SCA
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SCA is the common abbreviation for the Service Contract Act, a U.S. federal law that sets wage and benefit standards for employees working on government service contracts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SCA canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11484677 — 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: SCA Context triple: [Service Contract Act, shortName, SCA]
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SCA
SCA is the National Rail station code for Scarborough railway station in North Yorkshire, England.
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SCA
SCA is a software composition analysis solution that identifies and manages vulnerabilities and license risks in open-source components used within applications.
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SCA
SCA is a U.S. federal law that governs the privacy and disclosure of stored electronic communications and related data held by service providers.
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SCA
The SCA is South Africa’s highest court of appeal for non-constitutional matters, based in Bloemfontein.
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SCA
SCA is the commonly used abbreviation for Hay’at Qanāt as-Suways, the authority responsible for managing and operating Egypt’s Suez Canal.
- 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: SCA Target entity description: SCA is the common abbreviation for the Service Contract Act, a U.S. federal law that sets wage and benefit standards for employees working on government service contracts.
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A.
SCA
SCA is the National Rail station code for Scarborough railway station in North Yorkshire, England.
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B.
SCA
SCA is a U.S. federal law that governs the privacy and disclosure of stored electronic communications and related data held by service providers.
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C.
SCA
SCA is a software composition analysis solution that identifies and manages vulnerabilities and license risks in open-source components used within applications.
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D.
SCA
The SCA is South Africa’s highest court of appeal for non-constitutional matters, based in Bloemfontein.
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E.
SCA
SCA is the commonly used abbreviation for Hay’at Qanāt as-Suways, the authority responsible for managing and operating Egypt’s Suez Canal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States federal law
ⓘ
labor law ⓘ |
| administeredBy |
U.S. Department of Labor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wage and Hour Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
service contracts in excess of a specified dollar threshold
ⓘ
service contracts with the U.S. federal government ⓘ |
| authorizes | contract price adjustments to comply with wage determinations ⓘ |
| codifiedAt | 41 U.S.C. chapter 67 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| covers | service employees working on covered federal service contracts ⓘ |
| enactedBy | United States Congress ⓘ |
| enforcedBy | U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exempts |
certain contracts below a monetary threshold
ⓘ
contracts for services performed outside the United States ⓘ |
| fullName | McNamara–O’Hara Service Contract Act of 1965 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | SCA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| implementedThrough | wage determinations issued by the U.S. Department of Labor ⓘ |
| imposesObligationsOn | federal service contractors ⓘ |
| protects | wage standards of service employees on federal contracts ⓘ |
| publicLawNumber | Public Law 89-286 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose | to set minimum wage and fringe benefit standards for employees on certain federal service contracts ⓘ |
| regulationsCodifiedAt | 29 CFR Part 4 ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Davis–Bacon Act
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fair Labor Standards Act NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| requires |
payment of fringe benefits to covered service employees
ⓘ
payment of prevailing wage rates to covered service employees ⓘ posting of applicable wage determinations at the worksite ⓘ |
| scope | applies to most service contracts entered into by federal agencies ⓘ |
| standsFor | Service Contract Act NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| violationConsequences |
contract termination
ⓘ
debarment from future federal contracts ⓘ withholding of contract payments ⓘ |
| yearEnacted | 1965 ⓘ |
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: SCA Description of subject: SCA is the common abbreviation for the Service Contract Act, a U.S. federal law that sets wage and benefit standards for employees working on government service contracts.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.