United States v. Susan B. Anthony
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United States v. Susan B. Anthony was the landmark 1873 federal criminal case in which suffragist Susan B. Anthony was prosecuted and convicted for illegally voting, spotlighting the legal barriers to women's suffrage in the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| United States v. Susan B. Anthony canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5306318 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States v. Susan B. Anthony Context triple: [Susan B. Anthony, trial, United States v. Susan B. Anthony]
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Virginia Minor women’s suffrage case
The Virginia Minor women’s suffrage case was an 1870s U.S. Supreme Court legal challenge in which suffragist Virginia Minor argued that the 14th Amendment guaranteed women the right to vote, a claim the Court ultimately rejected.
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Minor v. Happersett
Minor v. Happersett was an 1875 U.S. Supreme Court case that held the Constitution did not grant women the right to vote, rejecting the argument that suffrage was a privilege of national citizenship.
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C.
Prigg v. Pennsylvania
Prigg v. Pennsylvania was an 1842 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld federal supremacy over state laws in enforcing the return of escaped enslaved people, significantly strengthening the legal force of the Fugitive Slave Clause.
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D.
Printz v. United States
Printz v. United States is a 1997 U.S. Supreme Court decision that limited federal power by holding that Congress cannot compel state or local officials to implement federal regulatory programs.
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E.
The Constitutional Rights of the Women of the United States
*The Constitutional Rights of the Women of the United States* is a 19th-century feminist legal treatise by Isabella Beecher Hooker that argues women are entitled to full political and civil rights under the U.S. Constitution.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States v. Susan B. Anthony Target entity description: United States v. Susan B. Anthony was the landmark 1873 federal criminal case in which suffragist Susan B. Anthony was prosecuted and convicted for illegally voting, spotlighting the legal barriers to women's suffrage in the United States.
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A.
Virginia Minor women’s suffrage case
The Virginia Minor women’s suffrage case was an 1870s U.S. Supreme Court legal challenge in which suffragist Virginia Minor argued that the 14th Amendment guaranteed women the right to vote, a claim the Court ultimately rejected.
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B.
Minor v. Happersett
Minor v. Happersett was an 1875 U.S. Supreme Court case that held the Constitution did not grant women the right to vote, rejecting the argument that suffrage was a privilege of national citizenship.
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C.
Prigg v. Pennsylvania
Prigg v. Pennsylvania was an 1842 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld federal supremacy over state laws in enforcing the return of escaped enslaved people, significantly strengthening the legal force of the Fugitive Slave Clause.
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D.
Printz v. United States
Printz v. United States is a 1997 U.S. Supreme Court decision that limited federal power by holding that Congress cannot compel state or local officials to implement federal regulatory programs.
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E.
The Constitutional Rights of the Women of the United States
*The Constitutional Rights of the Women of the United States* is a 19th-century feminist legal treatise by Isabella Beecher Hooker that argues women are entitled to full political and civil rights under the U.S. Constitution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States legal case
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federal criminal case ⓘ landmark suffrage case ⓘ |
| AnthonyArgument | the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed women the right to vote as citizens ⓘ |
| caseNameVariant | United States v. Anthony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| charge |
illegal voting
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knowingly voting without having a lawful right to vote ⓘ |
| citation | United States v. Anthony, 24 F. Cas. 829 (C.C.N.D.N.Y. 1873) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constitutionalProvisionCited |
Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
NERFINISHED
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Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| court | United States District Court for the Northern District of New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfVerdict | 1873-06-18 ⓘ |
| defendantOccupation |
suffragist
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women's rights activist ⓘ |
| defendantResponseToFine | refused to pay the fine ⓘ |
| defendantTestimony | Susan B. Anthony testified in her own defense NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fineAmount | 100 US dollars ⓘ |
| fineCosts | plus costs of prosecution ⓘ |
| hasDefendant | Susan B. Anthony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPlaintiff | United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
became a rallying point for the women's suffrage movement
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highlighted legal barriers to women's suffrage in the United States ⓘ illustrated limits of the Fourteenth Amendment for women's voting rights at the time ⓘ |
| impactOnLaw | did not directly change voting laws but influenced public opinion ⓘ |
| issue |
interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment
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voting rights ⓘ women's suffrage ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States government
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surface form:
United States federal government
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| juryDeliberation | no jury deliberation was allowed ⓘ |
| juryInstruction | Judge Ward Hunt instructed the jury to find the defendant guilty ⓘ |
| juryRole | jury was directed to return a guilty verdict ⓘ |
| laterContext | preceded the eventual adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment ⓘ |
| legalBasis | Enforcement Act of 1870 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location | Canandaigua, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Susan B. Anthony delivered a speech criticizing the trial and the denial of women's rights NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pollingPlace | Eighth Ward, Rochester, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| presidingJudge | Ward Hunt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| prosecutionArgument | New York law restricted voting to male citizens ⓘ |
| prosecutor | Richard Crowley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedAmendment | Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedMovement | women's suffrage movement in the United States ⓘ |
| relatedOrganization | National Woman Suffrage Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedToElection | 1872 United States presidential election NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| resultingAppeal | no appeal was taken because the fine was not enforced ⓘ |
| sentence | fine ⓘ |
| subjectOf | historical scholarship on women's rights and constitutional law ⓘ |
| verdict | guilty ⓘ |
| year | 1873 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: United States v. Susan B. Anthony Description of subject: United States v. Susan B. Anthony was the landmark 1873 federal criminal case in which suffragist Susan B. Anthony was prosecuted and convicted for illegally voting, spotlighting the legal barriers to women's suffrage in the United States.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Ward Hunt (as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court)
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notableCase
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United States v. Susan B. Anthony
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subject surface form:
Ward Hunt