Standard Occupational Classification
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The Standard Occupational Classification is a federal system used in the United States to categorize and standardize occupations for statistical, labor market, and administrative purposes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Standard Occupational Classification canonical | 3 |
| Standard Occupational Classification system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11259767 — 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: Standard Occupational Classification Context triple: [Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, classificationSystem, Standard Occupational Classification]
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A.
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics is a U.S. labor market data program that provides detailed estimates of employment levels and wage rates across occupations and industries.
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B.
International Standard Industrial Classification
The International Standard Industrial Classification is a globally used United Nations framework that systematically categorizes economic activities to enable consistent collection, analysis, and comparison of industrial statistics across countries.
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C.
Division of Professions and Occupations
The Division of Professions and Occupations is a Colorado state regulatory body responsible for licensing and overseeing a wide range of professional and occupational fields to protect public health, safety, and welfare.
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D.
NAICS codes
NAICS codes are a standardized classification system used in North America to categorize businesses and industries for statistical, regulatory, and procurement purposes.
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E.
United Nations Central Product Classification for services
The United Nations Central Product Classification for services is an international standard taxonomy that organizes and codes service activities to facilitate consistent statistical reporting, trade negotiations, and policy analysis across countries and sectors.
- 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: Standard Occupational Classification Target entity description: The Standard Occupational Classification is a federal system used in the United States to categorize and standardize occupations for statistical, labor market, and administrative purposes.
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A.
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics is a U.S. labor market data program that provides detailed estimates of employment levels and wage rates across occupations and industries.
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B.
International Standard Industrial Classification
The International Standard Industrial Classification is a globally used United Nations framework that systematically categorizes economic activities to enable consistent collection, analysis, and comparison of industrial statistics across countries.
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C.
Division of Professions and Occupations
The Division of Professions and Occupations is a Colorado state regulatory body responsible for licensing and overseeing a wide range of professional and occupational fields to protect public health, safety, and welfare.
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D.
NAICS codes
NAICS codes are a standardized classification system used in North America to categorize businesses and industries for statistical, regulatory, and procurement purposes.
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E.
United Nations Central Product Classification for services
The United Nations Central Product Classification for services is an international standard taxonomy that organizes and codes service activities to facilitate consistent statistical reporting, trade negotiations, and policy analysis across countries and sectors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
federal statistical standard
ⓘ
occupational classification system ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SOC ⓘ |
| appliesTo | all occupations in the U.S. economy ⓘ |
| classificationLevel | hierarchical ⓘ |
| coordinatedBy | Office of Management and Budget ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| developedBy | interagency SOC Policy Committee ⓘ |
| firstImplemented | 1977 ⓘ |
| hasCodeStructure | six‑digit occupational codes ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
broad occupations
ⓘ
detailed occupations ⓘ major groups ⓘ minor groups ⓘ |
| hasScope |
civilian occupations
ⓘ
military occupations ⓘ |
| includes |
military specific occupations
ⓘ
non‑wage and salary occupations ⓘ wage and salary occupations ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| latestRevision | 2018 SOC ⓘ |
| linkedTo |
North American Industry Classification System
ⓘ
linked to:
NAICS codes
|
| maintainedBy | Office of Management and Budget ⓘ |
| nextPlannedRevision | 2028 SOC ⓘ |
| purpose |
to categorize and standardize occupations
ⓘ
to provide a common occupational language ⓘ |
| replaces | earlier federal occupational classification systems ⓘ |
| revisedIn |
2000
ⓘ
2010 ⓘ 2018 ⓘ |
| standardizes |
occupational coding
ⓘ
occupational definitions ⓘ occupational titles ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Bureau of Labor Statistics
ⓘ
U.S. Census Bureau ⓘ
linked to:
Bureau of the Census
U.S. Department of Labor ⓘ
linked to:
United States Department of Labor
U.S. federal government ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
U.S. statistical agencies ⓘ local governments in the United States ⓘ state governments in the United States ⓘ |
| usedFor |
administrative reporting
ⓘ
employment projections ⓘ labor market analysis ⓘ occupational statistics ⓘ policy development ⓘ program planning ⓘ wage data collection ⓘ |
| usedIn |
American Community Survey occupational data
ⓘ
Decennial Census occupational data ⓘ Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program ⓘ
linked to:
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
|
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: Standard Occupational Classification Description of subject: The Standard Occupational Classification is a federal system used in the United States to categorize and standardize occupations for statistical, labor market, and administrative purposes.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
→
classificationSystem
→
Standard Occupational Classification
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linked to: Standard Occupational Classification