plaintiff

C10410
concept

A plaintiff is the party who initiates a lawsuit by filing a complaint, claiming to have been wronged and seeking legal remedy from the court.

All labels observed (10)

Label Occurrences
litigant 49
plaintiff canonical 39
petitioner 6

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: plaintiff
Generated description
A plaintiff is the party who initiates a lawsuit by filing a complaint, claiming to have been wronged and seeking legal remedy from the court.

Instances (97)

Instance Via concept surface
Marianne Engblom —
Elsie Parrish litigant
Anna M. Lee litigant
Joe G. Garcia —
Louis Kraemer litigant
Richard Loving litigant
Galen Black litigant
J. W. Cumming et al. plaintiffs
Bica litigant
Toomer litigant
Witsell litigant
Harry Briggs Sr. —
De Canas litigant
Joseph Oncale —
Gerald Lynn Bostock —
Cecil Reed litigant
Willie S. Griggs lead plaintiff
James W. Carter litigant
Abigail Noel Fisher litigant
Thomas Kostura —
Susan Galloway litigant
Jagdish Rai Chadha litigant
Curtis Craig named plaintiff
Steven I. Engel —
Thomas Van Orden —
Cutter petitioner
Susie McDonald —
Mechelle Vinson —
Fern Kraemer litigant
Alton Lemon —
Doe litigant
France, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom applicant states in an international court case
Ann Hopkins litigant
James Crawford litigant
Kellie Miller —
Bruun litigant
Horst litigant
Archibald Douglas (claimant in the Douglas Cause) litigant
Paula R. Hobbie litigant
Arch R. Everson litigant
Bruce Boynton was an African American law student
surface form: Bruce Boynton
—
Barbara Grutter —
Edith Schlain Windsor —
Morgan litigant
Hicklin litigant
Alton J. Lemon —
David King —
U.S. Supreme Court ruled in her favor
surface form: Kathryn A. Piper
litigant
Aurelia Davis litigant
Patrick Hamacher —