United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
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The United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois is a federal trial court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases arising in the southern region of Illinois.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois canonical | 3 |
| Southern District of Illinois | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T718961 — 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 Southern District of Illinois Context triple: [United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, reviewsCasesFrom, United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois]
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A.
United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois
The United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois is a federal trial court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases arising in the central region of Illinois.
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B.
United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois is a federal trial court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases arising in the northern counties of Illinois, including the Chicago metropolitan area.
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C.
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri is a federal trial court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases arising in the eastern region of Missouri.
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D.
United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa is a federal trial court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases arising in the southern region of the state of Iowa.
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E.
United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi is a federal trial court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases arising in the southern region of Mississippi.
- 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 Southern District of Illinois Target entity description: The United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois is a federal trial court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases arising in the southern region of Illinois.
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A.
United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois
The United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois is a federal trial court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases arising in the central region of Illinois.
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B.
United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois is a federal trial court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases arising in the northern counties of Illinois, including the Chicago metropolitan area.
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C.
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri is a federal trial court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases arising in the eastern region of Missouri.
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D.
United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa is a federal trial court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases arising in the southern region of the state of Iowa.
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E.
United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi is a federal trial court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases arising in the southern region of Mississippi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States district court
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federal trial court ⓘ |
| appellateCourt | United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ⓘ |
| appliesJurisdictionOver |
United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Southern District of Illinois
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| branchOfGovernment | judicial branch of the United States ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| employs |
United States district judges
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United States Magistrate Judges ⓘ
surface form:
United States magistrate judges
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| fundedBy |
United States government
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surface form:
federal government of the United States
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| governingBody | Judicial Conference of the United States ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction |
federal civil cases
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federal criminal cases ⓘ |
| hasOfficialName | United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois self-link ⓘ |
| hasPower |
conduct bench trials
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conduct jury trials ⓘ enter final judgments ⓘ impose criminal sentences ⓘ issue writs ⓘ |
| hasSubjectMatterJurisdiction |
diversity jurisdiction
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federal question jurisdiction ⓘ supplemental jurisdiction ⓘ |
| hasType | Article III court ⓘ |
| hears |
civil cases
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criminal cases ⓘ |
| hearsCasesArisingUnder |
United States Constitution
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federal regulations ⓘ federal statutes ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Illinois ⓘ |
| overseenBy | Administrative Office of the United States Courts ⓘ |
| partOf |
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
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surface form:
United States District Court for the Seventh Circuit
federal judiciary of the United States ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal judiciary
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| uses |
United States Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
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surface form:
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure ⓘ |
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 Southern District of Illinois Description of subject: The United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois is a federal trial court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases arising in the southern region of Illinois.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
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reviewsCasesFrom
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United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
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United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
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appliesJurisdictionOver
→
United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Southern District of Illinois
United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
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hasOfficialName
→
United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
self-link
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