Linda Stephens
E417729
Linda Stephens is an American local official who served as a plaintiff challenging legislative prayer practices in the U.S. Supreme Court case Town of Greece v. Galloway.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Linda Stephens canonical | 1 |
| plaintiff Linda Stephens | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1729291 — 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: Linda Stephens Context triple: [Town of Greece v. Galloway, respondent, Linda Stephens]
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A.
Barbara Stephens
Barbara Stephens was the woman who served as the ceremonial sponsor for the U.S. Navy battleship USS California (BB-44) at its launching.
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B.
Linda Banwell
Linda Banwell is best known as the wife of the late English actor and director Bob Hoskins.
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C.
Linda Keene
Linda Keene is the wealthy and sophisticated socialite love interest of Fred Astaire’s character in the 1937 musical film "Shall We Dance."
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D.
Melinda Rogers
Melinda Rogers is a Canadian business executive and member of the Rogers family, known for her leadership roles within Rogers Communications.
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E.
Marlene Lawston
Marlene Lawston is an American actress best known for her role as Jodie Foster’s daughter in the thriller film "Flightplan."
- 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: Linda Stephens Target entity description: Linda Stephens is an American local official who served as a plaintiff challenging legislative prayer practices in the U.S. Supreme Court case Town of Greece v. Galloway.
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A.
Barbara Stephens
Barbara Stephens was the woman who served as the ceremonial sponsor for the U.S. Navy battleship USS California (BB-44) at its launching.
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B.
Linda Banwell
Linda Banwell is best known as the wife of the late English actor and director Bob Hoskins.
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C.
Linda Keene
Linda Keene is the wealthy and sophisticated socialite love interest of Fred Astaire’s character in the 1937 musical film "Shall We Dance."
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D.
Melinda Rogers
Melinda Rogers is a Canadian business executive and member of the Rogers family, known for her leadership roles within Rogers Communications.
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E.
Marlene Lawston
Marlene Lawston is an American actress best known for her role as Jodie Foster’s daughter in the thriller film "Flightplan."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American local official
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United States Supreme Court case ⓘ person ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| knownFor | challenging legislative prayer practices in Town of Greece v. Galloway ⓘ |
| legalSubject | legislative prayer practices ⓘ |
| notableWork | Town of Greece v. Galloway ⓘ |
| occupation | local government official ⓘ |
| participantIn | Town of Greece v. Galloway ⓘ |
| residence | Greece, New York ⓘ |
| role | plaintiff in Town of Greece v. Galloway ⓘ |
| subjectHasRole |
Linda Stephens
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
plaintiff Linda Stephens
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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: Linda Stephens Description of subject: Linda Stephens is an American local official who served as a plaintiff challenging legislative prayer practices in the U.S. Supreme Court case Town of Greece v. Galloway.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Town of Greece v. Galloway
this entity surface form:
plaintiff Linda Stephens