Joe G. Garcia
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Joe G. Garcia is the individual whose challenge to the application of federal wage and hour laws to state employees led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joe G. Garcia canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T699354 — 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 G. Garcia Context triple: [Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority, petitioner, Joe G. Garcia]
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A.
Rafael Mijares
Rafael Mijares was a Mexican architect best known for co-designing Mexico City’s iconic National Museum of Anthropology, a landmark of modernist museum architecture.
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B.
Ronald Mariano
Ronald Mariano is an American politician serving as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
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C.
Roger Delgado
Roger Delgado was a British actor best known for originating the role of the Master, the Doctor’s arch-nemesis, in the classic science fiction series Doctor Who.
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D.
Colman Domingo
Colman Domingo is an American actor, writer, and director known for his powerful performances in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in works like "Fear the Walking Dead," "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," and "Rustin."
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E.
Joseph Montoya
Joseph Montoya was a Democratic U.S. Senator from New Mexico known for his role on the Senate Watergate Committee during the investigation of the Nixon administration.
- 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 G. Garcia Target entity description: Joe G. Garcia is the individual whose challenge to the application of federal wage and hour laws to state employees led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority.
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A.
Rafael Mijares
Rafael Mijares was a Mexican architect best known for co-designing Mexico City’s iconic National Museum of Anthropology, a landmark of modernist museum architecture.
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B.
Ronald Mariano
Ronald Mariano is an American politician serving as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
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C.
Roger Delgado
Roger Delgado was a British actor best known for originating the role of the Master, the Doctor’s arch-nemesis, in the classic science fiction series Doctor Who.
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D.
Colman Domingo
Colman Domingo is an American actor, writer, and director known for his powerful performances in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in works like "Fear the Walking Dead," "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," and "Rustin."
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E.
Joseph Montoya
Joseph Montoya was a Democratic U.S. Senator from New Mexico known for his role on the Senate Watergate Committee during the investigation of the Nixon administration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
plaintiff ⓘ |
| caseCitationAssociated | 469 U.S. 528 ⓘ |
| caseOutcomeFor | Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority decided in his favor on the constitutional issue ⓘ |
| constitutionalDoctrineImpacted | Tenth Amendment federalism jurisprudence ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| employerInDispute | San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority ⓘ |
| fieldOfActivity | labor law litigation ⓘ |
| hasNotableCourt | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| hasNotableImpact | expansion of federal power over state and local government employment practices ⓘ |
| involvedIn | challenge to application of federal wage and hour laws to state employees ⓘ |
| jurisdictionOfCase |
U.S. federal courts
ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal courts
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| knownFor | Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority ⓘ |
| legalCase | Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority ⓘ |
| legalIssueRaised |
application of federal wage and hour laws to state employees
ⓘ
coverage of state and local government employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act ⓘ |
| name | Joe G. Garcia self-link ⓘ |
| occupation | employee of San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority ⓘ |
| partyTo |
Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority
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surface form:
Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority, 469 U.S. 528 (1985)
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| relatedAreaOfLaw |
constitutional law
ⓘ
federal wage and hour law ⓘ labor and employment law ⓘ |
| relatedLaw | Fair Labor Standards Act ⓘ |
| roleInLawsuit | plaintiff in Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority ⓘ |
| sideInCase | petitioner in Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority ⓘ |
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: Joe G. Garcia Description of subject: Joe G. Garcia is the individual whose challenge to the application of federal wage and hour laws to state employees led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.