Legal Information Institute
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legal information provider
nonprofit organization
online legal resource
open access publisher
website
The Legal Information Institute is a pioneering online legal resource that provides free access to U.S. laws, court opinions, and other legal materials to the public.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Legal Information Institute canonical | 1 |
| Wex legal encyclopedia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6142992 — 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: Legal Information Institute Context triple: [Cornell Law School, hasOnlineResource, Legal Information Institute]
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A.
Law Library
The Law Library at UC Berkeley is a specialized academic library that supports legal research and education for students, faculty, and practitioners associated with the university’s law programs.
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B.
Law Library
The Law Library at the University of the Witwatersrand is a specialized academic library that supports legal education and research by providing access to comprehensive collections of law books, journals, and legal resources.
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C.
Law Library
The Law Library at UNC-Chapel Hill is a specialized academic library that supports the university’s law school by providing comprehensive legal research resources, services, and study spaces for students, faculty, and legal scholars.
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D.
Law Library
The Law Library is a specialized academic library focused on legal research materials and services, supporting the study and practice of law.
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E.
Law Library
The Law Library at Newcastle University is a specialized academic library that supports legal education and research by providing access to law books, journals, and online legal resources for students and faculty.
- 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: Legal Information Institute Target entity description: The Legal Information Institute is a pioneering online legal resource that provides free access to U.S. laws, court opinions, and other legal materials to the public.
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A.
Law Library
The Law Library at the University of the Witwatersrand is a specialized academic library that supports legal education and research by providing access to comprehensive collections of law books, journals, and legal resources.
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B.
Law Library
The Law Library at Newcastle University is a specialized academic library that supports legal education and research by providing access to law books, journals, and online legal resources for students and faculty.
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C.
Law Library
The Law Library at UC Berkeley is a specialized academic library that supports legal research and education for students, faculty, and practitioners associated with the university’s law programs.
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D.
Law Library
The Law Library at UNC-Chapel Hill is a specialized academic library that supports the university’s law school by providing comprehensive legal research resources, services, and study spaces for students, faculty, and legal scholars.
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E.
Law Library
The Law Library is a specialized academic library focused on legal research materials and services, supporting the study and practice of law.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
legal information provider
ⓘ
nonprofit organization ⓘ online legal resource ⓘ open access publisher ⓘ website ⓘ |
| affiliation | Cornell Law School ⓘ |
| aimsAt | improving public understanding of law ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | LII ⓘ |
| audience |
general public
ⓘ
judges ⓘ law students ⓘ lawyers ⓘ policy makers ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| field |
law
ⓘ
legal information ⓘ open access to law ⓘ |
| focusesOnJurisdiction | United States federal law ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Peter W. Martin
ⓘ
Tom Bruce ⓘ |
| hasMotto | law made easy ⓘ |
| hasProject |
CFR collection
ⓘ
LII Bulletin ⓘ Supreme Court collection ⓘ U.S. Code collection ⓘ Wex legal encyclopedia ⓘ
linked to:
Legal Information Institute
|
| hasWebsite | https://www.law.cornell.edu/ ⓘ |
| inception | 1992 ⓘ |
| influenced | development of other legal information institutes worldwide ⓘ |
| isPioneerOf | online access to legal information ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Ithaca, New York
ⓘ
linked to:
Ithaca, New York, United States
|
| mission | to provide free public access to legal information ⓘ |
| nonProfitStatus | nonprofit ⓘ |
| offers | APIs for legal data ⓘ |
| operatesOnModel | open access ⓘ |
| partOf | Cornell University ⓘ |
| provides |
free access to Supreme Court opinions
ⓘ
free access to U.S. court opinions ⓘ free access to U.S. laws ⓘ free access to legal reference materials ⓘ free access to the Code of Federal Regulations ⓘ free access to the U.S. Code ⓘ free access to the U.S. Constitution ⓘ legal dictionaries and definitions ⓘ legal encyclopedic explanations ⓘ |
| publishes |
explanatory legal articles
ⓘ
summaries of Supreme Court cases ⓘ |
| subjectOf | research on legal informatics ⓘ |
| usesLanguage | English ⓘ |
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: Legal Information Institute Description of subject: The Legal Information Institute is a pioneering online legal resource that provides free access to U.S. laws, court opinions, and other legal materials to the public.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Legal Information Institute