Ollie’s Barbecue purchased a substantial portion of its food from out-of-state suppliers
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Ollie’s Barbecue was a small, family-owned Birmingham, Alabama restaurant whose reliance on out-of-state food supplies became central to the Supreme Court’s Commerce Clause analysis in Katzenbach v. McClung.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ollie’s Barbecue purchased a substantial portion of its food from out-of-state suppliers canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T429860 — 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: Ollie’s Barbecue purchased a substantial portion of its food from out-of-state suppliers Context triple: [Katzenbach v. McClung, factFinding, Ollie’s Barbecue purchased a substantial portion of its food from out-of-state suppliers]
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A.
Delaware North
Delaware North is a global hospitality and food service company known for operating concessions, lodging, and venues at major sports stadiums, airports, and entertainment destinations.
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B.
American Bounty Restaurant
American Bounty Restaurant is a teaching restaurant at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, showcasing contemporary American cuisine prepared and served by culinary students.
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C.
Kansas City–style barbecue
Kansas City–style barbecue is a regional American barbecue tradition distinguished by its slow-smoked meats of many varieties and a thick, sweet, tomato-based sauce.
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D.
Food Safety and Inspection Service
The Food Safety and Inspection Service is a U.S. federal agency responsible for ensuring the safety, wholesomeness, and proper labeling of meat, poultry, and certain egg products.
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E.
SW Steakhouse
SW Steakhouse is an upscale fine-dining steak restaurant located at the Wynn Las Vegas resort on the Las Vegas Strip.
- 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: Ollie’s Barbecue purchased a substantial portion of its food from out-of-state suppliers Target entity description: Ollie’s Barbecue was a small, family-owned Birmingham, Alabama restaurant whose reliance on out-of-state food supplies became central to the Supreme Court’s Commerce Clause analysis in Katzenbach v. McClung.
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A.
Delaware North
Delaware North is a global hospitality and food service company known for operating concessions, lodging, and venues at major sports stadiums, airports, and entertainment destinations.
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B.
American Bounty Restaurant
American Bounty Restaurant is a teaching restaurant at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, showcasing contemporary American cuisine prepared and served by culinary students.
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C.
Kansas City–style barbecue
Kansas City–style barbecue is a regional American barbecue tradition distinguished by its slow-smoked meats of many varieties and a thick, sweet, tomato-based sauce.
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D.
Food Safety and Inspection Service
The Food Safety and Inspection Service is a U.S. federal agency responsible for ensuring the safety, wholesomeness, and proper labeling of meat, poultry, and certain egg products.
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E.
SW Steakhouse
SW Steakhouse is an upscale fine-dining steak restaurant located at the Wynn Las Vegas resort on the Las Vegas Strip.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | legalFact ⓘ |
| concernsBusinessType | small, family-owned restaurant ⓘ |
| concernsLocation |
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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surface form:
Birmingham, Alabama
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| hasGeographicContext |
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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surface form:
Birmingham, Alabama
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| hasJurisdictionContext | United States federal law ⓘ |
| hasLegalSignificance | helped establish federal power to regulate local restaurants under the Commerce Clause ⓘ |
| helpsDemonstrate |
the aggregate effect of local restaurant practices on interstate commerce
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the flow of goods in interstate commerce to local establishments ⓘ |
| isCitedFor | showing that local discrimination in restaurants can burden interstate commerce ⓘ |
| isConnectedTo |
constitutional law precedent on Commerce Clause reach
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federal regulation of local restaurants ⓘ |
| isDiscussedIn |
constitutional law casebooks and treatises on the Commerce Clause
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Katzenbach v. McClung ⓘ
surface form:
the majority opinion in Katzenbach v. McClung
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| isKeyFactIn | upholding the application of the Civil Rights Act to Ollie’s Barbecue ⓘ |
| isPartOfReasoningIn |
Katzenbach v. McClung
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surface form:
Supreme Court’s analysis in Katzenbach v. McClung
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| isRelevantToCase | Katzenbach v. McClung ⓘ |
| isRelevantToDoctrine | Commerce Clause ⓘ |
| isRelevantToStatute | Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ⓘ |
| isUsedToIllustrate | Congress’s power to reach local activities with substantial effects on interstate commerce ⓘ |
| occurredInTimeContext | early 1960s ⓘ |
| refersTo | Ollie’s Barbecue ⓘ |
| relatesToIssue | whether local restaurant operations substantially affect interstate commerce ⓘ |
| supportsFinding |
Ollie’s Barbecue
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surface form:
Ollie’s Barbecue was engaged in interstate commerce
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| wasUsedBy | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| wasUsedInOpinionBy |
Tom C. Clark
ⓘ
surface form:
Justice Tom C. Clark
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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: Ollie’s Barbecue purchased a substantial portion of its food from out-of-state suppliers Description of subject: Ollie’s Barbecue was a small, family-owned Birmingham, Alabama restaurant whose reliance on out-of-state food supplies became central to the Supreme Court’s Commerce Clause analysis in Katzenbach v. McClung.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Katzenbach v. McClung
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factFinding
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Ollie’s Barbecue purchased a substantial portion of its food from out-of-state suppliers
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