Secretary of State of Michigan
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The Secretary of State of Michigan is a statewide elected official who oversees elections, vehicle registration, and driver licensing, and maintains many of the state's official records.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michigan Secretary of State | 3 |
| Secretary of State of Michigan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3807186 — 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: Secretary of State of Michigan Context triple: [Government of Michigan, hasOffice, Secretary of State of Michigan]
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A.
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan
The Lieutenant Governor of Michigan is the second-highest executive officer in the state, who assists the governor, presides over the state senate, and often succeeds the governor if the office becomes vacant.
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B.
Attorney General of Michigan
The Attorney General of Michigan is the state's chief legal officer, responsible for representing Michigan in legal matters, enforcing state laws, and providing legal advice to state agencies and officials.
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C.
Governor of Michigan
The Governor of Michigan is the state's chief executive, responsible for overseeing the executive branch, implementing state laws, and guiding public policy for the State of Michigan.
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D.
Lieutenant Governor of Detroit
The Lieutenant Governor of Detroit was a British colonial administrative post responsible for governing the Detroit region and its surrounding territories during the 18th century.
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E.
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana
The Lieutenant Governor of Indiana is the state's second-highest executive officer, who presides over the Indiana Senate and often oversees key areas such as agriculture, rural affairs, and economic development.
- 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: Secretary of State of Michigan Target entity description: The Secretary of State of Michigan is a statewide elected official who oversees elections, vehicle registration, and driver licensing, and maintains many of the state's official records.
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A.
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan
The Lieutenant Governor of Michigan is the second-highest executive officer in the state, who assists the governor, presides over the state senate, and often succeeds the governor if the office becomes vacant.
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B.
Attorney General of Michigan
The Attorney General of Michigan is the state's chief legal officer, responsible for representing Michigan in legal matters, enforcing state laws, and providing legal advice to state agencies and officials.
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C.
Governor of Michigan
The Governor of Michigan is the state's chief executive, responsible for overseeing the executive branch, implementing state laws, and guiding public policy for the State of Michigan.
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D.
Lieutenant Governor of Detroit
The Lieutenant Governor of Detroit was a British colonial administrative post responsible for governing the Detroit region and its surrounding territories during the 18th century.
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E.
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana
The Lieutenant Governor of Indiana is the state's second-highest executive officer, who presides over the Indiana Senate and often oversees key areas such as agriculture, rural affairs, and economic development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
executive branch office
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state constitutional office ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Secretary of State of Michigan
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surface form:
Michigan Secretary of State
SOS (Michigan) ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
Michigan
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surface form:
State of Michigan
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| branch |
Executive branch of the government of Michigan
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surface form:
Executive branch of Michigan
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| constitutingInstrument | Constitution of the State of Michigan ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Constitution of the State of Michigan
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surface form:
Michigan Constitution
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| electedIn | Michigan statewide elections ⓘ |
| electionType | partisan election ⓘ |
| hasJurisdictionOver |
driver licensing in Michigan
ⓘ
election administration in Michigan ⓘ vehicle registration in Michigan ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Lansing, Michigan ⓘ |
| memberOf | Michigan executive branch elected officials ⓘ |
| nativeLabel |
Secretary of State of Michigan
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Michigan Secretary of State
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| officeHolder | Jocelyn Benson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officeHolderStartTime | 2019-01-01 ⓘ |
| officeType | constitutional officer ⓘ |
| oversees |
Michigan Bureau of Elections
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Michigan Department of State branch offices ⓘ Michigan driver record system ⓘ Michigan vehicle title system ⓘ |
| partOf |
government of Michigan
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surface form:
Government of Michigan
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| positionHeldBy | statewide elected official ⓘ |
| reportsTo | Governor of Michigan ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
administration of elections in Michigan
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driver licensing in Michigan ⓘ enforcement of certain election laws ⓘ implementation of Michigan election reforms ⓘ maintenance of Uniform Commercial Code filings ⓘ maintenance of campaign finance records ⓘ maintenance of lobbyist registrations ⓘ maintenance of many official state records ⓘ maintenance of notary public commissions ⓘ maintenance of state identification card system ⓘ maintenance of the qualified voter file ⓘ oversight of branch office services for residents ⓘ vehicle registration in Michigan ⓘ voter registration administration ⓘ |
| seat | Lansing, Michigan ⓘ |
| style | Secretary of State ⓘ |
| termLength | 4 years ⓘ |
| termLimitDetail | two 4-year terms ⓘ |
| termLimited | true ⓘ |
| website | https://www.michigan.gov/sos ⓘ |
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: Secretary of State of Michigan Description of subject: The Secretary of State of Michigan is a statewide elected official who oversees elections, vehicle registration, and driver licensing, and maintains many of the state's official records.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Government of Michigan
this entity surface form:
Michigan Secretary of State
Secretary of State of Michigan
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nativeLabel
→
Secretary of State of Michigan
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Michigan Secretary of State
this entity surface form:
Michigan Secretary of State