Office of Victim Services
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The Office of Victim Services is a unit within the Maine Department of Corrections that provides support, information, and advocacy for crime victims and survivors throughout the correctional process.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Office of Victim Services canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8807945 — 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: Office of Victim Services Context triple: [Maine Department of Corrections, hasPart, Office of Victim Services]
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A.
Office for Victims of Crime
The Office for Victims of Crime is a U.S. federal agency that administers programs and funding to support and advocate for victims of crime nationwide.
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B.
Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants
The Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants is a District of Columbia government agency that administers funding and programs to support crime victims and advance justice-related initiatives.
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C.
New York State Office of Victim Services
The New York State Office of Victim Services is a state agency that provides financial assistance, advocacy, and support services to crime victims and their families throughout New York.
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D.
Domestic Violence Unit
The Domestic Violence Unit is a specialized division of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia dedicated to investigating and responding to incidents of domestic and intimate partner violence.
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E.
Office of Adult Abuse Prevention and Investigations
The Office of Adult Abuse Prevention and Investigations is a division of Oregon’s state human services system responsible for investigating and preventing abuse, neglect, and exploitation of vulnerable adults.
- 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: Office of Victim Services Target entity description: The Office of Victim Services is a unit within the Maine Department of Corrections that provides support, information, and advocacy for crime victims and survivors throughout the correctional process.
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A.
Office for Victims of Crime
The Office for Victims of Crime is a U.S. federal agency that administers programs and funding to support and advocate for victims of crime nationwide.
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B.
Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants
The Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants is a District of Columbia government agency that administers funding and programs to support crime victims and advance justice-related initiatives.
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C.
New York State Office of Victim Services
The New York State Office of Victim Services is a state agency that provides financial assistance, advocacy, and support services to crime victims and their families throughout New York.
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D.
Domestic Violence Unit
The Domestic Violence Unit is a specialized division of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia dedicated to investigating and responding to incidents of domestic and intimate partner violence.
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E.
Office of Adult Abuse Prevention and Investigations
The Office of Adult Abuse Prevention and Investigations is a division of Oregon’s state human services system responsible for investigating and preventing abuse, neglect, and exploitation of vulnerable adults.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime victim support office
ⓘ
government agency unit ⓘ |
| activity |
providing information about offender status
ⓘ
supporting victims during parole or release processes ⓘ victim advocacy ⓘ victim notification ⓘ |
| compliesWith |
Maine victims’ rights laws
ⓘ
U.S. crime victims’ rights standards ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| field |
corrections
ⓘ
criminal justice ⓘ victim services ⓘ |
| focus |
rights and needs of crime victims
ⓘ
support during incarceration and release of offenders ⓘ |
| fundingSource | State of Maine budget ⓘ |
| governingBody | Maine Department of Corrections ⓘ |
| governmentLevel | state ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
State of Maine
ⓘ
linked to:
Maine
|
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| legalSystem | Maine criminal justice system ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
State of Maine
ⓘ
linked to:
Maine
|
| mission | to assist crime victims and survivors throughout the correctional process ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Maine Department of Corrections ⓘ |
| partOf | Maine Department of Corrections ⓘ |
| processScope | correctional process ⓘ |
| purpose |
provide advocacy for crime victims and survivors
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provide information to crime victims and survivors ⓘ provide support for crime victims and survivors ⓘ |
| regionServed | Maine ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| serves |
crime survivors
ⓘ
crime victims ⓘ families of crime victims ⓘ |
| serviceType |
victim advocacy services
ⓘ
victim information services ⓘ victim support services ⓘ |
| worksWith |
Maine correctional facilities
ⓘ
linked to:
Maine Department of Corrections
crime victims ⓘ other victim service providers in Maine ⓘ survivors of crime ⓘ |
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: Office of Victim Services Description of subject: The Office of Victim Services is a unit within the Maine Department of Corrections that provides support, information, and advocacy for crime victims and survivors throughout the correctional process.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.