Sherman Minton
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Sherman Minton was an American jurist and Democratic politician who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1949 to 1956.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sherman Minton canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4119452 — 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: Sherman Minton Context triple: [Wolf v. Colorado, joinedByInMajority, Sherman Minton]
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A.
Harold H. Burton
Harold H. Burton was an American jurist and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1945 to 1958.
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B.
Birch Bayh
Birch Bayh was a prominent U.S. senator from Indiana known for his major legislative contributions, including authorship of key constitutional amendments and influential education and innovation laws.
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C.
Edward L. McDonnell
Edward L. McDonnell is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood thrillers, including the critically acclaimed crime drama "Sicario."
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D.
Thomas Marshall
Thomas Marshall was an American lawyer, landowner, and politician in colonial Virginia, best known as the father of future Chief Justice John Marshall.
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E.
John Sherman
John Sherman was a prominent 19th-century American politician and statesman who served as a U.S. senator, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary of State, and is best known for the Sherman Antitrust Act.
- 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: Sherman Minton Target entity description: Sherman Minton was an American jurist and Democratic politician who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1949 to 1956.
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A.
Harold H. Burton
Harold H. Burton was an American jurist and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1945 to 1958.
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B.
Birch Bayh
Birch Bayh was a prominent U.S. senator from Indiana known for his major legislative contributions, including authorship of key constitutional amendments and influential education and innovation laws.
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C.
Edward L. McDonnell
Edward L. McDonnell is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood thrillers, including the critically acclaimed crime drama "Sicario."
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D.
Thomas Marshall
Thomas Marshall was an American lawyer, landowner, and politician in colonial Virginia, best known as the father of future Chief Justice John Marshall.
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E.
John Sherman
John Sherman was a prominent 19th-century American politician and statesman who served as a U.S. senator, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary of State, and is best known for the Sherman Antitrust Act.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Democrat
ⓘ
United States Supreme Court justice ⓘ human ⓘ jurist ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| appointedBy |
President Harry S. Truman
ⓘ
surface form:
Harry S. Truman
|
| birthPlace |
Indiana
ⓘ
surface form:
Indiana, United States
|
| branchOfGovernment | judicial branch of the United States ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Indiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Indiana University
ⓘ
surface form:
Indiana University Bloomington
Yale Law School ⓘ |
| endTime | 1956 (as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) ⓘ |
| familyName | Minton ⓘ |
| givenName | Sherman ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States government
ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal government
|
| memberOf |
Supreme Court of the United States
ⓘ
United States Senate ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
|
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | service on the Vinson Court ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
ⓘ
United States Senator ⓘ United States Senator from Indiana ⓘ |
| residence | Indiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| startTime | 1949 (as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) ⓘ |
| stateRepresentedInSenate | Indiana ⓘ |
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: Sherman Minton Description of subject: Sherman Minton was an American jurist and Democratic politician who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1949 to 1956.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Wiley B. Rutledge