Principles, Policies, and Procedures for Domestic Geographic Names

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United States federal document guideline document standard for geographic names

Principles, Policies, and Procedures for Domestic Geographic Names is the official guideline document that sets the standards and rules for naming geographic features within the United States.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Principles, Policies, and Procedures for Domestic Geographic Names canonical	2
PPPs for Domestic Geographic Names	1
United States geographic names policy	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T284491 — 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: Principles, Policies, and Procedures for Domestic Geographic Names
Context triple: [U.S. Board on Geographic Names, publishes, Principles, Policies, and Procedures for Domestic Geographic Names]

A. The Principle of Federation
The Principle of Federation is a political treatise by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon that outlines his vision of a decentralized, federalist social order as an alternative to both centralized state power and capitalism.
B. Name Authority File
The Name Authority File is a standardized database of authorized names and headings used by libraries and other institutions to ensure consistent cataloging and retrieval of bibliographic records.
C. The Geographer
The Geographer is a 1669–1670 oil painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Johannes Vermeer depicting a contemplative scholar studying maps and instruments in a light-filled interior.
D. Office of Registration Policy and Practice
The Office of Registration Policy and Practice is a division of the U.S. Copyright Office responsible for developing and administering policies, regulations, and guidance related to copyright registration.
E. Ministerkonferenz für Raumordnung
The Ministerkonferenz für Raumordnung is a German federal-state conference responsible for coordinating national spatial planning and regional development policy.
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: Principles, Policies, and Procedures for Domestic Geographic Names
Target entity description: Principles, Policies, and Procedures for Domestic Geographic Names is the official guideline document that sets the standards and rules for naming geographic features within the United States.

A. The Principle of Federation
The Principle of Federation is a political treatise by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon that outlines his vision of a decentralized, federalist social order as an alternative to both centralized state power and capitalism.
B. Name Authority File
The Name Authority File is a standardized database of authorized names and headings used by libraries and other institutions to ensure consistent cataloging and retrieval of bibliographic records.
C. The Geographer
The Geographer is a 1669–1670 oil painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Johannes Vermeer depicting a contemplative scholar studying maps and instruments in a light-filled interior.
D. Office of Registration Policy and Practice
The Office of Registration Policy and Practice is a division of the U.S. Copyright Office responsible for developing and administering policies, regulations, and guidance related to copyright registration.
E. Ministerkonferenz für Raumordnung
The Ministerkonferenz für Raumordnung is a German federal-state conference responsible for coordinating national spatial planning and regional development policy.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States federal document ⓘ guideline document ⓘ standard for geographic names ⓘ
appliesTo	domestic geographic names in the United States ⓘ official naming of geographic features ⓘ standardization of geographic names ⓘ
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
defines	criteria for name acceptability ⓘ criteria for name orthography and spelling ⓘ criteria for name usage and local acceptance ⓘ policies for changing existing geographic names ⓘ principles for approving new geographic names ⓘ procedures for processing geographic name proposals ⓘ rules for commemorative geographic names ⓘ rules for derogatory and offensive geographic names ⓘ rules for duplicate geographic names ⓘ rules for generic terms in geographic names ⓘ rules for names containing diacritics ⓘ rules for names in multiple languages ⓘ rules for names of man-made features ⓘ rules for names of natural features ⓘ rules for variant names ⓘ
governs	naming of cultural geographic features ⓘ naming of natural geographic features ⓘ naming of populated places ⓘ naming of undersea and maritime features within U.S. jurisdiction ⓘ
hasAbbreviation	PPPs ⓘ
hasTitle	Principles, Policies, and Procedures for Domestic Geographic Names ⓘ
issuedBy	United States Board on Geographic Names ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
publisher	U.S. Geological Survey ⓘ linked to: United States Geological Survey United States Board on Geographic Names ⓘ
relatedTo	Domestic Names Committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names ⓘ linked to: Domestic Names Committee Geographic Names Information System ⓘ
scope	geographic features in U.S. states ⓘ geographic features in U.S. territories ⓘ geographic features in the District of Columbia ⓘ geographic features within the territorial limits of the United States ⓘ
shortName	PPPs for Domestic Geographic Names ⓘ linked to: Principles, Policies, and Procedures for Domestic Geographic Names
subject	federal geographic naming policy ⓘ geographic names standardization ⓘ toponymy ⓘ
usedBy	GIS professionals ⓘ cartographers ⓘ federal agencies of the United States ⓘ local governments in the United States ⓘ map publishers ⓘ state geographic names authorities ⓘ

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

U.S. Board on Geographic Names → publishes → Principles, Policies, and Procedures for Domestic Geographic Names ⓘ

subject linked to: U.S. Board on Geographic Names as having no official standing

Principles, Policies, and Procedures for Domestic Geographic Names → hasTitle → Principles, Policies, and Procedures for Domestic Geographic Names ⓘ

Principles, Policies, and Procedures for Domestic Geographic Names → shortName → PPPs for Domestic Geographic Names ⓘ

linked to: Principles, Policies, and Procedures for Domestic Geographic Names

US BGN → topicOf → United States geographic names policy ⓘ