Judge Richard Posner

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author human judge jurist law and economics scholar legal scholar

Judge Richard Posner is a prominent American jurist, legal scholar, and former federal appellate judge known for his influential work in law and economics and his long tenure on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Richard A. Posner	9
Richard Posner	9
Judge Richard Posner canonical	2
Judge Richard A. Posner	1
Posner	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	author ⓘ human ⓘ judge ⓘ jurist ⓘ law and economics scholar ⓘ legal scholar ⓘ
academicDegree	Bachelor of Arts ⓘ Bachelor of Laws ⓘ
academicDiscipline	economics ⓘ law ⓘ
appointedBy	Ronald Reagan ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
educatedAt	Harvard Law School ⓘ Yale University ⓘ
employer	United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ⓘ University of Chicago Law School ⓘ
familyName	Judge Richard Posner self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Posner
fieldOfWork	antitrust law ⓘ constitutional law ⓘ jurisprudence ⓘ law and economics ⓘ
genre	non-fiction ⓘ
givenName	Richard ⓘ
hasInfluenced	American legal theory ⓘ judicial practice in the United States ⓘ
influencedBy	economic analysis of law ⓘ
knownFor	influential judicial opinions ⓘ law and economics movement ⓘ prolific legal scholarship ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
memberOf	United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ⓘ
name	Judge Richard Posner self-link ⓘ surface form: Richard Posner
nominatedFor	Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ⓘ
notableWork	An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton ⓘ Economic Analysis of Law ⓘ Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy ⓘ Overcoming Law ⓘ Sex and Reason ⓘ The Economics of Justice ⓘ The Problems of Jurisprudence ⓘ
occupation	author ⓘ judge ⓘ legal scholar ⓘ university professor ⓘ
partOf	law and economics movement ⓘ surface form: Chicago school of law and economics
positionHeld	United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ⓘ surface form: Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ⓘ professor at the University of Chicago Law School ⓘ
resignedFrom	United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ⓘ
workLocation	City of Chicago ⓘ surface form: Chicago
writingLanguage	English ⓘ

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: Judge Richard Posner
Description of subject: Judge Richard Posner is a prominent American jurist, legal scholar, and former federal appellate judge known for his influential work in law and economics and his long tenure on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Referenced by (22)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tim Wu → clerkOf → Judge Richard Posner ⓘ

Chicago School economics → associatedWithPerson → Judge Richard Posner ⓘ

this entity surface form: Richard Posner

University of Chicago Law School → hasNotableFaculty → Judge Richard Posner ⓘ

this entity surface form: Richard A. Posner

University of Chicago Law School → hasNotableAlumnus → Judge Richard Posner ⓘ

this entity surface form: Richard A. Posner

Judge Richard Posner → name → Judge Richard Posner self-link ⓘ

subject surface form: Richard Posner

this entity surface form: Richard Posner

Judge Richard Posner → familyName → Judge Richard Posner self-linksurface differs ⓘ

subject surface form: Richard Posner

this entity surface form: Posner

law and economics movement → influencedBy → Judge Richard Posner ⓘ

this entity surface form: Richard Posner

Economic Analysis of Law → author → Judge Richard Posner ⓘ

this entity surface form: Richard A. Posner

Economic Analysis of Law → author → Judge Richard Posner ⓘ

this entity surface form: Richard Posner

The Problems of Jurisprudence → author → Judge Richard Posner ⓘ

this entity surface form: Richard A. Posner

The Problems of Jurisprudence → author → Judge Richard Posner ⓘ

this entity surface form: Richard Posner

Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy → author → Judge Richard Posner ⓘ

this entity surface form: Richard A. Posner

Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy → author → Judge Richard Posner ⓘ

this entity surface form: Richard Posner

An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton → author → Judge Richard Posner ⓘ

this entity surface form: Richard A. Posner

An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton → author → Judge Richard Posner ⓘ

Sex and Reason → author → Judge Richard Posner ⓘ

this entity surface form: Richard Posner

Sex and Reason → author → Judge Richard Posner ⓘ

this entity surface form: Richard A. Posner

The Economics of Justice → author → Judge Richard Posner ⓘ

this entity surface form: Richard A. Posner

The Economics of Justice → author → Judge Richard Posner ⓘ

this entity surface form: Richard Posner

Overcoming Law → author → Judge Richard Posner ⓘ

this entity surface form: Richard A. Posner

Overcoming Law → author → Judge Richard Posner ⓘ

this entity surface form: Richard Posner

Lisa Heinzerling → clerkOf → Judge Richard Posner ⓘ

this entity surface form: Judge Richard A. Posner