Richard Hodges
E122679
Richard Hodges is the former director of the Ohio Department of Health who was a named respondent in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court same-sex marriage case Obergefell v. Hodges.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Hodges canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T226689 — 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: Richard Hodges Context triple: [Obergefell v. Hodges, respondent, Richard Hodges]
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A.
Rudulph Evans
Rudulph Evans was an American sculptor best known for creating the statue of Thomas Jefferson housed in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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B.
Robert Hodgen
Robert Hodgen was an early settler and landowner in central Kentucky whose name was given to the town of Hodgenville.
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C.
John Bullough
John Bullough was a British industrialist from a prominent Lancashire textile family, known for his involvement in the cotton machinery industry and substantial wealth in the 19th century.
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D.
James Dodd
James Dodd is an actor known for his role in the fantasy superhero film "Hellboy II: The Golden Army."
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E.
Harold Morrison
Harold Morrison was a Jamaican-born architect and academic best known as the former husband of Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison.
- 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: Richard Hodges Target entity description: Richard Hodges is the former director of the Ohio Department of Health who was a named respondent in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court same-sex marriage case Obergefell v. Hodges.
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A.
Rudulph Evans
Rudulph Evans was an American sculptor best known for creating the statue of Thomas Jefferson housed in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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B.
Robert Hodgen
Robert Hodgen was an early settler and landowner in central Kentucky whose name was given to the town of Hodgenville.
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C.
John Bullough
John Bullough was a British industrialist from a prominent Lancashire textile family, known for his involvement in the cotton machinery industry and substantial wealth in the 19th century.
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D.
James Dodd
James Dodd is an actor known for his role in the fantasy superhero film "Hellboy II: The Golden Army."
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E.
Harold Morrison
Harold Morrison was a Jamaican-born architect and academic best known as the former husband of Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Supreme Court case
ⓘ
human ⓘ state government agency ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Ohio Department of Health ⓘ |
| familyName | Hodges ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
public administration
ⓘ
public health administration ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| headOfGovernmentBody | Richard Hodges self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Ohio
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Ohio
Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| jurisdictionOfOffice |
Ohio
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Ohio
|
| legalSubject |
Fourteenth Amendment
ⓘ
surface form:
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
same-sex marriage ⓘ |
| name | Richard Hodges self-link ⓘ |
| namedAsPartyInCase | Obergefell v. Hodges ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the named respondent in Obergefell v. Hodges
ⓘ
service as director of the Ohio Department of Health ⓘ |
| officeHeldBy | Ohio Department of Health director ⓘ |
| partyToLegalCase | Obergefell v. Hodges ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Director of the Ohio Department of Health ⓘ |
| roleInCourtCase | respondent ⓘ |
| subjectHasRole | Richard Hodges as respondent ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Columbus, Ohio
ⓘ
Ohio ⓘ |
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: Richard Hodges Description of subject: Richard Hodges is the former director of the Ohio Department of Health who was a named respondent in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court same-sex marriage case Obergefell v. Hodges.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ohio Department of Health