Public Works Administration
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The Public Works Administration was a major U.S. New Deal agency that funded large-scale public construction projects to stimulate economic recovery and create jobs during the Great Depression.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Public Works Administration canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6583 — 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 Works Administration Context triple: [New Deal, hasPart, Public Works Administration]
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A.
Works Progress Administration
The Works Progress Administration was a New Deal agency that provided millions of jobs during the Great Depression by funding public works and arts projects across the United States.
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B.
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a New Deal work relief program that provided jobs to young men during the Great Depression through conservation and public lands projects across the United States.
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C.
Tennessee Valley Authority
The Tennessee Valley Authority is a federally owned U.S. corporation created during the New Deal to provide regional economic development, flood control, and electricity generation in the Tennessee Valley.
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D.
American Society of Civil Engineers
The American Society of Civil Engineers is a professional organization in the United States that represents civil engineers and promotes the advancement of civil engineering practice, education, and infrastructure.
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E.
Point Four Program
The Point Four Program was a U.S. foreign aid initiative launched in 1949 to provide technical assistance and economic development support to poorer countries as part of Cold War-era efforts to promote stability and counter communism.
- 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 Works Administration Target entity description: The Public Works Administration was a major U.S. New Deal agency that funded large-scale public construction projects to stimulate economic recovery and create jobs during the Great Depression.
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A.
Works Progress Administration
The Works Progress Administration was a New Deal agency that provided millions of jobs during the Great Depression by funding public works and arts projects across the United States.
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B.
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a New Deal work relief program that provided jobs to young men during the Great Depression through conservation and public lands projects across the United States.
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C.
Tennessee Valley Authority
The Tennessee Valley Authority is a federally owned U.S. corporation created during the New Deal to provide regional economic development, flood control, and electricity generation in the Tennessee Valley.
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D.
American Society of Civil Engineers
The American Society of Civil Engineers is a professional organization in the United States that represents civil engineers and promotes the advancement of civil engineering practice, education, and infrastructure.
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E.
Point Four Program
The Point Four Program was a U.S. foreign aid initiative launched in 1949 to provide technical assistance and economic development support to poorer countries as part of Cold War-era efforts to promote stability and counter communism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New Deal agency
ⓘ
United States federal government agency ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
PWA
ⓘ
Public Works Administration (PWA) ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| approvedBy |
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
ⓘ
surface form:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | National Industrial Recovery Act ⓘ |
| dissolved | 1944 ⓘ |
| employer |
architects
ⓘ
civil engineers ⓘ construction workers ⓘ laborers ⓘ |
| followedBy | various wartime construction agencies of the United States ⓘ |
| follows | no direct predecessor ⓘ |
| foundedBy | United States Congress ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
building airports
ⓘ
building bridges ⓘ building dams ⓘ building highways ⓘ building hospitals ⓘ building public buildings ⓘ building schools ⓘ building sewage systems ⓘ building waterworks ⓘ contracting with private construction firms ⓘ financing public works ⓘ granting loans to state and local governments ⓘ |
| hasEffect |
expanded role of federal government in infrastructure development
ⓘ
increased employment in construction sector ⓘ long-term improvement of U.S. public infrastructure ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| inception | 1933 ⓘ |
| legislatedBy | United States Congress ⓘ |
| mainPurpose |
create jobs through public works projects
ⓘ
fund large-scale public construction projects ⓘ modernize United States infrastructure ⓘ stimulate economic recovery during the Great Depression ⓘ |
| notableProject |
Boulder Canyon Project-related works
ⓘ
Grand Coulee Dam ⓘ Hoover Dam ⓘ LaGuardia Airport ⓘ Lincoln Tunnel ⓘ U.S. Route 1 ⓘ
surface form:
Overseas Highway
Triborough Bridge ⓘ various public housing projects in U.S. cities ⓘ |
| partOf | New Deal ⓘ |
| subordinateTo |
United States Department of the Interior
ⓘ
surface form:
Department of the Interior of the United States
United States government ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal government
|
| timePeriod | Great Depression ⓘ |
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 Works Administration Description of subject: The Public Works Administration was a major U.S. New Deal agency that funded large-scale public construction projects to stimulate economic recovery and create jobs during the Great Depression.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Federal Emergency Relief Administration