ALWD citation manual
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The ALWD Citation Manual is a legal citation guide widely used in U.S. law schools and legal writing programs as an alternative to The Bluebook.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ALWD Guide to Legal Citation | 7 |
| ALWD Citation Manual | 1 |
| ALWD Manual | 1 |
| ALWD citation manual canonical | 1 |
| ALWD legal citation format | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T926251 — 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: ALWD citation manual Context triple: [Wheaton, usedInCitationStyle, ALWD citation manual]
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A.
APA
APA is a commonly used abbreviation for the Administrative Procedure Act, a key U.S. federal law governing how administrative agencies propose and establish regulations.
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B.
West’s Federal Reporter
West’s Federal Reporter is a multivolume case law reporter that publishes decisions of the U.S. federal courts, widely used by legal professionals for research and citation.
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C.
The New York Times stylebook
The New York Times stylebook is a widely used journalistic reference manual that sets detailed standards for grammar, usage, and formatting in news writing.
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D.
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.
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E.
ABA Journal
ABA Journal is a leading legal magazine and news outlet that covers developments in law, the legal profession, and the justice system for attorneys and legal professionals.
- 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: ALWD citation manual Target entity description: The ALWD Citation Manual is a legal citation guide widely used in U.S. law schools and legal writing programs as an alternative to The Bluebook.
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A.
APA
APA is a commonly used abbreviation for the Administrative Procedure Act, a key U.S. federal law governing how administrative agencies propose and establish regulations.
-
B.
West’s Federal Reporter
West’s Federal Reporter is a multivolume case law reporter that publishes decisions of the U.S. federal courts, widely used by legal professionals for research and citation.
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C.
The New York Times stylebook
The New York Times stylebook is a widely used journalistic reference manual that sets detailed standards for grammar, usage, and formatting in news writing.
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D.
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.
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E.
ABA Journal
ABA Journal is a leading legal magazine and news outlet that covers developments in law, the legal profession, and the justice system for attorneys and legal professionals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
legal citation guide ⓘ style manual ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
ALWD citation manual
self-link
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surface form:
ALWD Citation Manual
ALWD citation manual self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
ALWD Manual
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| alternativeTo |
Bluebook legal citation
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surface form:
The Bluebook
|
| author | Association of Legal Writing Directors ⓘ |
| competesWith |
Bluebook legal citation
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surface form:
The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation
|
| countryOfUse |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| field |
law
ⓘ
legal citation ⓘ legal writing ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
citation format for legal authorities
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citation rules for cases ⓘ citation rules for secondary sources ⓘ citation rules for statutes ⓘ |
| governsCitationOf |
administrative regulations
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books and treatises ⓘ internet and electronic sources ⓘ judicial opinions ⓘ law review articles ⓘ statutes and codes ⓘ |
| hasEdition |
fifth edition
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first edition ⓘ fourth edition ⓘ second edition ⓘ sixth edition ⓘ third edition ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
examples of citations for U.S. legal materials
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guidance on nonlegal sources ⓘ rule-based citation system ⓘ tables for abbreviations and citations ⓘ |
| isTaughtIn | legal research and writing courses ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| publisher |
Aspen Publishers
ⓘ
Wolters Kluwer ⓘ |
| region | North America ⓘ |
| subjectOf | legal writing pedagogy discussions ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
law students
ⓘ
legal writing instructors ⓘ practicing attorneys ⓘ |
| usedFor |
standardizing legal citations in documents
ⓘ
teaching first-year law students citation skills ⓘ |
| usedIn |
U.S. law schools
ⓘ
legal writing programs ⓘ |
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: ALWD citation manual Description of subject: The ALWD Citation Manual is a legal citation guide widely used in U.S. law schools and legal writing programs as an alternative to The Bluebook.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
ALWD Guide to Legal Citation
this entity surface form:
ALWD Guide to Legal Citation
subject surface form:
ALWD Citation Manual
this entity surface form:
ALWD Manual
subject surface form:
ALWD Citation Manual
this entity surface form:
ALWD Citation Manual
this entity surface form:
ALWD Guide to Legal Citation
this entity surface form:
ALWD Guide to Legal Citation
this entity surface form:
ALWD Guide to Legal Citation
this entity surface form:
ALWD Guide to Legal Citation
this entity surface form:
ALWD Guide to Legal Citation