John Laroche was charged in connection with orchid poaching
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John Laroche is a real-life plant dealer and orchid enthusiast whose controversial involvement in rare orchid poaching inspired the nonfiction book "The Orchid Thief."
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| John Laroche was charged in connection with orchid poaching canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9394596 — 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.
Target entity: John Laroche was charged in connection with orchid poaching Context triple: [The Orchid Thief, subjectLegalIssue, John Laroche was charged in connection with orchid poaching]
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Maguire Seven case
The Maguire Seven case was a notorious miscarriage of justice in the UK in which seven members of the Maguire family were wrongfully convicted in the 1970s of handling explosives allegedly linked to IRA bombings, before their convictions were quashed in 1991.
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Clifford Case
Clifford Case was a moderate Republican U.S. Senator from New Jersey known for his liberal stances on civil rights, social welfare, and foreign policy during the mid-20th century.
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Archer-Shee case
The Archer-Shee case was a famous early 20th-century British legal scandal involving the wrongful accusation of a naval cadet, which became a landmark example of the fight for individual justice against institutional authority.
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Murder of Laura Foster
The Murder of Laura Foster refers to the 1866 killing of a young woman in North Carolina, a notorious case that inspired the American folk ballad and legend of Tom Dooley.
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Calas affair
The Calas affair was an 18th-century French legal case involving the wrongful execution of Protestant merchant Jean Calas, which became a symbol of religious intolerance and judicial injustice and inspired Voltaire’s campaign for civil rights and legal reform.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: John Laroche was charged in connection with orchid poaching Target entity description: John Laroche is a real-life plant dealer and orchid enthusiast whose controversial involvement in rare orchid poaching inspired the nonfiction book "The Orchid Thief."
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A.
Maguire Seven case
The Maguire Seven case was a notorious miscarriage of justice in the UK in which seven members of the Maguire family were wrongfully convicted in the 1970s of handling explosives allegedly linked to IRA bombings, before their convictions were quashed in 1991.
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B.
Clifford Case
Clifford Case was a moderate Republican U.S. Senator from New Jersey known for his liberal stances on civil rights, social welfare, and foreign policy during the mid-20th century.
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C.
Archer-Shee case
The Archer-Shee case was a famous early 20th-century British legal scandal involving the wrongful accusation of a naval cadet, which became a landmark example of the fight for individual justice against institutional authority.
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D.
Murder of Laura Foster
The Murder of Laura Foster refers to the 1866 killing of a young woman in North Carolina, a notorious case that inspired the American folk ballad and legend of Tom Dooley.
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E.
Calas affair
The Calas affair was an 18th-century French legal case involving the wrongful execution of Protestant merchant Jean Calas, which became a symbol of religious intolerance and judicial injustice and inspired Voltaire’s campaign for civil rights and legal reform.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
nonfiction book
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person ⓘ |
| activity | collecting rare orchids ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
orchid poaching case in Florida
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rare orchids ⓘ |
| author | Susan Orlean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| fieldOfWork |
horticulture
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plant trade ⓘ |
| genre | literary journalism ⓘ |
| hasInterest |
orchids
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rare plants ⓘ |
| hasReputation | controversial figure in orchid collecting community ⓘ |
| inspiredWork | The Orchid Thief NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalStatus | was charged in connection with orchid poaching ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
John Laroche
NERFINISHED
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orchid poaching in Florida ⓘ |
| notableEvent | arrest related to orchid poaching ⓘ |
| notableFor |
involvement in rare orchid poaching
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legal case involving orchid poaching in Florida ⓘ |
| occupation |
orchid enthusiast
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plant dealer ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | The Orchid Thief NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: John Laroche was charged in connection with orchid poaching Description of subject: John Laroche is a real-life plant dealer and orchid enthusiast whose controversial involvement in rare orchid poaching inspired the nonfiction book "The Orchid Thief."
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