N.W.

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legal citation abbreviation reporter abbreviation

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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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
N.W. canonical	2
S.W.	1

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 ⓘ surface form: North Western Reporter, Second Series North Western Reporter ⓘ surface form: North Western Reporter, Third Series
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.

North Western Reporter → abbreviation → N.W. ⓘ

South Western Reporter → abbreviation → N.W. ⓘ

this entity surface form: S.W.

North Western → abbreviation → N.W. ⓘ