Ruth
E2634
Ruth is the given name of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the pioneering U.S. Supreme Court Justice and prominent advocate for gender equality and civil rights.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ruth canonical | 21 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15387 — 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: Ruth Context triple: [Ruth Bader Ginsburg, givenName, Ruth]
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A.
Shirley
Shirley is a small town in north-central Massachusetts served by commuter rail on the MBTA Fitchburg Line.
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B.
Sally Kornbluth
Sally Kornbluth is an American cell biologist and academic leader who became the 18th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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C.
Maxine Singer
Maxine Singer is an American molecular biologist renowned for her pioneering work in genetics and for her leadership in shaping ethical guidelines for recombinant DNA research.
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D.
Lynn
Lynn is a coastal city in northeastern Massachusetts, known as one of the larger urban centers in the Greater Boston metropolitan area.
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E.
Rebecca Nurse
Rebecca Nurse was a respected elderly Puritan woman in colonial Massachusetts who became one of the most famous individuals executed during the Salem witch trials.
- 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: Ruth Target entity description: Ruth is the given name of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the pioneering U.S. Supreme Court Justice and prominent advocate for gender equality and civil rights.
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A.
Shirley
Shirley is a small town in north-central Massachusetts served by commuter rail on the MBTA Fitchburg Line.
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B.
Sally Kornbluth
Sally Kornbluth is an American cell biologist and academic leader who became the 18th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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C.
Maxine Singer
Maxine Singer is an American molecular biologist renowned for her pioneering work in genetics and for her leadership in shaping ethical guidelines for recombinant DNA research.
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D.
Lynn
Lynn is a coastal city in northeastern Massachusetts, known as one of the larger urban centers in the Greater Boston metropolitan area.
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E.
Rebecca Nurse
Rebecca Nurse was a respected elderly Puritan woman in colonial Massachusetts who became one of the most famous individuals executed during the Salem witch trials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
ⓘ
civil rights advocate ⓘ feminist ⓘ human ⓘ judge ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| almaMater |
Columbia Law School
ⓘ
Cornell University ⓘ Harvard Law School ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Bill Clinton ⓘ |
| appointedToDCCircuitBy | Jimmy Carter ⓘ |
| birthName |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
ⓘ
surface form:
Joan Ruth Bader
|
| causeOfDeath | complications of pancreatic cancer ⓘ |
| coFounded |
American Civil Liberties Union
ⓘ
surface form:
Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1933-03-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2020-09-18 ⓘ |
| degreeEarned |
Bachelor of Arts
ⓘ
Bachelor of Laws ⓘ |
| employer | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| endTime | 2020-09-18 ⓘ |
| endTimeDCCircuit | 1993 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish Americans ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civil rights law
ⓘ
constitutional law ⓘ gender equality law ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Ruth self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Civil Liberties Union
ⓘ
Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| nickname |
Notorious RBG
ⓘ
Ruth Bader Ginsburg ⓘ
surface form:
RBG
|
| notableFor |
advocacy for gender equality
ⓘ
advocacy for women’s rights ⓘ civil rights jurisprudence ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
attorney
ⓘ
jurist ⓘ law professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Brooklyn
ⓘ
surface form:
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
|
| placeOfDeath |
Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
surface form:
Washington, D.C., United States
|
| positionHeld | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| previousPosition | Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| spouse | Martin D. Ginsburg ⓘ |
| startTime | 1993-08-10 ⓘ |
| startTimeDCCircuit | 1980 ⓘ |
| taughtAt |
Columbia Law School
ⓘ
Rutgers Law School ⓘ |
| workLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Ruth Description of subject: Ruth is the given name of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the pioneering U.S. Supreme Court Justice and prominent advocate for gender equality and civil rights.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.