California Department of General Services
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The California Department of General Services is a state agency that provides centralized business, facility, and administrative support services to California’s government departments and agencies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| California Department of General Services canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T71744 — 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: California Department of General Services Context triple: [California State Capitol, maintainedBy, California Department of General Services]
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A.
California Department of Parks and Recreation
The California Department of Parks and Recreation is the state agency responsible for managing and preserving California’s extensive system of state parks, historic sites, and natural and recreational resources.
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B.
California State Legislature
The California State Legislature is the bicameral lawmaking body of the U.S. state of California, consisting of the State Assembly and the State Senate.
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C.
San Francisco Board of Supervisors
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is the city and county’s elected legislative body, responsible for passing local laws, approving budgets, and overseeing municipal agencies.
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D.
California State Assembly
The California State Assembly is the lower chamber of California's bicameral state legislature, responsible for proposing and voting on state laws alongside the State Senate.
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E.
California State Capitol
The California State Capitol is the historic government building in Sacramento that houses the chambers and offices of the state's legislative and executive branches.
- 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: California Department of General Services Target entity description: The California Department of General Services is a state agency that provides centralized business, facility, and administrative support services to California’s government departments and agencies.
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A.
Government of California
The Government of California is the state’s governing authority, comprising executive, legislative, and judicial branches that administer laws and public policy for the state of California.
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B.
California Department of Parks and Recreation
The California Department of Parks and Recreation is the state agency responsible for managing and preserving California’s extensive system of state parks, historic sites, and natural and recreational resources.
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C.
California State Legislature
The California State Legislature is the bicameral lawmaking body of the U.S. state of California, consisting of the State Assembly and the State Senate.
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D.
San Francisco Board of Supervisors
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is the city and county’s elected legislative body, responsible for passing local laws, approving budgets, and overseeing municipal agencies.
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E.
California State Assembly
The California State Assembly is the lower chamber of California's bicameral state legislature, responsible for proposing and voting on state laws alongside the State Senate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public sector organization
ⓘ
state government agency ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | DGS ⓘ |
| city | Sacramento ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employerType | state government ⓘ |
| governmentLevel | state ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | DGS ⓘ |
| hasRole |
administrative support for state government
ⓘ
business management for state government ⓘ facilities management for state government ⓘ procurement support for state government ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Sacramento
ⓘ
surface form:
Sacramento, California
|
| jurisdiction |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
State of California
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | state agency ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| operatesIn | statewide ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
State of California
|
| partOf | Government of California ⓘ |
| provides |
administrative support services
ⓘ
centralized business services ⓘ facility services ⓘ |
| responsibleFor | supporting California’s government operations ⓘ |
| sector | public administration ⓘ |
| serviceTo |
California State Agencies
ⓘ
surface form:
California state agencies
California state departments ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| website | https://www.dgs.ca.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: California Department of General Services Description of subject: The California Department of General Services is a state agency that provides centralized business, facility, and administrative support services to California’s government departments and agencies.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.