Thoroughgood Marshall
E64852
African American
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
civil rights activist
human
judge
lawyer
Thoroughgood Marshall, better known as Thurgood Marshall, was a pioneering American civil rights lawyer and the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thoroughgood Marshall canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T84513 — 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: Thoroughgood Marshall Context triple: [Thurgood Marshall, birthName, Thoroughgood Marshall]
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A.
Nathaniel P. Davis
Nathaniel P. Davis was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
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B.
Robert W. Hunt
Robert W. Hunt was an American engineer and industrialist known for his influential role in the development of the U.S. mining and metallurgical industries and leadership in professional engineering organizations.
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C.
Justice Pierce Butler
Justice Pierce Butler was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the early 20th century, known for his conservative jurisprudence and frequent opposition to New Deal legislation.
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D.
Alexander Cushing
Alexander Cushing was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the visionary founder who developed Squaw Valley into a major ski resort and host of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
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E.
Albert D. Wheelon
Albert D. Wheelon was an American physicist and intelligence official known for his pioneering role in developing U.S. satellite reconnaissance programs and later contributions to aerospace and national security policy.
- 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: Thoroughgood Marshall Target entity description: Thoroughgood Marshall, better known as Thurgood Marshall, was a pioneering American civil rights lawyer and the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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A.
Nathaniel P. Davis
Nathaniel P. Davis was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
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B.
Robert W. Hunt
Robert W. Hunt was an American engineer and industrialist known for his influential role in the development of the U.S. mining and metallurgical industries and leadership in professional engineering organizations.
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C.
Justice Pierce Butler
Justice Pierce Butler was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the early 20th century, known for his conservative jurisprudence and frequent opposition to New Deal legislation.
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D.
Alexander Cushing
Alexander Cushing was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the visionary founder who developed Squaw Valley into a major ski resort and host of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
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E.
Albert D. Wheelon
Albert D. Wheelon was an American physicist and intelligence official known for his pioneering role in developing U.S. satellite reconnaissance programs and later contributions to aerospace and national security policy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Thoroughgood Marshall Description of subject: Thoroughgood Marshall, better known as Thurgood Marshall, was a pioneering American civil rights lawyer and the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Thurgood Marshall