Federal Office for Housing
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The Federal Office for Housing is a Swiss federal authority responsible for national housing policy, including promoting affordable housing and improving housing conditions.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bundesamt für Wohnungswesen | 2 |
| Federal Office for Housing canonical | 1 |
| Office fédéral du logement | 1 |
| Ufficio federale delle abitazioni | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3638732 — 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: Federal Office for Housing Context triple: [Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research, oversees, Federal Office for Housing]
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A.
Housing Bureau
The Housing Bureau is a specialized division of the New York City Police Department responsible for policing and ensuring safety within the city's public housing developments.
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B.
Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Development
The Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Development is a Nigerian government ministry responsible for formulating and implementing national policies on housing provision, urban development, and related infrastructure.
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C.
United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is a federal executive agency responsible for national policies and programs that address housing needs, fair housing laws, and urban development.
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D.
Federal Housing Administration
The Federal Housing Administration is a U.S. government agency that provides mortgage insurance to encourage lenders to offer affordable home loans, particularly to first-time and lower-income buyers.
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E.
Department of Housing
The Department of Housing is an academic unit at the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, focused on education and research in housing policy, planning, and development.
- 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: Federal Office for Housing Target entity description: The Federal Office for Housing is a Swiss federal authority responsible for national housing policy, including promoting affordable housing and improving housing conditions.
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A.
Housing Bureau
The Housing Bureau is a specialized division of the New York City Police Department responsible for policing and ensuring safety within the city's public housing developments.
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B.
Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Development
The Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Development is a Nigerian government ministry responsible for formulating and implementing national policies on housing provision, urban development, and related infrastructure.
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C.
United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is a federal executive agency responsible for national policies and programs that address housing needs, fair housing laws, and urban development.
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D.
Federal Housing Administration
The Federal Housing Administration is a U.S. government agency that provides mortgage insurance to encourage lenders to offer affordable home loans, particularly to first-time and lower-income buyers.
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E.
Department of Housing
The Department of Housing is an academic unit at the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, focused on education and research in housing policy, planning, and development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Swiss federal office
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government agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
FOH
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OFL ⓘ OFLP ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| headquartersCountry | Switzerland ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Grenchen ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Confoederatio Helvetica (Swiss Confederation)
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surface form:
Swiss Confederation
|
| languageOfName |
French
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German ⓘ Italian ⓘ |
| officialName |
Federal Office for Housing
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Bundesamt für Wohnungswesen
Federal Office for Housing self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Office fédéral du logement
Federal Office for Housing self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Ufficio federale delle abitazioni
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| partOf |
federal office of the Swiss Confederation
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surface form:
Swiss federal administration
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| responsibleFor |
housing market monitoring
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housing policy research ⓘ implementation of Swiss federal housing legislation ⓘ improvement of housing conditions ⓘ national housing policy in Switzerland ⓘ promotion of affordable housing ⓘ support for non-profit housing sector ⓘ |
| sector | housing ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research ⓘ |
| task |
cooperating with cantons and municipalities on housing issues
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developing instruments to promote affordable housing ⓘ providing information and statistics on the housing market ⓘ supporting sustainable and socially responsible housing development ⓘ |
| website | https://www.bwo.admin.ch/ ⓘ |
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: Federal Office for Housing Description of subject: The Federal Office for Housing is a Swiss federal authority responsible for national housing policy, including promoting affordable housing and improving housing conditions.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research
→
oversees
→
Federal Office for Housing
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Bundesamt für Wohnungswesen
this entity surface form:
Bundesamt für Wohnungswesen
this entity surface form:
Office fédéral du logement
this entity surface form:
Ufficio federale delle abitazioni