Pennsylvania's 26th congressional district
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Pennsylvania's 26th congressional district was a former U.S. House district in Pennsylvania that existed in the 19th and early 20th centuries before being eliminated through redistricting.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pennsylvania's 26th congressional district canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5716009 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pennsylvania's 26th congressional district Context triple: [A. Mitchell Palmer, representedDistrict, Pennsylvania's 26th congressional district]
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A.
Pennsylvania's 21st congressional district
Pennsylvania's 21st congressional district was a former U.S. House district in northwestern Pennsylvania that included areas such as Erie and was once represented by future governor Tom Ridge.
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B.
Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district
Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district is a U.S. House of Representatives district in Pennsylvania historically associated with influential 19th-century congressman and abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens.
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C.
Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district
Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district is a U.S. House of Representatives district in Pennsylvania that has historically covered a largely rural and small-city region of the state.
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D.
Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district
Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district is a U.S. House of Representatives district in Pennsylvania historically associated with influential 19th-century congressman and abolitionist leader Thaddeus Stevens.
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E.
Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district
Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district is a U.S. House of Representatives district in northeastern Pennsylvania that has historically included parts of the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre and Philadelphia suburban regions, and was once represented by influential abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens.
- 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: Pennsylvania's 26th congressional district Target entity description: Pennsylvania's 26th congressional district was a former U.S. House district in Pennsylvania that existed in the 19th and early 20th centuries before being eliminated through redistricting.
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A.
Pennsylvania's 21st congressional district
Pennsylvania's 21st congressional district was a former U.S. House district in northwestern Pennsylvania that included areas such as Erie and was once represented by future governor Tom Ridge.
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B.
Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district
Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district is a U.S. House of Representatives district in Pennsylvania historically associated with influential 19th-century congressman and abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens.
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C.
Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district
Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district is a U.S. House of Representatives district in Pennsylvania that has historically covered a largely rural and small-city region of the state.
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D.
Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district
Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district is a U.S. House of Representatives district in Pennsylvania historically associated with influential 19th-century congressman and abolitionist leader Thaddeus Stevens.
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E.
Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district
Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district is a U.S. House of Representatives district in northeastern Pennsylvania that has historically included parts of the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre and Philadelphia suburban regions, and was once represented by influential abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | former United States congressional district ⓘ |
| appliesToChamber | lower house of the United States Congress ⓘ |
| apportionmentBasis | population of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| districtNumber | 26 ⓘ |
| eliminatedBy | redistricting ⓘ |
| existedDuringCentury |
19th century
ⓘ
20th century ⓘ |
| geographicScope | portion of the state of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| governmentalJurisdiction | federal ⓘ |
| hasElectoralFunction | elects member to the U.S. House of Representatives ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction | residents of the defined area within Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| isElectoralDistrictFor | United States federal elections in Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| isPartOfType | congressional district of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| legislativeBody | United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
| levelOfGovernment | federal legislative district ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | ordinal number 26 ⓘ |
| partOf | United States House of Representatives NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| representedIn | United States Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| status | eliminated ⓘ |
| typeOfConstituency | single-member district ⓘ |
| usedFor | federal legislative elections ⓘ |
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: Pennsylvania's 26th congressional district Description of subject: Pennsylvania's 26th congressional district was a former U.S. House district in Pennsylvania that existed in the 19th and early 20th centuries before being eliminated through redistricting.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.