PUHCA
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PUHCA is the commonly used acronym for the Public Utility Holding Company Act, a U.S. federal law regulating electric and gas utility holding companies.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| PUHCA canonical | 2 |
| PUHCA 1935 | 1 |
| PUHCA 2005 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1874886 — 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: PUHCA Context triple: [Wheeler-Rayburn Act, hasShortName, PUHCA]
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A.
PUS
PUS is the IATA airport code for Gimhae International Airport serving the Busan metropolitan area in South Korea.
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B.
Communications Act of 1934
The Communications Act of 1934 is a landmark U.S. federal law that consolidated and expanded regulation of interstate and foreign communications, establishing a comprehensive framework for overseeing radio, telephone, and later other electronic communications services.
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C.
PUC
PUC is a leading Chilean higher education institution renowned for its academic excellence, research output, and strong Catholic tradition.
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D.
PUC
PUC is a top-level United States military unit award given for extraordinary heroism in action against an armed enemy.
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E.
Mutual Broadcasting System
Mutual Broadcasting System was a major American radio network that operated from the 1930s to the 1990s and was known for its news, sports, and talk programming.
- 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: PUHCA Target entity description: PUHCA is the commonly used acronym for the Public Utility Holding Company Act, a U.S. federal law regulating electric and gas utility holding companies.
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A.
PUS
PUS is the IATA airport code for Gimhae International Airport serving the Busan metropolitan area in South Korea.
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B.
Communications Act of 1934
The Communications Act of 1934 is a landmark U.S. federal law that consolidated and expanded regulation of interstate and foreign communications, establishing a comprehensive framework for overseeing radio, telephone, and later other electronic communications services.
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C.
PUC
PUC is a leading Chilean higher education institution renowned for its academic excellence, research output, and strong Catholic tradition.
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D.
PUC
PUC is a top-level United States military unit award given for extraordinary heroism in action against an armed enemy.
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E.
Mutual Broadcasting System
Mutual Broadcasting System was a major American radio network that operated from the 1930s to the 1990s and was known for its news, sports, and talk programming.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States federal statute
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United States federal statute ⓘ United States federal statute ⓘ United States federal statute ⓘ securities regulation law ⓘ |
| acronymFor |
Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935
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surface form:
Public Utility Holding Company Act
Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 ⓘ Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 ⓘ
surface form:
Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005
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| aimsTo |
eliminate abusive practices by utility holding companies
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protect utility consumers and investors ⓘ simplify complex utility holding company structures ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| enactedBy |
109th United States Congress
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74th United States Congress ⓘ |
| enforcedBy |
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
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Securities and Exchange Commission ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Securities and Exchange Commission ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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| jurisdiction |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| mayReferTo |
Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935
ⓘ
Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 ⓘ
surface form:
Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005
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| partOf |
Energy Policy Act of 2005
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New Deal ⓘ
surface form:
New Deal legislation
|
| regulates |
electric utility holding companies
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electric utility holding companies ⓘ gas utility holding companies ⓘ gas utility holding companies ⓘ |
| repealedBy | Energy Policy Act of 2005 ⓘ |
| repealEffectiveDate | 2005 ⓘ |
| replaced | Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 ⓘ |
| requires | registration of public utility holding companies with the SEC ⓘ |
| shortName |
PUHCA
self-linksurface differs
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PUHCA self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
PUHCA 1935
PUHCA self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
PUHCA 2005
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| signedBy |
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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surface form:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| subjectMatter |
public utility holding companies
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regulation of utility holding companies ⓘ securities regulation ⓘ |
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: PUHCA Description of subject: PUHCA is the commonly used acronym for the Public Utility Holding Company Act, a U.S. federal law regulating electric and gas utility holding companies.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Public Utility Holding Company Act
subject surface form:
Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935
this entity surface form:
PUHCA 1935