17th Circuit Court of Michigan
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The 17th Circuit Court of Michigan is a state trial court of general jurisdiction serving Kent County, handling major civil and criminal cases as well as family and other circuit-level matters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 17th Circuit Court of Michigan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4286685 — 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: 17th Circuit Court of Michigan Context triple: [Kent County, Michigan, hasJudicialBody, 17th Circuit Court of Michigan]
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A.
Third Judicial Circuit Court of Michigan
The Third Judicial Circuit Court of Michigan is a major state trial court of general jurisdiction serving Wayne County, including Detroit, and handling a wide range of civil, criminal, and family law cases.
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B.
Michigan Court of Appeals
The Michigan Court of Appeals is the state's intermediate appellate court that reviews decisions from lower courts across Michigan.
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C.
United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan
The United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan is a federal trial court with jurisdiction over federal civil and criminal cases arising in the western portion of the state of Michigan.
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D.
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan is a federal trial court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases arising in the eastern region of Michigan, including the Detroit metropolitan area.
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E.
Michigan Court of Claims
The Michigan Court of Claims is a specialized state trial court that handles civil lawsuits seeking monetary damages against the State of Michigan and its agencies.
- 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: 17th Circuit Court of Michigan Target entity description: The 17th Circuit Court of Michigan is a state trial court of general jurisdiction serving Kent County, handling major civil and criminal cases as well as family and other circuit-level matters.
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A.
Third Judicial Circuit Court of Michigan
The Third Judicial Circuit Court of Michigan is a major state trial court of general jurisdiction serving Wayne County, including Detroit, and handling a wide range of civil, criminal, and family law cases.
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B.
Michigan Court of Appeals
The Michigan Court of Appeals is the state's intermediate appellate court that reviews decisions from lower courts across Michigan.
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C.
United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan
The United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan is a federal trial court with jurisdiction over federal civil and criminal cases arising in the western portion of the state of Michigan.
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D.
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan is a federal trial court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases arising in the eastern region of Michigan, including the Detroit metropolitan area.
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E.
Michigan Court of Claims
The Michigan Court of Claims is a specialized state trial court that handles civil lawsuits seeking monetary damages against the State of Michigan and its agencies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Michigan Circuit Court
ⓘ
court of general jurisdiction ⓘ state trial court ⓘ |
| appealsTo | Michigan Court of Appeals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| circuitNumber | 17 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| countyServed | Kent County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| courtLevel | trial court ⓘ |
| courtSystem | Michigan state court system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fundingSource |
Kent County, Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
State of Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingLaw |
Michigan Compiled Laws
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michigan Constitution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| handlesCaseType |
appeals from lower courts as provided by law
ⓘ
domestic relations cases ⓘ family law cases ⓘ felony criminal cases ⓘ juvenile cases ⓘ major civil cases ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Civil Division
NERFINISHED
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Criminal Division NERFINISHED ⓘ Family Division NERFINISHED ⓘ Friend of the Court services ⓘ Juvenile Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hears |
civil jury trials
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criminal jury trials ⓘ non-jury bench trials ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Kent County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalSystem | common law ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Kent County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| overseenBy | Michigan Supreme Court NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Kent County government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan (most of state)
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surface form:
Michigan
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| subjectMatterJurisdiction |
civil cases above district court jurisdictional amount
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criminal felony prosecutions ⓘ domestic relations matters ⓘ equity cases ⓘ juvenile delinquency and child protective proceedings ⓘ |
| trialBy |
judge
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jury ⓘ |
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: 17th Circuit Court of Michigan Description of subject: The 17th Circuit Court of Michigan is a state trial court of general jurisdiction serving Kent County, handling major civil and criminal cases as well as family and other circuit-level matters.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Kent County, Michigan