Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery
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The Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency office responsible for developing and implementing national policies on solid and hazardous waste management, recycling, and resource conservation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T459872 — 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: Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery Context triple: [Office of Land and Emergency Management, hasSubOrganization, Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery]
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A.
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act is a U.S. federal law that governs the management, treatment, storage, and disposal of solid and hazardous waste to protect human health and the environment.
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B.
United States Environmental Protection Agency
The United States Environmental Protection Agency is a federal government agency responsible for protecting human health and the environment through regulation, enforcement, and environmental research in the United States.
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C.
Office of Environmental Management
The Office of Environmental Management is a U.S. Department of Energy program responsible for cleaning up the environmental legacy of the nation’s nuclear weapons and energy research activities.
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D.
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement is a U.S. federal agency responsible for regulating coal mining and overseeing the restoration of abandoned mine lands to protect the environment and public health.
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E.
Office of Environmental Programs
The Office of Environmental Programs is a division within the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management responsible for assessing and managing the environmental impacts of offshore energy and mineral activities.
- 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: Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery Target entity description: The Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency office responsible for developing and implementing national policies on solid and hazardous waste management, recycling, and resource conservation.
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A.
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act is a U.S. federal law that governs the management, treatment, storage, and disposal of solid and hazardous waste to protect human health and the environment.
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B.
United States Environmental Protection Agency
The United States Environmental Protection Agency is a federal government agency responsible for protecting human health and the environment through regulation, enforcement, and environmental research in the United States.
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C.
Office of Environmental Management
The Office of Environmental Management is a U.S. Department of Energy program responsible for cleaning up the environmental legacy of the nation’s nuclear weapons and energy research activities.
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D.
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement is a U.S. federal agency responsible for regulating coal mining and overseeing the restoration of abandoned mine lands to protect the environment and public health.
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E.
Office of Environmental Programs
The Office of Environmental Programs is a division within the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management responsible for assessing and managing the environmental impacts of offshore energy and mineral activities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States federal government office
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office within a government agency ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
protect human health through waste management policy
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protect the environment through waste management policy ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| develops |
national policies on hazardous waste
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national policies on recycling ⓘ national policies on resource conservation ⓘ national policies on solid waste ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
recovery of useful materials
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safe waste disposal ⓘ waste reduction ⓘ |
| implements |
national policies on hazardous waste
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national policies on recycling ⓘ national policies on resource conservation ⓘ national policies on solid waste ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States government
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surface form:
United States federal government
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| locatedIn | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| oversees | implementation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ⓘ |
| parentAgency | United States Environmental Protection Agency ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Environmental Protection Agency ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
hazardous waste management policy
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materials management policy ⓘ recycling policy ⓘ resource conservation policy ⓘ solid waste management policy ⓘ waste minimization policy ⓘ |
| sector | environmental protection ⓘ |
| website | https://www.epa.gov/office-land-and-emergency-management ⓘ |
| worksOn |
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
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surface form:
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act programs
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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: Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery Description of subject: The Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency office responsible for developing and implementing national policies on solid and hazardous waste management, recycling, and resource conservation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Office of Land and Emergency Management
→
hasSubOrganization
→
Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery
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