FAR
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FAR is the primary set of rules governing the acquisition process and procurement of goods and services by U.S. federal government agencies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| FAR canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12915473 — 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: FAR Context triple: [Federal Acquisition Regulation, abbreviation, FAR]
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FAR
FAR is the acronym for Cuba’s national military organization, the Revolutionary Armed Forces.
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FAR
FAR is the commonly used abbreviation for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s First Assessment Report, a foundational scientific evaluation of climate change published in 1990.
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C.
FAR
FAR is the station code for Faro railway station, a key rail transport hub serving the city of Faro in southern Portugal’s Algarve region.
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FAR
FAR is the IATA airport code for Hector International Airport serving Fargo, North Dakota.
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FAR
FAR is a contemporary dance work by British choreographer Wayne McGregor, known for its innovative fusion of technology, complex movement vocabulary, and exploration of the relationship between the body and scientific ideas.
- 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: FAR Target entity description: FAR is the primary set of rules governing the acquisition process and procurement of goods and services by U.S. federal government agencies.
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FAR
FAR is the acronym for Morocco's Royal Armed Forces, the country's unified military organization responsible for national defense.
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B.
FAR
FAR is the acronym for Cuba’s national military organization, the Revolutionary Armed Forces.
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C.
FAR
FAR is the commonly used abbreviation for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s First Assessment Report, a foundational scientific evaluation of climate change published in 1990.
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D.
FAR
FAR is the IATA airport code for Hector International Airport serving Fargo, North Dakota.
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E.
FAR
FAR is the station code for Faro railway station, a key rail transport hub serving the city of Faro in southern Portugal’s Algarve region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
federal regulation
ⓘ
procurement regulation ⓘ |
| abbreviation | FAR ⓘ |
| appliesTo | U.S. federal government agencies ⓘ |
| basedOn |
federal procurement laws
ⓘ
statutory requirements ⓘ |
| codifiedIn | Title 48 of the Code of Federal Regulations ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| governs |
acquisition process
ⓘ
procurement of goods ⓘ procurement of services ⓘ |
| hasPart |
FAR Part 1 – Federal Acquisition Regulations System
ⓘ
FAR Part 12 – Acquisition of Commercial Products and Commercial Services ⓘ FAR Part 15 – Contracting by Negotiation ⓘ FAR Part 19 – Small Business Programs ⓘ FAR Part 2 – Definitions of Words and Terms ⓘ FAR Part 31 – Contract Cost Principles and Procedures ⓘ FAR Part 52 – Solicitation Provisions and Contract Clauses ⓘ FAR Part 6 – Competition Requirements ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalStatus | binding regulation ⓘ |
| levelOfGovernment | federal ⓘ |
| objective |
ensure fair and reasonable pricing
ⓘ
ensure integrity of the federal acquisition process ⓘ ensure transparency in government contracting ⓘ promote competition in federal procurement ⓘ |
| publisher |
Department of Defense
ⓘ
General Services Administration ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. General Services Administration
National Aeronautics and Space Administration ⓘ
linked to:
NASA
|
| regulates |
competition in contracting
ⓘ
contract administration ⓘ contract formation ⓘ contract types ⓘ cost principles ⓘ socioeconomic programs in procurement ⓘ solicitation procedures ⓘ source selection ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement
ⓘ
agency acquisition supplements ⓘ |
| scope |
Department of Defense in conjunction with DFARS
ⓘ
civilian executive agencies ⓘ |
| subject |
federal procurement
ⓘ
government contracting ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Federal Acquisition Circulars ⓘ |
| updatedBy | Federal Acquisition Circulars ⓘ |
| usedBy |
contracting officers
ⓘ
federal acquisition professionals ⓘ government contractors ⓘ |
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: FAR Description of subject: FAR is the primary set of rules governing the acquisition process and procurement of goods and services by U.S. federal government agencies.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.