Build America, Buy America Act of 2021
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The Build America, Buy America Act of 2021 is a U.S. law that expands and tightens domestic content requirements for federally funded infrastructure projects to prioritize American-made materials and products.
All labels observed (1)
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| Build America, Buy America Act of 2021 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9589777 — 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: Build America, Buy America Act of 2021 Context triple: [Buy America requirements for materials, strengthenedBy, Build America, Buy America Act of 2021]
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A.
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 is a major U.S. federal spending and COVID-19 relief law that combined government funding with extensive economic stimulus measures enacted at the end of 2020.
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B.
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 is a comprehensive U.S. federal omnibus spending law that funded the government for fiscal year 2023 and bundled numerous policy measures across defense, domestic programs, and regulatory reforms.
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C.
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 is a major U.S. federal law that authorizes defense spending and includes wide-ranging policy provisions, including significant reforms to anti-money laundering regulations.
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D.
Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is a major U.S. federal law focused on climate and clean energy investment, prescription drug pricing reform, and deficit reduction, enacted under President Joe Biden.
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E.
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 is a comprehensive U.S. federal spending law that funded government operations for fiscal year 2020 and included various policy provisions and extensions.
- 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: Build America, Buy America Act of 2021 Target entity description: The Build America, Buy America Act of 2021 is a U.S. law that expands and tightens domestic content requirements for federally funded infrastructure projects to prioritize American-made materials and products.
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A.
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 is a major U.S. federal spending and COVID-19 relief law that combined government funding with extensive economic stimulus measures enacted at the end of 2020.
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B.
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 is a comprehensive U.S. federal omnibus spending law that funded the government for fiscal year 2023 and bundled numerous policy measures across defense, domestic programs, and regulatory reforms.
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C.
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 is a major U.S. federal law that authorizes defense spending and includes wide-ranging policy provisions, including significant reforms to anti-money laundering regulations.
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D.
Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is a major U.S. federal law focused on climate and clean energy investment, prescription drug pricing reform, and deficit reduction, enacted under President Joe Biden.
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E.
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 is a comprehensive U.S. federal spending law that funded government operations for fiscal year 2020 and included various policy provisions and extensions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States federal law
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domestic content requirement statute ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
support U.S. manufacturing
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support U.S. workers ⓘ |
| appliesTo | federally funded infrastructure projects ⓘ |
| beneficiary |
U.S. construction industry
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U.S. manufacturers ⓘ U.S. workers in manufacturing and construction ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| focusesOn |
American-made materials
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American-made products ⓘ domestic sourcing ⓘ |
| hasKeyword |
American-made materials
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American-made products ⓘ Build America NERFINISHED ⓘ Buy America NERFINISHED ⓘ domestic content ⓘ infrastructure projects ⓘ |
| intendedEffect |
create or preserve U.S. manufacturing jobs
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increase domestic content in infrastructure spending ⓘ reduce reliance on foreign-made construction materials ⓘ |
| policyType |
Buy American policy
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industrial policy ⓘ |
| purpose |
to expand domestic content requirements for infrastructure projects
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to prioritize American-made materials and products ⓘ |
| regulates |
domestic content requirements
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use of construction materials in covered projects ⓘ use of iron and steel in covered projects ⓘ use of manufactured products in covered projects ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Buy American Act of 1933
NERFINISHED
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Infrastructure investment policy in the United States ⓘ domestic preference statutes in the United States ⓘ federal procurement rules ⓘ |
| sector | infrastructure ⓘ |
| subjectOf | domestic procurement policy debates ⓘ |
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: Build America, Buy America Act of 2021 Description of subject: The Build America, Buy America Act of 2021 is a U.S. law that expands and tightens domestic content requirements for federally funded infrastructure projects to prioritize American-made materials and products.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.