legal clinic
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A legal clinic is an educational and service-oriented institution where law students, under supervision, provide free or low-cost legal assistance to the public while gaining practical experience.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Civil Litigation Clinic | 1 |
| Clinical Legal Education Programme | 1 |
| legal clinic canonical | 1 |
| legal clinics of Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8907708 — 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 clinic Context triple: [Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, hasUnit, legal clinic]
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A.
Civil Legal Assistance Clinic
The Civil Legal Assistance Clinic is a UNC School of Law clinical program where law students provide supervised legal services to low-income clients in civil matters.
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B.
Civil Justice Clinic
The Civil Justice Clinic is a Duke Law legal clinic where students provide supervised representation to low-income clients in civil matters, gaining practical litigation and advocacy experience.
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C.
Human Rights Clinic
The Human Rights Clinic is a Columbia Law School program where students work on real-world human rights advocacy, litigation, and research under faculty supervision.
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D.
Law Center
The Law Center is the University of Houston’s professional school for legal education, offering J.D. and graduate law programs and serving as a hub for legal scholarship and practice.
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E.
Criminal Defense Clinic
The Criminal Defense Clinic is a practical legal training program at Syracuse University College of Law where students represent and advocate for individuals facing criminal charges under faculty supervision.
- 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 clinic Target entity description: A legal clinic is an educational and service-oriented institution where law students, under supervision, provide free or low-cost legal assistance to the public while gaining practical experience.
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A.
Civil Legal Assistance Clinic
The Civil Legal Assistance Clinic is a UNC School of Law clinical program where law students provide supervised legal services to low-income clients in civil matters.
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B.
Civil Justice Clinic
The Civil Justice Clinic is a Duke Law legal clinic where students provide supervised representation to low-income clients in civil matters, gaining practical litigation and advocacy experience.
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C.
Human Rights Clinic
The Human Rights Clinic is a Columbia Law School program where students work on real-world human rights advocacy, litigation, and research under faculty supervision.
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D.
Law Center
The Law Center is the University of Houston’s professional school for legal education, offering J.D. and graduate law programs and serving as a hub for legal scholarship and practice.
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E.
Criminal Defense Clinic
The Criminal Defense Clinic is a practical legal training program at Syracuse University College of Law where students represent and advocate for individuals facing criminal charges under faculty supervision.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
clinical legal education program
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educational institution ⓘ legal service provider ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
access to justice
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experiential learning ⓘ public interest law ⓘ |
| benefits |
clients
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law students ⓘ local communities ⓘ |
| componentOf | law school curriculum ⓘ |
| employs | supervising attorneys ⓘ |
| field | law ⓘ |
| focusArea |
civil law
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community economic development ⓘ consumer law ⓘ criminal law ⓘ environmental law ⓘ family law ⓘ housing law ⓘ human rights law ⓘ immigration law ⓘ |
| goal |
develop professional responsibility in students
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improve access to legal services ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryPurpose | provide legal assistance to the public ⓘ |
| hasSecondaryPurpose | train law students in practical skills ⓘ |
| involves | law students ⓘ |
| mayReceive |
donations
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grant funding ⓘ university funding ⓘ |
| offersService |
free legal assistance
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low-cost legal assistance ⓘ |
| oftenInvolves |
casework under supervision
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community legal education ⓘ live client representation ⓘ |
| oftenRequires | student enrollment in clinical course ⓘ |
| provides | practical legal training ⓘ |
| regulatedBy | professional conduct rules for lawyers ⓘ |
| requires | supervision by licensed attorneys ⓘ |
| serves |
indigent clients
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low-income communities ⓘ nonprofit organizations ⓘ public interest causes ⓘ |
| teachesSkill |
case management
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client interviewing ⓘ legal research ⓘ legal writing ⓘ oral advocacy ⓘ |
| typicalSetting |
law school
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university ⓘ |
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 clinic Description of subject: A legal clinic is an educational and service-oriented institution where law students, under supervision, provide free or low-cost legal assistance to the public while gaining practical experience.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Faculty of Law
linked to: legal clinic
linked to: legal clinic
Law Library of Northwestern University School of Law
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supportsProgram
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legal clinics of Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
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subject linked to:
law library of Northwestern University School of Law
linked to: legal clinic