European Union legal order
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The European Union legal order is a supranational legal system in which EU law, created by its institutions and binding on member states, operates with primacy and direct effect over national laws in many areas of policy.
All labels observed (14)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T632268 — 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: European Union legal order Context triple: [Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Central Bank, partOf, European Union legal order]
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A.
EU Treaties
The EU Treaties are the foundational legal agreements that establish the European Union’s institutions, powers, and decision‑making framework.
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B.
European Union internal market
The European Union internal market is a single, integrated economic area across EU member states in which goods, services, capital, and people can move freely under common rules and standards.
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C.
European integration
European integration is the political, economic, and legal process through which European countries have increasingly coordinated and pooled sovereignty, most notably within frameworks such as the European Union.
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D.
European Union competition policy
European Union competition policy is the body of EU rules and enforcement practices designed to prevent anti-competitive behavior, control mergers, and regulate state aid in order to maintain fair and effective competition within the internal market.
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E.
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union is one of the EU’s primary founding treaties, setting out its institutional framework, policy competences, and detailed rules governing the functioning of the Union’s internal market and other key areas.
- 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: European Union legal order Target entity description: The European Union legal order is a supranational legal system in which EU law, created by its institutions and binding on member states, operates with primacy and direct effect over national laws in many areas of policy.
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A.
EU Treaties
The EU Treaties are the foundational legal agreements that establish the European Union’s institutions, powers, and decision‑making framework.
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B.
European Union internal market
The European Union internal market is a single, integrated economic area across EU member states in which goods, services, capital, and people can move freely under common rules and standards.
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C.
European integration
European integration is the political, economic, and legal process through which European countries have increasingly coordinated and pooled sovereignty, most notably within frameworks such as the European Union.
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D.
European Union competition policy
European Union competition policy is the body of EU rules and enforcement practices designed to prevent anti-competitive behavior, control mergers, and regulate state aid in order to maintain fair and effective competition within the internal market.
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E.
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union is one of the EU’s primary founding treaties, setting out its institutional framework, policy competences, and detailed rules governing the functioning of the Union’s internal market and other key areas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
legal order
ⓘ
supranational legal system ⓘ |
| aimsAt | integration of member state legal systems in EU competences ⓘ |
| allows | preliminary references from national courts to the CJEU ⓘ |
| appliesIn |
Member States of the European Union
ⓘ
surface form:
European Union member states
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| basedOn |
Treaty on European Union
ⓘ
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union ⓘ |
| bindingOn |
European institutions
ⓘ
surface form:
EU institutions
EU member states ⓘ legal persons within the EU ⓘ natural persons within the EU ⓘ |
| coexistsWith | national legal orders of member states ⓘ |
| constrainedBy |
Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
ⓘ
fundamental rights ⓘ |
| createdBy |
European institutions
ⓘ
surface form:
European Union institutions
|
| developedThrough | CJEU case law ⓘ |
| enforcedBy | Court of Justice of the European Union ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
autonomy of EU law
ⓘ
limited conferred competences ⓘ principle of proportionality ⓘ principle of subsidiarity ⓘ supremacy over conflicting national law in its fields of competence ⓘ uniform application of EU law ⓘ |
| hasPrinciple |
direct effect of EU law
ⓘ
primacy of EU law ⓘ |
| implementedThrough |
decisions
ⓘ
directives ⓘ opinions ⓘ recommendations ⓘ regulations ⓘ |
| includes |
general principles of EU law
ⓘ
primary EU law ⓘ secondary EU law ⓘ |
| interpretedBy | Court of Justice of the European Union ⓘ |
| legislatedBy |
Council of the European Union
ⓘ
European Parliament ⓘ |
| monitoredBy | European Commission ⓘ |
| originatedInCase |
Costa v ENEL
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Van Gend en Loos ⓘ |
| partOf | European Union ⓘ |
| regulates |
agriculture policy
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area of freedom, security and justice ⓘ common commercial policy ⓘ competition policy ⓘ consumer protection ⓘ customs union ⓘ environmental policy ⓘ internal market ⓘ |
| requires | conform interpretation of national law with EU law ⓘ |
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: European Union legal order Description of subject: The European Union legal order is a supranational legal system in which EU law, created by its institutions and binding on member states, operates with primacy and direct effect over national laws in many areas of policy.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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partOf
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European Union legal order
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this entity surface form:
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this entity surface form:
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this entity surface form:
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this entity surface form:
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this entity surface form:
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Schengen Agreement (1985)
this entity surface form:
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EU acquis
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European Union law
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Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, University of Bristol
this entity surface form:
European law
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European Union law
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European Union law
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European Union law
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European Union law
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European Union law
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European Union law