Alabama v. Texas
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Alabama v. Texas is a 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court addressed a dispute among states over offshore submerged lands and the scope of federal authority under the Constitution.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alabama v. Texas canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2393442 — 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: Alabama v. Texas Context triple: [Property Clause, citedIn, Alabama v. Texas]
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A.
California v. Texas
California v. Texas is a U.S. Supreme Court case that challenged the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act after Congress reduced the individual mandate penalty to zero.
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B.
Texas v. White
Texas v. White was an 1869 U.S. Supreme Court case that held the Union to be indestructible and that states could not unilaterally secede from it.
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C.
Arizona v. United States
Arizona v. United States is a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court case that limited state authority over immigration enforcement by affirming broad federal power in this area.
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D.
Alabama v. Shelton
Alabama v. Shelton is a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court case that held a suspended sentence that may result in imprisonment cannot be imposed unless the defendant was afforded the right to counsel.
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E.
Branch v. Texas
Branch v. Texas is a U.S. Supreme Court case addressing the constitutionality and application of the death penalty in the wake of the landmark Furman v. Georgia decision.
- 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: Alabama v. Texas Target entity description: Alabama v. Texas is a 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court addressed a dispute among states over offshore submerged lands and the scope of federal authority under the Constitution.
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A.
California v. Texas
California v. Texas is a U.S. Supreme Court case that challenged the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act after Congress reduced the individual mandate penalty to zero.
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B.
Texas v. White
Texas v. White was an 1869 U.S. Supreme Court case that held the Union to be indestructible and that states could not unilaterally secede from it.
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C.
Arizona v. United States
Arizona v. United States is a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court case that limited state authority over immigration enforcement by affirming broad federal power in this area.
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D.
Alabama v. Shelton
Alabama v. Shelton is a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court case that held a suspended sentence that may result in imprisonment cannot be imposed unless the defendant was afforded the right to counsel.
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E.
Branch v. Texas
Branch v. Texas is a U.S. Supreme Court case addressing the constitutionality and application of the death penalty in the wake of the landmark Furman v. Georgia decision.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Supreme Court case
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original jurisdiction case ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | United States federal law ⓘ |
| citationType | U.S. Supreme Court reporter citation ⓘ |
| concerns |
ownership of offshore submerged lands
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rights of coastal states in offshore areas ⓘ scope of federal authority under the U.S. Constitution ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| court | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| decisionDate | 1954 ⓘ |
| issue |
extent of federal power over offshore natural resources
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whether coastal states or the federal government had paramount rights in offshore submerged lands ⓘ |
| jurisdictionBasis | Article III of the United States Constitution ⓘ |
| jurisdictionType | original jurisdiction ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalEffect |
affected allocation of offshore resource rights between states and the federal government
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clarified federal authority over offshore submerged lands ⓘ |
| legalSubject |
constitutional law
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federalism ⓘ interstate dispute ⓘ law of the sea ⓘ offshore submerged lands ⓘ public lands law ⓘ |
| locationOfCourt | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| party |
Alabama
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surface form:
State of Alabama
Texas ⓘ
surface form:
State of Texas
other U.S. coastal states ⓘ |
| partyType | U.S. states ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Outer Continental Shelf
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Submerged Lands Act ⓘ United States constitutional law on federal–state relations ⓘ |
| yearDecided | 1954 ⓘ |
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: Alabama v. Texas Description of subject: Alabama v. Texas is a 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court addressed a dispute among states over offshore submerged lands and the scope of federal authority under the Constitution.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.