Bluebook legal citation
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Bluebook legal citation is the dominant standardized system in the United States for citing legal authorities and sources in legal writing and scholarship.
All labels observed (8)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T926250 — 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: Bluebook legal citation Context triple: [Wheaton, usedInCitationStyle, Bluebook legal citation]
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A.
KeyCite
KeyCite is Westlaw’s proprietary legal citator service that tracks the history and treatment of cases, statutes, and other authorities to determine their current validity and precedential value.
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B.
LexisNexis
LexisNexis is a major legal research and information services provider offering extensive databases of case law, statutes, news, and business information to legal and professional users worldwide.
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C.
Bloomberg Law
Bloomberg Law is a comprehensive legal research and business intelligence platform that provides access to case law, statutes, regulations, dockets, news, and analytical tools for legal professionals.
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D.
Westlaw
Westlaw is a comprehensive online legal research service and database widely used by lawyers, judges, and scholars to access case law, statutes, regulations, and secondary legal materials.
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E.
Lederman Law Library
Lederman Law Library is the dedicated law library of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, supporting legal education and research with specialized collections and services.
- 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: Bluebook legal citation Target entity description: Bluebook legal citation is the dominant standardized system in the United States for citing legal authorities and sources in legal writing and scholarship.
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A.
KeyCite
KeyCite is Westlaw’s proprietary legal citator service that tracks the history and treatment of cases, statutes, and other authorities to determine their current validity and precedential value.
-
B.
LexisNexis
LexisNexis is a major legal research and information services provider offering extensive databases of case law, statutes, news, and business information to legal and professional users worldwide.
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C.
Bloomberg Law
Bloomberg Law is a comprehensive legal research and business intelligence platform that provides access to case law, statutes, regulations, dockets, news, and analytical tools for legal professionals.
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D.
Westlaw
Westlaw is a comprehensive online legal research service and database widely used by lawyers, judges, and scholars to access case law, statutes, regulations, and secondary legal materials.
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E.
Lederman Law Library
Lederman Law Library is the dedicated law library of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, supporting legal education and research with specialized collections and services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
citation manual
ⓘ
legal citation style ⓘ style guide ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Bluebook legal citation
ⓘ
surface form:
The Bluebook
Bluebook legal citation ⓘ
surface form:
The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation
|
| competesWith |
ALWD citation manual
ⓘ
surface form:
ALWD Guide to Legal Citation
|
| countryOfUse |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| describedAs | dominant system for legal citation in the United States ⓘ |
| feature |
abbreviation rules
ⓘ
rules for explanatory phrases ⓘ rules for parallel citations ⓘ rules for parentheticals ⓘ rules for pinpoint citations ⓘ short form citation rules ⓘ signal usage rules ⓘ typeface conventions ⓘ |
| governsCitationOf |
administrative materials
ⓘ
books ⓘ cases ⓘ constitutions ⓘ foreign and international materials ⓘ internet sources ⓘ law review articles ⓘ regulations ⓘ statutes ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Bluepages
ⓘ
Whitepages ⓘ index ⓘ tables ⓘ |
| hasEditionType |
online edition
ⓘ
print edition ⓘ |
| influenced |
law review citation practices in the United States
ⓘ
local court citation rules in the United States ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| primaryDomain |
law
ⓘ
legal scholarship ⓘ legal writing ⓘ |
| publisher |
Columbia Law Review
ⓘ
Harvard Law Review ⓘ
surface form:
Harvard Law Review Association
University of Pennsylvania Law Review ⓘ Yale Law Journal ⓘ |
| scope | United States legal materials and selected foreign and international materials ⓘ |
| targetAudience | U.S. legal community ⓘ |
| usedBy |
attorneys
ⓘ
judges ⓘ law clerks ⓘ law professors ⓘ law students ⓘ legal academics ⓘ |
| usedIn |
court briefs
ⓘ
judicial opinions ⓘ law review articles ⓘ legal memoranda ⓘ legal textbooks ⓘ |
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: Bluebook legal citation Description of subject: Bluebook legal citation is the dominant standardized system in the United States for citing legal authorities and sources in legal writing and scholarship.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bluebook
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Bluebook
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Bluebook
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Bluebook
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Bluebook
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Bluebook
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The Bluebook
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The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation
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ALWD Citation Manual
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The Bluebook
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ALWD Citation Manual
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The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation
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Bluebook
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Bluebook
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The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation
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The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation
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Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation
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Bluebook
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Bluebook
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Bluebook
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Bluebook
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Bluebook legal citation style
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Bluebook
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Bluebook
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"E.D. La." in legal citations
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Bluebook
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Bluebook
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Bluebook
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Bluebook
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Bluebook
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Bluebook legal citation style
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United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
this entity surface form:
Bluebook
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Bluebook legal citation system