De Canas
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De Canas is a party to the U.S. Supreme Court case De Canas v. Bica, which addressed the extent of state authority over the employment of unauthorized immigrants.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| De Canas canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1228118 — 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: De Canas Context triple: [De Canas v. Bica, parties, De Canas]
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A.
Cieneguilla
Cieneguilla is a semi-rural district in the eastern part of Lima, Peru, known for its natural landscapes, country houses, and outdoor recreation areas.
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B.
Pinales
Pinales is the botanical order of coniferous trees and shrubs that includes pines, firs, spruces, and related needle-leaved, cone-bearing plants.
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C.
Puerto Bermejo
Puerto Bermejo is a small riverside town in northeastern Argentina known for its location along the Paraguay River and its role in regional fishing and river transport.
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D.
Dos Ríos
Dos Ríos is a rural locality in eastern Cuba historically known as the site where Cuban national hero José Martí was killed in battle during the War of Independence.
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E.
Madera
Madera is a city in California’s San Joaquin Valley known primarily as the administrative and economic center of Madera County.
- 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: De Canas Target entity description: De Canas is a party to the U.S. Supreme Court case De Canas v. Bica, which addressed the extent of state authority over the employment of unauthorized immigrants.
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A.
Cieneguilla
Cieneguilla is a semi-rural district in the eastern part of Lima, Peru, known for its natural landscapes, country houses, and outdoor recreation areas.
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B.
Pinales
Pinales is the botanical order of coniferous trees and shrubs that includes pines, firs, spruces, and related needle-leaved, cone-bearing plants.
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C.
Puerto Bermejo
Puerto Bermejo is a small riverside town in northeastern Argentina known for its location along the Paraguay River and its role in regional fishing and river transport.
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D.
Dos Ríos
Dos Ríos is a rural locality in eastern Cuba historically known as the site where Cuban national hero José Martí was killed in battle during the War of Independence.
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E.
Madera
Madera is a city in California’s San Joaquin Valley known primarily as the administrative and economic center of Madera County.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | litigant ⓘ |
| caseCitation |
De Canas v. Bica
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surface form:
De Canas v. Bica, 424 U.S. 351 (1976)
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| caseOutcome | state statute upheld against facial preemption challenge ⓘ |
| caseYear | 1976 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| involvedInField |
immigration law
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labor and employment law ⓘ |
| jurisdictionOfCase | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| legalIssueInvolved |
federal preemption of state immigration-related employment laws
ⓘ
state authority over employment of unauthorized immigrants ⓘ |
| partyToCase | De Canas v. Bica ⓘ |
| relatedStatute |
California Labor Code § 2805
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surface form:
California Labor Code § 2805 (as at issue in the case)
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| roleInCase | petitioner ⓘ |
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: De Canas Description of subject: De Canas is a party to the U.S. Supreme Court case De Canas v. Bica, which addressed the extent of state authority over the employment of unauthorized immigrants.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.