JOBS Act of 2012
E927189
The JOBS Act of 2012 is a U.S. federal law designed to encourage capital formation and support emerging growth companies by easing certain securities regulations and facilitating crowdfunding and public offerings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| JOBS Act of 2012 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11468232 — 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: JOBS Act of 2012 Context triple: [Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, renumberedBy, JOBS Act of 2012]
-
A.
Small Business Jobs Act of 2010
The Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 is a U.S. federal law designed to spur small business lending, investment, and job creation through tax incentives, loan enhancements, and targeted support programs.
-
B.
Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013
The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 was a U.S. federal law that set discretionary spending levels and partially rolled back sequestration cuts through a budget compromise negotiated by Senator Patty Murray and Representative Paul Ryan.
-
C.
HIRE Act
The HIRE Act is a 2010 U.S. federal law aimed at stimulating job creation and economic recovery through tax incentives and infrastructure spending.
-
D.
American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012
The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 is a U.S. federal law enacted to avert the "fiscal cliff" by making permanent most of the Bush-era tax cuts for lower- and middle-income taxpayers while allowing rates to rise for higher earners and implementing various spending and tax policy changes.
-
E.
Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is a major U.S. financial reform law enacted after the 2008 crisis to increase oversight of Wall Street, reduce systemic risk, and strengthen consumer financial protections.
- 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: JOBS Act of 2012 Target entity description: The JOBS Act of 2012 is a U.S. federal law designed to encourage capital formation and support emerging growth companies by easing certain securities regulations and facilitating crowdfunding and public offerings.
-
A.
Small Business Jobs Act of 2010
The Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 is a U.S. federal law designed to spur small business lending, investment, and job creation through tax incentives, loan enhancements, and targeted support programs.
-
B.
Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013
The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 was a U.S. federal law that set discretionary spending levels and partially rolled back sequestration cuts through a budget compromise negotiated by Senator Patty Murray and Representative Paul Ryan.
-
C.
HIRE Act
The HIRE Act is a 2010 U.S. federal law aimed at stimulating job creation and economic recovery through tax incentives and infrastructure spending.
-
D.
American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012
The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 is a U.S. federal law enacted to avert the "fiscal cliff" by making permanent most of the Bush-era tax cuts for lower- and middle-income taxpayers while allowing rates to rise for higher earners and implementing various spending and tax policy changes.
-
E.
Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is a major U.S. financial reform law enacted after the 2008 crisis to increase oversight of Wall Street, reduce systemic risk, and strengthen consumer financial protections.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States federal law
ⓘ
securities law ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| amends |
Securities Act of 1933
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branchOfGovernment | legislative ⓘ |
| containsTitle |
Title I
ⓘ
Title II ⓘ Title III ⓘ Title IV ⓘ Title V ⓘ Title VI ⓘ Title VII NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createsCategory | emerging growth company ⓘ |
| effect |
allows confidential submission of IPO registration statements
ⓘ
creates federal framework for securities crowdfunding ⓘ expands Regulation A exemption ⓘ permits general solicitation and advertising in certain private offerings ⓘ raises shareholder thresholds for mandatory SEC registration ⓘ reduces disclosure requirements for emerging growth companies ⓘ |
| emergingGrowthCompanyRevenueThreshold | less than $1 billion in annual gross revenues at enactment ⓘ |
| enactedBy | United States Congress ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
emerging growth companies
ⓘ
small businesses ⓘ startups ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | federal ⓘ |
| policyArea |
capital markets
ⓘ
entrepreneurship ⓘ job creation ⓘ |
| presidentAtEnactment | Barack Obama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryGoal |
ease securities regulations
ⓘ
encourage capital formation ⓘ facilitate crowdfunding ⓘ facilitate public offerings ⓘ support emerging growth companies ⓘ |
| regulationImplementedUnder |
Regulation A+
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Regulation Crowdfunding NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regulatorImpacted | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shortName | JOBS Act NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| signedBy | Barack Obama ⓘ |
| signedOn | 2012-04-05 ⓘ |
| titleIIIName | Crowdfunding ⓘ |
| titleIIName | Access to Capital for Job Creators NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleIName | Reopening American Capital Markets to Emerging Growth Companies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleIVName | Small Company Capital Formation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleVIIName | Outreach on Changes to the Law or Commission ⓘ |
| titleVIName | Capital Expansion ⓘ |
| titleVName | Private Company Flexibility and Growth ⓘ |
| yearOfEnactment | 2012 ⓘ |
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: JOBS Act of 2012 Description of subject: The JOBS Act of 2012 is a U.S. federal law designed to encourage capital formation and support emerging growth companies by easing certain securities regulations and facilitating crowdfunding and public offerings.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.