Information Quality Act
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The Information Quality Act is a U.S. law that requires federal agencies to ensure the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information they disseminate to the public.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Data Quality Act | 1 |
| Information Quality Act canonical | 1 |
| OMB Information Quality Guidelines | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2657228 — 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: Information Quality Act Context triple: [Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, legalBasis, Information Quality Act]
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A.
Freedom of Information Act
The Freedom of Information Act is a U.S. law that grants the public the right to access records from federal government agencies, promoting transparency and accountability.
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B.
OPEN Government Act of 2007
The OPEN Government Act of 2007 is a U.S. federal law that strengthened and modernized the Freedom of Information Act by improving transparency, clarifying response deadlines, and enhancing the rights and remedies available to requesters.
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C.
Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act
The Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act is a U.S. law that safeguards the confidentiality of data collected for federal statistics while enabling limited, secure data sharing among designated statistical agencies to improve the quality and efficiency of official statistics.
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D.
Clinger–Cohen Act of 1996
The Clinger–Cohen Act of 1996 is a U.S. federal law that reformed how the government acquires, manages, and uses information technology by emphasizing performance-based management and the establishment of agency Chief Information Officers.
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E.
Paperwork Reduction Act
The Paperwork Reduction Act is a U.S. federal law that aims to minimize the public’s reporting burden and improve the quality and coordination of information collected by government agencies.
- 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: Information Quality Act Target entity description: The Information Quality Act is a U.S. law that requires federal agencies to ensure the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information they disseminate to the public.
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A.
Freedom of Information Act
The Freedom of Information Act is a U.S. law that grants the public the right to access records from federal government agencies, promoting transparency and accountability.
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B.
OPEN Government Act of 2007
The OPEN Government Act of 2007 is a U.S. federal law that strengthened and modernized the Freedom of Information Act by improving transparency, clarifying response deadlines, and enhancing the rights and remedies available to requesters.
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C.
Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act
The Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act is a U.S. law that safeguards the confidentiality of data collected for federal statistics while enabling limited, secure data sharing among designated statistical agencies to improve the quality and efficiency of official statistics.
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D.
Clinger–Cohen Act of 1996
The Clinger–Cohen Act of 1996 is a U.S. federal law that reformed how the government acquires, manages, and uses information technology by emphasizing performance-based management and the establishment of agency Chief Information Officers.
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E.
Paperwork Reduction Act
The Paperwork Reduction Act is a U.S. federal law that aims to minimize the public’s reporting burden and improve the quality and coordination of information collected by government agencies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States federal law
ⓘ
data quality law ⓘ |
| administeredBy | Office of Management and Budget ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Information Quality Act
ⓘ
surface form:
Data Quality Act
|
| appliesTo |
federal agencies of the United States
ⓘ
risk assessments produced by federal agencies ⓘ scientific information produced by federal agencies ⓘ statistical information produced by federal agencies ⓘ |
| codificationStatus | not codified in the United States Code as a separate section ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticizedFor |
being used to challenge environmental and public health information
ⓘ
potential to delay regulatory actions ⓘ |
| effectiveYear | 2001 ⓘ |
| enactedAs | Section 515 of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001 ⓘ |
| enactedBy | United States Congress ⓘ |
| enactmentYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| enforcementMechanism | administrative petitions for correction of information ⓘ |
| excludes | information distributed in limited or restricted access channels within the government ⓘ |
| influenced |
OMB government-wide information quality guidelines
ⓘ
federal agency information quality guidelines ⓘ |
| judicialReviewStatus | limited availability of judicial review ⓘ |
| legalCitation | Pub. L. 106-554, §515 ⓘ |
| legalForm | appropriations rider ⓘ |
| legislativeChamberOfOrigin | United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
| objective |
to ensure transparency and accountability in federal information dissemination
ⓘ
to improve the quality of federal information disseminated to the public ⓘ to provide a process for correction of inaccurate federal information ⓘ |
| partOf | Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2001 ⓘ |
| policyArea |
administrative law
ⓘ
information policy ⓘ regulatory policy ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Administrative Procedure Act
ⓘ
Freedom of Information Act ⓘ Paperwork Reduction Act ⓘ |
| requires |
OMB to issue government-wide information quality guidelines
ⓘ
federal agencies to establish administrative mechanisms to allow affected persons to seek correction of information ⓘ federal agencies to issue their own information quality guidelines ⓘ integrity of information disseminated by federal agencies ⓘ objectivity of information disseminated by federal agencies ⓘ periodic reporting by agencies on information quality complaints and resolutions ⓘ quality of information disseminated by federal agencies ⓘ utility of information disseminated by federal agencies ⓘ |
| scope | information disseminated by federal agencies to the public ⓘ |
| signedBy | Bill Clinton ⓘ |
| sponsor | Jo Ann Emerson ⓘ |
| supportedFor | promoting accuracy and reliability of government information ⓘ |
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: Information Quality Act Description of subject: The Information Quality Act is a U.S. law that requires federal agencies to ensure the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information they disseminate to the public.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
OMB Information Quality Guidelines
this entity surface form:
Data Quality Act