H.R.3261
E757273
H.R.3261 is the formal designation for the Stop Online Piracy Act, a controversial U.S. House bill introduced in 2011 aimed at combating online copyright infringement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| H.R.3261 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8766004 — 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: H.R.3261 Context triple: [Stop Online Piracy Act, billNumber, H.R.3261]
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A.
H.R. 1776
H.R. 1776 was the U.S. House bill that became the Lend-Lease Act of 1941, authorizing extensive American military aid to Allied nations during World War II.
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B.
H.R. 3199
H.R. 3199 is the U.S. House bill that became the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005, extending and modifying key provisions of the original Patriot Act.
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C.
H.R.3364
H.R.3364 is a U.S. federal law, known as the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, that imposes sanctions on Iran, Russia, and North Korea to address national security and foreign policy concerns.
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D.
HR 2491
HR 2491 is the Harvard Revised (Bright Star Catalogue) designation for Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky located in the constellation Canis Major.
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E.
H.R. 1424
H.R. 1424 is the U.S. House of Representatives bill that became the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, authorizing the federal government’s major financial-sector bailout during the 2008 crisis.
- 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: H.R.3261 Target entity description: H.R.3261 is the formal designation for the Stop Online Piracy Act, a controversial U.S. House bill introduced in 2011 aimed at combating online copyright infringement.
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A.
H.R. 1776
H.R. 1776 was the U.S. House bill that became the Lend-Lease Act of 1941, authorizing extensive American military aid to Allied nations during World War II.
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B.
H.R. 3199
H.R. 3199 is the U.S. House bill that became the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005, extending and modifying key provisions of the original Patriot Act.
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C.
H.R.3364
H.R.3364 is a U.S. federal law, known as the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, that imposes sanctions on Iran, Russia, and North Korea to address national security and foreign policy concerns.
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D.
HR 2491
HR 2491 is the Harvard Revised (Bright Star Catalogue) designation for Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky located in the constellation Canis Major.
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E.
H.R. 1424
H.R. 1424 is the U.S. House of Representatives bill that became the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, authorizing the federal government’s major financial-sector bailout during the 2008 crisis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States federal bill
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proposed legislation ⓘ |
| aimedAt |
combating online piracy
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combating trafficking in copyrighted works ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
domestic infringing websites
ⓘ
foreign infringing websites ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criticizedFor |
due process concerns
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impact on DNS infrastructure ⓘ potential censorship of lawful content ⓘ threats to free speech ⓘ threats to innovation ⓘ |
| hasBillNumber | 3261 ⓘ |
| hasBillType | House Resolution ⓘ |
| hasCommitteeReferral | House Judiciary Committee ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction | United States federal law ⓘ |
| hasOfficialName | Stop Online Piracy Act ⓘ |
| hasShortName |
SOPA
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linked to:
Stop Online Piracy Act
|
| hasStatus |
died in committee
ⓘ
not enacted ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Lamar S. Smith ⓘ |
| introducedIn | United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
| introducedInCongress | 112th United States Congress ⓘ |
| introducedInYear | 2011 ⓘ |
| introducedOnDate | 2011-10-26 ⓘ |
| legislativeChamber | House of Representatives ⓘ |
| legislativeOutcome |
consideration postponed indefinitely
ⓘ
no vote by full House ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Internet freedom advocates
ⓘ
civil liberties organizations ⓘ many website operators ⓘ technology companies ⓘ |
| proposedRemedy |
blocking access to infringing websites
ⓘ
cutting off advertising to infringing websites ⓘ cutting off payment processing to infringing websites ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
ⓘ
PROTECT IP Act ⓘ
linked to:
Stop Online Piracy Act
|
| sponsorParty | Republican Party ⓘ |
| sponsorState | Texas ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
Internet regulation
ⓘ
intellectual property enforcement ⓘ online copyright infringement ⓘ |
| supportedBy |
motion picture industry
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recording industry ⓘ some copyright holders ⓘ |
| triggeredEvent | 2012 Internet blackout protests ⓘ |
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: H.R.3261 Description of subject: H.R.3261 is the formal designation for the Stop Online Piracy Act, a controversial U.S. House bill introduced in 2011 aimed at combating online copyright infringement.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.