Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education
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Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education was a U.S. Supreme Court case challenging the use of race in public school student assignment plans as part of broader litigation over voluntary school desegregation.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education canonical | 2 |
| Meredith v. Jefferson County Bd. of Educ. | 1 |
| Meredith v. Jefferson County Public Schools | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1538516 — 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: Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education Context triple: [Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, consolidatedWith, Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education]
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Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education
Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education was an 1899 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld racial segregation in public education by allowing a Georgia county to close a Black high school while maintaining white schools, reinforcing the “separate but equal” doctrine later challenged in Brown v. Board of Education.
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B.
Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education
Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education is a 1999 U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that schools receiving federal funds can be liable under Title IX for student-on-student sexual harassment when they are deliberately indifferent to known acts of harassment that are severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive.
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C.
Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public Schools
Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public Schools is a landmark 1992 U.S. Supreme Court decision that established students can seek monetary damages for intentional sex discrimination under Title IX.
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D.
Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education
Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that held individuals are protected from retaliation when they complain about sex discrimination in educational programs receiving federal funding.
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E.
Doe v. Bolton
Doe v. Bolton is a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that, alongside Roe v. Wade, expanded and defined the scope of abortion rights by striking down restrictive state regulations.
- 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: Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education Target entity description: Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education was a U.S. Supreme Court case challenging the use of race in public school student assignment plans as part of broader litigation over voluntary school desegregation.
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A.
Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education
Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education was an 1899 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld racial segregation in public education by allowing a Georgia county to close a Black high school while maintaining white schools, reinforcing the “separate but equal” doctrine later challenged in Brown v. Board of Education.
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B.
Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education
Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education is a 1999 U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that schools receiving federal funds can be liable under Title IX for student-on-student sexual harassment when they are deliberately indifferent to known acts of harassment that are severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive.
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C.
Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public Schools
Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public Schools is a landmark 1992 U.S. Supreme Court decision that established students can seek monetary damages for intentional sex discrimination under Title IX.
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D.
Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education
Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that held individuals are protected from retaliation when they complain about sex discrimination in educational programs receiving federal funding.
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E.
Doe v. Bolton
Doe v. Bolton is a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that, alongside Roe v. Wade, expanded and defined the scope of abortion rights by striking down restrictive state regulations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Supreme Court case
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equal protection case ⓘ school desegregation case ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education
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surface form:
Meredith v. Jefferson County Bd. of Educ.
Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education ⓘ
surface form:
Meredith v. Jefferson County Public Schools
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| areaOfLaw |
civil rights law
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constitutional law ⓘ education law ⓘ |
| arguedDate | December 4, 2006 ⓘ |
| chiefJusticeAtDecision |
John G. Roberts Jr.
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surface form:
John G. Roberts, Jr.
|
| citation |
127 S. Ct. 2738
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168 L. Ed. 2d 508 ⓘ 551 U.S. 701 ⓘ |
| concurringOpinionBy | Anthony M. Kennedy ⓘ |
| consolidatedWith | Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 ⓘ |
| constitutionalProvision |
Equal Protection Clause
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Fourteenth Amendment ⓘ
surface form:
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
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| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| court | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| decade | 2000s ⓘ |
| decidedDate | June 28, 2007 ⓘ |
| dissentingOpinionBy |
John Paul Stevens
ⓘ
Stephen G. Breyer ⓘ |
| docketNumber | 05-915 ⓘ |
| fullName | Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education self-link ⓘ |
| holding |
The Jefferson County school district’s use of individual students’ race in assigning students to schools violated the Equal Protection Clause.
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The asserted interest in achieving racial diversity and avoiding racial isolation did not justify the specific race-based assignment methods used. ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| languageOfProceeding | English ⓘ |
| legalIssue |
Equal Protection Clause
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surface form:
Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
constitutionality of voluntary school desegregation plans ⓘ use of race in public school student assignment ⓘ |
| locationOfCourt | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| majorityOpinionBy |
John G. Roberts Jr.
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surface form:
John G. Roberts, Jr.
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| originatingCity | Louisville, Kentucky ⓘ |
| originatingSchoolDistrict | Jefferson County Public Schools ⓘ |
| originatingState | Kentucky ⓘ |
| petitioner | Crystal D. Meredith ⓘ |
| pluralityOpinionBy |
John G. Roberts Jr.
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surface form:
John G. Roberts, Jr.
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| precedentFor | limits on race-conscious student assignment policies ⓘ |
| relatedCase | Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
racial balancing in public schools
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voluntary school desegregation ⓘ |
| respondent |
Jefferson County Schools
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surface form:
Jefferson County Board of Education
Jefferson County Public Schools ⓘ |
| standardOfReview | strict scrutiny ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
public school assignment plans
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racial classifications in education ⓘ |
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: Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education Description of subject: Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education was a U.S. Supreme Court case challenging the use of race in public school student assignment plans as part of broader litigation over voluntary school desegregation.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1
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consolidatedWith
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Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education
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Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education
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fullName
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Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education
self-link
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Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education
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alsoKnownAs
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Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education
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this entity surface form:
Meredith v. Jefferson County Bd. of Educ.
Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education
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alsoKnownAs
→
Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education
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this entity surface form:
Meredith v. Jefferson County Public Schools