Lawrence M. Friedman
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Lawrence M. Friedman is an American legal scholar and historian renowned for his influential work on the social history of American law and the development of legal systems.
All labels observed (1)
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| Lawrence M. Friedman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6952354 — 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: Lawrence M. Friedman Context triple: [Friedman, hasNotableBearer, Lawrence M. Friedman]
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A.
Karl Llewellyn
Karl Llewellyn was a prominent 20th-century American legal scholar and leading figure of the legal realism movement, known especially for his role in drafting the Uniform Commercial Code.
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B.
Philip Goldstein
Philip Goldstein, better known as Philip Guston, was a prominent 20th-century painter associated with Abstract Expressionism who later became renowned for his bold, cartoonish figurative works.
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C.
Jack Levin
Jack Levin is a technology entrepreneur best known as an early Google engineer and the founder of the XEN crypto project.
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D.
Jerome Frank
Jerome Frank was an influential American legal philosopher and judge known as a leading figure of the legal realism movement, emphasizing the indeterminacy of law and the role of judges’ personal perspectives in legal decisions.
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E.
Guido Calabresi
Guido Calabresi is a prominent American legal scholar, former dean of Yale Law School, and federal judge known for his influential work in law and economics.
- 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: Lawrence M. Friedman Target entity description: Lawrence M. Friedman is an American legal scholar and historian renowned for his influential work on the social history of American law and the development of legal systems.
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A.
Karl Llewellyn
Karl Llewellyn was a prominent 20th-century American legal scholar and leading figure of the legal realism movement, known especially for his role in drafting the Uniform Commercial Code.
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B.
Philip Goldstein
Philip Goldstein, better known as Philip Guston, was a prominent 20th-century painter associated with Abstract Expressionism who later became renowned for his bold, cartoonish figurative works.
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C.
Jack Levin
Jack Levin is a technology entrepreneur best known as an early Google engineer and the founder of the XEN crypto project.
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D.
Jerome Frank
Jerome Frank was an influential American legal philosopher and judge known as a leading figure of the legal realism movement, emphasizing the indeterminacy of law and the role of judges’ personal perspectives in legal decisions.
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E.
Guido Calabresi
Guido Calabresi is a prominent American legal scholar, former dean of Yale Law School, and federal judge known for his influential work in law and economics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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legal historian ⓘ legal scholar ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
history
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law ⓘ sociology of law ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Chicago
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University of Chicago Law School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Stanford Law School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Friedman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
American legal history
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comparative law ⓘ legal history ⓘ sociology of law ⓘ |
| givenName | Lawrence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAdvisor | James Willard Hurst NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWrittenGenre |
crime history
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legal history ⓘ popular legal non-fiction ⓘ socio-legal studies ⓘ |
| hasWrittenWork |
A History of American Law
NERFINISHED
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American Law NERFINISHED ⓘ Crime and Punishment in American History NERFINISHED ⓘ The Legal System: A Social Science Perspective NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
law and society movement
NERFINISHED
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socio-legal studies ⓘ |
| knownFor |
development of legal systems
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popularizing legal history for general audiences ⓘ social history of American law ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Law and Society Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Lawrence M. Friedman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A History of American Law
NERFINISHED
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American Law ⓘ Crime and Punishment in American History NERFINISHED ⓘ The Legal System: A Social Science Perspective NERFINISHED ⓘ The Republic of Choice NERFINISHED ⓘ Total Justice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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legal historian ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of law at Stanford University ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | Stanford, California 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: Lawrence M. Friedman Description of subject: Lawrence M. Friedman is an American legal scholar and historian renowned for his influential work on the social history of American law and the development of legal systems.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.