Department of the Interior headquarters

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federal office building government headquarters office complex

The Department of the Interior headquarters, formally known as the Main Interior Building, is a large federal office complex in Washington, D.C. that serves as the central administrative hub for the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Department of the Interior headquarters canonical	1
Office of the Secretary of the Interior	1
United States Department of the Interior headquarters (Washington, D.C.)	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T634745 — 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: Department of the Interior headquarters
Context triple: [Main Interior Building, alsoKnownAs, Department of the Interior headquarters]

A. United States Department of the Interior
The United States Department of the Interior is a federal executive department responsible for managing the nation’s public lands, natural resources, and many programs related to conservation and Native American affairs.
B. Bureau of Indian Affairs
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is a U.S. federal agency responsible for managing relations with Native American tribes and administering policies, lands, and services for Indigenous peoples.
C. United States Secretary of the Interior
The United States Secretary of the Interior is the Cabinet official who oversees federal lands, natural resources, and relations with Native American tribes as head of the Department of the Interior.
D. U.S. Bureau of Land Management
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior responsible for managing vast areas of public lands and natural resources across the United States.
E. Office of the Secretary of the Interior (within the Department of the Treasury)
The Office of the Secretary of the Interior (within the Department of the Treasury) was an early 19th-century U.S. federal administrative office that handled domestic and internal affairs before those responsibilities were consolidated into the later-established Department of the Interior.
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: Department of the Interior headquarters
Target entity description: The Department of the Interior headquarters, formally known as the Main Interior Building, is a large federal office complex in Washington, D.C. that serves as the central administrative hub for the U.S. Department of the Interior.

A. United States Department of the Interior
The United States Department of the Interior is a federal executive department responsible for managing the nation’s public lands, natural resources, and many programs related to conservation and Native American affairs.
B. Bureau of Indian Affairs
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is a U.S. federal agency responsible for managing relations with Native American tribes and administering policies, lands, and services for Indigenous peoples.
C. United States Secretary of the Interior
The United States Secretary of the Interior is the Cabinet official who oversees federal lands, natural resources, and relations with Native American tribes as head of the Department of the Interior.
D. U.S. Bureau of Land Management
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior responsible for managing vast areas of public lands and natural resources across the United States.
E. Office of the Secretary of the Interior (within the Department of the Treasury)
The Office of the Secretary of the Interior (within the Department of the Treasury) was an early 19th-century U.S. federal administrative office that handled domestic and internal affairs before those responsibilities were consolidated into the later-established Department of the Interior.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	federal office building ⓘ government headquarters ⓘ office complex ⓘ
architecturalStyle	Moderne ⓘ Stripped Classical ⓘ
associatedWith	U.S. conservation policy ⓘ U.S. federal land management ⓘ U.S. natural resource policy ⓘ
buildingType	office building ⓘ
category	Government buildings in Washington, D.C. ⓘ Headquarters of United States federal agencies ⓘ
city	Washington, D.C. ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ
function	central administrative hub for the U.S. Department of the Interior ⓘ
governingBody	United States Department of the Interior ⓘ
hasFeature	art and murals related to American landscapes and conservation ⓘ conference and meeting rooms for federal officials ⓘ interior courtyards ⓘ multiple interconnected office wings ⓘ offices for cabinet-level officials ⓘ public reception and hearing rooms ⓘ
hasFunction	houses administrative and policy offices of the U.S. Department of the Interior ⓘ houses senior leadership of the U.S. Department of the Interior ⓘ
hasTenant	U.S. Bureau of Land Management ⓘ surface form: Bureau of Land Management Bureau of Ocean Energy Management ⓘ Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement ⓘ National Park Service ⓘ Inspector General of the U.S. Department of the Interior ⓘ surface form: Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of the Interior Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement ⓘ United States Secretary of the Interior ⓘ surface form: Office of the Secretary of the Interior Office of the Solicitor ⓘ surface form: Office of the Solicitor, U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ⓘ
jurisdiction	District of Columbia ⓘ
locatedIn	Northwest Washington, D.C. ⓘ surface form: Northwest, Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. ⓘ
locatedInTimeZone	Eastern Time Zone ⓘ
maintainedBy	United States Department of the Interior ⓘ
numberOfStories	7 ⓘ
officialName	Main Interior Building ⓘ
ownedBy	United States government ⓘ surface form: United States federal government
partOf	Federal Triangle ⓘ surface form: Federal Triangle area (broad downtown federal complex)
security	protected federal facility ⓘ
servesAsHeadquartersFor	United States Department of the Interior ⓘ
significance	central coordination point for U.S. federal land and natural resource management policy ⓘ primary workplace of the U.S. Secretary of the Interior ⓘ symbolic center of the U.S. Department of the Interior ⓘ
use	federal government offices ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Main Interior Building → alsoKnownAs → Department of the Interior headquarters ⓘ

Office of Policy, Management and Budget → coordinatesWith → Department of the Interior headquarters ⓘ

this entity surface form: Office of the Secretary of the Interior

BIE → locatedIn → Department of the Interior headquarters ⓘ

this entity surface form: United States Department of the Interior headquarters (Washington, D.C.)

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