Supreme Court of Singapore
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The Supreme Court of Singapore is the highest court in Singapore’s judiciary, comprising the High Court and the Court of Appeal and handling major civil and criminal cases as well as constitutional matters.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Supreme Court of Singapore canonical | 13 |
| Court of Appeal of Singapore | 5 |
| Supreme Court of the Colony of Singapore (historical context) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T188716 — 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: Supreme Court of Singapore Context triple: [Singapore, judicialBody, Supreme Court of Singapore]
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A.
Supreme Court of Japan
The Supreme Court of Japan is the nation’s apex judicial body, responsible for final appeals and constitutional review within Japan’s legal system.
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B.
People’s Supreme Court
The People’s Supreme Court is the highest judicial authority in Cuba, overseeing the administration of justice and interpreting national law within the country’s socialist legal system.
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C.
Supreme Court of India
The Supreme Court of India is the country’s highest judicial authority and final court of appeal, responsible for upholding the Constitution and interpreting national law.
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D.
Supreme Court of the Philippines
The Supreme Court of the Philippines is the country’s highest judicial authority, serving as the final arbiter of legal disputes and interpreter of the Philippine Constitution.
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E.
Tokyo High Court
The Tokyo High Court is one of Japan’s major appellate courts, handling appeals from lower courts in the Tokyo region and playing a key role in the country’s judicial system.
- 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: Supreme Court of Singapore Target entity description: The Supreme Court of Singapore is the highest court in Singapore’s judiciary, comprising the High Court and the Court of Appeal and handling major civil and criminal cases as well as constitutional matters.
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A.
Supreme Court of Japan
The Supreme Court of Japan is the nation’s apex judicial body, responsible for final appeals and constitutional review within Japan’s legal system.
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B.
People’s Supreme Court
The People’s Supreme Court is the highest judicial authority in Cuba, overseeing the administration of justice and interpreting national law within the country’s socialist legal system.
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C.
Supreme Court of India
The Supreme Court of India is the country’s highest judicial authority and final court of appeal, responsible for upholding the Constitution and interpreting national law.
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D.
Supreme Court of the Philippines
The Supreme Court of the Philippines is the country’s highest judicial authority, serving as the final arbiter of legal disputes and interpreter of the Philippine Constitution.
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E.
Tokyo High Court
The Tokyo High Court is one of Japan’s major appellate courts, handling appeals from lower courts in the Tokyo region and playing a key role in the country’s judicial system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
apex court
ⓘ
court ⓘ judicial body ⓘ |
| advisedByOnAppointments |
Prime Minister
ⓘ
surface form:
Prime Minister of Singapore
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| appealTo |
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
ⓘ
surface form:
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (historical)
|
| appointingAuthorityOfJudges | President of Singapore ⓘ |
| buildingType | judicial building ⓘ |
| canIssue |
declarations
ⓘ
injunctions ⓘ prerogative orders ⓘ |
| ceasedAppealTo | Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ⓘ |
| comprises |
Supreme Court of Singapore
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Court of Appeal of Singapore
High Court of Singapore ⓘ |
| country | Singapore ⓘ |
| decides | questions of law of public importance ⓘ |
| ensures | rule of law in Singapore ⓘ |
| establishedUnder | Constitution of the Republic of Singapore ⓘ |
| governingStatute | Supreme Court of Judicature Act ⓘ |
| handles |
constitutional matters
ⓘ
major civil cases ⓘ major criminal cases ⓘ |
| hasAuthorityOver | practice and procedure in the Supreme Court ⓘ |
| hasChamber |
chambers hearings
ⓘ
open courtrooms ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.judiciary.gov.sg ⓘ |
| headedBy | Chief Justice of Singapore ⓘ |
| hearsAppealsFrom |
Family Justice Courts of Singapore
ⓘ
State Courts of Singapore ⓘ |
| highestCourtIn | Singapore ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
civil law matters
ⓘ
constitutional law matters ⓘ criminal law matters ⓘ |
| legalSystem | common law ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Central Area, Singapore
ⓘ
Central Area, Singapore ⓘ
surface form:
Central Region, Singapore
Singapore ⓘ
surface form:
Downtown Core, Singapore
|
| location | Supreme Court Building, Singapore ⓘ |
| oversees | admission of advocates and solicitors of the Supreme Court of Singapore ⓘ |
| partOf | Judiciary of Singapore ⓘ |
| previouslyKnownAs |
Supreme Court of Singapore
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Supreme Court of the Colony of Singapore (historical context)
|
| regionServed | Singapore ⓘ |
| replaced |
Supreme Court Building, Singapore
ⓘ
surface form:
former Supreme Court Building, Singapore
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| role |
final court of appeal in Singapore
ⓘ
interprets the Constitution of Singapore ⓘ supervisory jurisdiction over subordinate courts ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
Constitution of the Republic of Singapore
ⓘ
surface form:
Constitution of Singapore
|
| typeOfCases |
capital offences
ⓘ
complex commercial disputes ⓘ judicial review applications ⓘ |
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: Supreme Court of Singapore Description of subject: The Supreme Court of Singapore is the highest court in Singapore’s judiciary, comprising the High Court and the Court of Appeal and handling major civil and criminal cases as well as constitutional matters.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Court of Appeal of Singapore
Supreme Court of Singapore
→
previouslyKnownAs
→
Supreme Court of Singapore
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Supreme Court of the Colony of Singapore (historical context)
this entity surface form:
Court of Appeal of Singapore
this entity surface form:
Court of Appeal of Singapore
subject surface form:
Parliament House (Singapore)
subject surface form:
Evidence Act 1893 (Singapore)
subject surface form:
Evidence Act 1893 (Singapore)
this entity surface form:
Court of Appeal of Singapore
this entity surface form:
Court of Appeal of Singapore