Brenda Patterson
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Brenda Patterson is an American woman known for being the plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court employment discrimination case Patterson v. McLean Credit Union.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brenda Patterson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7093921 — 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: Brenda Patterson Context triple: [Patterson v. McLean Credit Union, petitioner, Brenda Patterson]
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A.
Brenda Strong
Brenda Strong is an American actress best known for her role as Mary Alice Young, the narrator of the television series "Desperate Housewives."
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B.
Marianne Patterson
Marianne Patterson was an American socialite of the early 19th century, known for her brief and controversial marriage into British aristocracy.
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C.
Patricia Curry
Patricia Curry is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Curry, though specific widely known public details about her are not clearly established.
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D.
Brenda Wright
Brenda Wright is known as the former wife of Australian comedian and satirist Barry Humphries.
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E.
Brenda Walsh
Brenda Walsh is a central teenage character from the 1990s television drama "Beverly Hills, 90210," known for her complex relationships, family dynamics, and coming-of-age storylines.
- 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: Brenda Patterson Target entity description: Brenda Patterson is an American woman known for being the plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court employment discrimination case Patterson v. McLean Credit Union.
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A.
Brenda Strong
Brenda Strong is an American actress best known for her role as Mary Alice Young, the narrator of the television series "Desperate Housewives."
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B.
Marianne Patterson
Marianne Patterson was an American socialite of the early 19th century, known for her brief and controversial marriage into British aristocracy.
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C.
Patricia Curry
Patricia Curry is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Curry, though specific widely known public details about her are not clearly established.
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D.
Brenda Wright
Brenda Wright is known as the former wife of Australian comedian and satirist Barry Humphries.
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E.
Brenda Walsh
Brenda Walsh is a central teenage character from the 1990s television drama "Beverly Hills, 90210," known for her complex relationships, family dynamics, and coming-of-age storylines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Supreme Court case
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civil rights case ⓘ employment discrimination case ⓘ human ⓘ plaintiff ⓘ |
| appliesStatute | 42 U.S.C. § 1981 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citationNumber | 491 U.S. 164 ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| court | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| decisionDate | 1989 ⓘ |
| employedBy | McLean Credit Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African American
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| hasDefendant | McLean Credit Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPlaintiff | Brenda Patterson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole | civil rights litigant ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Supreme Court of the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | challenging racial harassment and discrimination by her employer under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 ⓘ |
| legalHolding | limited the scope of 42 U.S.C. § 1981 to discrimination in contract formation and enforcement, not post-formation conduct ⓘ |
| legalSubject |
employment discrimination
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racial discrimination ⓘ |
| majorityOpinionBy | William H. Rehnquist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the plaintiff in Patterson v. McLean Credit Union ⓘ |
| notableWork | Patterson v. McLean Credit Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | bank employee ⓘ |
| partOf | Patterson v. McLean Credit Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workLocation | North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Brenda Patterson Description of subject: Brenda Patterson is an American woman known for being the plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court employment discrimination case Patterson v. McLean Credit Union.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.