Joseph Story
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Joseph Story was a prominent early 19th-century U.S. Supreme Court justice and legal scholar known for his influential opinions and treatises that helped shape American constitutional law.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joseph Story canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1764032 — 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: Joseph Story Context triple: [Worcester v. Georgia, joinedByInMajority, Joseph Story]
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A.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was a 19th-century American physician, poet, and essayist known for his wit, literary works, and contributions to medical reform.
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B.
John Marshall
John Marshall was the fourth Chief Justice of the United States, whose landmark opinions, especially in Marbury v. Madison, established the principle of judicial review and greatly strengthened the Supreme Court’s authority.
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C.
John Marshall
John Marshall was a Scottish sculptor known for his architectural and public works, including prominent sculptures in Edinburgh.
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D.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was a long-serving U.S. Supreme Court Justice and influential legal thinker known for his contributions to American common law and free speech jurisprudence.
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E.
John W. Marshall
John W. Marshall is an American lawyer and public official best known for serving as Virginia’s Secretary of Public Safety and as the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
- 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: Joseph Story Target entity description: Joseph Story was a prominent early 19th-century U.S. Supreme Court justice and legal scholar known for his influential opinions and treatises that helped shape American constitutional law.
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A.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was a 19th-century American physician, poet, and essayist known for his wit, literary works, and contributions to medical reform.
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B.
John Marshall
John Marshall was the fourth Chief Justice of the United States, whose landmark opinions, especially in Marbury v. Madison, established the principle of judicial review and greatly strengthened the Supreme Court’s authority.
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C.
John Marshall
John Marshall was a Scottish sculptor known for his architectural and public works, including prominent sculptures in Edinburgh.
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D.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was a long-serving U.S. Supreme Court Justice and influential legal thinker known for his contributions to American common law and free speech jurisprudence.
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E.
John W. Marshall
John W. Marshall is an American lawyer and public official best known for serving as Virginia’s Secretary of Public Safety and as the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Joseph Story Description of subject: Joseph Story was a prominent early 19th-century U.S. Supreme Court justice and legal scholar known for his influential opinions and treatises that helped shape American constitutional law.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.