Darrow
E108313
Darrow is a surname most famously associated with Clarence Darrow, the prominent American lawyer and civil libertarian known for high-profile cases in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Darrow canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T915117 — 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: Darrow Context triple: [Clarence Darrow, familyName, Darrow]
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A.
Durkan
Durkan is a surname most notably associated with Jenny Durkan, the former mayor of Seattle and an American attorney and politician.
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B.
Mordaunt
Mordaunt is a vengeful and fanatical antagonist in Alexandre Dumas’ d'Artagnan romances, known as the ruthless son of Milady de Winter who seeks to destroy the musketeers.
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C.
Wolfe
Wolfe is a surname most famously associated with British Army officer James Wolfe, known for his role in the Seven Years' War and the capture of Quebec.
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D.
Blaustein
Blaustein is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, situated near the city of Ulm.
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E.
Galt
Galt is a small city in Sacramento County, California, known for its residential communities and proximity to the Sacramento metropolitan area.
- 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: Darrow Target entity description: Darrow is a surname most famously associated with Clarence Darrow, the prominent American lawyer and civil libertarian known for high-profile cases in the early 20th century.
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A.
Durkan
Durkan is a surname most notably associated with Jenny Durkan, the former mayor of Seattle and an American attorney and politician.
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B.
Mordaunt
Mordaunt is a vengeful and fanatical antagonist in Alexandre Dumas’ d'Artagnan romances, known as the ruthless son of Milady de Winter who seeks to destroy the musketeers.
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C.
Wolfe
Wolfe is a surname most famously associated with British Army officer James Wolfe, known for his role in the Seven Years' War and the capture of Quebec.
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D.
Blaustein
Blaustein is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, situated near the city of Ulm.
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E.
Galt
Galt is a small city in Sacramento County, California, known for its residential communities and proximity to the Sacramento metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
agnostic
ⓘ
civil libertarian ⓘ criminal defense lawyer ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| advocatedFor |
academic freedom
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opposition to the death penalty ⓘ racial equality ⓘ workers' rights ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civil liberties
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criminal law ⓘ labor law ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Darrow self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Clarence Darrow ⓘ |
| knownFor |
defense of evolution in the Scopes Trial
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powerful courtroom speeches ⓘ |
| movement |
civil liberties movement
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labor movement ⓘ |
| notableCase |
Leopold and Loeb murder trial
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Ossian Sweet trial ⓘ Scopes "Monkey" Trial ⓘ |
| notableFor |
defending unpopular clients
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high-profile trials in the early 20th century ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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lawyer ⓘ orator ⓘ |
| positionHeld | attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union ⓘ |
| usedIn | English language ⓘ |
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: Darrow Description of subject: Darrow is a surname most famously associated with Clarence Darrow, the prominent American lawyer and civil libertarian known for high-profile cases in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Clarence Darrow