San Francisco Department of Building Inspection
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The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection is the city agency responsible for enforcing building codes, issuing permits, and overseeing construction safety and compliance within San Francisco.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| San Francisco Department of Building Inspection canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T773161 — 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: San Francisco Department of Building Inspection Context triple: [Government of San Francisco, hasAgency, San Francisco Department of Building Inspection]
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A.
Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety
The Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety is a city agency responsible for regulating building construction, enforcing safety and zoning standards, and issuing related permits and inspections within Los Angeles.
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B.
San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department
The San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department is the municipal agency responsible for operating and maintaining the city’s public parks, recreational facilities, and open spaces.
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C.
San Francisco Department of Public Health
The San Francisco Department of Public Health is the city and county’s public health agency responsible for protecting and promoting community health through clinical services, disease prevention, and health policy programs.
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D.
Government of San Francisco
The Government of San Francisco is the consolidated city-county administration that manages local legislative, executive, and municipal services for San Francisco, California.
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E.
San Francisco Fire Department
The San Francisco Fire Department is the municipal agency responsible for fire protection, emergency medical services, and disaster response within the city and county of San Francisco, California.
- 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: San Francisco Department of Building Inspection Target entity description: The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection is the city agency responsible for enforcing building codes, issuing permits, and overseeing construction safety and compliance within San Francisco.
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A.
Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety
The Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety is a city agency responsible for regulating building construction, enforcing safety and zoning standards, and issuing related permits and inspections within Los Angeles.
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B.
San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department
The San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department is the municipal agency responsible for operating and maintaining the city’s public parks, recreational facilities, and open spaces.
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C.
San Francisco Department of Public Health
The San Francisco Department of Public Health is the city and county’s public health agency responsible for protecting and promoting community health through clinical services, disease prevention, and health policy programs.
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D.
Government of San Francisco
The Government of San Francisco is the consolidated city-county administration that manages local legislative, executive, and municipal services for San Francisco, California.
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E.
San Francisco Fire Department
The San Francisco Fire Department is the municipal agency responsible for fire protection, emergency medical services, and disaster response within the city and county of San Francisco, California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building inspection department
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municipal government agency ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
ensure compliance with building codes
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ensure habitability of housing ⓘ ensure structural safety of buildings ⓘ protect public safety in buildings ⓘ |
| appliesRegulation | zoning and building use requirements ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
San Francisco Department of Public Health
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San Francisco Fire Department ⓘ San Francisco Planning Department ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| enforces |
California Code of Regulations
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surface form:
California Building Standards Code
San Francisco Municipal Code ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco Building Code
building codes ⓘ |
| governs |
major renovations in San Francisco
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new building construction in San Francisco ⓘ |
| handles |
complaints about building code violations
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unsafe building conditions reports ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
building safety
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code compliance ⓘ construction regulation ⓘ permitting ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
San Francisco County
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surface form:
City and County of San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco, California
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| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
San Francisco ⓘ |
| partOf |
Government of San Francisco
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surface form:
City and County of San Francisco government
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| provides |
inspection scheduling
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online permit services ⓘ public counter services for permits ⓘ |
| regulates |
alterations of existing buildings in San Francisco
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construction activities in San Francisco ⓘ demolition of buildings in San Francisco ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
building permits
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code compliance for buildings ⓘ code enforcement ⓘ construction inspections ⓘ electrical permits ⓘ housing safety inspections ⓘ mechanical permits ⓘ overseeing construction safety ⓘ plan review ⓘ plumbing permits ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| subjectOf | San Francisco building regulations ⓘ |
| supervises |
building inspectors
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plan examiners ⓘ |
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: San Francisco Department of Building Inspection Description of subject: The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection is the city agency responsible for enforcing building codes, issuing permits, and overseeing construction safety and compliance within San Francisco.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
San Francisco Planning Commission
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collaboratesWith
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San Francisco Department of Building Inspection
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