James M. Landis
E164936
James M. Landis was an influential American lawyer, legal scholar, and New Deal administrator who helped shape U.S. securities regulation and public administration in the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James M. Landis canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T655370 — 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: James M. Landis Context triple: [Office of Civilian Defense, employer, James M. Landis]
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A.
Felix Frankfurter
Felix Frankfurter was an influential American jurist and Harvard Law professor who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962.
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B.
Luther L. Terry
Luther L. Terry was an American physician and U.S. Surgeon General best known for issuing the landmark 1964 report that publicly linked cigarette smoking to serious health risks and transformed public health policy on tobacco.
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C.
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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D.
Justice Louis D. Brandeis
Justice Louis D. Brandeis was a prominent early 20th-century U.S. Supreme Court justice known for his progressive jurisprudence, advocacy for privacy and free speech, and influential opinions on economic regulation and social justice.
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E.
Justice Willis Van Devanter
Justice Willis Van Devanter was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed by President William Howard Taft, known for his conservative jurisprudence and frequent opposition to New Deal legislation.
- 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: James M. Landis Target entity description: James M. Landis was an influential American lawyer, legal scholar, and New Deal administrator who helped shape U.S. securities regulation and public administration in the mid-20th century.
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A.
Felix Frankfurter
Felix Frankfurter was an influential American jurist and Harvard Law professor who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962.
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B.
Luther L. Terry
Luther L. Terry was an American physician and U.S. Surgeon General best known for issuing the landmark 1964 report that publicly linked cigarette smoking to serious health risks and transformed public health policy on tobacco.
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C.
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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D.
Justice Louis D. Brandeis
Justice Louis D. Brandeis was a prominent early 20th-century U.S. Supreme Court justice known for his progressive jurisprudence, advocacy for privacy and free speech, and influential opinions on economic regulation and social justice.
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E.
Justice Willis Van Devanter
Justice Willis Van Devanter was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed by President William Howard Taft, known for his conservative jurisprudence and frequent opposition to New Deal legislation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: James M. Landis Description of subject: James M. Landis was an influential American lawyer, legal scholar, and New Deal administrator who helped shape U.S. securities regulation and public administration in the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.