Weil
E870906
Weil is a prominent international law firm known for its work in corporate, restructuring, and litigation matters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Weil canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10532414 — 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: Weil Context triple: [Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, shortName, Weil]
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A.
Weil
Weil is a surname most notably associated with André Weil, a prominent 20th-century French mathematician and co-founder of the Bourbaki group.
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B.
Weil
Weil is a small river in the German state of Hesse that flows through the Taunus region before joining the Lahn.
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C.
Weil der Stadt
Weil der Stadt is a historic small town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, best known as the birthplace of the astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler.
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D.
Löwenthal
Löwenthal is the maiden surname of Elsa Einstein, who was both the second wife and cousin of physicist Albert Einstein.
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E.
Weiler
Weiler is a village and district of the town of Schorndorf in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
- 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: Weil Target entity description: Weil is a prominent international law firm known for its work in corporate, restructuring, and litigation matters.
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A.
Weil
Weil is a surname most notably associated with André Weil, a prominent 20th-century French mathematician and co-founder of the Bourbaki group.
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B.
Weil
Weil is a small river in the German state of Hesse that flows through the Taunus region before joining the Lahn.
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C.
Weil der Stadt
Weil der Stadt is a historic small town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, best known as the birthplace of the astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler.
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D.
Löwenthal
Löwenthal is the maiden surname of Elsa Einstein, who was both the second wife and cousin of physicist Albert Einstein.
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E.
Weiler
Weiler is a village and district of the town of Schorndorf in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | law firm ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Weil ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| foundedBy |
Frank Weil
ⓘ
Horace Manges ⓘ Sylvan Gotshal ⓘ |
| foundedIn |
1931
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| hasOfficeIn |
Beijing
ⓘ
Boston ⓘ Dallas ⓘ Frankfurt ⓘ
linked to:
Frankfurt am Main
Hong Kong ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong, China
Houston ⓘ London ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
Miami ⓘ Munich ⓘ New York City ⓘ Paris ⓘ Prague ⓘ Shanghai ⓘ Silicon Valley ⓘ Warsaw ⓘ Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| industry | legal services ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
complex commercial litigation
ⓘ
corporate restructuring work ⓘ large cross-border transactions ⓘ |
| practiceArea |
antitrust
ⓘ
bankruptcy ⓘ corporate law ⓘ employment law ⓘ finance ⓘ intellectual property ⓘ litigation ⓘ mergers and acquisitions ⓘ private equity ⓘ regulatory and compliance ⓘ restructuring ⓘ tax law ⓘ |
| scope | international ⓘ |
| servesClientType |
corporations
ⓘ
financial institutions ⓘ private equity firms ⓘ public companies ⓘ |
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: Weil Description of subject: Weil is a prominent international law firm known for its work in corporate, restructuring, and litigation matters.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Weil