Antonin Scalia
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Antonin Scalia was a prominent conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his originalist and textualist approach to constitutional interpretation.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Antonin Scalia canonical | 123 |
| Justice Antonin Scalia | 22 |
| Scalia | 3 |
| Antonin Gregory Scalia | 1 |
| Antonin Scalia (in part and in the judgment? -> incorrect) | 1 |
| Antonin Scalia (in part) | 1 |
| United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T60948 — 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: Antonin Scalia Context triple: [Bush v. Gore, concurringJustice, Antonin Scalia]
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A.
William H. Rehnquist
William H. Rehnquist was a long-serving conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice and later Chief Justice, known for advocating federalism, limiting the reach of federal power, and opposing expansive interpretations of constitutional rights.
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B.
Byron R. White
Byron R. White was a U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his generally moderate-to-conservative jurisprudence and influential opinions across criminal procedure, civil rights, and federalism.
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C.
John G. Roberts Jr.
John G. Roberts Jr. is an American jurist who serves as the 17th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, known for his influential role in shaping contemporary constitutional law.
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D.
Robert Bork
Robert Bork was a conservative American jurist and legal scholar whose role in the Watergate-era "Saturday Night Massacre" and later failed Supreme Court nomination made him a highly controversial figure in U.S. legal and political history.
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E.
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Lewis F. Powell Jr. was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1972–1987) known as a pivotal moderate whose swing votes shaped landmark decisions on issues such as abortion, affirmative action, and the death penalty.
- 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: Antonin Scalia Target entity description: Antonin Scalia was a prominent conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his originalist and textualist approach to constitutional interpretation.
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A.
William H. Rehnquist
William H. Rehnquist was a long-serving conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice and later Chief Justice, known for advocating federalism, limiting the reach of federal power, and opposing expansive interpretations of constitutional rights.
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B.
Byron R. White
Byron R. White was a U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his generally moderate-to-conservative jurisprudence and influential opinions across criminal procedure, civil rights, and federalism.
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C.
John G. Roberts Jr.
John G. Roberts Jr. is an American jurist who serves as the 17th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, known for his influential role in shaping contemporary constitutional law.
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D.
Robert Bork
Robert Bork was a conservative American jurist and legal scholar whose role in the Watergate-era "Saturday Night Massacre" and later failed Supreme Court nomination made him a highly controversial figure in U.S. legal and political history.
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E.
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Lewis F. Powell Jr. was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1972–1987) known as a pivotal moderate whose swing votes shaped landmark decisions on issues such as abortion, affirmative action, and the death penalty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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conservative ⓘ human ⓘ judge ⓘ lawyer ⓘ legal scholar ⓘ |
| almaMater |
Georgetown University
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Harvard Law School ⓘ |
| appointedFrom | United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Presidential Medal of Freedom ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1936-03-11 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Trenton, New Jersey
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surface form:
Trenton, New Jersey, United States
|
| burialPlace |
Fairfax, Virginia
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surface form:
Fairfax, Virginia, United States
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2016-02-13 ⓘ |
| degree |
Bachelor of Arts
ⓘ
Bachelor of Laws ⓘ |
| endTime | 2016-02-13 ⓘ |
| endTime (D.C. Circuit) | 1986-09-26 ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Italian American ⓘ |
| familyName |
Antonin Scalia
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Scalia
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| fullName |
Antonin Scalia
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Antonin Gregory Scalia
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| givenName | Antonin ⓘ |
| ideology | conservatism ⓘ |
| knownFor |
originalism in constitutional interpretation
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textualism in statutory interpretation ⓘ |
| memberOf | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| nominatedBy |
Ronald Reagan
ⓘ
Robert Bork ⓘ
surface form:
Ronald Reagan (to D.C. Circuit)
|
| notableDissent |
Obergefell v. Hodges
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Planned Parenthood v. Casey ⓘ |
| notableOpinion | District of Columbia v. Heller ⓘ |
| notableWork | A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 9 ⓘ |
| occupation |
government official
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judge ⓘ law professor ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Shafter, Texas, United States ⓘ |
| politicalParty |
Republican Party
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surface form:
Republican Party (United States)
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| positionHeld |
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ⓘ |
| predecessor |
William H. Rehnquist
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surface form:
William Rehnquist (as Associate Justice)
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| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| spouse | Maureen McCarthy Scalia ⓘ |
| startTime | 1986-09-26 ⓘ |
| startTime (D.C. Circuit) | 1982-08-17 ⓘ |
| successor |
Neil M. Gorsuch
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surface form:
Neil Gorsuch
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| taughtAt |
Georgetown University
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surface form:
Georgetown University Law Center
University of Chicago Law School ⓘ University of Virginia School of Law ⓘ |
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: Antonin Scalia Description of subject: Antonin Scalia was a prominent conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his originalist and textualist approach to constitutional interpretation.
Referenced by (152)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Antonin Scalia (in part)
this entity surface form:
Justice Antonin Scalia
this entity surface form:
Antonin Gregory Scalia
this entity surface form:
Scalia
subject surface form:
Bryan A. Garner
this entity surface form:
Justice Antonin Scalia