R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc.
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R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. is a Michigan-based funeral home company best known for its role as the employer in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case on whether federal civil rights law protects transgender employees from workplace discrimination.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7094467 — 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: R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. Context triple: [R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, petitioner, R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc.]
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A.
Dignity Memorial
Dignity Memorial is a large North American network of funeral, cremation, and cemetery service providers owned by Service Corporation International.
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B.
Rosehill Cemetery Company
Rosehill Cemetery Company is the private organization that manages and operates Chicago’s historic Rosehill Cemetery, one of the city’s largest and oldest burial grounds.
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C.
Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries
Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries is a prominent Southern California chain of cemeteries, mortuaries, and memorial parks known for its expansive landscaped grounds, art, and celebrity burials.
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D.
The Woodlands Cemetery Company
The Woodlands Cemetery Company is the organization responsible for managing and preserving The Woodlands Cemetery, a historic rural cemetery and arboretum in Philadelphia.
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E.
Fisher & Diaz Funeral Home
Fisher & Diaz Funeral Home is the family-run Los Angeles mortuary that serves as the central location for the events and character drama in the television series "Six Feet Under."
- 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: R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. Target entity description: R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. is a Michigan-based funeral home company best known for its role as the employer in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case on whether federal civil rights law protects transgender employees from workplace discrimination.
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A.
Dignity Memorial
Dignity Memorial is a large North American network of funeral, cremation, and cemetery service providers owned by Service Corporation International.
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B.
Rosehill Cemetery Company
Rosehill Cemetery Company is the private organization that manages and operates Chicago’s historic Rosehill Cemetery, one of the city’s largest and oldest burial grounds.
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C.
Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries
Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries is a prominent Southern California chain of cemeteries, mortuaries, and memorial parks known for its expansive landscaped grounds, art, and celebrity burials.
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D.
The Woodlands Cemetery Company
The Woodlands Cemetery Company is the organization responsible for managing and preserving The Woodlands Cemetery, a historic rural cemetery and arboretum in Philadelphia.
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E.
Fisher & Diaz Funeral Home
Fisher & Diaz Funeral Home is the family-run Los Angeles mortuary that serves as the central location for the events and character drama in the television series "Six Feet Under."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
business enterprise
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funeral home company ⓘ |
| caseConsolidatedInto | Bostock v. Clayton County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| caseConsolidatedWith | Altitude Express Inc. v. Zarda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| caseConsolidatedWith | Bostock v. Clayton County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| caseHeardBy | Supreme Court of the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| decisionYear | 2020 ⓘ |
| employerIn | R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBusinessType | for-profit company ⓘ |
| industry | funeral services ⓘ |
| legalIssue |
employment discrimination
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interpretation of Title VII sex discrimination ⓘ transgender rights ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
involvement in landmark U.S. Supreme Court case on transgender employment discrimination
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litigation concerning whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects transgender employees ⓘ |
| operatesIn | funeral home services in Michigan ⓘ |
| opposingParty |
Aimee Stephens
NERFINISHED
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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partyTo | R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relevantLaw | Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | employer of Aimee Stephens ⓘ |
| sector | private sector ⓘ |
| supremeCourtHoldingRelatedTo | prohibition of employment discrimination against transgender persons under Title VII ⓘ |
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: R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. Description of subject: R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. is a Michigan-based funeral home company best known for its role as the employer in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case on whether federal civil rights law protects transgender employees from workplace discrimination.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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petitioner
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R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc.
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