American Digest System
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The American Digest System is a comprehensive legal research tool that organizes and indexes U.S. case law by subject to help lawyers and researchers locate relevant judicial decisions efficiently.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| American Digest System canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T891081 — 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: American Digest System Context triple: [West Publishing Company, brand, American Digest System]
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A.
Digest
The Digest is a key component of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I’s Corpus Juris Civilis, compiling and systematizing classical Roman jurists’ writings on law.
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B.
The Human Body
The Human Body is a popular science book by Isaac Asimov that explains human anatomy and physiology in clear, accessible language for general readers.
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C.
The Diet
The Diet is Japan’s bicameral national legislature, consisting of the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors, responsible for making laws and selecting the Prime Minister.
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D.
Usus antiquior
Usus antiquior is the traditional form of the Roman Rite Mass as codified after the Council of Trent and used in the Catholic Church for centuries prior to the liturgical reforms of the 20th century.
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E.
Parts of Animals
Parts of Animals is a biological treatise by Aristotle that systematically examines the anatomy, functions, and classification of animals as part of his broader natural philosophy.
- 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: American Digest System Target entity description: The American Digest System is a comprehensive legal research tool that organizes and indexes U.S. case law by subject to help lawyers and researchers locate relevant judicial decisions efficiently.
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A.
Digest
The Digest is a key component of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I’s Corpus Juris Civilis, compiling and systematizing classical Roman jurists’ writings on law.
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B.
The Human Body
The Human Body is a popular science book by Isaac Asimov that explains human anatomy and physiology in clear, accessible language for general readers.
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C.
The Diet
The Diet is Japan’s bicameral national legislature, consisting of the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors, responsible for making laws and selecting the Prime Minister.
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D.
Usus antiquior
Usus antiquior is the traditional form of the Roman Rite Mass as codified after the Council of Trent and used in the Catholic Church for centuries prior to the liturgical reforms of the 20th century.
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E.
Parts of Animals
Parts of Animals is a biological treatise by Aristotle that systematically examines the anatomy, functions, and classification of animals as part of his broader natural philosophy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
case law digest system
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legal indexing system ⓘ legal research tool ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| covers |
federal case law
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judicial decisions ⓘ state case law ⓘ |
| domain |
law
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legal research ⓘ |
| feature |
headnote classification
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subject-based index to case law ⓘ topical arrangement of cases ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium |
online legal research platforms
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print ⓘ |
| organizesBy |
key number system
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legal subject ⓘ |
| primaryJurisdiction | U.S. case law ⓘ |
| purpose |
to help lawyers locate relevant judicial decisions efficiently
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to help legal researchers locate relevant judicial decisions efficiently ⓘ to organize and index U.S. case law by subject ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
case digest
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key number digest system ⓘ legal encyclopedia ⓘ |
| useCase |
finding cases interpreting a particular legal issue
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updating research on a legal topic ⓘ |
| usedBy |
judges
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law students ⓘ lawyers ⓘ legal researchers ⓘ |
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: American Digest System Description of subject: The American Digest System is a comprehensive legal research tool that organizes and indexes U.S. case law by subject to help lawyers and researchers locate relevant judicial decisions efficiently.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.