Commercial Code (1807)
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The Commercial Code of 1807 is a foundational French legal code enacted under Napoleon that systematically regulated commercial and business activities and influenced commercial law in many other countries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Commercial Code (1807) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9187065 — 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: Commercial Code (1807) Context triple: [Napoleonic institutions, hasPart, Commercial Code (1807)]
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A.
Civil Code of 1825
The Civil Code of 1825 was a foundational codification of private law in Louisiana that blended French, Spanish, and local legal traditions into a comprehensive civil law system.
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B.
Civil Code of 1870
The Civil Code of 1870 is Louisiana’s foundational codification of private law, governing areas such as property, obligations, and family relations within its civil law system.
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C.
Code of Civil Procedure 1859
The Code of Civil Procedure 1859 was the first comprehensive procedural law enacted for British India, establishing standardized rules for conducting civil court proceedings across the colonial territories.
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D.
Code of Civil and Commercial Procedure
The Code of Civil and Commercial Procedure is Egypt’s primary legal framework governing how civil and commercial disputes are brought before, managed, and resolved by the courts.
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E.
Civil Code of 1808
The Civil Code of 1808 was Louisiana’s first comprehensive codification of private law, blending French, Spanish, and Roman legal traditions into a unified civil law system distinct from the common law used in other U.S. states.
- 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: Commercial Code (1807) Target entity description: The Commercial Code of 1807 is a foundational French legal code enacted under Napoleon that systematically regulated commercial and business activities and influenced commercial law in many other countries.
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A.
Civil Code of 1825
The Civil Code of 1825 was a foundational codification of private law in Louisiana that blended French, Spanish, and local legal traditions into a comprehensive civil law system.
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B.
Civil Code of 1870
The Civil Code of 1870 is Louisiana’s foundational codification of private law, governing areas such as property, obligations, and family relations within its civil law system.
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C.
Code of Civil Procedure 1859
The Code of Civil Procedure 1859 was the first comprehensive procedural law enacted for British India, establishing standardized rules for conducting civil court proceedings across the colonial territories.
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D.
Code of Civil and Commercial Procedure
The Code of Civil and Commercial Procedure is Egypt’s primary legal framework governing how civil and commercial disputes are brought before, managed, and resolved by the courts.
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E.
Civil Code of 1808
The Civil Code of 1808 was Louisiana’s first comprehensive codification of private law, blending French, Spanish, and Roman legal traditions into a unified civil law system distinct from the common law used in other U.S. states.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French statute
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Napoleonic code ⓘ commercial code ⓘ |
| aim |
to promote economic activity through legal clarity
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to unify commercial legislation in France ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
commercial companies
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commercial transactions in France ⓘ merchants ⓘ |
| characteristic |
increased legal certainty in commerce
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systematic codification of commercial law ⓘ uniform rules for commercial transactions ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| dateEnacted | 1807 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | French legal commissions under Napoleon ⓘ |
| enactedUnder | Napoleon I ⓘ |
| field |
business law
ⓘ
commercial law ⓘ |
| hasSuccessor | later revised French Commercial Codes ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | First French Empire ⓘ |
| implementedBy | French commercial courts ⓘ |
| influenced |
commercial law in Europe
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commercial law in Latin America ⓘ commercial law in the Middle East ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Ancien Régime commercial ordinances
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Ordonnance de commerce (1673) ⓘ Ordonnance de la marine (1681) ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | French Empire ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| legalStatus | codified statute ⓘ |
| legalSystem | civil law ⓘ |
| partOf |
Napoleonic codification
ⓘ
linked to:
Napoleonic Code
|
| regulates |
bankruptcy
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business transactions ⓘ commercial activities ⓘ commercial companies ⓘ commercial contracts ⓘ maritime commerce ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
French Civil Code (1804)
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linked to:
Napoleonic Code
French Code of Civil Procedure (1806) ⓘ
linked to:
French Code of Civil Procedure
French Penal Code (1810) ⓘ |
| scope |
commercial courts
ⓘ
merchant status ⓘ private commercial law ⓘ |
| title | Code de commerce ⓘ |
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: Commercial Code (1807) Description of subject: The Commercial Code of 1807 is a foundational French legal code enacted under Napoleon that systematically regulated commercial and business activities and influenced commercial law in many other countries.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.