Arnold & Fortas
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Arnold & Fortas was a prominent mid-20th-century Washington, D.C. law firm co-founded by future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, known for its influential regulatory and appellate practice.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Arnold & Fortas canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8296459 — 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: Arnold & Fortas Context triple: [Abe Fortas, employer, Arnold & Fortas]
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A.
Judge Thurman Arnold
Judge Thurman Arnold was a prominent American lawyer, legal scholar, and New Deal-era antitrust enforcer who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and led the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice.
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B.
Thurman Arnold
Thurman Arnold was an influential American lawyer, legal scholar, and New Deal-era antitrust enforcer who served as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division and later as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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C.
Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis is a British actor known for his roles in television dramas such as "Emmerdale" and "Torchwood."
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D.
James Hart
James Hart is an American writer and memoirist best known for his marriage to singer-songwriter Carly Simon and his candid memoir about their life together.
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E.
Abe Fortas
Abe Fortas was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and was a close adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- 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: Arnold & Fortas Target entity description: Arnold & Fortas was a prominent mid-20th-century Washington, D.C. law firm co-founded by future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, known for its influential regulatory and appellate practice.
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A.
Judge Thurman Arnold
Judge Thurman Arnold was a prominent American lawyer, legal scholar, and New Deal-era antitrust enforcer who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and led the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice.
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B.
Thurman Arnold
Thurman Arnold was an influential American lawyer, legal scholar, and New Deal-era antitrust enforcer who served as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division and later as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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C.
Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis is a British actor known for his roles in television dramas such as "Emmerdale" and "Torchwood."
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D.
James Hart
James Hart is an American writer and memoirist best known for his marriage to singer-songwriter Carly Simon and his candid memoir about their life together.
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E.
Abe Fortas
Abe Fortas was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and was a close adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
law firm
ⓘ
partnership ⓘ |
| city | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| coFounder |
Abe Fortas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Thurman Arnold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| focus |
appellate advocacy in federal courts
ⓘ
representation before federal regulatory agencies ⓘ |
| industry | legal services ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States government
ⓘ
surface form:
federal government of the United States
|
| locatedIn | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Abe Fortas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Thurman Arnold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influential appellate practice
ⓘ
influential regulatory practice ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Abe Fortas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Thurman Arnold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| practiceArea |
administrative law
ⓘ
appellate litigation ⓘ regulatory law ⓘ |
| regionServed |
United States federal courts
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedAsPredecessorOf | Arnold & Porter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Arnold & Porter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
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: Arnold & Fortas Description of subject: Arnold & Fortas was a prominent mid-20th-century Washington, D.C. law firm co-founded by future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, known for its influential regulatory and appellate practice.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.