Bernard A. Friedman

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Bernard A. Friedman is a United States federal judge known for his rulings on significant civil rights and constitutional law cases.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Bernard A. Friedman canonical 1
Bernard Friedman 1

Statements (28)

Predicate Object
instanceOf United States federal judge
human
judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
lawyer
appointedBy Ronald Reagan
basedIn Michigan
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
educatedAt Wayne State University Law School
surface form: Detroit College of Law

University of Michigan
employer United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
familyName Friedman
fieldOfWork civil rights law
constitutional law
givenName Bernard
jurisdiction United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
surface form: Eastern District of Michigan
knownFor rulings on civil rights cases
rulings on constitutional law cases
languageOfWorkOrName English
legalSystem federal judiciary of the United States
surface form: United States federal judiciary
memberOf Republican Party
notableDecision striking down Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage in DeBoer v. Snyder
notableWork DeBoer v. Snyder
occupation judge
lawyer
positionHeld Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
sexOrGender male
workLocation Detroit
surface form: Detroit, Michigan

How these facts were elicited

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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: Bernard A. Friedman
Description of subject: Bernard A. Friedman is a United States federal judge known for his rulings on significant civil rights and constitutional law cases.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

DeBoer v. Snyder districtJudge Bernard A. Friedman
Roger W. Brockett academicAdvisor Bernard A. Friedman
this entity surface form: Bernard Friedman