April DeBoer
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April DeBoer is an American nurse and LGBT rights activist known for challenging Michigan’s same-sex marriage and adoption bans in the landmark case DeBoer v. Snyder, which contributed to the U.S. Supreme Court’s nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| April DeBoer canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1362348 — 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: April DeBoer Context triple: [DeBoer v. Snyder, plaintiff, April DeBoer]
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A.
Jamie Gross
Jamie Gross is a film editor known for her work on the movie "Fool's Paradise."
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B.
Mary Newman
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C.
Ann Schmeltz Bowers
Ann Schmeltz Bowers is an American technology executive and philanthropist known for her early leadership roles at Intel and Apple and for her significant charitable contributions, particularly in education and technology.
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D.
Annette Strauss
Annette Strauss was an American civic leader and philanthropist who became one of Dallas’s most prominent mayors in the late 1980s.
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E.
Deborah Ann Minardos
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- 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: April DeBoer Target entity description: April DeBoer is an American nurse and LGBT rights activist known for challenging Michigan’s same-sex marriage and adoption bans in the landmark case DeBoer v. Snyder, which contributed to the U.S. Supreme Court’s nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage.
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A.
Jamie Gross
Jamie Gross is a film editor known for her work on the movie "Fool's Paradise."
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B.
Mary Newman
Mary Newman was the first wife of the English sea captain and explorer Sir Francis Drake in the late 16th century.
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C.
Ann Schmeltz Bowers
Ann Schmeltz Bowers is an American technology executive and philanthropist known for her early leadership roles at Intel and Apple and for her significant charitable contributions, particularly in education and technology.
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D.
Annette Strauss
Annette Strauss was an American civic leader and philanthropist who became one of Dallas’s most prominent mayors in the late 1980s.
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E.
Deborah Ann Minardos
Deborah Ann Minardos was an American actress best known as the third wife of Hollywood star Tyrone Power.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
LGBT rights activist
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human ⓘ nurse ⓘ |
| advocacyArea |
adoption rights for same-sex couples
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marriage equality ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
LGBT rights
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civil rights ⓘ health care ⓘ |
| hasPartnerInActivism | Jayne Rowse ⓘ |
| hasRole | lead plaintiff in DeBoer v. Snyder ⓘ |
| jurisdictionOfCase |
Michigan
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surface form:
State of Michigan
U.S. federal courts ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal courts
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| knownFor |
DeBoer v. Snyder
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LGBT family rights advocacy ⓘ |
| legalActionContributedTo |
Obergefell v. Hodges
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nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States ⓘ |
| legalActionResultedIn | overturning Michigan’s same-sex marriage ban ⓘ |
| movement | LGBT rights movement ⓘ |
| notableCase | DeBoer v. Snyder ⓘ |
| notableFor |
challenging Michigan’s adoption ban for same-sex couples
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challenging Michigan’s same-sex marriage ban ⓘ |
| occupation |
LGBT rights activist
ⓘ
nurse ⓘ |
| partyToLegalCase | DeBoer v. Snyder ⓘ |
| residence | Michigan ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | lesbian ⓘ |
| spouse | Jayne Rowse ⓘ |
| stateChallenged | Michigan ⓘ |
| typeOfActivism | strategic litigation ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: April DeBoer Description of subject: April DeBoer is an American nurse and LGBT rights activist known for challenging Michigan’s same-sex marriage and adoption bans in the landmark case DeBoer v. Snyder, which contributed to the U.S. Supreme Court’s nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.