Ketanji Brown Jackson
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Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Harvard Law School alumnus
Harvard University alumnus
human
judge
lawyer
Ketanji Brown Jackson is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s highest court.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ketanji Brown Jackson canonical | 7 |
| Ketanji | 2 |
| Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson | 2 |
| Ketanji Brown Jackson – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | 1 |
| Ketanji Onyika Brown | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T434505 — 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: Ketanji Brown Jackson Context triple: [United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, circuitJustice, Ketanji Brown Jackson]
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A.
Elena Kagan
Elena Kagan is a U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice, appointed in 2010, known for her incisive legal reasoning, influential dissents, and pragmatic liberal jurisprudence.
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B.
Amy Coney Barrett
Amy Coney Barrett is a conservative Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed by President Donald Trump in 2020 and known for her originalist judicial philosophy.
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C.
Brett M. Kavanaugh
Brett M. Kavanaugh is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed by President Donald Trump in 2018 and known for his conservative judicial philosophy.
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D.
Neil M. Gorsuch
Neil M. Gorsuch is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed in 2017 by President Donald Trump and known for his conservative, originalist judicial philosophy.
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E.
Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, known for her liberal jurisprudence, powerful dissents, and status as the first Latina to serve on the nation’s highest court.
- 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: Ketanji Brown Jackson Target entity description: Ketanji Brown Jackson is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s highest court.
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A.
Elena Kagan
Elena Kagan is a U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice, appointed in 2010, known for her incisive legal reasoning, influential dissents, and pragmatic liberal jurisprudence.
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B.
Amy Coney Barrett
Amy Coney Barrett is a conservative Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed by President Donald Trump in 2020 and known for her originalist judicial philosophy.
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C.
Brett M. Kavanaugh
Brett M. Kavanaugh is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed by President Donald Trump in 2018 and known for his conservative judicial philosophy.
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D.
Neil M. Gorsuch
Neil M. Gorsuch is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed in 2017 by President Donald Trump and known for his conservative, originalist judicial philosophy.
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E.
Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, known for her liberal jurisprudence, powerful dissents, and status as the first Latina to serve on the nation’s highest court.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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Harvard Law School alumnus ⓘ Harvard University alumnus ⓘ human ⓘ judge ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Joe Biden ⓘ |
| barAdmission |
District of Columbia Bar
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Massachusetts Bar ⓘ |
| birthName |
Ketanji Brown Jackson
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Ketanji Onyika Brown
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| clerkship | law clerk to Justice Stephen G. Breyer ⓘ |
| clerkshipCourt | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfAppointment | 2022-06-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1970-09-14 ⓘ |
| degree |
A.B. in Government
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Juris Doctor ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard Law School
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Harvard University ⓘ Miami Palmetto Senior High School ⓘ |
| employer | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African American
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| familyName | Brown Jackson ⓘ |
| fullName |
Ketanji Brown Jackson
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson
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| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName |
Ketanji Brown Jackson
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Ketanji
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| graduatedWithHonors |
cum laude (Harvard Law School)
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magna cum laude (Harvard College) ⓘ |
| hasWorkedAs |
federal public defender
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private practice attorney ⓘ staff member, United States Sentencing Commission ⓘ |
| memberOf | Harvard Law Review ⓘ |
| nominatedBy | Joe Biden ⓘ |
| nominatedToDC CircuitBy | Joe Biden ⓘ |
| nominatedToDistrictCourtBy | Barack Obama ⓘ |
| notableFor |
first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States
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first former federal public defender to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
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lawyer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Washington, D.C.
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surface form:
Washington, D.C., United States
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| politicalParty |
Democratic Party
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surface form:
Democratic Party (United States) – generally aligned
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| positionHeld | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| precededBy | Stephen G. Breyer ⓘ |
| previousPosition |
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
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Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ⓘ Vice Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission ⓘ |
| religion | Protestant Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
Washington, D.C.
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surface form:
Washington, D.C., United States
|
| spouse | Patrick G. Jackson ⓘ |
| swornInOn | 2022-06-30 ⓘ |
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: Ketanji Brown Jackson Description of subject: Ketanji Brown Jackson is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s highest court.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson
this entity surface form:
Ketanji
this entity surface form:
Ketanji Onyika Brown
subject surface form:
Stephen G. Breyer
this entity surface form:
Ketanji Brown Jackson – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
subject surface form:
Ketanji Brown Jackson
this entity surface form:
Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson
subject surface form:
Ketanji Brown Jackson
this entity surface form:
Ketanji
Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College
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