LOA
E283072
LOA is the formal agreement document that outlines the terms, conditions, and details of a U.S. Foreign Military Sales transaction between the United States government and a foreign purchaser.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| LOA canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2618848 — 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: LOA Context triple: [U.S. Foreign Military Sales, abbreviation, LOA]
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A.
ALO
ALO is the Arab Labor Organization, a specialized Arab League body that promotes labor standards, employment policies, and workers’ rights across Arab countries.
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B.
ALO
ALO is the three-letter IATA airport code for Waterloo Regional Airport in Waterloo, Iowa, United States.
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C.
LAU
LAU is a private, internationally oriented university in Lebanon known for its American-style higher education and multiple campuses.
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D.
L1O
L1O is a Canadian pro-am soccer league in Ontario that forms part of the country’s third tier in the men’s and women’s soccer pyramid.
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E.
LO
LO was the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for Lorillard Tobacco Company, a major American tobacco manufacturer best known for brands like Newport.
- 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: LOA Target entity description: LOA is the formal agreement document that outlines the terms, conditions, and details of a U.S. Foreign Military Sales transaction between the United States government and a foreign purchaser.
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A.
ALO
ALO is the Arab Labor Organization, a specialized Arab League body that promotes labor standards, employment policies, and workers’ rights across Arab countries.
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B.
ALO
ALO is the three-letter IATA airport code for Waterloo Regional Airport in Waterloo, Iowa, United States.
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C.
LAU
LAU is a private, internationally oriented university in Lebanon known for its American-style higher education and multiple campuses.
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D.
L1O
L1O is a Canadian pro-am soccer league in Ontario that forms part of the country’s third tier in the men’s and women’s soccer pyramid.
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E.
LO
LO was the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for Lorillard Tobacco Company, a major American tobacco manufacturer best known for brands like Newport.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Letter of Offer and Acceptance
ⓘ
formal agreement document ⓘ |
| administeredBy | Defense Security Cooperation Agency ⓘ |
| administeredUnderProgram | Security Cooperation ⓘ |
| bindingWhen | signed by foreign purchaser and accepted by U.S. government ⓘ |
| category | international defense sales document ⓘ |
| containsReference |
case identifier
ⓘ
implementing agency ⓘ line items ⓘ purchaser country code ⓘ |
| defines |
conditions of Foreign Military Sales transaction
ⓘ
details of Foreign Military Sales transaction ⓘ terms of Foreign Military Sales transaction ⓘ |
| documentLanguage | English ⓘ |
| followsDocument | Letter of Request ⓘ |
| fullName | Letter of Offer and Acceptance ⓘ |
| governedBy |
Arms Export Control Act (firearms provisions)
ⓘ
surface form:
Arms Export Control Act
U.S. Foreign Military Sales regulations ⓘ |
| governingAuthority | United States government ⓘ |
| hasStandardFormat | yes ⓘ |
| includes |
country-unique provisions
ⓘ
delivery schedule ⓘ description of defense articles and services ⓘ payment schedule ⓘ pricing information ⓘ standard provisions ⓘ terms and conditions ⓘ |
| involvesParty |
United States government
ⓘ
foreign purchaser ⓘ |
| isPrerequisiteFor | execution of Foreign Military Sales case ⓘ |
| legalNature | government-to-government agreement ⓘ |
| mayBeAmendedBy | LOA amendment ⓘ |
| mayBeModifiedBy | LOA modification ⓘ |
| paymentTermsMayInclude |
cash with acceptance
ⓘ
dependable undertaking ⓘ foreign military financing ⓘ |
| purpose |
to document obligations of the United States government and foreign purchaser
ⓘ
to formalize a Foreign Military Sales transaction ⓘ |
| records | mutual obligations in FMS case ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Letter of Request ⓘ |
| requiresActionBy |
U.S. government acceptance
ⓘ
foreign purchaser signature ⓘ |
| scope |
defense articles
ⓘ
defense services ⓘ training ⓘ |
| transactionType |
U.S. Foreign Military Sales
ⓘ
surface form:
Foreign Military Sales
|
| usedBy |
Department of Defense
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surface form:
U.S. Department of Defense
foreign ministries of defense ⓘ |
| usedInContext | U.S. Foreign Military Sales ⓘ |
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: LOA Description of subject: LOA is the formal agreement document that outlines the terms, conditions, and details of a U.S. Foreign Military Sales transaction between the United States government and a foreign purchaser.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.