Judicial branch of Washington (state)

E209905

branch of government state court system

The Judicial branch of Washington (state) is the system of state courts responsible for interpreting Washington’s laws and constitution, headed by the Washington Supreme Court and including appellate and trial courts.

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All labels observed (6)

Label	Occurrences
Judicial branch of Washington (state) canonical	2
Judicial branch of Washington State	2
Washington State judicial offices	1
Washington State judicial system	1
courts of the State of Washington	1
judicial branch of Washington State	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	branch of government ⓘ state court system ⓘ
appliesToJurisdiction	Washington ⓘ surface form: Washington (state)
coequalBranchWith	Executive branch of Washington (state) ⓘ Washington State Legislature ⓘ surface form: Legislative branch of Washington (state)
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
courtOfAppealsDivisions	3 ⓘ
courtOfLastResort	Washington Supreme Court ⓘ
employs	court clerks in Washington state courts ⓘ court commissioners in Washington state courts ⓘ judges in Washington state courts ⓘ
governs	statewide court rules in Washington ⓘ
hasIntermediateAppellateCourt	Washington Court of Appeals ⓘ
hasNumberOfSupremeCourtJustices	9 ⓘ
hasOfficialLanguage	English ⓘ
hasTypeOfCases	civil law cases ⓘ criminal law cases ⓘ family law cases ⓘ juvenile law cases ⓘ probate cases ⓘ traffic infractions ⓘ
hasWebsite	https://www.courts.wa.gov ⓘ
headOfGovernmentBody	Washington Supreme Court ⓘ
highestCourt	Washington Supreme Court ⓘ
includes	Office of Civil Legal Aid (Washington) ⓘ Office of Public Defense (Washington) ⓘ Washington Administrative Office of the Courts ⓘ Washington Commission on Judicial Conduct ⓘ Washington Court of Appeals ⓘ Washington Supreme Court ⓘ Washington municipal courts ⓘ surface form: Washington courts of limited jurisdiction Washington district courts ⓘ Washington municipal courts ⓘ Washington superior courts ⓘ
interprets	Constitution of the State of Washington ⓘ laws of Washington (state) ⓘ
oversees	administration of state courts in Washington ⓘ
partOf	Government of Washington (state) ⓘ
responsibleFor	adjudication of civil cases in Washington state courts ⓘ adjudication of criminal cases in Washington state courts ⓘ interpretation of Washington state constitution ⓘ interpretation of Washington state statutes ⓘ judicial review of state laws in Washington ⓘ
supremeCourtJudicialTermsLength	6 years ⓘ
trialCourtsOfGeneralJurisdiction	Washington superior courts ⓘ
trialCourtsOfLimitedJurisdiction	Washington district courts ⓘ Washington municipal courts ⓘ
usesLegalSystem	common law ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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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: Judicial branch of Washington (state)
Description of subject: The Judicial branch of Washington (state) is the system of state courts responsible for interpreting Washington’s laws and constitution, headed by the Washington Supreme Court and including appellate and trial courts.

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Washington Supreme Court → branchOf → Judicial branch of Washington (state) ⓘ

Government of Washington (state) → hasBranch → Judicial branch of Washington (state) ⓘ

Temple of Justice → houses → Judicial branch of Washington (state) ⓘ

this entity surface form: Washington State judicial offices

Constitution of the State of Washington → createsBranch → Judicial branch of Washington (state) ⓘ

this entity surface form: judicial branch of Washington State

Constitution of the State of Washington → bindingOn → Judicial branch of Washington (state) ⓘ

this entity surface form: courts of the State of Washington

Washington superior courts → partOf → Judicial branch of Washington (state) ⓘ

this entity surface form: Judicial branch of Washington State

Washington Court Rules → partOf → Judicial branch of Washington (state) ⓘ

this entity surface form: Washington State judicial system

Washington Court of Appeals → partOf → Judicial branch of Washington (state) ⓘ

this entity surface form: Judicial branch of Washington State