2018 Kansas gubernatorial election
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The 2018 Kansas gubernatorial election was the statewide race in which voters chose the governor of Kansas, ultimately resulting in Democrat Laura Kelly defeating Republican Kris Kobach.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 2018 Kansas gubernatorial election canonical | 2 |
| 2014 Kansas gubernatorial election | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7297595 — 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: 2018 Kansas gubernatorial election Context triple: [Laura Kelly, electedIn, 2018 Kansas gubernatorial election]
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A.
2018 Texas gubernatorial election
The 2018 Texas gubernatorial election was the statewide contest in which Texas voters chose their governor for a new four-year term, ultimately resulting in the re-election of Republican incumbent Greg Abbott.
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B.
2018 United States Senate election in Nebraska
The 2018 United States Senate election in Nebraska was a midterm contest in which incumbent Republican Senator Deb Fischer successfully ran for re-election to a second term.
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C.
2018 New Hampshire gubernatorial election
The 2018 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was the statewide race in which voters chose the governor of New Hampshire for the term immediately preceding the 2020 contest.
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D.
2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
The 2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was the statewide contest in which voters chose the governor and lieutenant governor of Massachusetts for the 2019–2023 term.
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E.
1934 Kansas gubernatorial election
The 1934 Kansas gubernatorial election was a midterm contest in which Republican incumbent Alf Landon successfully secured another term as governor of Kansas.
- 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: 2018 Kansas gubernatorial election Target entity description: The 2018 Kansas gubernatorial election was the statewide race in which voters chose the governor of Kansas, ultimately resulting in Democrat Laura Kelly defeating Republican Kris Kobach.
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A.
2018 Texas gubernatorial election
The 2018 Texas gubernatorial election was the statewide contest in which Texas voters chose their governor for a new four-year term, ultimately resulting in the re-election of Republican incumbent Greg Abbott.
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B.
2018 United States Senate election in Nebraska
The 2018 United States Senate election in Nebraska was a midterm contest in which incumbent Republican Senator Deb Fischer successfully ran for re-election to a second term.
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C.
2018 New Hampshire gubernatorial election
The 2018 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was the statewide race in which voters chose the governor of New Hampshire for the term immediately preceding the 2020 contest.
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D.
2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
The 2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was the statewide contest in which voters chose the governor and lieutenant governor of Massachusetts for the 2019–2023 term.
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E.
1934 Kansas gubernatorial election
The 1934 Kansas gubernatorial election was a midterm contest in which Republican incumbent Alf Landon successfully secured another term as governor of Kansas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: 2018 Kansas gubernatorial election Description of subject: The 2018 Kansas gubernatorial election was the statewide race in which voters chose the governor of Kansas, ultimately resulting in Democrat Laura Kelly defeating Republican Kris Kobach.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: 2018 Kansas gubernatorial election