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.

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Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf FOIA ombudsman
federal office
government agency
abbreviation OGIS
appliesToJurisdiction United States government
surface form: federal government of the United States
areaOfWork Freedom of Information Act
access to government information
government transparency
open government
contactPoint FOIA requesters
federal agency FOIA offices
country United States of America
excludesJurisdiction judicial branch of the United States
legislative branch of the United States
foundedBy United States Congress
hasRole FOIA compliance review
FOIA dispute resolution between requesters and agencies
FOIA policy analysis
mediation of FOIA disputes
hasTask collect and analyze FOIA data from federal agencies
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
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
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
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 oversees Office of Government Information Services
OPEN Government Act of 2007 establishes Office of Government Information Services
FOIA Improvement Act of 2016 enhancesRoleOf Office of Government Information Services
OGIS fullName Office of Government Information Services
Public Law 110-175 establishes Office of Government Information Services
Public Law 110-175 designates Office of Government Information Services
this entity surface form: Office of Government Information Services as FOIA ombudsman
Chief FOIA Officers Council parentAgency Office of Government Information Services
Chief FOIA Officers Council relatedTo Office of Government Information Services