American lawyer
C887
concept
An American lawyer is a legal professional licensed in the United States who advises and represents clients in legal matters, interprets and applies U.S. laws, and advocates in courts and other legal settings.
All labels observed (13)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| American lawyer canonical | 192 |
| United States Attorney General | 32 |
| civil rights attorney | 26 |
| legal profession | 11 |
| civil rights lawyer | 9 |
| American attorney | 7 |
| 19th-century American lawyer | 3 |
| 19th-century lawyer | 2 |
| NAACP lawyer | 2 |
| African American lawyer | 1 |
| American civil rights lawyer | 1 |
| Independent Counsel | 1 |
| Virginia lawyer | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: American lawyer
Generated description
An American lawyer is a legal professional licensed in the United States who advises and represents clients in legal matters, interprets and applies U.S. laws, and advocates in courts and other legal settings.
Instances (279)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| George Hay | — |
| Grace Meng | — |
| Sylvan Gotshal | — |
| Robert F. Kennedy | United States Attorney General |
| James B. Speed | United States Attorney General |
| Thomas Marshall | — |
| Roy Cohn | — |
| Craig Kirkwood | — |
| William Kunstler | civil rights attorney |
| Leonard Weinglass | civil rights attorney |
| Lanny A. Breuer | — |
| Goler Teal Butcher | — |
| Joseph Jones | — |
| John Banister | — |
| Benjamin Botts | — |
|
serjeant-at-law
surface form:
Serjeant-at-law
|
legal profession |
|
The Giant Killer
surface form:
Willie E. Gary
|
— |
| Morris Dees | civil rights attorney |
| Joseph J. Levin Jr. | civil rights attorney |
| George Wood Wingate | — |
| Fred Folsom | — |
| Pete Tijerina | civil rights attorney |
| Arkansas attorneys | legal profession |
| Richard Schultz | — |
| John C. Bell Jr. | — |
| Silas H. Strawn | — |
|
Polite
surface form:
Kenneth A. Polite Jr.
|
American attorney |
| Catherine Roraback | civil rights attorney |
| Deemsters of the Isle of Man | legal profession |