2018 Washington, D.C., mayoral election
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The 2018 Washington, D.C., mayoral election was the contest in which voters in the U.S. capital chose their mayor for the 2019–2023 term, resulting in the continuation of Democratic control of the office.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 2018 Washington, D.C., mayoral election canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7339906 — 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 Washington, D.C., mayoral election Context triple: [Muriel Bowser, reElectedIn, 2018 Washington, D.C., mayoral election]
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2014 Washington, D.C., mayoral election
The 2014 Washington, D.C., mayoral election was the contest in which voters chose the city’s chief executive, resulting in Muriel Bowser becoming mayor of the District of Columbia.
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2021 New York City mayoral election
The 2021 New York City mayoral election was the contest in which voters chose the city's next mayor, ultimately resulting in Eric Adams succeeding Bill de Blasio as leader of the largest city in the United States.
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C.
2018 United States local elections
The 2018 United States local elections comprised a wide range of subnational contests across the country, including mayoral, city council, county, and other municipal races held throughout that year.
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D.
2019 Chicago mayoral election
The 2019 Chicago mayoral election was the contest in which Lori Lightfoot won the mayoralty, becoming the city’s first Black woman and first openly gay mayor.
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E.
District of Columbia statehood referendum, 1980
The District of Columbia statehood referendum of 1980 was a local vote in which D.C. residents approved the drafting of a state constitution as part of an early effort to gain U.S. statehood and full congressional representation.
- 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 Washington, D.C., mayoral election Target entity description: The 2018 Washington, D.C., mayoral election was the contest in which voters in the U.S. capital chose their mayor for the 2019–2023 term, resulting in the continuation of Democratic control of the office.
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A.
2014 Washington, D.C., mayoral election
The 2014 Washington, D.C., mayoral election was the contest in which voters chose the city’s chief executive, resulting in Muriel Bowser becoming mayor of the District of Columbia.
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B.
2021 New York City mayoral election
The 2021 New York City mayoral election was the contest in which voters chose the city's next mayor, ultimately resulting in Eric Adams succeeding Bill de Blasio as leader of the largest city in the United States.
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C.
2018 United States local elections
The 2018 United States local elections comprised a wide range of subnational contests across the country, including mayoral, city council, county, and other municipal races held throughout that year.
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D.
2019 Chicago mayoral election
The 2019 Chicago mayoral election was the contest in which Lori Lightfoot won the mayoralty, becoming the city’s first Black woman and first openly gay mayor.
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E.
District of Columbia statehood referendum, 1980
The District of Columbia statehood referendum of 1980 was a local vote in which D.C. residents approved the drafting of a state constitution as part of an early effort to gain U.S. statehood and full congressional representation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States local election
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mayoral election ⓘ |
| candidate |
Ann Wilcox
NERFINISHED
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Calvin Gurley NERFINISHED ⓘ Dustin Canter NERFINISHED ⓘ James Butler NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Bekeska NERFINISHED ⓘ Muriel Bowser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| candidateParty |
Ann Wilcox|D.C. Statehood Green Party
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Bekeska|Republican Party (United States) NERFINISHED ⓘ Muriel Bowser|Democratic Party (United States) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| electionDate | 2018-11-06 ⓘ |
| electoralTermEnd | 2023 ⓘ |
| electoralTermStart | 2019 ⓘ |
| incumbentBeforeElection | Muriel Bowser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| nextElection | 2022 Washington, D.C., mayoral election NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officeContested | Mayor of Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| officeholderAfterElection | Muriel Bowser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
2018 United States elections
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2018 United States gubernatorial elections ⓘ |
| partyOfIncumbentBeforeElection | Democratic Party (United States) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partyOfOfficeholderAfterElection | Democratic Party (United States) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionContested | Mayor of the District of Columbia ⓘ |
| previousElection | 2014 Washington, D.C., mayoral election NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| result | Democratic Party retained control of the mayoralty of Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typeOfElection | executive election ⓘ |
| votingSystem | first-past-the-post ⓘ |
| winner | Muriel Bowser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| winningParty | Democratic Party (United States) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Washington, D.C., mayoral election Description of subject: The 2018 Washington, D.C., mayoral election was the contest in which voters in the U.S. capital chose their mayor for the 2019–2023 term, resulting in the continuation of Democratic control of the office.
Referenced by (1)
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