Thomas M. Cooley
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Thomas M. Cooley was a prominent 19th-century American jurist and legal scholar who served as Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court and became an influential authority on constitutional law.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas M. Cooley canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6836252 — 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: Thomas M. Cooley Context triple: [Thomas M. Cooley Law School, namedAfter, Thomas M. Cooley]
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A.
John Henry Boalt
John Henry Boalt was a 19th-century American lawyer and judge in California whose name later became controversial due to his openly racist views, prompting modern efforts to remove his name from institutions.
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B.
James M. Landis
James M. Landis was an influential American lawyer, legal scholar, and New Deal administrator who helped shape U.S. securities regulation and public administration in the mid-20th century.
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C.
James Cullen Landis
James Cullen Landis was an American silent film actor and occasional director active in the 1910s and 1920s.
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D.
Lewis J. Boies
Lewis J. Boies was the third husband of Hollywood actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr.
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E.
Luther L. Terry
Luther L. Terry was an American physician and U.S. Surgeon General best known for issuing the landmark 1964 report that publicly linked cigarette smoking to serious health risks and transformed public health policy on tobacco.
- 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: Thomas M. Cooley Target entity description: Thomas M. Cooley was a prominent 19th-century American jurist and legal scholar who served as Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court and became an influential authority on constitutional law.
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A.
John Henry Boalt
John Henry Boalt was a 19th-century American lawyer and judge in California whose name later became controversial due to his openly racist views, prompting modern efforts to remove his name from institutions.
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B.
James M. Landis
James M. Landis was an influential American lawyer, legal scholar, and New Deal administrator who helped shape U.S. securities regulation and public administration in the mid-20th century.
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C.
James Cullen Landis
James Cullen Landis was an American silent film actor and occasional director active in the 1910s and 1920s.
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D.
Lewis J. Boies
Lewis J. Boies was the third husband of Hollywood actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr.
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E.
Luther L. Terry
Luther L. Terry was an American physician and U.S. Surgeon General best known for issuing the landmark 1964 report that publicly linked cigarette smoking to serious health risks and transformed public health policy on tobacco.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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judge ⓘ jurist ⓘ legal scholar ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Michigan Governor Austin Blair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1824-01-06 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Attica, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | Thomas Benton Cooley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1898-09-12 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Attica Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | University of Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Cooley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
constitutional law
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municipal law ⓘ taxation law ⓘ torts ⓘ |
| fullName | Thomas McIntyre Cooley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | legal treatise ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHonor |
Cooley Law Review named in his honor
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Thomas M. Cooley Law School named in his honor ⓘ |
| knownFor |
doctrine of substantive due process in state constitutional law
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influence on American constitutional law ⓘ treatise Constitutional Limitations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Interstate Commerce Commission
NERFINISHED
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Michigan Supreme Court NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations Which Rest Upon the Legislative Power of the States of the American Union
NERFINISHED
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A Treatise on the Law of Municipal Corporations NERFINISHED ⓘ A Treatise on the Law of Taxation NERFINISHED ⓘ A Treatise on the Law of Torts NERFINISHED ⓘ The General Principles of Constitutional Law in the United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
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jurist ⓘ law professor ⓘ legal scholar ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission
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Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court ⓘ Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterian
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surface form:
Presbyterianism
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| residence |
Ann Arbor, Michigan
NERFINISHED
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Detroit, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Elizabeth Horton Cooley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Ann Arbor, Michigan
NERFINISHED
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Lansing, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Thomas M. Cooley Description of subject: Thomas M. Cooley was a prominent 19th-century American jurist and legal scholar who served as Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court and became an influential authority on constitutional law.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.