Westlaw
E13650
Westlaw is a comprehensive online legal research service and database widely used by lawyers, judges, and scholars to access case law, statutes, regulations, and secondary legal materials.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Westlaw canonical | 24 |
| Westlaw Classic | 1 |
| Westlaw Edge | 1 |
| Westlaw database | 1 |
| Westlaw online database | 1 |
| WestlawNext | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T125643 — 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: Westlaw Context triple: [Supreme Court Reporter, availableOn, Westlaw]
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A.
Supreme Court Reporter
Supreme Court Reporter is a commercially published case reporter that provides annotated and unofficial versions of decisions from the United States Supreme Court.
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B.
Legal Training and Research Institute
The Legal Training and Research Institute is Japan’s national institution responsible for the practical training and education of prospective judges, prosecutors, and attorneys following their legal examinations.
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C.
ABA Journal
ABA Journal is a leading legal magazine and news outlet that covers developments in law, the legal profession, and the justice system for attorneys and legal professionals.
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D.
Perkins Coie
Perkins Coie is a major U.S.-based international law firm known for its work in corporate, litigation, and political law, as well as representing prominent technology companies and political campaigns.
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E.
Lawyers’ Edition
Lawyers’ Edition is a commercially published reporter series that provides annotated decisions of the United States Supreme Court, offering editorial enhancements and research aids beyond the official United States Reports.
- 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: Westlaw Target entity description: Westlaw is a comprehensive online legal research service and database widely used by lawyers, judges, and scholars to access case law, statutes, regulations, and secondary legal materials.
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A.
Supreme Court Reporter
Supreme Court Reporter is a commercially published case reporter that provides annotated and unofficial versions of decisions from the United States Supreme Court.
-
B.
Legal Training and Research Institute
The Legal Training and Research Institute is Japan’s national institution responsible for the practical training and education of prospective judges, prosecutors, and attorneys following their legal examinations.
-
C.
ABA Journal
ABA Journal is a leading legal magazine and news outlet that covers developments in law, the legal profession, and the justice system for attorneys and legal professionals.
-
D.
Perkins Coie
Perkins Coie is a major U.S.-based international law firm known for its work in corporate, litigation, and political law, as well as representing prominent technology companies and political campaigns.
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E.
Lawyers’ Edition
Lawyers’ Edition is a commercially published reporter series that provides annotated decisions of the United States Supreme Court, offering editorial enhancements and research aids beyond the official United States Reports.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial legal research platform
ⓘ
legal database ⓘ online legal research service ⓘ |
| accessMethod | web-based interface ⓘ |
| accessModel | subscription-based service ⓘ |
| competitor |
Bloomberg Law
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LexisNexis ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developer | Thomson Reuters ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Boolean search
ⓘ
KeyCite ⓘ West Key Number System classification ⓘ
surface form:
West Key Number System
alerts ⓘ citations checking ⓘ citator service ⓘ cross-references between documents ⓘ document annotation tools ⓘ filters and facets ⓘ full-text search ⓘ headnotes ⓘ history and research trail ⓘ mobile access ⓘ natural language search ⓘ practice area pages ⓘ topic and key number classification ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
Westlaw
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Westlaw Classic
Westlaw self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Westlaw Edge
Westlaw self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
WestlawNext
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| market | legal research ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Thomson Reuters ⓘ |
| predecessor | West Publishing Company ⓘ |
| primaryUsers |
judges
ⓘ
law students ⓘ lawyers ⓘ legal academics ⓘ paralegals ⓘ |
| providesAccessTo |
administrative decisions
ⓘ
case law ⓘ company information ⓘ court rules ⓘ dockets ⓘ forms ⓘ law reviews ⓘ legal encyclopedias ⓘ legal treatises ⓘ news sources ⓘ regulations ⓘ secondary legal materials ⓘ statutes ⓘ |
| typicalUseCase |
academic legal research
ⓘ
checking validity of citations ⓘ finding relevant case law ⓘ preparing legal briefs ⓘ researching statutes and regulations ⓘ |
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: Westlaw Description of subject: Westlaw is a comprehensive online legal research service and database widely used by lawyers, judges, and scholars to access case law, statutes, regulations, and secondary legal materials.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Westlaw online database
this entity surface form:
Westlaw Classic
this entity surface form:
WestlawNext
this entity surface form:
Westlaw Edge
this entity surface form:
Westlaw database
subject surface form:
Federal Supplement