Information: - The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), founded in 1919, is a private, nonprofit federation of 73 scholarly organizations in the humanities and related social sciences. It is best known for its fellowship competitions which provide a range of opportunities for scholars in the humanities and related social sciences at all career stages, from graduate students to distinguished professors to independent scholars, working with a number of disciplines and methodologies in the U.S. and abroad. - The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York City in the United States, is a private foundation with five core areas of interest, endowed with wealth accumulated by Andrew W. Mellon of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is the product of the 1969 merger of the Avalon Foundation and the Old Dominion Foundation. These foundations were set up separately by Paul Mellon and Ailsa Mellon-Bruce, the children of Andrew W. Mellon. It is housed in the expanded former offices of the Bollingen Foundation in New York City, another educational philanthropy supported by Paul Mellon. Earl Lewis is the Foundation's president. His predecessors have included Don Randel, William G. Bowen, John Edward Sawyer and Nathan Pusey. Lewis is the former Provost of Emory University. In 2004, the Foundation was awarded the National Medal of Arts. - The American National Biography (ANB) is a 24-volume biographical encyclopedia set that contains about 17,400 entries and 20 million words, first published in 1999 by Oxford University Press under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. A 400-entry supplement appeared in 2002. Additional funding came from Rockefeller Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities. The general editors were John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. - John Arthur Garraty (July 4, 1920 December 19, 2007) was an American historian and biographer. He specialized largely in American political and economic history. - The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S.government, established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. The NEH is housed at 400 7th St SW, Washington, D.C.; From 1979 to 2014, NEH was located at 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. in the Nancy Hanks Center at the Old Post Office. - The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography is a multi-volume collection of biographical articles and portraits of Americans , published since the 1890s . The primary method of data collection was by sending questionnaires to subjects or their relatives . It has over 60,000 entries , in 63 volumes . The entries are not credited . The overall editor was James Terry White . It is more comprehensive than the Dictionary of American Biography and the American National Biography , but less scholarly because it does n't cite the original sources used for the information . - The Rockefeller Foundation is a private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. It was established by the six-generation Rockefeller family. The Foundation was started by Standard Oil owner John D. Rockefeller ("Senior"), along with his son John D. Rockefeller Jr. ("Junior"), and Senior's principal oil and gas business and philanthropic advisor, Frederick Taylor Gates, in New York State on May 14, 1913, when its charter was formally accepted by the New York State Legislature. Its stated mission is "promoting the well-being of humanity throughout the world." - Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the vice-chancellor known as the delegates of the press. They are headed by the secretary to the delegates, who serves as OUP's chief executive and as its major representative on other university bodies. Oxford University has used a similar system to oversee OUP since the 17th century. Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'instance of' with the subject 'the national cyclopaedia of american biography'. Choices: - agency - avenue - biographical encyclopedia - biography - chancellor - city - council - december - department - education - federation - five - foundation - funding - generation - government - history - july - legislature - mission - oil - principal - public - range - representative - set - standard - state - supplement - system - university - university press - vice
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