Ware
E47937
Ware was the plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Ware v. Hylton, which addressed the supremacy of federal treaties over conflicting state laws.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ware canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T375574 — 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: Ware Context triple: [Ware v. Hylton, plaintiff, Ware]
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A.
WD
WD is a consumer-facing brand of Western Digital known for its hard drives, solid-state drives, and other data storage products.
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B.
EA
EA is the commonly used abbreviation for the Environment Agency, the public body responsible for environmental protection and regulation in England.
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C.
Carrier
Carrier is a leading global brand specializing in heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC), and refrigeration solutions.
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D.
Opera Software
Opera Software is a Norwegian software company best known for developing the Opera web browser and related internet technologies.
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E.
WAS
WAS is the standard three-letter abbreviation used for the NBA team Washington Wizards.
- 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: Ware Target entity description: Ware was the plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Ware v. Hylton, which addressed the supremacy of federal treaties over conflicting state laws.
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A.
WD
WD is a consumer-facing brand of Western Digital known for its hard drives, solid-state drives, and other data storage products.
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B.
EA
EA is the commonly used abbreviation for the Environment Agency, the public body responsible for environmental protection and regulation in England.
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C.
Carrier
Carrier is a leading global brand specializing in heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC), and refrigeration solutions.
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D.
Opera Software
Opera Software is a Norwegian software company best known for developing the Opera web browser and related internet technologies.
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E.
WAS
WAS is the standard three-letter abbreviation used for the Washington Commanders NFL franchise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Supreme Court case
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | The British Debt Case ⓘ |
| appliedProvision | Treaty of Paris (1783) ⓘ |
| areaOfLaw | constitutional law ⓘ |
| caseHeParticipatedIn | Ware v. Hylton ⓘ |
| citation | 3 U.S. (3 Dall.) 199 ⓘ |
| constitutionalContext |
Supremacy Clause
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surface form:
Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| court | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| decisionDate | 1796 ⓘ |
| hasParty |
Hylton
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Ware self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| heldThat | a federal treaty overrides conflicting state law ⓘ |
| involves |
conflict between state statute and international treaty
ⓘ
pre-Revolutionary War debts ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| legalIssue | supremacy of federal treaties over state laws ⓘ |
| legalPrinciple | federal treaties supersede conflicting state statutes ⓘ |
| locationOfOriginatingDispute | Virginia ⓘ |
| partyTo | Ware v. Hylton ⓘ |
| precedentFor | treaty supremacy over state law ⓘ |
| roleInCase | plaintiff ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Supremacy Clause jurisprudence ⓘ |
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: Ware Description of subject: Ware was the plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Ware v. Hylton, which addressed the supremacy of federal treaties over conflicting state laws.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.