Gregory was a taxpayer and shareholder.
E302255
Gregory was the individual litigant in Helvering v. Gregory, known for engaging in a corporate reorganization that led to a landmark U.S. tax avoidance case.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gregory was a taxpayer and shareholder. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2830215 — 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: Gregory was a taxpayer and shareholder. Context triple: [Helvering v. Gregory, partyRole, Gregory was a taxpayer and shareholder.]
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A.
Godfrey Investment Group
Godfrey Investment Group is a real estate investment firm known for owning prominent commercial properties such as the iconic Fountain Place skyscraper in Dallas, Texas.
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B.
John Graham & Company
John Graham & Company was a prominent American architectural firm best known for designing Seattle’s iconic Space Needle and numerous commercial buildings in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Jay Gould Estate
Jay Gould Estate is a historic Gothic Revival mansion and estate in Tarrytown, New York, best known as the former home of 19th-century railroad magnate Jay Gould and now a popular museum and tourist attraction.
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D.
Grey Enterprises Holdings, Inc.
Grey Enterprises Holdings, Inc. is the multinational conglomerate owned by billionaire Christian Grey in the "Fifty Shades" series, encompassing diverse business interests and serving as a central element of the franchise’s storyline.
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E.
James Stock
James Stock is an American economist known for his influential work in macroeconometrics and for coining the term "Great Moderation" to describe the period of reduced economic volatility in the late 20th century.
- 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: Gregory was a taxpayer and shareholder. Target entity description: Gregory was the individual litigant in Helvering v. Gregory, known for engaging in a corporate reorganization that led to a landmark U.S. tax avoidance case.
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A.
Godfrey Investment Group
Godfrey Investment Group is a real estate investment firm known for owning prominent commercial properties such as the iconic Fountain Place skyscraper in Dallas, Texas.
-
B.
John Graham & Company
John Graham & Company was a prominent American architectural firm best known for designing Seattle’s iconic Space Needle and numerous commercial buildings in the mid-20th century.
-
C.
Jay Gould Estate
Jay Gould Estate is a historic Gothic Revival mansion and estate in Tarrytown, New York, best known as the former home of 19th-century railroad magnate Jay Gould and now a popular museum and tourist attraction.
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D.
Grey Enterprises Holdings, Inc.
Grey Enterprises Holdings, Inc. is the multinational conglomerate owned by billionaire Christian Grey in the "Fifty Shades" series, encompassing diverse business interests and serving as a central element of the franchise’s storyline.
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E.
James Stock
James Stock is an American economist known for his influential work in macroeconometrics and for coining the term "Great Moderation" to describe the period of reduced economic volatility in the late 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Supreme Court case
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| areaOfLaw |
corporate tax
ⓘ
tax law ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasParty | Gregory ⓘ |
| jurisdictionOfCase |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| knownFor |
being the taxpayer in Helvering v. Gregory
ⓘ
engaging in a corporate reorganization challenged as tax avoidance ⓘ |
| legalIssueInvolved |
corporate reorganization
ⓘ
tax avoidance ⓘ |
| legalPrinciple | substance over form doctrine in tax law ⓘ |
| litigantType | petitioner ⓘ |
| partyInCase | Helvering v. Gregory ⓘ |
| role |
individual litigant
ⓘ
shareholder ⓘ taxpayer ⓘ |
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: Gregory was a taxpayer and shareholder. Description of subject: Gregory was the individual litigant in Helvering v. Gregory, known for engaging in a corporate reorganization that led to a landmark U.S. tax avoidance case.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.