15 U.S.C. § 637(m)
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15 U.S.C. § 637(m) is a provision of U.S. federal law that authorizes and governs the federal contracting program designed to increase contracting opportunities for women-owned small businesses.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 15 U.S.C. § 637(m) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10024468 — 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: 15 U.S.C. § 637(m) Context triple: [Women-Owned Small Business Federal Contracting Program, legalBasis, 15 U.S.C. § 637(m)]
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50 U.S.C. § 1547
50 U.S.C. § 1547 is the statutory provision within the War Powers Resolution that sets out key interpretive rules and limitations on how presidential and congressional powers related to the introduction of U.S. armed forces into hostilities are to be understood.
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18 U.S.C. §§ 2701–2712
18 U.S.C. §§ 2701–2712 comprise the Stored Communications Act, a U.S. federal law that governs government and third-party access to stored electronic communications and related data.
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C.
McClure-Volkmer Act
The McClure-Volkmer Act is a 1986 U.S. federal law that revised and relaxed certain gun control provisions while adding new regulations on firearms sales and ownership.
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D.
42 U.S.C. § 2000cc-4
42 U.S.C. § 2000cc-4 is a provision of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) that addresses enforcement and related legal standards for protecting religious exercise in land-use and institutional settings.
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E.
Clayton Act provisions
The Clayton Act provisions are U.S. federal antitrust rules that restrict anti-competitive practices such as price discrimination, exclusive dealing, tying arrangements, and certain mergers and acquisitions to protect market competition.
- 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: 15 U.S.C. § 637(m) Target entity description: 15 U.S.C. § 637(m) is a provision of U.S. federal law that authorizes and governs the federal contracting program designed to increase contracting opportunities for women-owned small businesses.
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A.
50 U.S.C. § 1547
50 U.S.C. § 1547 is the statutory provision within the War Powers Resolution that sets out key interpretive rules and limitations on how presidential and congressional powers related to the introduction of U.S. armed forces into hostilities are to be understood.
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B.
18 U.S.C. §§ 2701–2712
18 U.S.C. §§ 2701–2712 comprise the Stored Communications Act, a U.S. federal law that governs government and third-party access to stored electronic communications and related data.
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C.
McClure-Volkmer Act
The McClure-Volkmer Act is a 1986 U.S. federal law that revised and relaxed certain gun control provisions while adding new regulations on firearms sales and ownership.
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D.
42 U.S.C. § 2000cc-4
42 U.S.C. § 2000cc-4 is a provision of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) that addresses enforcement and related legal standards for protecting religious exercise in land-use and institutional settings.
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E.
Clayton Act provisions
The Clayton Act provisions are U.S. federal antitrust rules that restrict anti-competitive practices such as price discrimination, exclusive dealing, tying arrangements, and certain mergers and acquisitions to protect market competition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
federal statute provision
ⓘ
section of the United States Code ⓘ |
| administeredBy | U.S. Small Business Administration ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Section 637(m) of the Small Business Act
ⓘ
Women-Owned Small Business Program statute ⓘ |
| amends | Small Business Act contracting provisions ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
economically disadvantaged women-owned small businesses
ⓘ
women-owned small businesses ⓘ |
| authorizes |
set-aside contracts for economically disadvantaged women-owned small businesses
ⓘ
set-aside contracts for women-owned small businesses ⓘ sole-source awards to certain women-owned small businesses under specified conditions ⓘ |
| basisFor | federal regulations on the WOSB and EDWOSB programs ⓘ |
| citationFormat | 15 U.S.C. § 637(m) ⓘ |
| contains |
provisions on certification of women-owned small businesses
ⓘ
provisions on contract award limitations and conditions ⓘ provisions on penalties or remedies for misrepresentation of WOSB or EDWOSB status ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| defines |
eligibility criteria for economically disadvantaged women-owned small businesses in the federal contracting program
ⓘ
eligibility criteria for women-owned small businesses in the federal contracting program ⓘ |
| enforcedBy |
U.S. Small Business Administration
ⓘ
federal contracting agencies ⓘ |
| governs |
EDWOSB Federal Contract Program
ⓘ
WOSB Federal Contract Program ⓘ Women-Owned Small Business Federal Contract Program ⓘ |
| implementedBy |
13 C.F.R. part 127
ⓘ
Federal Acquisition Regulation provisions on WOSB and EDWOSB set-asides ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | United States federal law ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | codified statute ⓘ |
| partOf |
15 U.S.C. § 637
ⓘ
Small Business Act ⓘ
linked to:
Small Business Act of 1958
Title 15 of the United States Code ⓘ |
| purpose |
to authorize set-aside contracts for women-owned small businesses in certain industries
ⓘ
to help remedy underrepresentation of women-owned small businesses in federal contracting ⓘ to increase federal contracting opportunities for women-owned small businesses ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
15 U.S.C. § 637(a)
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15 U.S.C. § 644 ⓘ |
| requires |
SBA to identify industries in which women-owned small businesses are underrepresented or substantially underrepresented
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that control of participating firms be by one or more women ⓘ that ownership of participating firms be at least 51 percent by one or more women ⓘ that participating firms qualify as small business concerns under SBA size standards ⓘ |
| shortDescription | authorizes a federal contracting program to increase contracting opportunities for women-owned small businesses ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
federal procurement
ⓘ
small business contracting ⓘ women-owned business enterprises ⓘ |
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: 15 U.S.C. § 637(m) Description of subject: 15 U.S.C. § 637(m) is a provision of U.S. federal law that authorizes and governs the federal contracting program designed to increase contracting opportunities for women-owned small businesses.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.