Law

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Law is the system of rules and principles recognized by a community or government as regulating the actions of its members and enforceable by legal institutions.

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Label Occurrences
Law canonical 4

Statements (60)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Concept
Normative system
Social system
System of rules
appliesTo Individuals
Organizations
States
hasBranch Administrative law
Civil law
Commercial law
Constitutional law
Criminal law
Family law
International law
Labor law
Procedural law
Property law
Tax law
Tort law
hasDefinition System of rules and principles recognized by a community or government as regulating the actions of its members and enforceable by legal institutions
hasPurpose Define obligations
Maintain social order
Promote justice
Promote public welfare
Protect rights
Resolve disputes
hasSource Constitutions
Custom
Judicial precedents
Regulations
Statutes
Treaties
isCentralTo Governance
Justice system
Rule of law
isCreatedBy United States Congress
surface form: Congress

Legislatures
Parliaments
Regulatory bodies
isDistinguishedFrom Morality
Religion
Social customs
isEnforcedBy Administrative agencies
Courts
Judges
Police
isInterpretedBy Courts
Judges
isPracticedBy Advocates
Attorneys
Judges
Lawyers
isStudiedIn Jurisprudence
Legal theory
operatesWithin Legal system
regulates Economic activity
Human behavior
Political power
Social relations
requires Sanctions for violations

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: Law
Description of subject: Law is the system of rules and principles recognized by a community or government as regulating the actions of its members and enforceable by legal institutions.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.