2022 Kansas gubernatorial election
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The 2022 Kansas gubernatorial election was the statewide contest in which voters chose the governor of Kansas for a four-year term, ultimately resulting in the Democratic incumbent retaining the office in a traditionally Republican-leaning state.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 2022 Kansas gubernatorial election canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7297596 — 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: 2022 Kansas gubernatorial election Context triple: [Laura Kelly, reElectedIn, 2022 Kansas gubernatorial election]
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A.
2018 Kansas gubernatorial election
The 2018 Kansas gubernatorial election was the statewide race in which voters chose the governor of Kansas, ultimately resulting in Democrat Laura Kelly defeating Republican Kris Kobach.
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B.
Kansas's 2nd congressional district
Kansas's 2nd congressional district is a U.S. House district in eastern Kansas that includes the state capital, Topeka, and surrounding communities.
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C.
Indiana gubernatorial election
The Indiana gubernatorial election is the statewide contest in which voters choose the governor, the chief executive of the U.S. state of Indiana.
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D.
2022 Connecticut gubernatorial election
The 2022 Connecticut gubernatorial election was the statewide contest in which voters chose the governor and lieutenant governor of Connecticut for a four-year term.
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E.
2018 Texas gubernatorial election
The 2018 Texas gubernatorial election was the statewide contest in which Texas voters chose their governor for a new four-year term, ultimately resulting in the re-election of Republican incumbent Greg Abbott.
- 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: 2022 Kansas gubernatorial election Target entity description: The 2022 Kansas gubernatorial election was the statewide contest in which voters chose the governor of Kansas for a four-year term, ultimately resulting in the Democratic incumbent retaining the office in a traditionally Republican-leaning state.
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A.
2018 Kansas gubernatorial election
The 2018 Kansas gubernatorial election was the statewide race in which voters chose the governor of Kansas, ultimately resulting in Democrat Laura Kelly defeating Republican Kris Kobach.
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B.
Kansas's 2nd congressional district
Kansas's 2nd congressional district is a U.S. House district in eastern Kansas that includes the state capital, Topeka, and surrounding communities.
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C.
Indiana gubernatorial election
The Indiana gubernatorial election is the statewide contest in which voters choose the governor, the chief executive of the U.S. state of Indiana.
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D.
2022 Connecticut gubernatorial election
The 2022 Connecticut gubernatorial election was the statewide contest in which voters chose the governor and lieutenant governor of Connecticut for a four-year term.
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E.
2018 Texas gubernatorial election
The 2018 Texas gubernatorial election was the statewide contest in which Texas voters chose their governor for a new four-year term, ultimately resulting in the re-election of Republican incumbent Greg Abbott.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
2022 election
ⓘ
gubernatorial election ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| democraticNominee | Laura Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| electionDate | 2022-11-08 ⓘ |
| governorAfterElection | Laura Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governorBeforeElection | Laura Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| incumbentBeforeElection | Laura Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| incumbentPartyBeforeElection | Kansas Democratic Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| incumbentReelected | true ⓘ |
| incumbentSoughtReelection | true ⓘ |
| independentCandidate | Dennis Pyle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| libertarianNominee | Seth Cordell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Kansas ⓘ |
| marginOfVictory | 1.9 percentage points ⓘ |
| nextElection | 2026 Kansas gubernatorial election NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officeHolderAfterElection | Laura Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officeHolderPartyAfterElection | Kansas Democratic Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| otherGeneralElectionCandidate |
Dennis Pyle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Seth Cordell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| otherGeneralElectionCandidateParty |
Independent
ⓘ
Libertarian Party (United States) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | 2022 United States gubernatorial elections ⓘ |
| positionContested | Governor of Kansas ⓘ |
| previousElection | 2018 Kansas gubernatorial election NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryElectionParty |
Kansas Democratic Party
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kansas Republican Party NERFINISHED ⓘ Libertarian Party (United States) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| republicanNominee | Derek Schmidt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runnerUp | Derek Schmidt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runnerUpParty | Kansas Republican Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runnerUpPopularVote | 477,691 ⓘ |
| runnerUpVoteShare | 47.3% ⓘ |
| runningMateOfRunnerUp | Katie Sawyer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runningMateOfWinner | David Toland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| termLength | 4 years ⓘ |
| tookPlaceInTraditionallyRepublicanState | true ⓘ |
| tookPlaceOnSameDayAs |
2022 United States House of Representatives elections
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
2022 United States Senate elections ⓘ other 2022 state and local elections ⓘ |
| typeOfElection | presidential-style gubernatorial election ⓘ |
| wasCloseRace | true ⓘ |
| wasNotedFor | Democratic incumbent winning in a Republican-leaning state ⓘ |
| winner | Laura Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| winnerPopularVote | 496,734 ⓘ |
| winnerVoteShare | 49.2% ⓘ |
| winningParty | Kansas Democratic Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: 2022 Kansas gubernatorial election Description of subject: The 2022 Kansas gubernatorial election was the statewide contest in which voters chose the governor of Kansas for a four-year term, ultimately resulting in the Democratic incumbent retaining the office in a traditionally Republican-leaning state.
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