Practical Law
E71510
Practical Law is an online legal know-how service that provides expert-authored practice notes, standard documents, checklists, and tools to help lawyers work more efficiently.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Practical Law canonical | 4 |
| Thomson Reuters Practical Law | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T570281 — 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: Practical Law Context triple: [Thomson Reuters, parentCompanyOf, Practical Law]
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A.
Copyright: Cases and Materials
"Copyright: Cases and Materials" is a leading law school casebook on U.S. copyright law, co-authored by Jane C. Ginsburg and widely used for teaching and scholarly reference.
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B.
Westlaw
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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C.
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.
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D.
The Law Reports Statutes
The Law Reports Statutes is a legal publication that provides the authoritative, systematically organized text of UK Acts of Parliament for use by lawyers, judges, and legal researchers.
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E.
Business Law Section
The Business Law Section is a major division of the American Bar Association that focuses on legal issues affecting businesses, corporations, and commercial transactions.
- 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: Practical Law Target entity description: Practical Law is an online legal know-how service that provides expert-authored practice notes, standard documents, checklists, and tools to help lawyers work more efficiently.
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A.
Copyright: Cases and Materials
"Copyright: Cases and Materials" is a leading law school casebook on U.S. copyright law, co-authored by Jane C. Ginsburg and widely used for teaching and scholarly reference.
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B.
Westlaw
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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C.
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.
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D.
The Law Reports Statutes
The Law Reports Statutes is a legal publication that provides the authoritative, systematically organized text of UK Acts of Parliament for use by lawyers, judges, and legal researchers.
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E.
Business Law Section
The Business Law Section is a major division of the American Bar Association that focuses on legal issues affecting businesses, corporations, and commercial transactions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Thomson Reuters product
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legal research tool ⓘ online legal know-how service ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
PLC (Power Line Communication)
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surface form:
PLC
|
| accessModel |
subscription
ⓘ
web-based platform ⓘ |
| contentType |
checklists
ⓘ
country Q&A guides ⓘ how-to guides ⓘ legal updates ⓘ practice notes ⓘ standard clauses ⓘ standard documents ⓘ state Q&A guides ⓘ toolkits ⓘ |
| editorialModel |
expert-authored content
ⓘ
maintained and regularly updated content ⓘ |
| feature |
automated document drafting tools
ⓘ
integration with Westlaw (in some markets) ⓘ maintained practice notes ⓘ matter management toolkits ⓘ multi-jurisdictional comparison tools ⓘ precedent documents with drafting notes ⓘ searchable online platform ⓘ |
| formerName | Practical Law Company ⓘ |
| goal |
to help lawyers work more efficiently
ⓘ
to improve quality and consistency of legal work ⓘ to reduce time spent on routine drafting and research ⓘ |
| industry |
legal information services
ⓘ
legal technology ⓘ |
| jurisdictionCoverage |
Australia
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Canada ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
multiple additional jurisdictions ⓘ |
| name | Practical Law self-link ⓘ |
| operator | Thomson Reuters ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Thomson Reuters ⓘ |
| serviceType |
legal know-how
ⓘ
online subscription service ⓘ professional information service ⓘ |
| subjectCoverage |
commercial law
ⓘ
corporate law ⓘ employment law ⓘ finance ⓘ intellectual property ⓘ litigation ⓘ real estate ⓘ tax ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
in-house counsel
ⓘ
law firms ⓘ lawyers ⓘ legal departments ⓘ |
| typicalUser |
associates at law firms
ⓘ
in-house legal counsel ⓘ partners at law firms ⓘ |
| useCase |
conducting practical legal research
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drafting legal documents ⓘ staying current with legal developments ⓘ training junior lawyers ⓘ |
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: Practical Law Description of subject: Practical Law is an online legal know-how service that provides expert-authored practice notes, standard documents, checklists, and tools to help lawyers work more efficiently.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Thomson Reuters Practical Law