R. James Blackshire et al.
E391916
R. James Blackshire et al. are parties who served as respondents in the U.S. Supreme Court case Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp., a landmark decision on housing discrimination and equal protection.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| R. James Blackshire et al. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3821828 — 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: R. James Blackshire et al. Context triple: [Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp., respondent, R. James Blackshire et al.]
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A.
R. Black
R. Black is an artist and illustrator known for creating distinctive cover artwork, including for George Carlin’s book "Brain Droppings."
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B.
David A. Black
David A. Black is a Ruby programmer, author, and educator best known for his influential books and contributions to the Ruby community.
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C.
D. Black
D. Black is a computer networking expert known for co-authoring RFC 3168, which defines Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) for IP.
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D.
R. Barnes
R. Barnes is a technical expert and contributor to Internet standards, known for authoring RFC 6668 within the IETF community.
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E.
David A. Harris
David A. Harris is a U.S. government official who has served as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the head of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
- 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: R. James Blackshire et al. Target entity description: R. James Blackshire et al. are parties who served as respondents in the U.S. Supreme Court case Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp., a landmark decision on housing discrimination and equal protection.
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A.
R. Black
R. Black is an artist and illustrator known for creating distinctive cover artwork, including for George Carlin’s book "Brain Droppings."
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B.
David A. Black
David A. Black is a Ruby programmer, author, and educator best known for his influential books and contributions to the Ruby community.
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C.
D. Black
D. Black is a computer networking expert known for co-authoring RFC 3168, which defines Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) for IP.
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D.
R. Barnes
R. Barnes is a technical expert and contributor to Internet standards, known for authoring RFC 6668 within the IETF community.
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E.
David A. Harris
David A. Harris is a U.S. government official who has served as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the head of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
group of persons
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person ⓘ |
| caseCharacterization | landmark decision on housing discrimination and equal protection ⓘ |
| caseCitation |
Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.
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surface form:
Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp., 429 U.S. 252 (1977)
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| constitutionalProvisionInCase |
Fourteenth Amendment
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surface form:
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
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| jurisdictionOfCase | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| legalIssueInCase |
Equal Protection Clause
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housing discrimination ⓘ |
| partyToCase | Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. ⓘ |
| roleInLawsuit |
respondent
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respondents ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: R. James Blackshire et al. Description of subject: R. James Blackshire et al. are parties who served as respondents in the U.S. Supreme Court case Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp., a landmark decision on housing discrimination and equal protection.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.
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respondent
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R. James Blackshire et al.
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