Joseph Oncale
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Joseph Oncale is the plaintiff whose landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, established that same-sex workplace harassment is actionable under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joseph Oncale canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1440519 — 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: Joseph Oncale Context triple: [Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc., plaintiff, Joseph Oncale]
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A.
Guillermo Navarro
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B.
Sergio Navarro
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C.
Jonny Moseley
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D.
Guillermo Coria
Guillermo Coria is a retired Argentine professional tennis player renowned for his exceptional clay-court prowess and former world No. 3 ranking.
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E.
Javier Mariscal
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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: Joseph Oncale Target entity description: Joseph Oncale is the plaintiff whose landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, established that same-sex workplace harassment is actionable under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
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A.
Guillermo Navarro
Guillermo Navarro is an acclaimed Mexican cinematographer known for his visually striking work on films such as "Pan’s Labyrinth," "Pacific Rim," and collaborations with directors like Guillermo del Toro.
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B.
Sergio Navarro
Sergio Navarro is a relatively obscure individual whose primary public mention is as a notable bearer of the surname Navarro.
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C.
Jonny Moseley
Jonny Moseley is an American freestyle skier best known for winning the gold medal in moguls and popularizing innovative tricks on the international stage.
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D.
Guillermo Coria
Guillermo Coria is a retired Argentine professional tennis player renowned for his exceptional clay-court prowess and former world No. 3 ranking.
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E.
Javier Mariscal
Javier Mariscal is a Spanish designer and illustrator renowned for his playful, postmodern graphic style and influential work in contemporary design and visual culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Supreme Court case
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United States federal statute ⓘ person ⓘ plaintiff ⓘ |
| allegedHarassmentContext | offshore oil platform workplace ⓘ |
| appliesStatute | Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ⓘ |
| areaOfLaw |
civil rights law
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employment discrimination law ⓘ |
| citation | 523 U.S. 75 ⓘ |
| court | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| decisionDate | 1998 ⓘ |
| holding | same-sex workplace harassment is actionable under Title VII ⓘ |
| interpretedInCase |
Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.
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surface form:
Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services
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| involvesParty |
Joseph Oncale
self-linksurface differs
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Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc. ⓘ
surface form:
Sundowner Offshore Services
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| jurisdiction | United States federal law ⓘ |
| legalBasis | Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ⓘ |
| legalClaim | same-sex workplace harassment ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.
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surface form:
Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services
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| partOf | Civil Rights Act of 1964 ⓘ |
| prohibitsDiscriminationOnBasisOf | sex ⓘ |
| regulates | employment discrimination ⓘ |
| roleInCase | plaintiff in Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services ⓘ |
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: Joseph Oncale Description of subject: Joseph Oncale is the plaintiff whose landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, established that same-sex workplace harassment is actionable under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services
subject surface form:
Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.