Joe Hogan
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Joe Hogan was the male nursing applicant whose challenge to a women-only admissions policy led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court gender discrimination case Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joe Hogan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T622963 — 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: Joe Hogan Context triple: [Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan, respondent, Joe Hogan]
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A.
James Rogers
James Rogers is a common personal name shared by numerous individuals across various fields, including politics, academia, sports, and the arts.
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B.
Rick Hahn
Rick Hahn is an American baseball executive best known for serving as the general manager of the Chicago White Sox in Major League Baseball.
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C.
James Caldwell
James Caldwell was one of the colonial civilians killed by British soldiers during the 1770 Boston Massacre, an event that helped fuel anti-British sentiment before the American Revolution.
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D.
John V. L. Hogan
John V. L. Hogan was an American radio engineer and pioneer in early radio technology and broadcasting.
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E.
Kevin O'Connor
Kevin O'Connor is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the online advertising company DoubleClick.
- 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: Joe Hogan Target entity description: Joe Hogan was the male nursing applicant whose challenge to a women-only admissions policy led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court gender discrimination case Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan.
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A.
James Rogers
James Rogers is a common personal name shared by numerous individuals across various fields, including politics, academia, sports, and the arts.
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B.
Rick Hahn
Rick Hahn is an American baseball executive best known for serving as the general manager of the Chicago White Sox in Major League Baseball.
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C.
James Caldwell
James Caldwell was one of the colonial civilians killed by British soldiers during the 1770 Boston Massacre, an event that helped fuel anti-British sentiment before the American Revolution.
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D.
John V. L. Hogan
John V. L. Hogan was an American radio engineer and pioneer in early radio technology and broadcasting.
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E.
Kevin O'Connor
Kevin O'Connor is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the online advertising company DoubleClick.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil rights litigant
ⓘ
nursing student ⓘ person ⓘ |
| appliedTo |
Mississippi University for Women
ⓘ
surface form:
Mississippi University for Women School of Nursing
|
| associatedWithState | Mississippi ⓘ |
| barrierFaced | sex-based exclusion from a public nursing program ⓘ |
| caseHeBrought | challenged gender-based exclusion from a state-supported professional program ⓘ |
| caseOutcomeAtSupremeCourt | prevailed ⓘ |
| constitutionalBasisOfClaim |
Fourteenth Amendment
ⓘ
surface form:
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| denialReason | women-only admissions policy ⓘ |
| deniedAdmissionBy |
Mississippi University for Women
ⓘ
surface form:
Mississippi University for Women School of Nursing
|
| educationContext | undergraduate nursing education ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | nursing ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| impactOnInstitution | forced Mississippi University for Women to open its nursing program to men ⓘ |
| impactOnLaw | strengthened constitutional protections against sex discrimination in education ⓘ |
| knownFor | challenging a women-only admissions policy at Mississippi University for Women School of Nursing ⓘ |
| legalAction | filed sex discrimination lawsuit ⓘ |
| legalClaim | violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment ⓘ |
| legalOpponent |
Mississippi University for Women
ⓘ
State of Mississippi ⓘ |
| notableFor | Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan ⓘ |
| occupation | nurse ⓘ |
| plaintiffIn | Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan ⓘ |
| relatedLegalPrinciple |
intermediate scrutiny for gender-based classifications
ⓘ
prohibition of gender-based admissions policies at public institutions without an exceedingly persuasive justification ⓘ |
| representedGroup | men seeking admission to publicly funded nursing programs ⓘ |
| supremeCourtDecisionYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfCase | early 1980s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Joe Hogan Description of subject: Joe Hogan was the male nursing applicant whose challenge to a women-only admissions policy led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court gender discrimination case Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.