United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island
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The United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island is the federal trial court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases arising under federal law in the state of Rhode Island.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T434495 — 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: United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island Context triple: [United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, reviewsCasesFrom, United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island]
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A.
United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts is a federal trial court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases arising under federal law in the state of Massachusetts.
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B.
United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire
The United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire is a federal trial court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases arising under federal law within the state of New Hampshire.
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C.
United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico
The United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico is a federal trial court with jurisdiction over federal cases arising in Puerto Rico.
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D.
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit is a federal appellate court that reviews cases from federal district courts in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Puerto Rico, and Rhode Island.
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E.
United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina is a federal trial court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases arising in the eastern region of North Carolina.
- 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: United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island Target entity description: The United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island is the federal trial court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases arising under federal law in the state of Rhode Island.
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A.
United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts is a federal trial court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases arising under federal law in the state of Massachusetts.
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B.
United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire
The United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire is a federal trial court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases arising under federal law within the state of New Hampshire.
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C.
United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico
The United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico is a federal trial court with jurisdiction over federal cases arising in Puerto Rico.
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D.
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit is a federal appellate court that reviews cases from federal district courts in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Puerto Rico, and Rhode Island.
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E.
United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina is a federal trial court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases arising in the eastern region of North Carolina.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States district court
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federal trial court ⓘ |
| abbreviation | D.R.I. ⓘ |
| appellateCourt | United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ⓘ |
| appliesLaw |
United States Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
ⓘ
surface form:
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure ⓘ United States Code ⓘ United States Constitution ⓘ |
| circuit |
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
ⓘ
surface form:
First Circuit
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| courtType | trial court ⓘ |
| establishedBy | United States Congress ⓘ |
| governingBody | Judicial Conference of the United States ⓘ |
| handles | bankruptcy appeals from the District of Rhode Island ⓘ |
| hasChiefJudge | William E. Smith ⓘ |
| hasClerkOfCourt | Clerk of Court of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island ⓘ |
| hasCourthouse |
Federal Building and Courthouse (Providence, Rhode Island)
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John O. Pastore Federal Building ⓘ |
| hasDistrictJudges | United States district judges for the District of Rhode Island ⓘ |
| hasMagistrateJudges | United States magistrate judges for the District of Rhode Island ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfCase |
civil cases
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criminal cases ⓘ |
| hasUnitedStatesAttorney | Zachary A. Cunha ⓘ |
| hasUnitedStatesMarshal | Wing Chau ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.rid.uscourts.gov ⓘ |
| hearsAppealsFrom |
United States bankruptcy courts
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surface form:
United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Rhode Island
|
| jurisdiction |
civil cases arising under federal law
ⓘ
criminal cases arising under federal law ⓘ federal law ⓘ Rhode Island ⓘ
surface form:
state of Rhode Island
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Providence
ⓘ
surface form:
Providence, Rhode Island
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| partOf |
United States district courts
ⓘ
surface form:
United States District Courts
federal judiciary of the United States ⓘ |
| seat |
Providence
ⓘ
surface form:
Providence, Rhode Island
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| stateServed | Rhode Island ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
admiralty jurisdiction
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diversity jurisdiction ⓘ federal question jurisdiction ⓘ |
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: United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island Description of subject: The United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island is the federal trial court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases arising under federal law in the state of Rhode Island.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
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reviewsCasesFrom
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United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island
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Daniel Donnelly et al.
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caseHeardBy
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United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island
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John O. Pastore Federal Building
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occupant
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United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island
ⓘ
Federal Building and Courthouse (Providence, Rhode Island)
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occupant
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United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island
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