Ijpe DeKoe
E154901
Ijpe DeKoe is a U.S. Army Reserve sergeant and LGBT rights advocate who was a named plaintiff in a landmark federal court challenge to Tennessee’s same-sex marriage ban.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ijpe DeKoe canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1349207 — 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: Ijpe DeKoe Context triple: [Tanco v. Haslam, plaintiff, Ijpe DeKoe]
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A.
Koos
Koos is the commonly used nickname of Koos de la Rey, a prominent Boer general and political figure from South African history.
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B.
Poeldijk
Poeldijk is a village in the Dutch province of South Holland, known for its greenhouse horticulture and proximity to The Hague.
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C.
Koops
Koops is a timid Koopa Troopa character and party member from the video game "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door."
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D.
Benschop
Benschop is a small village in the Dutch province of Utrecht, known for its rural character and traditional polder landscape.
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E.
Bredius 439
Bredius 439 is the catalogue raisonné entry assigned to Rembrandt’s famous painting "The Night Watch" in Abraham Bredius’s authoritative listing of the artist’s works.
- 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: Ijpe DeKoe Target entity description: Ijpe DeKoe is a U.S. Army Reserve sergeant and LGBT rights advocate who was a named plaintiff in a landmark federal court challenge to Tennessee’s same-sex marriage ban.
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A.
Koos
Koos is the commonly used nickname of Koos de la Rey, a prominent Boer general and political figure from South African history.
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B.
Poeldijk
Poeldijk is a village in the Dutch province of South Holland, known for its greenhouse horticulture and proximity to The Hague.
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C.
Koops
Koops is a timid Koopa Troopa character and party member from the video game "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door."
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D.
Benschop
Benschop is a small village in the Dutch province of Utrecht, known for its rural character and traditional polder landscape.
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E.
Bredius 439
Bredius 439 is the catalogue raisonné entry assigned to Rembrandt’s famous painting "The Night Watch" in Abraham Bredius’s authoritative listing of the artist’s works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
LGBT rights activist
ⓘ
United States Army soldier ⓘ person ⓘ |
| advocacyFocus |
LGBT rights
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marriage equality in the United States ⓘ |
| contributedTo | legal challenges that led to nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasEthicalPosition | support for equal marriage rights for same-sex couples ⓘ |
| legalCaseJurisdiction |
U.S. federal courts
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surface form:
United States federal courts
|
| legalIssue | recognition of same-sex marriages performed in other states ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Army Reserve
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surface form:
United States Army Reserve
|
| militaryRank | sergeant ⓘ |
| notableEvent | participation in litigation consolidated into Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a named plaintiff in a federal court challenge to Tennessee’s same-sex marriage ban ⓘ |
| occupation | U.S. Army Reserve sergeant ⓘ |
| partOf | same-sex marriage litigation in the United States ⓘ |
| partyTo |
DeBoer v. Snyder
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Obergefell v. Hodges ⓘ |
| residence | Tennessee ⓘ |
| roleInLawsuit | named plaintiff ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| spouse | Thomas Kostura ⓘ |
| stateInvolved | Tennessee ⓘ |
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: Ijpe DeKoe Description of subject: Ijpe DeKoe is a U.S. Army Reserve sergeant and LGBT rights advocate who was a named plaintiff in a landmark federal court challenge to Tennessee’s same-sex marriage ban.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.