Public Law 96-157
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Public Law 96-157 is a U.S. federal statute enacted in 1979 that, among other criminal justice reforms, formally established and authorized the Bureau of Justice Statistics within the Department of Justice.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Public Law 96-157 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3682556 — 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: Public Law 96-157 Context triple: [Bureau of Justice Statistics, legalBasis, Public Law 96-157]
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Public Law 99-177
Public Law 99-177 is the 1985 U.S. federal statute, commonly known as the Gramm–Rudman–Hollings Act, that established automatic deficit-reduction measures aimed at achieving a balanced federal budget.
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B.
Public Law 96-95
Public Law 96-95 is the 1979 U.S. federal statute, known as the Archaeological Resources Protection Act, that safeguards archaeological resources on public and Indian lands.
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C.
Public Law 95-164
Public Law 95-164 is the United States statute enacted in 1977 that significantly strengthened federal regulation of mine safety and health, forming the basis of modern mine safety standards.
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D.
Public Law 95-87
Public Law 95-87 is the formal designation of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, a key U.S. federal law regulating environmental impacts of coal mining and requiring land reclamation.
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E.
Public Law 95-113
Public Law 95-113 is a major United States federal statute enacted in 1977 that reauthorized and revised national farm, food, and nutrition assistance programs.
- 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: Public Law 96-157 Target entity description: Public Law 96-157 is a U.S. federal statute enacted in 1979 that, among other criminal justice reforms, formally established and authorized the Bureau of Justice Statistics within the Department of Justice.
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A.
Public Law 99-177
Public Law 99-177 is the 1985 U.S. federal statute, commonly known as the Gramm–Rudman–Hollings Act, that established automatic deficit-reduction measures aimed at achieving a balanced federal budget.
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B.
Public Law 96-95
Public Law 96-95 is the 1979 U.S. federal statute, known as the Archaeological Resources Protection Act, that safeguards archaeological resources on public and Indian lands.
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C.
Public Law 95-164
Public Law 95-164 is the United States statute enacted in 1977 that significantly strengthened federal regulation of mine safety and health, forming the basis of modern mine safety standards.
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D.
Public Law 95-87
Public Law 95-87 is the formal designation of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, a key U.S. federal law regulating environmental impacts of coal mining and requiring land reclamation.
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E.
Public Law 95-113
Public Law 95-113 is a major United States federal statute enacted in 1977 that reauthorized and revised national farm, food, and nutrition assistance programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Act of Congress
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United States federal statute ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Bureau of Justice Statistics
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United States Department of Justice ⓘ |
| authorizedAgency | Bureau of Justice Statistics ⓘ |
| branchOfGovernment | Legislative branch of the United States ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| enactedBy | United States Congress ⓘ |
| enforcedBy | United States Department of Justice ⓘ |
| established | Bureau of Justice Statistics ⓘ |
| governmentLevel | federal ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States government
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surface form:
United States federal government
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| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | public law ⓘ |
| legalStatus | in force (as amended) ⓘ |
| legislativeBody | United States Congress ⓘ |
| locatedInJurisdictionOfEstablishedAgency | United States Department of Justice ⓘ |
| numberInCongress | 96-157 ⓘ |
| partOf |
United States federal law
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surface form:
United States federal criminal justice legislation
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| providesFor |
analysis of criminal justice data
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collection of national crime statistics ⓘ publication of criminal justice statistics ⓘ |
| purpose |
to improve the collection, analysis, and dissemination of criminal justice statistics
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to support criminal justice policy development through statistical information ⓘ |
| regulates | federal criminal justice statistical activities ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Bureau of Justice Statistics
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United States Department of Justice ⓘ criminal justice policy in the United States ⓘ |
| sector | justice system ⓘ |
| signedBy | Jimmy Carter ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
crime data collection
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criminal justice ⓘ criminal justice statistics ⓘ law enforcement ⓘ |
| typeOfReform | criminal justice reform ⓘ |
| yearEnacted | 1979 ⓘ |
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: Public Law 96-157 Description of subject: Public Law 96-157 is a U.S. federal statute enacted in 1979 that, among other criminal justice reforms, formally established and authorized the Bureau of Justice Statistics within the Department of Justice.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.