SAM
E1023342
SAM is the U.S. federal government’s central online system for registering entities to do business with federal agencies and for managing related procurement and award data.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SAM canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13105304 — 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: SAM Context triple: [SAM.gov, abbreviation, SAM]
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A.
SAM
SAM is an analytical laboratory aboard NASA's Curiosity rover that studies Martian rocks, soil, and atmosphere to determine their chemical and organic composition.
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B.
SAM
SAM is the commonly used abbreviation for the South Australian Museum, a major natural history and cultural institution located in Adelaide, Australia.
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C.
SAM
SAM is the three-letter international code used to represent the Samoa national rugby league team in official competitions and records.
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D.
SAM
SAM is the official FIFA trigramme used to represent the Samoa national under-20 football team in international competitions and records.
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E.
SAM
SAM is an online training and assessment platform used primarily in education for teaching and evaluating computer and digital literacy skills.
- 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: SAM Target entity description: SAM is the U.S. federal government’s central online system for registering entities to do business with federal agencies and for managing related procurement and award data.
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A.
SAM
SAM is an online training and assessment platform used primarily in education for teaching and evaluating computer and digital literacy skills.
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B.
SAM
SAM is the official FIFA trigramme used to represent the Samoa national under-20 football team in international competitions and records.
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C.
SAM
SAM is an analytical laboratory aboard NASA's Curiosity rover that studies Martian rocks, soil, and atmosphere to determine their chemical and organic composition.
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D.
SAM
SAM is the commonly used abbreviation for the South Australian Museum, a major natural history and cultural institution located in Adelaide, Australia.
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E.
SAM
SAM is the three-letter international code used to represent the Samoa national rugby league team in official competitions and records.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. federal government online system
ⓘ
vendor registration system ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SAM ⓘ |
| accessibleVia | online web portal ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dataType |
assistance award data
ⓘ
entity registration data ⓘ procurement data ⓘ |
| domain |
federal financial assistance
ⓘ
federal procurement ⓘ |
| fullName |
System for Award Management
ⓘ
linked to:
Integrated Award Environment
|
| jurisdiction |
U.S. federal government
ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| maintains | publicly searchable entity registration records ⓘ |
| manages | federal government-wide exclusions list ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
U.S. General Services Administration
ⓘ
U.S. federal government ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
|
| partOf | U.S. federal Integrated Award Environment ⓘ |
| previouslyUsedIdentifier | DUNS number ⓘ |
| purpose |
manage federal award data
ⓘ
manage federal procurement data ⓘ register entities to do business with U.S. federal agencies ⓘ |
| registrationRequiredFor |
federal contract awards
ⓘ
federal cooperative agreement awards ⓘ federal grant awards ⓘ federal loan awards ⓘ |
| regulates | eligibility to receive federal awards ⓘ |
| replaced |
Central Contractor Registration
ⓘ
Excluded Parties List System ⓘ Online Representations and Certifications Application ⓘ |
| requirementFor |
bidding on most U.S. federal contracts
ⓘ
receiving cooperative agreements ⓘ receiving most U.S. federal grants ⓘ receiving other federal financial assistance awards ⓘ |
| sector | public sector procurement ⓘ |
| supportsProcess |
federal acquisition lifecycle
ⓘ
federal assistance award lifecycle ⓘ |
| tracks |
entity registration data
ⓘ
exclusions data ⓘ representations and certifications ⓘ unique entity identifiers ⓘ |
| usedBy |
U.S. federal agencies
ⓘ
businesses ⓘ individual contractors ⓘ local governments ⓘ nonprofit organizations ⓘ state governments ⓘ tribal governments ⓘ |
| usesIdentifier |
Unique Entity ID (UEI)
ⓘ
linked to:
UEI
|
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: SAM Description of subject: SAM is the U.S. federal government’s central online system for registering entities to do business with federal agencies and for managing related procurement and award data.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.