Jonas Yoder
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Jonas Yoder was an Amish parent whose challenge to Wisconsin’s compulsory school attendance law led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Wisconsin v. Yoder, which strengthened religious freedom protections in education.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jonas Yoder canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T253058 — 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: Jonas Yoder Context triple: [Wisconsin v. Yoder, respondent, Jonas Yoder]
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A.
Dylan Highsmith
Dylan Highsmith is a film editor best known for his work on major action and science-fiction movies, including Pacific Rim: Uprising.
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B.
Carter Pewterschmidt
Carter Pewterschmidt is a wealthy, conservative industrialist and the domineering father of Lois Griffin on the animated television series Family Guy.
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C.
Jeremy Jacobs
Jeremy Jacobs is an American billionaire businessman and longtime owner of the NHL’s Boston Bruins, known for his influential role in professional hockey and sports venue management.
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D.
Toby Pohlen
Toby Pohlen is a member of the team at xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk.
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E.
Joey Luft
Joey Luft is an American television producer and occasional actor best known as the son of legendary entertainer Judy Garland and producer Sidney Luft.
- 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: Jonas Yoder Target entity description: Jonas Yoder was an Amish parent whose challenge to Wisconsin’s compulsory school attendance law led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Wisconsin v. Yoder, which strengthened religious freedom protections in education.
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A.
Dylan Highsmith
Dylan Highsmith is a film editor best known for his work on major action and science-fiction movies, including Pacific Rim: Uprising.
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B.
Carter Pewterschmidt
Carter Pewterschmidt is a wealthy, conservative industrialist and the domineering father of Lois Griffin on the animated television series Family Guy.
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C.
Jeremy Jacobs
Jeremy Jacobs is an American billionaire businessman and longtime owner of the NHL’s Boston Bruins, known for his influential role in professional hockey and sports venue management.
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D.
Toby Pohlen
Toby Pohlen is a member of the team at xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk.
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E.
Joey Luft
Joey Luft is an American television producer and occasional actor best known as the son of legendary entertainer Judy Garland and producer Sidney Luft.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Amish person
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U.S. Supreme Court case ⓘ person ⓘ religious freedom litigant ⓘ |
| areaOfActivity |
education law
ⓘ
religious liberty ⓘ |
| argumentBasedOn |
Amish educational practices
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religious beliefs ⓘ |
| associatedWithEthnicGroup |
Amish
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surface form:
Old Order Amish community
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| citizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfLegalCase |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| courtOfFinalAppeal | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| influenced |
U.S. constitutional law on religious freedom in education
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interpretation of the Free Exercise Clause in schooling ⓘ |
| jurisdictionOfCase | Wisconsin ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a parent in the case Wisconsin v. Yoder
ⓘ
challenging Wisconsin’s compulsory school attendance law ⓘ strengthening religious freedom protections in education through litigation ⓘ |
| legalIssueInvolved |
compulsory school attendance
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free exercise of religion ⓘ |
| legalSubject |
compulsory education
ⓘ
freedom of religion in education ⓘ |
| notableCourtCase | Wisconsin v. Yoder ⓘ |
| party | Jonas Yoder self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| position | parent opposed to compulsory high school attendance for Amish children ⓘ |
| religion | Amish ⓘ |
| roleInCase | petitioner in Wisconsin v. Yoder ⓘ |
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: Jonas Yoder Description of subject: Jonas Yoder was an Amish parent whose challenge to Wisconsin’s compulsory school attendance law led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Wisconsin v. Yoder, which strengthened religious freedom protections in education.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Wisconsin v. Yoder