Charlie Craig
E102715
Charlie Craig is an American man who, along with his partner David Mullins, became a central figure in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case over a Colorado bakery’s refusal to make a wedding cake for their same-sex marriage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charlie Craig canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T253180 — 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: Charlie Craig Context triple: [Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, party, Charlie Craig]
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A.
Derek Dowding
Derek Dowding was a Royal Air Force officer and the son of Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding, noted for his own distinguished service in military aviation.
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B.
Christopher Birt
Christopher Birt is an actor best known for his role in the popular 1992 romantic thriller film "The Bodyguard."
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C.
Sam Wheeler
Sam Wheeler is the father of Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon.
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D.
Pat Hughes
Pat Hughes is a longtime American sportscaster best known as the radio play-by-play voice of Major League Baseball’s Chicago Cubs.
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E.
Eric Drummond
Eric Drummond was a British diplomat best known for serving as the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations, helping to shape the early framework of modern international diplomacy.
- 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: Charlie Craig Target entity description: Charlie Craig is an American man who, along with his partner David Mullins, became a central figure in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case over a Colorado bakery’s refusal to make a wedding cake for their same-sex marriage.
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A.
Derek Dowding
Derek Dowding was a Royal Air Force officer and the son of Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding, noted for his own distinguished service in military aviation.
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B.
Christopher Birt
Christopher Birt is an actor best known for his role in the popular 1992 romantic thriller film "The Bodyguard."
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C.
Sam Wheeler
Sam Wheeler is the father of Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon.
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D.
Pat Hughes
Pat Hughes is a longtime American sportscaster best known as the radio play-by-play voice of Major League Baseball’s Chicago Cubs.
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E.
Eric Drummond
Eric Drummond was a British diplomat best known for serving as the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations, helping to shape the early framework of modern international diplomacy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
LGBT rights activist
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human ⓘ |
| advocacyFocus |
anti-discrimination protections for LGBT people
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marriage equality ⓘ |
| caseJurisdiction | Colorado ⓘ |
| causeOfFame | same-sex wedding cake discrimination case ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | LGBT rights advocate ⓘ |
| hasRole | complainant in discrimination case against Masterpiece Cakeshop ⓘ |
| hasSpokenAt |
legal and civil rights conferences
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public events on LGBT equality ⓘ |
| hasSpouseOrPartnerInLegalCase | David Mullins ⓘ |
| legalIssue |
conflict between anti-discrimination law and claims of religious freedom
ⓘ
freedom of expression claims by businesses ⓘ public accommodations discrimination ⓘ |
| movement |
LGBT rights movement
ⓘ
surface form:
LGBT rights movement in the United States
|
| notableCourt | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission
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appeals related to Masterpiece Cakeshop case ⓘ legal proceedings before the Colorado Civil Rights Commission ⓘ |
| partner | David Mullins ⓘ |
| religion | secular (publicly associated with secular advocacy in the case) ⓘ |
| residence | Colorado ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| significantEvent | refusal of service by Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
LGBT rights documentaries and interviews
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news coverage by major U.S. media outlets ⓘ |
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: Charlie Craig Description of subject: Charlie Craig is an American man who, along with his partner David Mullins, became a central figure in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case over a Colorado bakery’s refusal to make a wedding cake for their same-sex marriage.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.