Harry A. Blackmun
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Harry A. Blackmun was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, best known for authoring the landmark abortion rights decision in Roe v. Wade.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Harry A. Blackmun canonical | 66 |
| Justice Harry A. Blackmun | 20 |
| Harry Blackmun | 5 |
| Justice Harry Blackmun | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T561417 — 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: Harry A. Blackmun Context triple: [Doe v. Bolton, majorityOpinionBy, Harry A. Blackmun]
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William J. Brennan Jr.
William J. Brennan Jr. was a long-serving associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his influential liberal opinions expanding civil rights and civil liberties.
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Byron R. White
Byron R. White was a U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his generally moderate-to-conservative jurisprudence and influential opinions across criminal procedure, civil rights, and federalism.
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Blackmun
Blackmun refers to the nominative reports of U.S. Supreme Court decisions compiled by Justice Harry A. Blackmun, whose name is used as a citation reference in the United States Reports.
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John M. Harlan II
John M. Harlan II was a prominent mid-20th-century U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his influential opinions on civil rights, due process, and a restrained, precedent-focused approach to constitutional interpretation.
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E.
William O. Douglas
William O. Douglas was a long-serving U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his strong civil libertarian views and expansive interpretation of individual rights under the Constitution.
- 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: Harry A. Blackmun Target entity description: Harry A. Blackmun was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, best known for authoring the landmark abortion rights decision in Roe v. Wade.
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A.
William J. Brennan Jr.
William J. Brennan Jr. was a long-serving associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his influential liberal opinions expanding civil rights and civil liberties.
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B.
Byron R. White
Byron R. White was a U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his generally moderate-to-conservative jurisprudence and influential opinions across criminal procedure, civil rights, and federalism.
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C.
Blackmun
Blackmun refers to the nominative reports of U.S. Supreme Court decisions compiled by Justice Harry A. Blackmun, whose name is used as a citation reference in the United States Reports.
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John M. Harlan II
John M. Harlan II was a prominent mid-20th-century U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his influential opinions on civil rights, due process, and a restrained, precedent-focused approach to constitutional interpretation.
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E.
William O. Douglas
William O. Douglas was a long-serving U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his strong civil libertarian views and expansive interpretation of individual rights under the Constitution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Harry A. Blackmun Description of subject: Harry A. Blackmun was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, best known for authoring the landmark abortion rights decision in Roe v. Wade.
Referenced by (94)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Milliken v. Bradley (1974)
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Justice Harry A. Blackmun
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Harry Blackmun
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Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co.
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Monell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978)
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Heck v. Humphrey
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City of Canton v. Harris
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Civil Service Commission v. National Association of Letter Carriers
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