Washington State Department of Corrections
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The Washington State Department of Corrections is the state-level agency responsible for managing prisons, supervising offenders, and overseeing correctional programs in Washington.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Washington State Department of Corrections canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8245822 — 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: Washington State Department of Corrections Context triple: [Government of Washington (state), executiveAgency, Washington State Department of Corrections]
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A.
Oregon Department of Corrections
The Oregon Department of Corrections is the state agency responsible for operating prisons and managing adult offenders in Oregon’s correctional system.
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B.
Oregon State Correctional Institution
Oregon State Correctional Institution is a state-run prison facility in Oregon that houses adult inmates under the supervision of the Oregon Department of Corrections.
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C.
Alaska Department of Corrections
The Alaska Department of Corrections is the state agency responsible for overseeing prisons, supervising offenders, and managing correctional programs within Alaska.
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D.
Oregon State Penitentiary
Oregon State Penitentiary is a maximum-security prison in Salem, Oregon, and the oldest correctional institution in the state.
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E.
Columbia River Correctional Institution
Columbia River Correctional Institution is a state-run prison facility in Oregon that houses adult inmates under the supervision of the Oregon Department of Corrections.
- 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: Washington State Department of Corrections Target entity description: The Washington State Department of Corrections is the state-level agency responsible for managing prisons, supervising offenders, and overseeing correctional programs in Washington.
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A.
Oregon Department of Corrections
The Oregon Department of Corrections is the state agency responsible for operating prisons and managing adult offenders in Oregon’s correctional system.
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B.
Oregon State Correctional Institution
Oregon State Correctional Institution is a state-run prison facility in Oregon that houses adult inmates under the supervision of the Oregon Department of Corrections.
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C.
Alaska Department of Corrections
The Alaska Department of Corrections is the state agency responsible for overseeing prisons, supervising offenders, and managing correctional programs within Alaska.
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D.
Oregon State Penitentiary
Oregon State Penitentiary is a maximum-security prison in Salem, Oregon, and the oldest correctional institution in the state.
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E.
Columbia River Correctional Institution
Columbia River Correctional Institution is a state-run prison facility in Oregon that houses adult inmates under the supervision of the Oregon Department of Corrections.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
ⓘ
state corrections department ⓘ |
| abbreviation | DOC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | Washington State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cooperatesWith |
Washington State Patrol
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Washington State courts NERFINISHED ⓘ county sheriffs in Washington ⓘ local law enforcement agencies in Washington ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| employs |
administrative staff
ⓘ
community corrections officers ⓘ correctional officers ⓘ counselors ⓘ healthcare staff ⓘ |
| follows |
Washington State laws
ⓘ
court orders from Washington State courts ⓘ |
| hasMission | to improve public safety by positively changing lives ⓘ |
| hasObjective |
to confine convicted offenders in secure facilities
ⓘ
to provide rehabilitation and reentry programs ⓘ to supervise offenders in the community ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Washington State prisons
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
community corrections offices ⓘ correctional industries programs ⓘ work release facilities ⓘ |
| hasPolicyFocus |
offender accountability
ⓘ
public safety ⓘ recidivism reduction ⓘ rehabilitation ⓘ victim services ⓘ |
| hasResponsibility |
community supervision of offenders in Washington
ⓘ
correctional programs in Washington ⓘ probation and parole supervision for certain offenders in Washington ⓘ reentry services for offenders in Washington ⓘ state prisons in Washington ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Thurston County, Washington
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tumwater, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | State of Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Washington State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| officialName | Washington State Department of Corrections NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatesInSector |
corrections
ⓘ
criminal justice ⓘ |
| partOf | Executive branch of the government of Washington State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shortName | WA DOC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | Government of Washington State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | https://www.doc.wa.gov ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Washington State Department of Corrections Description of subject: The Washington State Department of Corrections is the state-level agency responsible for managing prisons, supervising offenders, and overseeing correctional programs in Washington.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.