Code for America
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Code for America is a nonprofit organization that partners with governments to improve public services through user-centered design, open-source technology, and civic tech innovation.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Code for America canonical | 7 |
| Code for America Fellowship | 1 |
| Code for America social safety net portfolio | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1496478 — 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: Code for America Context triple: [Tim O'Reilly, boardMemberOf, Code for America]
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A.
Kapor Center for Social Impact
The Kapor Center for Social Impact is an organization dedicated to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the technology and entrepreneurship sectors, particularly for underrepresented communities.
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B.
Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation
The Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation is a White House unit that promotes innovative, evidence-based approaches to addressing social challenges and strengthening civic engagement in the United States.
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C.
AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps is a U.S. federal service program that engages volunteers in community service projects across the country, often in exchange for education awards and living stipends.
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D.
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation is a research and policy center at Harvard focused on strengthening democracy, improving public governance, and fostering innovative solutions in the public sector worldwide.
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E.
Center for Social Innovation
The Center for Social Innovation is a Stanford Graduate School of Business hub that advances research, education, and practice in social entrepreneurship and impact-driven leadership.
- 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: Code for America Target entity description: Code for America is a nonprofit organization that partners with governments to improve public services through user-centered design, open-source technology, and civic tech innovation.
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A.
Kapor Center for Social Impact
The Kapor Center for Social Impact is an organization dedicated to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the technology and entrepreneurship sectors, particularly for underrepresented communities.
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B.
Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation
The Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation is a White House unit that promotes innovative, evidence-based approaches to addressing social challenges and strengthening civic engagement in the United States.
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C.
AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps is a U.S. federal service program that engages volunteers in community service projects across the country, often in exchange for education awards and living stipends.
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D.
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation is a research and policy center at Harvard focused on strengthening democracy, improving public governance, and fostering innovative solutions in the public sector worldwide.
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E.
Center for Social Innovation
The Center for Social Innovation is a Stanford Graduate School of Business hub that advances research, education, and practice in social entrepreneurship and impact-driven leadership.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civic technology organization
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nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| coreValue |
accessibility of government services
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collaboration with government partners ⓘ equity in public services ⓘ transparency in government ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| employs |
designers
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policy experts ⓘ product managers ⓘ researchers ⓘ software engineers ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
civic engagement tools
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criminal justice reform technology ⓘ digital transformation of government ⓘ improving public services ⓘ modernizing safety net services ⓘ tax benefits access ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Jennifer Pahlka ⓘ |
| hasApproach |
cross-functional teams with government staff
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human-centered design for government services ⓘ iterative service delivery ⓘ |
| hasMotto | Government can work for the people, by the people, in the digital age ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | San Francisco, California ⓘ |
| inception | 2009 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | 501(c)(3) nonprofit ⓘ |
| missionStatement | to partner with government to build digital services that are simple, effective, and easy to use ⓘ |
| nonProfitStatus | tax-exempt organization in the United States ⓘ |
| notableProgram |
Brigade Network
ⓘ
linked to:
Brigade Media
Clear My Record ⓘ Code for America Fellowship ⓘ
linked to:
Code for America
GetCalFresh ⓘ GetYourRefund ⓘ |
| operatesInSector |
civic technology
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government services ⓘ public sector technology ⓘ |
| partnersWith |
community-based organizations
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federal agencies ⓘ local governments ⓘ state governments ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
agile software development
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data-driven decision making ⓘ open-source development ⓘ user-centered design ⓘ |
| usesTechnology |
cloud-based services
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data analytics ⓘ open-source software ⓘ |
| website | https://www.codeforamerica.org ⓘ |
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: Code for America Description of subject: Code for America is a nonprofit organization that partners with governments to improve public services through user-centered design, open-source technology, and civic tech innovation.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Code for America
linked to: Code for America