Boalt Hall School of Law
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Boalt Hall School of Law is the former name of the University of California, Berkeley’s prestigious law school, renowned for its influential legal scholarship and public interest focus.
All labels observed (5)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T77076 — 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: Boalt Hall School of Law Context triple: [UC Berkeley School of Law, formerName, Boalt Hall School of Law]
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Columbia Law School
Columbia Law School is a prestigious Ivy League law school in New York City known for its influential scholarship, distinguished alumni, and strong programs in corporate, international, and public interest law.
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Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School is a prestigious and historically influential law school renowned for its rigorous legal education, prominent faculty, and extensive alumni network in law, government, and public service.
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University of San Francisco School of Law
The University of San Francisco School of Law is a private, Jesuit-affiliated law school in San Francisco known for its programs in public interest law, social justice, and practical legal training.
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Boston College Law School
Boston College Law School is a private, Jesuit-affiliated law school known for its strong programs in public interest law, business law, and legal ethics.
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University of Virginia School of Law
The University of Virginia School of Law is a prestigious public law school in Charlottesville, Virginia, renowned for its rigorous academics, influential alumni, and strong tradition of public service.
- 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: Boalt Hall School of Law Target entity description: Boalt Hall School of Law is the former name of the University of California, Berkeley’s prestigious law school, renowned for its influential legal scholarship and public interest focus.
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Columbia Law School
Columbia Law School is a prestigious Ivy League law school in New York City known for its influential scholarship, distinguished alumni, and strong programs in corporate, international, and public interest law.
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Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School is a prestigious and historically influential law school renowned for its rigorous legal education, prominent faculty, and extensive alumni network in law, government, and public service.
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University of San Francisco School of Law
The University of San Francisco School of Law is a private, Jesuit-affiliated law school in San Francisco known for its programs in public interest law, social justice, and practical legal training.
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Boston College Law School
Boston College Law School is a private, Jesuit-affiliated law school known for its strong programs in public interest law, business law, and legal ethics.
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University of Virginia School of Law
The University of Virginia School of Law is a prestigious public law school in Charlottesville, Virginia, renowned for its rigorous academics, influential alumni, and strong tradition of public service.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educational institution
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law school ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | law ⓘ |
| accreditedBy |
American Bar Association
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Association of American Law Schools ⓘ |
| affiliation | University of California system ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
UC Berkeley alumni
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UC Berkeley faculty ⓘ |
| campus | UC Berkeley campus ⓘ |
| campusSetting | urban ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| field | law ⓘ |
| focus |
legal education
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legal research ⓘ public interest law ⓘ |
| formerNameOf |
Boalt Hall School of Law
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
UC Berkeley School of Law
Boalt Hall School of Law self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
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| governingBody |
University of California Board of Regents
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surface form:
Regents of the University of California
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| hasAlumni |
attorneys
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judges ⓘ legal scholars ⓘ public officials ⓘ |
| hasType | graduate school ⓘ |
| knownFor |
clinical legal education
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constitutional law scholarship ⓘ environmental law programs ⓘ intellectual property law programs ⓘ legal scholarship ⓘ public interest law focus ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Berkeley
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surface form:
Berkeley, California
California, United States ⓘ
surface form:
California
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| offersDegree |
Doctor of Juridical Science
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Juris Doctor ⓘ Master of Laws ⓘ |
| offersProgram |
clinical programs
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environmental law program ⓘ intellectual property law program ⓘ public interest law program ⓘ |
| partOf | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| region | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| reputation |
highly ranked U.S. law school
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prestigious law school ⓘ |
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: Boalt Hall School of Law Description of subject: Boalt Hall School of Law is the former name of the University of California, Berkeley’s prestigious law school, renowned for its influential legal scholarship and public interest focus.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
UC Berkeley School of Law
subject surface form:
UC Berkeley School of Law
this entity surface form:
Berkeley Law
subject surface form:
UC Berkeley School of Law
this entity surface form:
UC Berkeley School of Law
this entity surface form:
UC Berkeley School of Law
this entity surface form:
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
this entity surface form:
UC Berkeley School of Law
this entity surface form:
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
this entity surface form:
Berkeley Law
this entity surface form:
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
this entity surface form:
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
this entity surface form:
UC Berkeley School of Law
subject surface form:
Law Library (UC Berkeley)
this entity surface form:
UC Berkeley School of Law
this entity surface form:
Boalt Hall at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law