Potter Stewart
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Potter Stewart was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, known for his influential opinions on civil liberties, criminal justice, and obscenity law during the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Potter Stewart canonical | 73 |
| Justice Potter Stewart | 19 |
| Associate Justice Potter Stewart | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T60913 — 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: Potter Stewart Context triple: [Roe v. Wade, hasConcurringJustice, Potter Stewart]
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A.
Robert Bork
Robert Bork was a conservative American jurist and legal scholar whose role in the Watergate-era "Saturday Night Massacre" and later failed Supreme Court nomination made him a highly controversial figure in U.S. legal and political history.
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B.
Blackmun
Blackmun refers to the nominative reports of U.S. Supreme Court decisions compiled by Justice Harry A. Blackmun, whose name is used as a citation reference in the United States Reports.
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C.
Paul G. Kirk
Paul G. Kirk is an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as interim U.S. Senator from Massachusetts following the death of Edward M. Kennedy.
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D.
Martin D. Ginsburg
Martin D. Ginsburg was a prominent American tax lawyer and law professor, noted both for his influential scholarship in tax law and his supportive partnership with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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E.
William O. Douglas
William O. Douglas was a long-serving U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his strong civil libertarian views and expansive interpretation of individual rights under the Constitution.
- 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: Potter Stewart Target entity description: Potter Stewart was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, known for his influential opinions on civil liberties, criminal justice, and obscenity law during the mid-20th century.
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A.
Robert Bork
Robert Bork was a conservative American jurist and legal scholar whose role in the Watergate-era "Saturday Night Massacre" and later failed Supreme Court nomination made him a highly controversial figure in U.S. legal and political history.
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B.
Blackmun
Blackmun refers to the nominative reports of U.S. Supreme Court decisions compiled by Justice Harry A. Blackmun, whose name is used as a citation reference in the United States Reports.
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C.
Paul G. Kirk
Paul G. Kirk is an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as interim U.S. Senator from Massachusetts following the death of Edward M. Kennedy.
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D.
Martin D. Ginsburg
Martin D. Ginsburg was a prominent American tax lawyer and law professor, noted both for his influential scholarship in tax law and his supportive partnership with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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E.
William O. Douglas
William O. Douglas was a long-serving U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his strong civil libertarian views and expansive interpretation of individual rights under the Constitution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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human ⓘ |
| almaMater |
Yale Law School
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Yale University ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Dwight D. Eisenhower ⓘ |
| barAdmission | Ohio ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1915-01-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1985-12-07 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Yale Law School
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Yale University ⓘ |
| endTime | 1981-07-03 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Stewart ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civil liberties
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constitutional law ⓘ criminal law ⓘ obscenity law ⓘ |
| givenName | Potter ⓘ |
| knownFor | "I know it when I see it" description of hard-core pornography ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Phi Beta Kappa Society
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Skull and Bones ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
United States Navy Reserve
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surface form:
United States Naval Reserve
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| nominatedBy | Dwight D. Eisenhower ⓘ |
| notableWork |
concurring opinion in Jacobellis v. Ohio
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opinion in Ginzburg v. United States ⓘ opinion in Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. ⓘ opinion in Katz v. United States ⓘ opinion in Sierra Club v. Morton ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
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jurist ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Jackson, Michigan
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surface form:
Jackson, Michigan, United States
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| placeOfDeath | Hanover, New Hampshire, United States ⓘ |
| politicalParty |
Republican Party
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surface form:
Republican Party (United States)
|
| positionHeld |
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Harold H. Burton
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surface form:
Harold Hitz Burton
|
| religion | Presbyterianism ⓘ |
| residence | Cincinnati, Ohio, United States ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Mary Ann Bertles ⓘ |
| startTime | 1958-10-14 ⓘ |
| succeededBy |
Sandra Day O’Connor
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surface form:
Sandra Day O'Connor
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| workLocation |
Washington, D.C.
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surface form:
Washington, D.C., 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: Potter Stewart Description of subject: Potter Stewart was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, known for his influential opinions on civil liberties, criminal justice, and obscenity law during the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (93)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Justice Potter Stewart
subject surface form:
Milliken v. Bradley (1974)
this entity surface form:
Justice Potter Stewart
this entity surface form:
Justice Potter Stewart
this entity surface form:
Justice Potter Stewart
this entity surface form:
Justice Potter Stewart
this entity surface form:
Justice Potter Stewart
subject surface form:
City of Mobile v. Bolden
this entity surface form:
Justice Potter Stewart
this entity surface form:
Justice Potter Stewart
this entity surface form:
Justice Potter Stewart
subject surface form:
Harold H. Burton
this entity surface form:
Justice Potter Stewart
Monell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978)
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this entity surface form:
Justice Potter Stewart