PWA
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The Public Works Administration (PWA) was a New Deal U.S. government agency created in 1933 to stimulate economic recovery through large-scale public construction projects such as dams, bridges, schools, and hospitals.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| PWA canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T48224 — 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: PWA Context triple: [Public Works Administration, alsoKnownAs, PWA]
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A.
WAS
WAS is the standard three-letter abbreviation used for the Washington Commanders NFL franchise.
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B.
WAS
WAS is the station code for Washington, D.C.’s main intercity and commuter rail hub, Union Station.
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C.
WAI
WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) program that develops guidelines, resources, and standards to make the web accessible to people with disabilities.
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D.
PR
PR is the two-letter postal abbreviation commonly used to refer to Puerto Rico, a Caribbean island and unincorporated territory of the United States.
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E.
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a global system of interlinked hypertext documents and resources accessed via the internet, enabling users worldwide to browse, share, and interact with information through web browsers.
- 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: PWA Target entity description: The Public Works Administration (PWA) was a New Deal U.S. government agency created in 1933 to stimulate economic recovery through large-scale public construction projects such as dams, bridges, schools, and hospitals.
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A.
Wear OS
Wear OS is Google’s smartwatch operating system designed to bring Android apps, notifications, and Google services to wearable devices.
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B.
WAS
WAS is the standard three-letter abbreviation used for the Washington Commanders NFL franchise.
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C.
WAS
WAS is the station code for Washington, D.C.’s main intercity and commuter rail hub, Union Station.
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D.
WAI
WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) program that develops guidelines, resources, and standards to make the web accessible to people with disabilities.
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E.
PR
PR is the two-letter postal abbreviation commonly used to refer to Puerto Rico, a Caribbean island and unincorporated territory of the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New Deal agency
ⓘ
United States federal government agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation | PWA ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| budget | several billion US dollars ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| differentiatedFrom | Works Progress Administration ⓘ |
| director | Harold L. Ickes ⓘ |
| dissolved | 1944 ⓘ |
| employed | private construction firms ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
economic policy
ⓘ
employment policy ⓘ infrastructure ⓘ public construction ⓘ |
| financedBy |
United States federal government
ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
|
| focus | large-scale, long-term public works projects ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Franklin D. Roosevelt
ⓘ
linked to:
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
|
| funded |
bridges
ⓘ
dams ⓘ government buildings ⓘ highways ⓘ hospitals ⓘ schools ⓘ sewage systems ⓘ waterworks ⓘ |
| headOfGovernmentBody | Harold L. Ickes ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
New Deal era
ⓘ
linked to:
New Deal
|
| inception | 1933 ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933
ⓘ
linked to:
National Industrial Recovery Act
|
| mainPurpose |
economic recovery
ⓘ
modernization of national infrastructure ⓘ public works construction ⓘ reduction of unemployment ⓘ |
| namedAfter | public works ⓘ |
| notableProject |
Grand Coulee Dam
ⓘ
Hoover Dam ⓘ LaGuardia Airport ⓘ Lincoln Tunnel ⓘ Overseas Highway ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Route 1
Triborough Bridge ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | United States Department of the Interior ⓘ |
| partOf |
New Deal
ⓘ
Roosevelt administration programs ⓘ |
| policy | contracts with private companies rather than direct hiring of workers ⓘ |
| positionHeldBy | Harold L. Ickes ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Federal Works Agency ⓘ |
| significantEvent | creation under the National Industrial Recovery Act ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Great Depression ⓘ |
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: PWA Description of subject: The Public Works Administration (PWA) was a New Deal U.S. government agency created in 1933 to stimulate economic recovery through large-scale public construction projects such as dams, bridges, schools, and hospitals.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.