F.3d
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F.3d is the standard legal citation abbreviation for the third series of West’s Federal Reporter, which publishes decisions of the U.S. federal courts of appeals.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| F.3d canonical | 2 |
| F.3d (Federal Reporter, Third Series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3436467 — 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: F.3d Context triple: [West’s Federal Reporter, isCitedAs, F.3d]
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A.
F.2d
F.2d is the standard legal citation abbreviation for the second series of the Federal Reporter, a case law reporter publishing decisions of the U.S. federal courts of appeals.
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B.
F-3
F-3 is a three-quarter-ton model in Ford’s first-generation postwar F-Series pickup truck lineup, known as the “Bonus-Built” trucks produced in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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C.
F. Supp.
F. Supp. is the standard legal citation abbreviation for the Federal Supplement, a reporter that publishes decisions of the U.S. federal district courts.
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D.
F33
F33 is BMW’s internal designation for the first-generation 4 Series convertible model.
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E.
F32
F32 is BMW’s internal model code for the first-generation 4 Series coupe, introduced as a sporty, premium compact executive car.
- 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: F.3d Target entity description: F.3d is the standard legal citation abbreviation for the third series of West’s Federal Reporter, which publishes decisions of the U.S. federal courts of appeals.
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A.
F.2d
F.2d is the standard legal citation abbreviation for the second series of the Federal Reporter, a case law reporter publishing decisions of the U.S. federal courts of appeals.
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B.
F-3
F-3 is a three-quarter-ton model in Ford’s first-generation postwar F-Series pickup truck lineup, known as the “Bonus-Built” trucks produced in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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C.
F. Supp.
F. Supp. is the standard legal citation abbreviation for the Federal Supplement, a reporter that publishes decisions of the U.S. federal district courts.
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D.
F33
F33 is BMW’s internal designation for the first-generation 4 Series convertible model.
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E.
F32
F32 is BMW’s internal model code for the first-generation 4 Series coupe, introduced as a sporty, premium compact executive car.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
legal citation abbreviation
ⓘ
reporter abbreviation ⓘ |
| abbreviationFor |
Federal Reporter
ⓘ
surface form:
Federal Reporter, Third Series
|
| citationComponent | reporter abbreviation in case citations ⓘ |
| citationFormatExample | 123 F.3d 456 ⓘ |
| contains |
full-text judicial opinions
ⓘ
headnotes prepared by West editors ⓘ key number classifications ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coversCourtLevel |
United States courts of appeals
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. courts of appeals
|
| excludes |
U.S. Supreme Court decisions
ⓘ
U.S. district court decisions ⓘ |
| hasParallelCitationWith | online legal research services ⓘ |
| includes | published opinions of U.S. courts of appeals ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
U.S. federal courts
ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal courts
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | West Publishing editorial staff ⓘ |
| medium |
electronic database
ⓘ
print reporter ⓘ |
| partOf | National Reporter System ⓘ |
| predecessorSeries |
F.2d
ⓘ
Federal Reporter ⓘ
surface form:
Federal Reporter, Second Series
|
| publisher |
Thomson Reuters
ⓘ
West Publishing Company ⓘ
surface form:
West Publishing
|
| refersTo |
Federal Reporter
ⓘ
surface form:
Federal Reporter, Third Series
|
| replaces |
Federal Reporter
ⓘ
surface form:
Federal Reporter, Second Series for new cases
|
| reporterSeriesTitle |
Federal Reporter
ⓘ
surface form:
Federal Reporter, Third Series
|
| reporterTitle | Federal Reporter ⓘ |
| scope | federal appellate decisions from all circuits ⓘ |
| seriesNumber | third series ⓘ |
| subjectArea | federal appellate case law ⓘ |
| typeOfLawReport | case law reporter ⓘ |
| usedBy |
judges
ⓘ
law students ⓘ lawyers ⓘ legal scholars ⓘ |
| usedFor | citing decisions of the U.S. federal courts of appeals ⓘ |
| usedIn |
United States legal citation system
ⓘ
judicial opinions ⓘ law review articles ⓘ legal briefs ⓘ legal textbooks ⓘ |
| usedInCitationStyle |
ALWD citation manual
ⓘ
surface form:
ALWD Guide to Legal Citation
Bluebook legal citation ⓘ
surface form:
Bluebook
|
| usedSince | 1990s ⓘ |
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: F.3d Description of subject: F.3d is the standard legal citation abbreviation for the third series of West’s Federal Reporter, which publishes decisions of the U.S. federal courts of appeals.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
F.3d (Federal Reporter, Third Series)