Cravath, Swaine & Moore
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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.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cravath, Swaine & Moore canonical | 5 |
| Cravath | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1767240 — 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: Cravath, Swaine & Moore Context triple: [John J. McCloy, employer, Cravath, Swaine & Moore]
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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.
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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C.
Jones Day
Jones Day is a major international law firm headquartered in the United States, known for its extensive corporate and litigation practice and significant work in political and governmental matters.
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D.
Perkins Coie
Perkins Coie is a major U.S.-based international law firm known for its work in corporate, litigation, and political law, as well as representing prominent technology companies and political campaigns.
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E.
Sidley Austin LLP
Sidley Austin LLP is a major international law firm headquartered in Chicago, known for its corporate, litigation, and regulatory practices.
- 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: Cravath, Swaine & Moore Target entity description: 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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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.
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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C.
Jones Day
Jones Day is a major international law firm headquartered in the United States, known for its extensive corporate and litigation practice and significant work in political and governmental matters.
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D.
Perkins Coie
Perkins Coie is a major U.S.-based international law firm known for its work in corporate, litigation, and political law, as well as representing prominent technology companies and political campaigns.
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E.
Sidley Austin LLP
Sidley Austin LLP is a major international law firm headquartered in Chicago, known for its corporate, litigation, and regulatory practices.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
law firm
ⓘ
limited liability partnership ⓘ professional services firm ⓘ |
| clientele |
Fortune 500 companies
ⓘ
linked to:
Fortune 500
boards of directors ⓘ financial institutions ⓘ multinational corporations ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| employerOf |
Paul Drennan Cravath
ⓘ
prominent corporate lawyers ⓘ |
| founder | Richard M. Blatchford ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1819 ⓘ |
| hasMotto | A Firm of the Highest Quality ⓘ |
| hasPart |
corporate department
ⓘ
executive compensation and benefits group ⓘ litigation department ⓘ tax department ⓘ |
| hasRanking |
consistently ranked among top U.S. law firms
ⓘ
highly ranked in corporate and M&A league tables ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York ⓘ New York City ⓘ Worldwide Plaza, 825 Eighth Avenue ⓘ |
| inception | 1819 ⓘ |
| industry | legal services ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | limited liability partnership ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
America/New_York
ⓘ
UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Paul Drennan Cravath ⓘ |
| notableFor |
development of the Cravath System of associate training and promotion
ⓘ
elite corporate practice ⓘ high‑stakes litigation ⓘ influence on large law firm management practices ⓘ lockstep compensation system ⓘ role in shaping modern corporate law practice ⓘ |
| numberOfOffices | multiple ⓘ |
| officeLocation |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
New York City ⓘ Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| partOf |
New York legal market
ⓘ
U.S. BigLaw market ⓘ |
| practiceArea |
antitrust law
ⓘ
banking and finance ⓘ capital markets ⓘ corporate law ⓘ environmental law ⓘ executive compensation ⓘ intellectual property law ⓘ litigation ⓘ mergers and acquisitions ⓘ restructuring and insolvency ⓘ securities law ⓘ tax law ⓘ trusts and estates ⓘ |
| reputation |
Wall Street law firm
ⓘ
white‑shoe law firm ⓘ |
| website | https://www.cravath.com ⓘ |
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: Cravath, Swaine & Moore Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cravath, Swaine & Moore
linked to: Cravath, Swaine & Moore