So.
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So. is the standard legal citation abbreviation for the Southern Reporter, a regional case law reporter covering appellate court decisions from several U.S. southern states.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| So. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1538635 — 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: So. Context triple: [Southern Reporter, citationAbbreviation, So.]
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A.
How.
How. is the standard abbreviated form of the journal title "Howard Reports," a legal case reporter.
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B.
SO
SO is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for Southern Company, a major U.S. electric and gas utility holding company based in the Southeast.
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C.
SO
SO is an abbreviation for the Southern Oscillation, a large-scale atmospheric pressure pattern in the tropical Pacific that underlies the El Niño–La Niña climate cycle.
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D.
SO
SO is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Somalia for international identification and data standards.
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E.
SoDo
SoDo is a neighborhood and industrial district just south of downtown Seattle, Washington, known for its warehouses, stadiums, and transit connections.
- 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: So. Target entity description: So. is the standard legal citation abbreviation for the Southern Reporter, a regional case law reporter covering appellate court decisions from several U.S. southern states.
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A.
How.
How. is the standard abbreviated form of the journal title "Howard Reports," a legal case reporter.
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B.
SO
SO is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for Southern Company, a major U.S. electric and gas utility holding company based in the Southeast.
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C.
SO
SO is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Somalia for international identification and data standards.
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D.
SO
SO is an abbreviation for the Southern Oscillation, a large-scale atmospheric pressure pattern in the tropical Pacific that underlies the El Niño–La Niña climate cycle.
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E.
SoDo
SoDo is a neighborhood and industrial district just south of downtown Seattle, Washington, known for its warehouses, stadiums, and transit connections.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
legal citation abbreviation
ⓘ
regional case law reporter ⓘ |
| abbreviationStandard |
ALWD citation manual
ⓘ
surface form:
ALWD Guide to Legal Citation
Bluebook legal citation ⓘ
surface form:
Bluebook
|
| appearsIn |
judicial opinions
ⓘ
law review articles ⓘ legal briefs ⓘ |
| citationStyle | volume–reporter–page format ⓘ |
| contains |
case summaries
ⓘ
headnotes ⓘ judicial opinions ⓘ |
| coversJurisdiction |
Supreme Court of Alabama
ⓘ
surface form:
Alabama Supreme Court
Alabama appellate courts ⓘ Florida Supreme Court ⓘ Florida appellate courts ⓘ Louisiana Supreme Court ⓘ Louisiana appellate courts ⓘ Supreme Court of Mississippi ⓘ
surface form:
Mississippi Supreme Court
Mississippi appellate courts ⓘ intermediate appellate courts of covered states ⓘ |
| domain | law ⓘ |
| hasEdition |
Southern Reporter
ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Reporter, First Series
Southern Reporter ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Reporter, Second Series
Southern Reporter ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Reporter, Third Series
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType |
electronic database content
ⓘ
print reporter series ⓘ |
| notToBeConfusedWith | S.O. (other abbreviations) ⓘ |
| organizedBy |
chronology
ⓘ
jurisdiction ⓘ volume number ⓘ |
| partOf | National Reporter System ⓘ |
| publishedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| publisher |
Thomson Reuters
ⓘ
West Publishing Company ⓘ
surface form:
West Publishing
|
| refersTo | Southern Reporter ⓘ |
| region |
Southern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
southern United States
|
| subject | appellate case law ⓘ |
| usedBy |
judges
ⓘ
law students ⓘ lawyers ⓘ legal scholars ⓘ |
| usedFor | citing cases reported in the Southern Reporter ⓘ |
| usedIn | legal citation format in the United States ⓘ |
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: So. Description of subject: So. is the standard legal citation abbreviation for the Southern Reporter, a regional case law reporter covering appellate court decisions from several U.S. southern states.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.