United States National Recording Registry
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The United States National Recording Registry is a program of the Library of Congress that annually selects and preserves sound recordings deemed culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant to American life.
All labels observed (7)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T80297 — 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 National Recording Registry Context triple: ["I Have a Dream" speech, recognizedBy, United States National Recording Registry]
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A.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the national library of the United States and one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive research libraries, serving as the research arm of the U.S. Congress.
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B.
National Archives and Records Administration
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent U.S. federal agency responsible for preserving and providing access to the nation’s government records and historical documents.
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C.
American Memory
American Memory is a digital archive of historical collections from the Library of Congress, providing public access to millions of primary source materials documenting American history and culture.
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D.
United States Copyright Office
The United States Copyright Office is the federal agency responsible for administering and registering copyrights in the United States and advising Congress on copyright policy.
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E.
Library of Congress Online Catalog
The Library of Congress Online Catalog is the digital search system that provides public access to the Library of Congress’s vast collections of books, recordings, photographs, maps, and other materials.
- 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 National Recording Registry Target entity description: The United States National Recording Registry is a program of the Library of Congress that annually selects and preserves sound recordings deemed culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant to American life.
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A.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the national library of the United States and one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive research libraries, serving as the research arm of the U.S. Congress.
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B.
National Archives and Records Administration
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent U.S. federal agency responsible for preserving and providing access to the nation’s government records and historical documents.
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C.
American Memory
American Memory is a digital archive of historical collections from the Library of Congress, providing public access to millions of primary source materials documenting American history and culture.
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D.
United States Copyright Office
The United States Copyright Office is the federal agency responsible for administering and registering copyrights in the United States and advising Congress on copyright policy.
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E.
Library of Congress Online Catalog
The Library of Congress Online Catalog is the digital search system that provides public access to the Library of Congress’s vast collections of books, recordings, photographs, maps, and other materials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States national registry
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cultural heritage registry ⓘ sound recording registry ⓘ |
| administeredBy | Library of Congress ⓘ |
| announcedBy | Librarian of Congress ⓘ |
| category |
National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled
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surface form:
United States Library of Congress programs
cultural heritage of the United States ⓘ sound archives in the United States ⓘ |
| collectionType | audio recordings ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| establishedBy |
United States National Recording Registry
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
National Recording Preservation Act of 2000
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| firstSelectionsYear | 2002 ⓘ |
| focus | American cultural heritage ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/recording-registry/ ⓘ |
| hasPart | annual list of selected recordings ⓘ |
| inception | 2000 ⓘ |
| includesFormat |
field recordings
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live performance recordings ⓘ music recordings ⓘ radio broadcasts ⓘ spoken word recordings ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalBasis | National Recording Preservation Act of 2000 ⓘ |
| location | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Library of Congress
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surface form:
Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center
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| mediaType | sound recording ⓘ |
| operator | Library of Congress ⓘ |
| partOf |
United States National Recording Registry
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Library of Congress sound preservation programs
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| preservationAction | ensures long-term preservation of selected recordings ⓘ |
| purpose |
preservation of sound recordings
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recognition of aesthetically significant recordings ⓘ recognition of culturally significant recordings ⓘ recognition of historically significant recordings ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
National Film Registry
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National Recording Preservation Board ⓘ |
| scope | sound recordings related to American life ⓘ |
| selectionBasis |
aesthetic significance
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cultural significance ⓘ historical significance ⓘ |
| selectionCriteria |
recordings must be at least 10 years old
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recordings must be culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ⓘ |
| selectionFrequency | annually ⓘ |
| selectionProcess |
final approval by Librarian of Congress
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public nominations ⓘ recommendations by National Recording Preservation Board ⓘ |
| significance | documents the audio history of the United States ⓘ |
| supervisedBy | National Recording Preservation Board ⓘ |
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 National Recording Registry Description of subject: The United States National Recording Registry is a program of the Library of Congress that annually selects and preserves sound recordings deemed culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant to American life.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
United States National Recording Registry
→
partOf
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United States National Recording Registry
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Library of Congress sound preservation programs
United States National Recording Registry
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establishedBy
→
United States National Recording Registry
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
National Recording Preservation Act of 2000
this entity surface form:
National Recording Registry (for selected works)
this entity surface form:
National Recording Registry
this entity surface form:
National Recording Registry
this entity surface form:
National Recording Preservation Program
National Recording Preservation Act of 2000
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establishes
→
United States National Recording Registry
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this entity surface form:
National Recording Registry
this entity surface form:
National Recording Registry
this entity surface form:
National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress
this entity surface form:
National Recording Registry
this entity surface form:
National Recording Registry