Dollree Mapp
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Dollree Mapp was the Cleveland woman whose challenge to an unlawful police search led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Mapp v. Ohio, which applied the exclusionary rule to the states.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dollree Mapp canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T756418 — 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: Dollree Mapp Context triple: [Mapp v. Ohio, petitioner, Dollree Mapp]
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A.
Jane Roe
Jane Roe is the pseudonym of Norma McCorvey, the woman who was the lead plaintiff in the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court abortion rights case Roe v. Wade.
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B.
Lucille Wilson
Lucille Wilson was the fourth wife of jazz legend Louis Armstrong, known for her long marriage to him and for preserving and promoting his legacy.
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C.
Christine Grady
Christine Grady is an American nurse-bioethicist who heads the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and is known for her work on clinical research ethics.
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D.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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E.
Susan Owen
Susan Owen was the devoted mother of English war poet Wilfred Owen, remembered largely through her close relationship and extensive correspondence with her son.
- 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: Dollree Mapp Target entity description: Dollree Mapp was the Cleveland woman whose challenge to an unlawful police search led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Mapp v. Ohio, which applied the exclusionary rule to the states.
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A.
Jane Roe
Jane Roe is the pseudonym of Norma McCorvey, the woman who was the lead plaintiff in the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court abortion rights case Roe v. Wade.
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B.
Lucille Wilson
Lucille Wilson was the fourth wife of jazz legend Louis Armstrong, known for her long marriage to him and for preserving and promoting his legacy.
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C.
Christine Grady
Christine Grady is an American nurse-bioethicist who heads the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and is known for her work on clinical research ethics.
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D.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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E.
Susan Owen
Susan Owen was the devoted mother of English war poet Wilfred Owen, remembered largely through her close relationship and extensive correspondence with her son.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Supreme Court case
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civil rights figure ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity | Cleveland ⓘ |
| associatedWithState | Ohio ⓘ |
| constitutionalRightInvolved |
Due Process Clause
ⓘ
surface form:
Fourteenth Amendment due process
Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures ⓘ |
| court | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| holding | exclusionary rule applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment ⓘ |
| impactOnLaw |
expanded defendants’ rights in state criminal prosecutions
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strengthened judicial oversight of police searches ⓘ |
| involvedInCourtCase | Mapp v. Ohio ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Ohio
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Ohio
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| knownFor |
being the defendant in Mapp v. Ohio
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challenging an unlawful police search of her home ⓘ role in expansion of the exclusionary rule to the states ⓘ |
| legalIssue |
Fourth Amendment search and seizure
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exclusionary rule ⓘ |
| legalSignificance |
her case limited the use of illegally obtained evidence in state courts
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her case nationalized the exclusionary rule ⓘ |
| name | Dollree Mapp self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| party |
Dollree Mapp
self-linksurface differs
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Ohio ⓘ
surface form:
State of Ohio
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| placeOfResidenceAtTimeOfCase |
Cleveland
ⓘ
surface form:
Cleveland, Ohio
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| residence |
Cleveland
ⓘ
surface form:
Cleveland, Ohio
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| roleInCase | criminal defendant ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: Dollree Mapp Description of subject: Dollree Mapp was the Cleveland woman whose challenge to an unlawful police search led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Mapp v. Ohio, which applied the exclusionary rule to the states.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mapp v. Ohio