N.W.
E356748
N.W. is the standard legal citation abbreviation for the North Western Reporter, a regional case law reporter covering appellate decisions from several Midwestern U.S. states.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3417776 — 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: N.W. Context triple: [North Western Reporter, abbreviation, N.W.]
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NW3
NW3 is a North West London postcode district covering affluent areas such as Hampstead and Belsize Park.
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B.
WN
WN is the IATA airline designator used to identify Southwest Airlines in flight schedules, ticketing, and aviation operations.
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C.
NW
NW is an abbreviation used as a vehicle registration code associated with the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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D.
NW
NW is a 2012 novel by British author Zadie Smith that explores the intersecting lives of residents in northwest London, examining themes of class, race, and identity.
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E.
WB
WB is the official vehicle registration code used for motor vehicles registered in the Indian state of West Bengal.
- 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: N.W. Target entity description: N.W. is the standard legal citation abbreviation for the North Western Reporter, a regional case law reporter covering appellate decisions from several Midwestern U.S. states.
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A.
NW3
NW3 is a North West London postcode district covering affluent areas such as Hampstead and Belsize Park.
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B.
WN
WN is the IATA airline designator used to identify Southwest Airlines in flight schedules, ticketing, and aviation operations.
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C.
NW
NW is a 2012 novel by British author Zadie Smith that explores the intersecting lives of residents in northwest London, examining themes of class, race, and identity.
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D.
NW
NW is an abbreviation used as a vehicle registration code associated with the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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E.
WB
WB is the official vehicle registration code used for motor vehicles registered in the Indian state of West Bengal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
legal citation abbreviation
ⓘ
reporter abbreviation ⓘ |
| citationFormatExample | 123 N.W. 456 ⓘ |
| coversCourtLevel | state appellate courts ⓘ |
| coversJurisdiction |
Iowa
ⓘ
Michigan ⓘ Midwestern United States ⓘ Minnesota ⓘ Nebraska ⓘ North Dakota ⓘ South Dakota ⓘ |
| coversLawType | case law ⓘ |
| hasSeries |
North Western Reporter
ⓘ
North Western Reporter, Second Series ⓘ
linked to:
North Western Reporter
North Western Reporter, Third Series ⓘ
linked to:
North Western Reporter
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium |
electronic database
ⓘ
print reporter ⓘ |
| partOf | National Reporter System ⓘ |
| publishedBy | West Publishing Company ⓘ |
| refersTo | North Western Reporter ⓘ |
| region | Northwestern states of the United States ⓘ |
| standsFor | North Western Reporter ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
American law
ⓘ
state appellate decisions ⓘ |
| usedBy |
judges
ⓘ
lawyers ⓘ legal scholars ⓘ |
| usedFor | case law citations ⓘ |
| usedIn | legal citations ⓘ |
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: N.W. Description of subject: N.W. is the standard legal citation abbreviation for the North Western Reporter, a regional case law reporter covering appellate decisions from several Midwestern U.S. states.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: N.W.