Office of Government Information Services
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The Office of Government Information Services is the U.S. federal FOIA ombudsman that mediates disputes between requesters and agencies and reviews agency Freedom of Information Act compliance.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Office of Government Information Services canonical | 7 |
| Office of Government Information Services as FOIA ombudsman | 1 |
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
FOIA ombudsman
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federal office ⓘ government agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation | OGIS ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
United States government
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surface form:
federal government of the United States
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| areaOfWork |
Freedom of Information Act
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access to government information ⓘ government transparency ⓘ open government ⓘ |
| contactPoint |
FOIA requesters
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federal agency FOIA offices ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| excludesJurisdiction |
judicial branch of the United States
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legislative branch of the United States ⓘ |
| foundedBy | United States Congress ⓘ |
| hasRole |
FOIA compliance review
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FOIA dispute resolution between requesters and agencies ⓘ FOIA policy analysis ⓘ mediation of FOIA disputes ⓘ |
| hasTask |
collect and analyze FOIA data from federal agencies
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identify patterns and systemic issues in FOIA administration ⓘ issue reports and recommendations on FOIA practices ⓘ provide FOIA dispute resolution services at no cost to requesters ⓘ provide guidance and best practices on FOIA to agencies and requesters ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| inception | 2009 ⓘ |
| isPartOf | U.S. federal FOIA oversight framework ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | executive branch agencies of the United States federal government ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
5 U.S.C. § 552
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Freedom of Information Act ⓘ OPEN Government Act of 2007 ⓘ
surface form:
Open Government Act of 2007
|
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| mandate |
to offer mediation services to resolve FOIA disputes
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to recommend policy changes to Congress and the President to improve FOIA administration ⓘ to review agency FOIA policies, procedures, and compliance ⓘ to serve as a neutral FOIA ombudsman ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | English ⓘ |
| oversightOf | federal agency FOIA programs ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | National Archives and Records Administration ⓘ |
| partOf | National Archives and Records Administration ⓘ |
| reportsTo |
Archivist of the United States
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United States Congress ⓘ |
| website | https://www.archives.gov/ogis ⓘ |
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: Office of Government Information Services Description of subject: The Office of Government Information Services is the U.S. federal FOIA ombudsman that mediates disputes between requesters and agencies and reviews agency Freedom of Information Act compliance.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
National Archives and Records Administration
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oversees
→
Office of Government Information Services
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this entity surface form:
Office of Government Information Services as FOIA ombudsman