Coordinator of Information
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The Coordinator of Information was a U.S. World War II-era office responsible for centralizing intelligence gathering and propaganda activities before its functions were absorbed into later agencies like the Office of Strategic Services.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Coordinator of Information canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1567198 — 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: Coordinator of Information Context triple: [Executive Order 9182, transfersFunctionsFrom, Coordinator of Information]
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A.
Chief Information Officer
The Chief Information Officer of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is the senior official responsible for overseeing and integrating information technology, data management, and cybersecurity across the U.S. Intelligence Community.
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B.
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information
The Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information is a senior U.S. government official who leads federal policy and oversight on telecommunications, spectrum management, and information services within the Department of Commerce.
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C.
Office of the Chief Information Officer
The Office of the Chief Information Officer is the unit within the Office of Justice Programs responsible for overseeing information technology strategy, systems, and data management to support the agency’s justice-related mission.
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D.
Office of the Chief Information Officer
The Office of the Chief Information Officer is the unit within the International Trade Administration responsible for overseeing information technology strategy, systems, and services that support the agency’s trade and business missions.
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E.
Office of the Chief Information Officer
The Office of the Chief Information Officer is the technology and information management division of the U.S. Copyright Office, responsible for overseeing its IT strategy, systems, and digital services.
- 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: Coordinator of Information Target entity description: The Coordinator of Information was a U.S. World War II-era office responsible for centralizing intelligence gathering and propaganda activities before its functions were absorbed into later agencies like the Office of Strategic Services.
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A.
Chief Information Officer
The Chief Information Officer of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is the senior official responsible for overseeing and integrating information technology, data management, and cybersecurity across the U.S. Intelligence Community.
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B.
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information
The Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information is a senior U.S. government official who leads federal policy and oversight on telecommunications, spectrum management, and information services within the Department of Commerce.
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C.
Office of the Chief Information Officer
The Office of the Chief Information Officer is the unit within the International Trade Administration responsible for overseeing information technology strategy, systems, and services that support the agency’s trade and business missions.
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D.
Office of the Chief Information Officer
The Office of the Chief Information Officer is the unit within the Office of Justice Programs responsible for overseeing information technology strategy, systems, and data management to support the agency’s justice-related mission.
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E.
Office of the Chief Information Officer
The Office of the Chief Information Officer is the technology and information management division of the U.S. Copyright Office, responsible for overseeing its IT strategy, systems, and digital services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States government agency
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intelligence agency ⓘ propaganda agency ⓘ |
| activity |
analysis of foreign press and radio
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collection of open-source intelligence ⓘ coordination of intelligence with British services ⓘ covert propaganda operations abroad ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | COI ⓘ |
| appointedBy |
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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linked to:
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| createdBy | executive order of Franklin D. Roosevelt ⓘ |
| dissolved | 1942 ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Office of Strategic Services
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Office of War Information ⓘ |
| hasHead | William J. Donovan ⓘ |
| hasHeadquartersLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
early step toward creation of a permanent U.S. intelligence community
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precursor to the Office of Strategic Services ⓘ |
| inception | 1941 ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
federal government of the United States
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linked to:
United States government
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| operatedIn | World War II ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Executive Office of the President of the United States ⓘ |
| partOf | U.S. war effort in World War II ⓘ |
| precededBy | no centralized U.S. peacetime intelligence agency ⓘ |
| purpose |
centralize intelligence gathering
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conduct foreign propaganda ⓘ conduct psychological warfare planning ⓘ coordinate information from military and civilian agencies ⓘ |
| reasonForDissolution | reorganization of U.S. intelligence and propaganda functions ⓘ |
| successorFunction |
overt propaganda by Office of War Information
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strategic intelligence collection by Office of Strategic Services ⓘ |
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: Coordinator of Information Description of subject: The Coordinator of Information was a U.S. World War II-era office responsible for centralizing intelligence gathering and propaganda activities before its functions were absorbed into later agencies like the Office of Strategic Services.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.