William Blackstone

Target entity: William Blackstone
Context triple: [Sir Edward Coke, influenced, William Blackstone]

• A. Sir Edward Coke
  Sir Edward Coke was an influential English jurist and parliamentarian whose legal writings and advocacy for the rule of law and limits on royal authority helped shape the development of constitutional government in England and beyond.
• B. F. W. Maitland
  F. W. Maitland was a preeminent English legal historian whose pioneering work on medieval English law profoundly shaped the modern study of legal history.
• C. John Austin
  John Austin was a 19th-century English legal theorist best known for developing the theory of legal positivism, which distinguishes law as it is from law as it ought to be.
• D. Christopher Columbus Langdell
  Christopher Columbus Langdell was a 19th-century American legal scholar and dean of Harvard Law School who pioneered the case method of legal education.
• E. John Jay
  John Jay was an American statesman, diplomat, co-author of The Federalist Papers, first Chief Justice of the United States, and a key figure in the early formation of the U.S. government.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: William Blackstone
Target entity description: William Blackstone was an 18th-century English jurist best known for his "Commentaries on the Laws of England," which systematized and popularized English common law.

• A. Sir Edward Coke
  Sir Edward Coke was an influential English jurist and parliamentarian whose legal writings and advocacy for the rule of law and limits on royal authority helped shape the development of constitutional government in England and beyond.
• B. F. W. Maitland
  F. W. Maitland was a preeminent English legal historian whose pioneering work on medieval English law profoundly shaped the modern study of legal history.
• C. John Austin
  John Austin was a 19th-century English legal theorist best known for developing the theory of legal positivism, which distinguishes law as it is from law as it ought to be.
• D. Christopher Columbus Langdell
  Christopher Columbus Langdell was a 19th-century American legal scholar and dean of Harvard Law School who pioneered the case method of legal education.
• E. John Jay
  John Jay was an American statesman, diplomat, co-author of The Federalist Papers, first Chief Justice of the United States, and a key figure in the early formation of the U.S. government.
• F. None of above. chosen