David J. Brewer
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David J. Brewer was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his support of laissez-faire constitutionalism and limitations on government regulation of the economy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David J. Brewer canonical | 2 |
| Justice David J. Brewer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2660059 — 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: David J. Brewer Context triple: [Lochner v. New York, joinedByInMajority, David J. Brewer]
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A.
James Cullen Landis
James Cullen Landis was an American silent film actor and occasional director active in the 1910s and 1920s.
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B.
James M. Landis
James M. Landis was an influential American lawyer, legal scholar, and New Deal administrator who helped shape U.S. securities regulation and public administration in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Lewis F. Powell Jr. was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1972–1987) known as a pivotal moderate whose swing votes shaped landmark decisions on issues such as abortion, affirmative action, and the death penalty.
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D.
Walter Dellinger
Walter Dellinger was a prominent American constitutional law scholar and former acting U.S. Solicitor General known for his influential work in Supreme Court advocacy and legal academia.
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E.
Justice Samuel Nelson
Justice Samuel Nelson was a 19th-century Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his moderate judicial philosophy and influential opinions on federal jurisdiction and maritime law.
- 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: David J. Brewer Target entity description: David J. Brewer was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his support of laissez-faire constitutionalism and limitations on government regulation of the economy.
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A.
James Cullen Landis
James Cullen Landis was an American silent film actor and occasional director active in the 1910s and 1920s.
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B.
James M. Landis
James M. Landis was an influential American lawyer, legal scholar, and New Deal administrator who helped shape U.S. securities regulation and public administration in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Lewis F. Powell Jr. was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1972–1987) known as a pivotal moderate whose swing votes shaped landmark decisions on issues such as abortion, affirmative action, and the death penalty.
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D.
Walter Dellinger
Walter Dellinger was a prominent American constitutional law scholar and former acting U.S. Solicitor General known for his influential work in Supreme Court advocacy and legal academia.
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E.
Justice Samuel Nelson
Justice Samuel Nelson was a 19th-century Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his moderate judicial philosophy and influential opinions on federal jurisdiction and maritime law.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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person ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Benjamin Harrison ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C., United States
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surface form:
Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1837-06-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1910-03-28 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Albany Law School
ⓘ
Wesleyan University ⓘ Yale University ⓘ |
| endTime | 1910-03-28 ⓘ |
| era |
Lochner v. New York
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surface form:
Lochner era
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| familyName | Brewer ⓘ |
| father | Josiah Brewer ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| ideology |
judicial conservatism
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laissez-faire constitutionalism ⓘ |
| knownFor |
support for business interests in constitutional cases
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support for limitations on government regulation of the economy ⓘ |
| legalPhilosophy |
skepticism toward expansive police powers of the state
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strong protection of property rights ⓘ |
| memberOf | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| mother | Emilia Ann Field ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | service on the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 19th and early 20th centuries ⓘ |
| notableWork |
In re Debs Supreme Court case
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surface form:
Opinion in In re Debs
Muller v. Oregon ⓘ
surface form:
Opinion in Muller v. Oregon
Opinions limiting government regulation of the economy ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ |
| partOf | history of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Ottoman Empire
ⓘ
Smyrna ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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Judge of the Kansas District Court ⓘ Judge of the United States Circuit Courts for the Eighth Circuit ⓘ Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ⓘ Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court ⓘ |
| relative |
David Dudley Field II
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Stephen J. Field ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestant Christianity
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surface form:
Protestantism
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| startTime | 1889-12-18 ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Kansas
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Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: David J. Brewer Description of subject: David J. Brewer was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his support of laissez-faire constitutionalism and limitations on government regulation of the economy.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
In re Debs
this entity surface form:
Justice David J. Brewer