Robert H. Jackson
E11240
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Nuremberg prosecutor
United States Attorney General
United States Solicitor General
human
jurist
Robert H. Jackson was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and as the chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials after World War II.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert H. Jackson canonical | 34 |
| Justice Robert H. Jackson | 4 |
| Justice Robert H. Jackson (in part) | 1 |
| Robert Houghwout Jackson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22794 — 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: Robert H. Jackson Context triple: [Nuremberg trials, notableProsecutor, Robert H. Jackson]
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A.
Telford Taylor
Telford Taylor was an American lawyer, military officer, and legal scholar best known for leading subsequent prosecutions of Nazi war criminals after World War II and later becoming a prominent critic of abuses of executive power.
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B.
Paul G. Kirk
Paul G. Kirk is an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as interim U.S. Senator from Massachusetts following the death of Edward M. Kennedy.
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C.
Alfred N. Goldsmith
Alfred N. Goldsmith was an American electrical engineer and radio pioneer who played a key role in the early development and professionalization of radio engineering.
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D.
Guy T. Helvering
Guy T. Helvering was a U.S. politician and Commissioner of Internal Revenue best known for his role in several landmark Supreme Court tax and Social Security cases.
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E.
James V. Forrestal
James V. Forrestal was an American government official who served as the first U.S. Secretary of Defense and played a key role in organizing the post–World War II military establishment.
- 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: Robert H. Jackson Target entity description: Robert H. Jackson was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and as the chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials after World War II.
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A.
Telford Taylor
Telford Taylor was an American lawyer, military officer, and legal scholar best known for leading subsequent prosecutions of Nazi war criminals after World War II and later becoming a prominent critic of abuses of executive power.
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B.
Paul G. Kirk
Paul G. Kirk is an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as interim U.S. Senator from Massachusetts following the death of Edward M. Kennedy.
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C.
Alfred N. Goldsmith
Alfred N. Goldsmith was an American electrical engineer and radio pioneer who played a key role in the early development and professionalization of radio engineering.
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D.
Guy T. Helvering
Guy T. Helvering was a U.S. politician and Commissioner of Internal Revenue best known for his role in several landmark Supreme Court tax and Social Security cases.
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E.
James V. Forrestal
James V. Forrestal was an American government official who served as the first U.S. Secretary of Defense and played a key role in organizing the post–World War II military establishment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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Nuremberg prosecutor ⓘ United States Attorney General ⓘ United States Solicitor General ⓘ human ⓘ jurist ⓘ |
| appointedBy |
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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surface form:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| barAdmission | New York State Bar ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1892-02-13 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Spring Creek, Pennsylvania, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| child | William Eldred Jackson ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1954-10-09 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Washington, D.C.
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surface form:
Washington, D.C., United States
|
| education |
Albany Law School
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surface form:
Albany Law School (attended)
read law (admitted to bar without formal degree) ⓘ |
| endTime | 1954-10-09 ⓘ |
| endTimeAsAttorneyGeneral | 1941-08-25 ⓘ |
| endTimeAsSolicitorGeneral | 1940-01-18 ⓘ |
| familyName | Jackson ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
constitutional law
ⓘ
international criminal law ⓘ public international law ⓘ |
| fullName |
Robert H. Jackson
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Robert Houghwout Jackson
|
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| knownFor |
chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials
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influential judicial opinions on civil liberties ⓘ service as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOfCourt | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Nuremberg trials
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surface form:
International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg opening statement
Korematsu v. United States (dissent) ⓘ West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette ⓘ |
| occupation |
government official
ⓘ
judge ⓘ jurist ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| politicalParty |
Democratic Party
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surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
|
| positionHeld |
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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Chief United States Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials ⓘ United States Attorney General ⓘ Office of the Solicitor General ⓘ
surface form:
United States Solicitor General
|
| raisedIn | Frewsburg, New York, United States ⓘ |
| religion | Protestantism ⓘ |
| spouse | Irene Alice Gerhardt Jackson ⓘ |
| startTime | 1941-07-11 ⓘ |
| startTimeAsAttorneyGeneral | 1940-01-18 ⓘ |
| startTimeAsSolicitorGeneral | 1938-03-04 ⓘ |
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: Robert H. Jackson Description of subject: Robert H. Jackson was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and as the chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials after World War II.
Referenced by (40)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Robert Houghwout Jackson
this entity surface form:
Justice Robert H. Jackson
subject surface form:
Spring Creek, Pennsylvania
subject surface form:
Nuremberg Trials
this entity surface form:
Justice Robert H. Jackson
this entity surface form:
Justice Robert H. Jackson
Stanley Forman Reed (as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States)
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succeededBy (Solicitor General of the United States)
→
Robert H. Jackson
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subject surface form:
Stanley Forman Reed
this entity surface form:
Justice Robert H. Jackson
this entity surface form:
Justice Robert H. Jackson (in part)