James Michael McConnell
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James Michael McConnell is an American gay rights activist and librarian best known for his role as one of the partners in the landmark same-sex marriage case Baker v. Nelson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Michael McConnell canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1349129 — 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: James Michael McConnell Context triple: [Baker v. Nelson, party, James Michael McConnell]
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A.
Bryan Harper
Bryan Harper is an American former professional baseball player and the older brother of MLB star Bryce Harper.
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B.
Chris Grier
Chris Grier is an American football executive best known for serving as the general manager of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins, overseeing the team’s roster construction and football operations.
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C.
Chris Dugan
Chris Dugan is an American recording engineer and producer best known for his work with punk rock bands, including Green Day.
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D.
Michael Bivins
Michael Bivins is an American singer, rapper, and music executive best known as a founding member of the R&B groups New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe and as a key figure in developing 1990s hip-hop and R&B acts.
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E.
Nick Hendricks
Nick Hendricks is a frustrated office worker from the dark comedy film "Horrible Bosses," who conspires with his friends to murder their abusive employers.
- 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: James Michael McConnell Target entity description: James Michael McConnell is an American gay rights activist and librarian best known for his role as one of the partners in the landmark same-sex marriage case Baker v. Nelson.
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A.
Bryan Harper
Bryan Harper is an American former professional baseball player and the older brother of MLB star Bryce Harper.
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B.
Chris Grier
Chris Grier is an American football executive best known for serving as the general manager of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins, overseeing the team’s roster construction and football operations.
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C.
Chris Dugan
Chris Dugan is an American recording engineer and producer best known for his work with punk rock bands, including Green Day.
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D.
Michael Bivins
Michael Bivins is an American singer, rapper, and music executive best known as a founding member of the R&B groups New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe and as a key figure in developing 1990s hip-hop and R&B acts.
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E.
Nick Hendricks
Nick Hendricks is a frustrated office worker from the dark comedy film "Horrible Bosses," who conspires with his friends to murder their abusive employers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
gay rights activist
ⓘ
human ⓘ librarian ⓘ |
| causeAdvocated |
gay rights
ⓘ
same-sex marriage ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
LGBT rights activism
ⓘ
library science ⓘ |
| hasGivenInterviewOn | history of same-sex marriage litigation in the United States ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
gay rights activist
ⓘ
librarian ⓘ |
| hasRole | plaintiff in Baker v. Nelson ⓘ |
| livedIn | Minneapolis ⓘ |
| movement | LGBT rights movement ⓘ |
| notableEvent | same-sex marriage license application in Minnesota ⓘ |
| notableFor | Baker v. Nelson ⓘ |
| notableWork | legal challenge for same-sex marriage in Minnesota ⓘ |
| participantIn | LGBT rights movement in the United States ⓘ |
| partnerIn | Baker v. Nelson ⓘ |
| residence | Minnesota ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| spouse | Jack Baker ⓘ |
| subjectOf | articles on early same-sex marriage cases in the United States ⓘ |
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: James Michael McConnell Description of subject: James Michael McConnell is an American gay rights activist and librarian best known for his role as one of the partners in the landmark same-sex marriage case Baker v. Nelson.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.