Covington & Burling
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Covington & Burling is a prominent international law firm based in Washington, D.C., known for its work in regulatory, litigation, and corporate matters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Covington & Burling canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T356604 — 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: Covington & Burling Context triple: [David C. Acheson, employer, Covington & Burling]
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A.
Sidley Austin LLP
Sidley Austin LLP is a major international law firm headquartered in Chicago, known for its corporate, litigation, and regulatory practices.
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B.
Perkins Coie
Perkins Coie is a major U.S.-based international law firm known for its work in corporate, litigation, and political law, as well as representing prominent technology companies and political campaigns.
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C.
Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
Shreve, Lamb & Harmon was a prominent American architectural firm best known for designing New York City's iconic Empire State Building.
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D.
Miller, Orton & Mulligan
Miller, Orton & Mulligan was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing significant works of abolitionist and reform literature.
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E.
Waddell & Hardesty
Waddell & Hardesty was an American engineering and architectural firm known for designing major steel bridges and other large-scale infrastructure projects in the early 20th century.
- 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: Covington & Burling Target entity description: Covington & Burling is a prominent international law firm based in Washington, D.C., known for its work in regulatory, litigation, and corporate matters.
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A.
Sidley Austin LLP
Sidley Austin LLP is a major international law firm headquartered in Chicago, known for its corporate, litigation, and regulatory practices.
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B.
Perkins Coie
Perkins Coie is a major U.S.-based international law firm known for its work in corporate, litigation, and political law, as well as representing prominent technology companies and political campaigns.
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C.
Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
Shreve, Lamb & Harmon was a prominent American architectural firm best known for designing New York City's iconic Empire State Building.
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D.
Miller, Orton & Mulligan
Miller, Orton & Mulligan was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing significant works of abolitionist and reform literature.
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E.
Waddell & Hardesty
Waddell & Hardesty was an American engineering and architectural firm known for designing major steel bridges and other large-scale infrastructure projects in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (73)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
law firm
ⓘ
partnership ⓘ professional services firm ⓘ |
| areaServed |
international
ⓘ
worldwide ⓘ |
| city | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employs |
attorneys
ⓘ
legal professionals ⓘ support staff ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Edward B. Burling
ⓘ
J. Harry Covington ⓘ |
| hasMainRegulatoryFocus |
European Union regulation
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U.S. federal regulation ⓘ international regulatory regimes ⓘ |
| hasNotableAlumni |
Covington & Burling partners who served in U.S. government
ⓘ
Dean Acheson ⓘ Eric Holder ⓘ Lanny Breuer ⓘ Michael Chertoff ⓘ |
| hasOfficeIn |
Beijing
ⓘ
Brussels, Belgium ⓘ
surface form:
Brussels
Doha ⓘ Dubai ⓘ Frankfurt am Main ⓘ
surface form:
Frankfurt
Johannesburg, South Africa ⓘ
surface form:
Johannesburg
London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
Los Angeles ⓘ Los Angeles County ⓘ New York City ⓘ Paris ⓘ San Francisco ⓘ Seoul ⓘ Shanghai ⓘ Silicon Valley ⓘ Singapore ⓘ Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| inception | 1919 ⓘ |
| industry |
law
ⓘ
legal services ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | limited liability partnership ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | District of Columbia ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Edward B. Burling
ⓘ
J. Harry Covington ⓘ |
| notableClient |
financial institutions
ⓘ
government entities ⓘ large multinational corporations ⓘ nonprofit organizations ⓘ pharmaceutical companies ⓘ technology companies ⓘ |
| practiceArea |
antitrust law
ⓘ
appellate litigation ⓘ corporate law ⓘ data privacy law ⓘ energy law ⓘ environmental law ⓘ government affairs ⓘ intellectual property law ⓘ international arbitration ⓘ international trade law ⓘ life sciences law ⓘ litigation ⓘ public policy ⓘ regulatory law ⓘ securities regulation ⓘ white-collar defense ⓘ |
| reputation |
prominent in corporate transactions
ⓘ
prominent in litigation ⓘ prominent in regulatory matters ⓘ |
| website | https://www.cov.com ⓘ |
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: Covington & Burling Description of subject: Covington & Burling is a prominent international law firm based in Washington, D.C., known for its work in regulatory, litigation, and corporate matters.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.