Damon Keith
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Damon Keith was a prominent American federal judge and civil rights advocate who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Damon Keith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4424004 — 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: Damon Keith Context triple: [Woodlawn Cemetery (Detroit), notableBurial, Damon Keith]
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A.
Arthur Johnson
Arthur Johnson is a collegiate sports administrator who serves as the athletic director overseeing Temple University's athletics program, including the men's basketball team.
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B.
Clifton McNeely
Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach known for being the first overall pick in the inaugural 1947 BAA (now NBA) draft.
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C.
Harvey Dunn
Harvey Dunn was an American painter and illustrator renowned for his powerful depictions of frontier life and war, and as a prominent teacher who helped shape early 20th-century American illustration.
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D.
Lloyd Haynes
Lloyd Haynes was an American actor best known for his television work in the 1960s and 1970s, particularly for his role as a schoolteacher on the series "Room 222."
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E.
Ray Danton
Ray Danton was an American actor and director best known for his suave, often villainous roles in film and television during the 1950s and 1960s.
- 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: Damon Keith Target entity description: Damon Keith was a prominent American federal judge and civil rights advocate who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
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A.
Arthur Johnson
Arthur Johnson is a collegiate sports administrator who serves as the athletic director overseeing Temple University's athletics program, including the men's basketball team.
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B.
Clifton McNeely
Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach known for being the first overall pick in the inaugural 1947 BAA (now NBA) draft.
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C.
Harvey Dunn
Harvey Dunn was an American painter and illustrator renowned for his powerful depictions of frontier life and war, and as a prominent teacher who helped shape early 20th-century American illustration.
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D.
Lloyd Haynes
Lloyd Haynes was an American actor best known for his television work in the 1960s and 1970s, particularly for his role as a schoolteacher on the series "Room 222."
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E.
Ray Danton
Ray Danton was an American actor and director best known for his suave, often villainous roles in film and television during the 1950s and 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American jurist
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civil rights advocate ⓘ federal judge ⓘ human ⓘ judge ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Arts
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Bachelor of Laws ⓘ Master of Laws ⓘ |
| appointedBy |
Jimmy Carter
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lyndon B. Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
American Bar Association Spirit of Excellence Award
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Thurgood Marshall Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Spingarn Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | leukemia ⓘ |
| conflictParticipatedIn | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1922-07-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2019-04-28 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Howard University School of Law
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wayne State University Law School NERFINISHED ⓘ West Virginia State College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Keith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Damon Jerome Keith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Damon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHonoraryDegreeFrom |
Howard University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michigan State University NERFINISHED ⓘ Wayne State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
civil rights jurisprudence
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defending voting rights ⓘ landmark decisions on school desegregation ⓘ opposition to government surveillance without warrants ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Bar Association
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
National Bar Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Army ⓘ |
| nominatedToOffice |
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableQuote | Democracies die behind closed doors. ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Detroit school desegregation cases
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States v. Sinclair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Detroit, Michigan, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Detroit, Michigan, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
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Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ⓘ Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ⓘ Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Baptist ⓘ |
| residence | Detroit, Michigan, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Detroit, Michigan, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Damon Keith Description of subject: Damon Keith was a prominent American federal judge and civil rights advocate who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Woodlawn Cemetery (Detroit)