Curtis Craig
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Curtis Craig was the male college student who served as the named plaintiff challenging Oklahoma's gender-based drinking age law in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Craig v. Boren.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Curtis Craig canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T616414 — 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: Curtis Craig Context triple: [Craig v. Boren, plaintiff, Curtis Craig]
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A.
Douglas Kirk
Douglas Kirk is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Kirk.
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B.
C. J. Cregg
C. J. Cregg is a fictional White House Press Secretary and later Chief of Staff on the political drama series "The West Wing," known for her sharp wit, integrity, and commanding presence in the briefing room.
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C.
Andrew Carnes
Andrew Carnes is a character in the musical "Oklahoma!", known as the protective father of Ado Annie.
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D.
Scott Reed
Scott Reed is a computer scientist and machine learning researcher known for his work on deep learning and generative models.
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E.
Timothy Carlton
Timothy Carlton is an English actor known for his extensive work in British television, film, and theatre, and as the father of actor Benedict Cumberbatch.
- 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: Curtis Craig Target entity description: Curtis Craig was the male college student who served as the named plaintiff challenging Oklahoma's gender-based drinking age law in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Craig v. Boren.
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A.
Douglas Kirk
Douglas Kirk is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Kirk.
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B.
C. J. Cregg
C. J. Cregg is a fictional White House Press Secretary and later Chief of Staff on the political drama series "The West Wing," known for her sharp wit, integrity, and commanding presence in the briefing room.
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C.
Andrew Carnes
Andrew Carnes is a character in the musical "Oklahoma!", known as the protective father of Ado Annie.
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D.
Scott Reed
Scott Reed is a computer scientist and machine learning researcher known for his work on deep learning and generative models.
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E.
Timothy Carlton
Timothy Carlton is an English actor known for his extensive work in British television, film, and theatre, and as the father of actor Benedict Cumberbatch.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
college student
ⓘ
named plaintiff ⓘ person ⓘ |
| challenged | Oklahoma gender-based drinking age law ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Craig ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Curtis ⓘ |
| legalIssueInvolved |
Equal Protection Clause
ⓘ
surface form:
Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
gender-based discrimination ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the named plaintiff in Craig v. Boren ⓘ |
| occupation | college student ⓘ |
| partyTo | Craig v. Boren ⓘ |
| representedGroup | males aged 18 to 20 in Oklahoma ⓘ |
| residenceAtTimeOfCase | Oklahoma ⓘ |
| roleInLawsuit | plaintiff ⓘ |
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: Curtis Craig Description of subject: Curtis Craig was the male college student who served as the named plaintiff challenging Oklahoma's gender-based drinking age law in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Craig v. Boren.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.