Iowa Department of Corrections
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The Iowa Department of Corrections is the state agency responsible for overseeing prisons, community-based corrections, and offender rehabilitation within Iowa’s criminal justice system.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iowa Department of Corrections canonical | 1 |
| Iowa Department of Corrections facility | 1 |
| Iowa state correctional institutions | 1 |
| Iowa state correctional institutions division | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2777894 — 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: Iowa Department of Corrections Context triple: [Government of Iowa, hasAgency, Iowa Department of Corrections]
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A.
Indiana Department of Correction
The Indiana Department of Correction is the state agency responsible for overseeing adult and juvenile correctional facilities, offender rehabilitation, and community supervision within Indiana.
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B.
Maine Department of Corrections
The Maine Department of Corrections is the state agency responsible for overseeing adult and juvenile correctional facilities, probation, and parole services throughout Maine.
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C.
Snake River Correctional Institution
Snake River Correctional Institution is a large state prison facility in Oregon that houses adult inmates under the supervision of the Oregon Department of Corrections.
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D.
Oregon State Correctional Institution
Oregon State Correctional Institution is a state-run prison facility in Oregon that houses adult inmates under the supervision of the Oregon Department of Corrections.
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E.
Oregon Department of Corrections
The Oregon Department of Corrections is the state agency responsible for operating prisons and managing adult offenders in Oregon’s correctional system.
- 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: Iowa Department of Corrections Target entity description: The Iowa Department of Corrections is the state agency responsible for overseeing prisons, community-based corrections, and offender rehabilitation within Iowa’s criminal justice system.
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A.
Indiana Department of Correction
The Indiana Department of Correction is the state agency responsible for overseeing adult and juvenile correctional facilities, offender rehabilitation, and community supervision within Indiana.
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B.
Maine Department of Corrections
The Maine Department of Corrections is the state agency responsible for overseeing adult and juvenile correctional facilities, probation, and parole services throughout Maine.
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C.
Snake River Correctional Institution
Snake River Correctional Institution is a large state prison facility in Oregon that houses adult inmates under the supervision of the Oregon Department of Corrections.
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D.
Oregon State Correctional Institution
Oregon State Correctional Institution is a state-run prison facility in Oregon that houses adult inmates under the supervision of the Oregon Department of Corrections.
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E.
Oregon Department of Corrections
The Oregon Department of Corrections is the state agency responsible for operating prisons and managing adult offenders in Oregon’s correctional system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
ⓘ
state corrections department ⓘ |
| abbreviation | IDOC ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | Iowa ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Iowa Board of Parole
ⓘ
Iowa Judicial Branch ⓘ
linked to:
Iowa state court system
Iowa law enforcement agencies ⓘ community service providers in Iowa ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| employerOf |
administrative staff in Iowa corrections system
ⓘ
correctional counselors in Iowa ⓘ correctional officers in Iowa ⓘ probation and parole officers in Iowa ⓘ |
| follows |
Iowa Code
ⓘ
Iowa administrative rules on corrections ⓘ |
| hasHeadquartersLocation | Des Moines, Iowa ⓘ |
| hasMission |
protect the public by supervising offenders
ⓘ
provide offender rehabilitation and reentry services ⓘ reduce recidivism in Iowa ⓘ |
| hasOrganizationalUnit |
Iowa state correctional institutions division
ⓘ
linked to:
Iowa Department of Corrections
community-based corrections division ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
State of Iowa
ⓘ
linked to:
Iowa
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | state agency ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Polk County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| oversees |
Iowa community-based corrections districts
ⓘ
Iowa state correctional institutions ⓘ
linked to:
Iowa Department of Corrections
|
| partOf |
Government of Iowa
ⓘ
Iowa criminal justice system ⓘ |
| providesService |
educational programs for offenders
ⓘ
electronic monitoring supervision ⓘ mental health services for offenders ⓘ substance abuse treatment for offenders ⓘ vocational training for offenders ⓘ work release programs ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
community-based corrections in Iowa
ⓘ
institutional security in Iowa prisons ⓘ offender rehabilitation programs in Iowa ⓘ offender supervision in Iowa ⓘ parole supervision in Iowa ⓘ probation services in Iowa ⓘ reentry services for offenders in Iowa ⓘ state prisons in Iowa ⓘ |
| sector |
corrections
ⓘ
criminal justice ⓘ public safety ⓘ |
| website | https://doc.iowa.gov/ ⓘ |
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: Iowa Department of Corrections Description of subject: The Iowa Department of Corrections is the state agency responsible for overseeing prisons, community-based corrections, and offender rehabilitation within Iowa’s criminal justice system.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Iowa Department of Corrections
Iowa Department of Corrections
→
hasOrganizationalUnit
→
Iowa state correctional institutions division
ⓘ
linked to: Iowa Department of Corrections
linked to: Iowa Department of Corrections