Common law of New South Wales
E77548
The Common law of New South Wales is the body of judge-made legal principles and precedents that underpins and guides the operation of the state’s legal system alongside statute law.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Common law of New South Wales canonical | 1 |
| New South Wales law | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T618488 — 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: Common law of New South Wales Context triple: [Governor of New South Wales, legalSystem, Common law of New South Wales]
-
A.
Constitution Act 1855 (New South Wales)
The Constitution Act 1855 (New South Wales) was the foundational statute that first established responsible self-government and a bicameral parliament in the Colony of New South Wales.
-
B.
New Zealand courts
New Zealand courts are the judicial institutions of New Zealand responsible for interpreting and applying the law, resolving disputes, and upholding justice across the country.
-
C.
Court of King’s Bench
The Court of King’s Bench was a senior common law court in England that handled major criminal and civil cases and exercised supervisory authority over other courts and colonial charters.
-
D.
Scots civil law
Scots civil law is the branch of Scotland’s mixed legal system that governs private law matters such as contracts, property, family, and obligations between individuals and organizations.
-
E.
Constitution Act 1902 (New South Wales)
The Constitution Act 1902 (New South Wales) is the principal statute that establishes and regulates the structure, powers, and functioning of the state government and Parliament of New South Wales, Australia.
- 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: Common law of New South Wales Target entity description: The Common law of New South Wales is the body of judge-made legal principles and precedents that underpins and guides the operation of the state’s legal system alongside statute law.
-
A.
Constitution Act 1855 (New South Wales)
The Constitution Act 1855 (New South Wales) was the foundational statute that first established responsible self-government and a bicameral parliament in the Colony of New South Wales.
-
B.
New Zealand courts
New Zealand courts are the judicial institutions of New Zealand responsible for interpreting and applying the law, resolving disputes, and upholding justice across the country.
-
C.
Court of King’s Bench
The Court of King’s Bench was a senior common law court in England that handled major criminal and civil cases and exercised supervisory authority over other courts and colonial charters.
-
D.
Scots civil law
Scots civil law is the branch of Scotland’s mixed legal system that governs private law matters such as contracts, property, family, and obligations between individuals and organizations.
-
E.
Constitution Act 1902 (New South Wales)
The Constitution Act 1902 (New South Wales) is the principal statute that establishes and regulates the structure, powers, and functioning of the state government and Parliament of New South Wales, Australia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
body of judge-made law
ⓘ
common law ⓘ legal system ⓘ |
| appliesInJurisdiction | New South Wales ⓘ |
| basedOn |
case law
ⓘ
judicial precedent ⓘ |
| coexistsWith | statute law of New South Wales ⓘ |
| constrainedBy |
Australian Constitution
ⓘ
surface form:
Constitution of Australia
statutes of the Parliament of Australia ⓘ statutes of the Parliament of New South Wales ⓘ |
| coversArea |
administrative law principles
ⓘ
contract law ⓘ criminal law principles ⓘ equity ⓘ evidence law principles ⓘ property law ⓘ tort law ⓘ |
| developedBy |
District Court of New South Wales
ⓘ
courts of New South Wales ⓘ
surface form:
Local Court of New South Wales
Supreme Court of New South Wales ⓘ courts of New South Wales ⓘ |
| historicallyDerivedFrom |
English law received in New South Wales
ⓘ
common law of the Colony of New South Wales ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
English law
ⓘ
surface form:
English common law
|
| interpretedBy |
Supreme Court of New South Wales
ⓘ
surface form:
Supreme Court of New South Wales Court of Appeal
Supreme Court of New South Wales ⓘ
surface form:
Supreme Court of New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalSystemType | adversarial system ⓘ |
| legalTradition | Anglo-Australian common law tradition ⓘ |
| modifiedBy |
judgments of the High Court of Australia
ⓘ
local statutes ⓘ |
| overriddenBy |
inconsistent Commonwealth legislation within constitutional power
ⓘ
inconsistent New South Wales legislation ⓘ |
| partOf | legal system of New South Wales ⓘ |
| providesFrameworkFor | interpretation of New South Wales legislation ⓘ |
| recognisesPrinciple |
duty of care in negligence
ⓘ
fiduciary duties ⓘ legal professional privilege ⓘ natural justice ⓘ privilege against self-incrimination ⓘ vicarious liability ⓘ |
| sourceFor | legal reasoning in New South Wales courts ⓘ |
| subjectTo | High Court of Australia ⓘ |
| usesDoctrine |
obiter dicta
ⓘ
ratio decidendi ⓘ stare decisis ⓘ |
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: Common law of New South Wales Description of subject: The Common law of New South Wales is the body of judge-made legal principles and precedents that underpins and guides the operation of the state’s legal system alongside statute law.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
New South Wales law