Bluebook legal citation

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citation manual legal citation style style guide

Bluebook legal citation is the dominant standardized system in the United States for citing legal authorities and sources in legal writing and scholarship.

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All labels observed (8)

Label	Occurrences
Bluebook	21
Bluebook legal citation canonical	6
The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation	5
Bluebook legal citation style	2
Bluebook legal citation system	2
The Bluebook	2
"E.D. La." in legal citations	1
Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T926250 — 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: Bluebook legal citation
Context triple: [Wheaton, usedInCitationStyle, Bluebook legal citation]

A. KeyCite
KeyCite is Westlaw’s proprietary legal citator service that tracks the history and treatment of cases, statutes, and other authorities to determine their current validity and precedential value.
B. LexisNexis
LexisNexis is a major legal research and information services provider offering extensive databases of case law, statutes, news, and business information to legal and professional users worldwide.
C. Bloomberg Law
Bloomberg Law is a comprehensive legal research and business intelligence platform that provides access to case law, statutes, regulations, dockets, news, and analytical tools for legal professionals.
D. Westlaw
Westlaw is a comprehensive online legal research service and database widely used by lawyers, judges, and scholars to access case law, statutes, regulations, and secondary legal materials.
E. Lederman Law Library
Lederman Law Library is the dedicated law library of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, supporting legal education and research with specialized collections and services.
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: Bluebook legal citation
Target entity description: Bluebook legal citation is the dominant standardized system in the United States for citing legal authorities and sources in legal writing and scholarship.

A. KeyCite
KeyCite is Westlaw’s proprietary legal citator service that tracks the history and treatment of cases, statutes, and other authorities to determine their current validity and precedential value.
B. LexisNexis
LexisNexis is a major legal research and information services provider offering extensive databases of case law, statutes, news, and business information to legal and professional users worldwide.
C. Bloomberg Law
Bloomberg Law is a comprehensive legal research and business intelligence platform that provides access to case law, statutes, regulations, dockets, news, and analytical tools for legal professionals.
D. Westlaw
Westlaw is a comprehensive online legal research service and database widely used by lawyers, judges, and scholars to access case law, statutes, regulations, and secondary legal materials.
E. Lederman Law Library
Lederman Law Library is the dedicated law library of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, supporting legal education and research with specialized collections and services.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	citation manual ⓘ legal citation style ⓘ style guide ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	The Bluebook ⓘ linked to: Bluebook legal citation The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation ⓘ linked to: Bluebook legal citation
competesWith	ALWD Guide to Legal Citation ⓘ linked to: ALWD citation manual
countryOfUse	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
describedAs	dominant system for legal citation in the United States ⓘ
feature	abbreviation rules ⓘ rules for explanatory phrases ⓘ rules for parallel citations ⓘ rules for parentheticals ⓘ rules for pinpoint citations ⓘ short form citation rules ⓘ signal usage rules ⓘ typeface conventions ⓘ
governsCitationOf	administrative materials ⓘ books ⓘ cases ⓘ constitutions ⓘ foreign and international materials ⓘ internet sources ⓘ law review articles ⓘ regulations ⓘ statutes ⓘ
hasComponent	Bluepages ⓘ Whitepages ⓘ index ⓘ tables ⓘ
hasEditionType	online edition ⓘ print edition ⓘ
influenced	law review citation practices in the United States ⓘ local court citation rules in the United States ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
primaryDomain	law ⓘ legal scholarship ⓘ legal writing ⓘ
publisher	Columbia Law Review ⓘ Harvard Law Review Association ⓘ linked to: Harvard Law Review University of Pennsylvania Law Review ⓘ Yale Law Journal ⓘ
scope	United States legal materials and selected foreign and international materials ⓘ
targetAudience	U.S. legal community ⓘ
usedBy	attorneys ⓘ judges ⓘ law clerks ⓘ law professors ⓘ law students ⓘ legal academics ⓘ
usedIn	court briefs ⓘ judicial opinions ⓘ law review articles ⓘ legal memoranda ⓘ legal textbooks ⓘ

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