CAFA
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CAFA is a U.S. federal law that expanded federal jurisdiction over large class action lawsuits to address perceived abuses in state courts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CAFA canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2725347 — 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: CAFA Context triple: [Class Action Fairness Act, hasShortName, CAFA]
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CAF
CAF is the Confederation of African Football, the governing body for association football in Africa and one of FIFA’s six continental confederations.
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B.
CAF
CAF is a Spanish multinational company that designs and manufactures railway vehicles and related transport equipment used by metro systems worldwide.
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C.
CAF
CAF is the commonly used abbreviation for the Chief of Air Force, the professional head of an air force service.
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D.
CAF
CAF is the commonly used acronym for the Canadian Armed Forces, the unified military organization responsible for defending Canada and supporting international peace and security operations.
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E.
CAF
CAF is an abbreviation that can refer to various organizations or groups, most notably the Cactus Air Force, a World War II Allied air unit based on Guadalcanal.
- 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: CAFA Target entity description: CAFA is a U.S. federal law that expanded federal jurisdiction over large class action lawsuits to address perceived abuses in state courts.
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A.
CAF
CAF is the Confederation of African Football, the governing body for association football in Africa and one of FIFA’s six continental confederations.
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B.
CAF
CAF is a Spanish multinational company that designs and manufactures railway vehicles and related transport equipment used by metro systems worldwide.
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C.
CAF
CAF is the commonly used acronym for the Canadian Armed Forces, the unified military organization responsible for defending Canada and supporting international peace and security operations.
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D.
CAF
CAF is an abbreviation that can refer to various organizations or groups, most notably the Cactus Air Force, a World War II Allied air unit based on Guadalcanal.
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E.
CAF
CAF is the commonly used abbreviation for the Chief of Air Force, the professional head of an air force service.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | United States federal statute ⓘ |
| addresses |
forum shopping in class action litigation
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state court certification of nationwide or multi-state classes ⓘ |
| aimedAt | large interstate class actions ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | CAFA ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
class action lawsuits
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mass actions ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| effect |
expanded diversity jurisdiction for certain class actions
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facilitated removal of qualifying class actions from state to federal court ⓘ |
| effectiveIn |
United States federal courts
ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. federal courts
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| enactedBy | United States Congress ⓘ |
| hasProvision |
aggregate amount in controversy threshold for federal jurisdiction
ⓘ
exceptions preserving state court jurisdiction in certain local controversies ⓘ minimal diversity requirement for certain class actions ⓘ rules for removal of class actions from state to federal court ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States federal government
ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
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| language | English ⓘ |
| legalArea |
civil procedure
ⓘ
class action litigation ⓘ federal courts ⓘ |
| legislativeBody |
United States House of Representatives
ⓘ
United States Senate ⓘ |
| mainSubject | federal jurisdiction over class actions ⓘ |
| motivatedBy |
concerns about inconsistent outcomes across state courts
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concerns about unfair settlements in some state courts ⓘ |
| presidentAtEnactment | George W. Bush ⓘ |
| purpose |
to address perceived abuses in state courts in handling class actions
ⓘ
to expand federal jurisdiction over large class action lawsuits ⓘ |
| regulates | interstate class actions involving numerous plaintiffs ⓘ |
| shortName | CAFA ⓘ |
| signedBy | George W. Bush ⓘ |
| yearEnacted | 2005 ⓘ |
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: CAFA Description of subject: CAFA is a U.S. federal law that expanded federal jurisdiction over large class action lawsuits to address perceived abuses in state courts.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
CAFA