Massachusetts Parole Board
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The Massachusetts Parole Board is a state agency responsible for evaluating incarcerated individuals for supervised release and setting conditions for parole within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Massachusetts Parole Board canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1683281 — 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: Massachusetts Parole Board Context triple: [Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Correction, worksWith, Massachusetts Parole Board]
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A.
Massachusetts Department of Correction
The Massachusetts Department of Correction is the state agency responsible for overseeing and managing adult correctional facilities and prison operations in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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B.
Massachusetts Probation Service
The Massachusetts Probation Service is the statewide agency responsible for supervising offenders in the community and providing probation-related services within the Massachusetts court system.
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C.
Maryland Division of Parole and Probation
The Maryland Division of Parole and Probation is a state agency responsible for supervising individuals on parole and probation and providing related community correctional services within Maryland.
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D.
Massachusetts Correctional Institution – Shirley
Massachusetts Correctional Institution – Shirley is a medium- and minimum-security state prison complex for men located in Shirley, Massachusetts.
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E.
Massachusetts Department of Mental Health
The Massachusetts Department of Mental Health is the state agency responsible for providing, coordinating, and overseeing public mental health services and policy for residents of Massachusetts.
- 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: Massachusetts Parole Board Target entity description: The Massachusetts Parole Board is a state agency responsible for evaluating incarcerated individuals for supervised release and setting conditions for parole within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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A.
Massachusetts Department of Correction
The Massachusetts Department of Correction is the state agency responsible for overseeing and managing adult correctional facilities and prison operations in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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B.
Massachusetts Probation Service
The Massachusetts Probation Service is the statewide agency responsible for supervising offenders in the community and providing probation-related services within the Massachusetts court system.
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C.
Maryland Division of Parole and Probation
The Maryland Division of Parole and Probation is a state agency responsible for supervising individuals on parole and probation and providing related community correctional services within Maryland.
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D.
Massachusetts Correctional Institution – Shirley
Massachusetts Correctional Institution – Shirley is a medium- and minimum-security state prison complex for men located in Shirley, Massachusetts.
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E.
Massachusetts Department of Mental Health
The Massachusetts Department of Mental Health is the state agency responsible for providing, coordinating, and overseeing public mental health services and policy for residents of Massachusetts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
parole board
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state agency ⓘ |
| canHold |
parole hearings
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rescission hearings ⓘ revocation hearings ⓘ |
| canImpose |
special parole conditions
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standard parole conditions ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| decisionType | quasi-judicial ⓘ |
| employs |
administrative staff
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parole board members ⓘ parole hearing examiners ⓘ |
| goal |
protect public safety
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support successful reentry of offenders ⓘ |
| governmentLevel | state ⓘ |
| hasAuthorityOver |
certain life-sentence cases as permitted by Massachusetts law
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parole-eligible state prisoners in Massachusetts ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Massachusetts
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surface form:
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
|
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | government agency ⓘ |
| makesDecisionOn |
denying parole
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granting parole ⓘ parole revocation ⓘ rescinding parole ⓘ |
| operatesIn | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| oversees | parole supervision in Massachusetts ⓘ |
| partOf | Massachusetts state government ⓘ |
| reportsTo | executive branch of Massachusetts ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
evaluating incarcerated individuals for supervised release
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modifying parole conditions ⓘ parole decisions ⓘ revoking parole ⓘ setting conditions of parole ⓘ |
| sector |
criminal justice
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public safety ⓘ |
| sets | conditions for supervised release ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
Massachusetts regulations
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Massachusetts statutes ⓘ |
| usesInformationFrom |
criminal history records
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institutional behavior records ⓘ parole plans submitted by incarcerated individuals ⓘ risk assessments ⓘ victim impact statements ⓘ |
| worksWith |
Massachusetts Department of Correction
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Barnstable County Sheriff’s Office ⓘ
surface form:
Massachusetts county sheriffs
Judiciary of Massachusetts ⓘ
surface form:
Massachusetts courts
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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: Massachusetts Parole Board Description of subject: The Massachusetts Parole Board is a state agency responsible for evaluating incarcerated individuals for supervised release and setting conditions for parole within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Correction
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worksWith
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Massachusetts Parole Board
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