land surveying.
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E.
Geographic Names Information System
The Geographic Names Information System is the official federal database of geographic feature names in the United States, providing standardized names and related information for use in maps and government publications.
- 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 Land Survey System Target entity description: The Public Land Survey System is a standardized method used in the United States to divide and describe land into rectangular parcels for ownership and development.
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A.
Nevada land survey system
The Nevada land survey system is a cadastral framework used to define and organize land boundaries and property descriptions across the state of Nevada.
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B.
National Geodetic Survey
The National Geodetic Survey is the U.S. federal agency responsible for defining, maintaining, and providing access to the national coordinate system used for mapping, charting, and navigation.
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C.
Historic American Landscapes Survey
The Historic American Landscapes Survey is a federal program that documents and preserves significant historic landscapes across the United States through detailed records, drawings, and photographs.
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D.
Fundamentals of Surveying exam
The Fundamentals of Surveying exam is a standardized professional licensing test in the United States that assesses entry-level knowledge and skills in land surveying.
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E.
Geographic Names Information System
The Geographic Names Information System is the official federal database of geographic feature names in the United States, providing standardized names and related information for use in maps and government publications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States federal standard
ⓘ
cadastral survey system ⓘ land survey system ⓘ |
| administeredBy |
U.S. Bureau of Land Management
ⓘ
surface form:
Bureau of Land Management
|
| alsoKnownAs |
Public Land Survey System
ⓘ
surface form:
PLSS
rectangular survey system ⓘ |
| appliesTo | public domain lands ⓘ |
| basedOn | rectangular grid ⓘ |
| coordinateReference |
baseline
ⓘ
principal meridian ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dataUsedBy |
geographic information systems
ⓘ
land use planners ⓘ surveyors ⓘ title companies ⓘ |
| developedFor | survey of western lands ⓘ |
| dividesLandBy | townships and ranges ⓘ |
| excludes |
Hawaii
ⓘ
Texas ⓘ Thirteen Colonies ⓘ
surface form:
original Thirteen Colonies
parts of Kentucky ⓘ parts of Ohio ⓘ parts of West Virginia ⓘ |
| governs | description of many rural land parcels in the United States ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Thomas Jefferson's land policies ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
Land Ordinance of 1785
ⓘ
Northwest Ordinance ⓘ
surface form:
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
|
| partOf |
Public Land Survey System
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
United States public land survey
|
| purpose |
describe land for ownership
ⓘ
divide land into rectangular parcels ⓘ facilitate land development ⓘ support land conveyance and title ⓘ |
| quarterSectionArea | 160 acres ⓘ |
| relatedTo | metes and bounds ⓘ |
| sectionsPerTownship | 36 ⓘ |
| standardSectionArea |
1 square mile
ⓘ
640 acres ⓘ |
| standardTownshipArea | 36 square miles ⓘ |
| standardTownshipSize | 6 miles by 6 miles ⓘ |
| subdividesSectionsBy | aliquot parts ⓘ |
| usedFor |
land management
ⓘ
land patents ⓘ legal land descriptions ⓘ property deeds ⓘ |
| usesMeasurementSystem |
U.S. survey feet
ⓘ
chains ⓘ links ⓘ |
| usesUnit |
quarter section
ⓘ
range ⓘ section ⓘ township ⓘ |
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 Land Survey System Description of subject: The Public Land Survey System is a standardized method used in the United States to divide and describe land into rectangular parcels for ownership and development.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Public Land Survey System rectangular survey
this entity surface form:
United States rectangular survey system
this entity surface form:
United States Public Land Survey System framework
this entity surface form:
PLSS
this entity surface form:
United States public land survey
this entity surface form:
Public Land Survey System lines