PACER
E383550
PACER is an online public access system that provides electronic case and docket information from U.S. federal courts.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| PACER canonical | 3 |
| PACER electronic records system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3733171 — 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: PACER Context triple: [United States District Court for the District of Colorado, hasCaseManagementSystem, PACER]
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A.
PAC
PAC is the stock ticker symbol for Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico, a major Mexican airport operator that manages multiple airports in the Pacific region.
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B.
PAC
PAC is the commonly used abbreviation for the Pacific Division, a grouping of teams in various North American professional sports leagues.
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C.
PAC
PAC is a South African liberation movement and political party founded in 1959 as a breakaway from the African National Congress, advocating for African nationalism and pan-Africanism.
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D.
Pa.R.C.P.
Pa.R.C.P. refers to the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure, which govern civil court practice and procedure in Pennsylvania state courts.
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E.
Pac
Pac is the widely used nickname of Tupac Shakur, the influential American rapper, actor, and cultural icon.
- 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: PACER Target entity description: PACER is an online public access system that provides electronic case and docket information from U.S. federal courts.
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A.
PAC
PAC is the stock ticker symbol for Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico, a major Mexican airport operator that manages multiple airports in the Pacific region.
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B.
PAC
PAC is a South African liberation movement and political party founded in 1959 as a breakaway from the African National Congress, advocating for African nationalism and pan-Africanism.
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C.
PAC
PAC is the commonly used abbreviation for the Pacific Division, a grouping of teams in various North American professional sports leagues.
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D.
Pa.R.C.P.
Pa.R.C.P. refers to the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure, which govern civil court practice and procedure in Pennsylvania state courts.
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E.
Pac
Pac is the widely used nickname of Tupac Shakur, the influential American rapper, actor, and cultural icon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
electronic court records system
ⓘ
online public access system ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf |
Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER)
ⓘ
surface form:
Public Access to Court Electronic Records
|
| accessMethod |
electronic public access terminals in courthouses
ⓘ
web interface ⓘ |
| charges | per-page fees for document access ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dataType |
PDF court documents
ⓘ
case and docket information ⓘ |
| excludes | most state court records ⓘ |
| fullName |
Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER)
ⓘ
surface form:
Public Access to Court Electronic Records
|
| fundingModel | user fees ⓘ |
| governs | access to federal court electronic records ⓘ |
| hasCriticism |
high user fees
ⓘ
limited free public access ⓘ outdated user interface ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
billing by quarterly statement
ⓘ
centralized login for multiple courts ⓘ usage reports for accounts ⓘ |
| hasPolicy | fee exemption for certain academic and non-profit users ⓘ |
| integratesWith | Case Management/Electronic Case Files ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
federal judiciary of the United States
ⓘ
surface form:
federal courts of the United States
|
| legalDomain | federal judiciary ⓘ |
| offers |
search by case number
ⓘ
search by filing date ⓘ search by party name ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Administrative Office of the United States Courts
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surface form:
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
|
| primaryPurpose | public access to federal court electronic records ⓘ |
| providesAccessTo |
U.S. federal appellate court records
ⓘ
U.S. federal bankruptcy court records ⓘ U.S. federal district court records ⓘ court opinions ⓘ federal case dockets ⓘ federal case filings ⓘ |
| requires | user registration ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
judicial administration
ⓘ
law ⓘ |
| supports |
downloading filed documents
ⓘ
online retrieval of case documents ⓘ viewing docket sheets ⓘ |
| usedBy |
attorneys
ⓘ
general public ⓘ journalists ⓘ researchers ⓘ |
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: PACER Description of subject: PACER is an online public access system that provides electronic case and docket information from U.S. federal courts.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
United States District Court for the District of Colorado
subject surface form:
Public Access to Court Electronic Records
this entity surface form:
PACER electronic records system