Cleary, Gottlieb, Friendly & Cox
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Cleary, Gottlieb, Friendly & Cox was a prominent New York law firm known for employing future renowned federal judge Henry J. Friendly early in his legal career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cleary, Gottlieb, Friendly & Cox canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5853217 — 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: Cleary, Gottlieb, Friendly & Cox Context triple: [Henry J. Friendly, employer, Cleary, Gottlieb, Friendly & Cox]
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A.
O'Melveny & Myers
O'Melveny & Myers is a major international law firm headquartered in Los Angeles, known for its work in litigation, corporate transactions, and regulatory matters.
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B.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is a leading global law firm known for its work in corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and complex litigation.
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C.
Covington & Burling
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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D.
Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Cravath, Swaine & Moore is a prestigious New York–based law firm renowned for its elite corporate practice and influential role in shaping modern legal and business practices.
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E.
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr is a prominent international law firm known for its work in regulatory, litigation, and corporate matters, particularly in Washington, D.C. and other major legal markets.
- 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: Cleary, Gottlieb, Friendly & Cox Target entity description: Cleary, Gottlieb, Friendly & Cox was a prominent New York law firm known for employing future renowned federal judge Henry J. Friendly early in his legal career.
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A.
O'Melveny & Myers
O'Melveny & Myers is a major international law firm headquartered in Los Angeles, known for its work in litigation, corporate transactions, and regulatory matters.
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B.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is a leading global law firm known for its work in corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and complex litigation.
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C.
Covington & Burling
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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D.
Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Cravath, Swaine & Moore is a prestigious New York–based law firm renowned for its elite corporate practice and influential role in shaping modern legal and business practices.
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E.
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr is a prominent international law firm known for its work in regulatory, litigation, and corporate matters, particularly in Washington, D.C. and other major legal markets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defunct law firm
ⓘ
federal judge ⓘ law firm ⓘ person ⓘ |
| cityOfHeadquarters | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfHeadquarters |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employed | Henry J. Friendly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Cleary, Gottlieb, Friendly & Cox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | prominent New York law firm ⓘ |
| industry | legal services ⓘ |
| knownFor | employing Henry J. Friendly early in his legal career ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York NERFINISHED ⓘ New York City ⓘ |
| notableEmployee | Henry J. Friendly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | service as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ⓘ |
| occupation |
attorney
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judge ⓘ |
| practiceArea |
commercial law
ⓘ
corporate law ⓘ |
| precededBy | Henry J. Friendly’s judicial career ⓘ |
| stateOfHeadquarters | New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Cleary, Gottlieb, Friendly & Cox Description of subject: Cleary, Gottlieb, Friendly & Cox was a prominent New York law firm known for employing future renowned federal judge Henry J. Friendly early in his legal career.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.