Shepard’s citation service
E368061
Shepard’s citation service is a legal research tool that tracks the subsequent history and treatment of court cases, statutes, and other authorities to determine whether they remain good law.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shepard’s citation service canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3550668 — 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: Shepard’s citation service Context triple: [LexisNexis, knownFor, Shepard’s citation service]
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A.
InCites
InCites is a research analytics platform that provides citation-based metrics and benchmarking tools to evaluate institutional and researcher performance.
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B.
Publons
Publons is an online platform that helps researchers track, verify, and showcase their peer review and editorial contributions for academic journals.
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C.
CiteSeerX
CiteSeerX is a public digital library and search engine that focuses on indexing and providing access to scientific and academic research papers, particularly in computer and information science.
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D.
Book Citation Index
Book Citation Index is a scholarly database within the Web of Science platform that indexes and tracks citation data for academic books and book chapters across disciplines.
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E.
Semantic Scholar
Semantic Scholar is an AI-powered academic search engine that helps researchers discover and understand scientific literature more efficiently.
- 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: Shepard’s citation service Target entity description: Shepard’s citation service is a legal research tool that tracks the subsequent history and treatment of court cases, statutes, and other authorities to determine whether they remain good law.
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A.
InCites
InCites is a research analytics platform that provides citation-based metrics and benchmarking tools to evaluate institutional and researcher performance.
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B.
Publons
Publons is an online platform that helps researchers track, verify, and showcase their peer review and editorial contributions for academic journals.
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C.
CiteSeerX
CiteSeerX is a public digital library and search engine that focuses on indexing and providing access to scientific and academic research papers, particularly in computer and information science.
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D.
Book Citation Index
Book Citation Index is a scholarly database within the Web of Science platform that indexes and tracks citation data for academic books and book chapters across disciplines.
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E.
Semantic Scholar
Semantic Scholar is an AI-powered academic search engine that helps researchers discover and understand scientific literature more efficiently.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
citator
ⓘ
legal research tool ⓘ |
| availableAs |
online service
ⓘ
print publication ⓘ |
| availableOn |
LexisNexis
ⓘ
surface form:
LexisNexis online platform
|
| classification | citator service ⓘ |
| competesWith |
BCite
ⓘ
KeyCite ⓘ |
| developedInField | legal research ⓘ |
| helpsEnsure | reliance on good law ⓘ |
| indicates |
whether a case has been affirmed
ⓘ
whether a case has been distinguished ⓘ whether a case has been followed ⓘ whether a case has been overruled ⓘ whether a case has been questioned ⓘ whether a case has been reversed ⓘ |
| jurisdictionFocus | United States law ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Frank Shepard ⓘ |
| originatedAs | print citator volumes ⓘ |
| ownedBy | LexisNexis ⓘ |
| partOf |
LexisNexis
ⓘ
surface form:
LexisNexis research system
|
| providedBy | LexisNexis ⓘ |
| provides |
citations to later cases
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citations to later statutes ⓘ citations to law review articles ⓘ citations to legal encyclopedias ⓘ |
| purpose |
determine whether authorities remain good law
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identify subsequent history of authorities ⓘ identify subsequent treatment of authorities ⓘ |
| supportsTask |
case law validation
ⓘ
statutory validation ⓘ updating legal authorities ⓘ |
| tracks |
administrative decisions
ⓘ
court cases ⓘ regulations ⓘ secondary legal authorities ⓘ statutes ⓘ subsequent appellate history ⓘ subsequent citing references ⓘ |
| usedBy |
judges
ⓘ
law students ⓘ lawyers ⓘ legal researchers ⓘ |
| usedFor |
checking negative treatment of authorities
ⓘ
finding additional relevant authorities ⓘ |
| uses |
color-coded signals
ⓘ
treatment signals ⓘ |
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: Shepard’s citation service Description of subject: Shepard’s citation service is a legal research tool that tracks the subsequent history and treatment of court cases, statutes, and other authorities to determine whether they remain good law.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.