James R. Browning
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James R. Browning was a prominent American judge who served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, including a long tenure as its chief judge.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James R. Browning canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3487049 — 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: James R. Browning Context triple: [James R. Browning United States Courthouse, namedAfter, James R. Browning]
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A.
John B. McDonald
John B. McDonald was an American civil engineer best known for overseeing the construction of New York City's first subway system.
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B.
John H. Ferguson
John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
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C.
John G. Thompson
John G. Thompson is an American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in group theory, including contributions to the classification of finite simple groups.
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D.
Henry F. Keyes
Henry F. Keyes was an American architect known for designing the historic Boston Fish Pier in Boston, Massachusetts.
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E.
James Harrod
James Harrod was an American pioneer and early settler credited with founding Harrodsburg, the first permanent English settlement in Kentucky.
- 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: James R. Browning Target entity description: James R. Browning was a prominent American judge who served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, including a long tenure as its chief judge.
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A.
John B. McDonald
John B. McDonald was an American civil engineer best known for overseeing the construction of New York City's first subway system.
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B.
John H. Ferguson
John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
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C.
John G. Thompson
John G. Thompson is an American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in group theory, including contributions to the classification of finite simple groups.
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D.
Henry F. Keyes
Henry F. Keyes was an American architect known for designing the historic Boston Fish Pier in Boston, Massachusetts.
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E.
James Harrod
James Harrod was an American pioneer and early settler credited with founding Harrodsburg, the first permanent English settlement in Kentucky.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American judge
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United States court of appeals judge ⓘ federal judge of the United States ⓘ human ⓘ |
| appointedBy | John F. Kennedy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Montana
NERFINISHED
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University of Montana School of Law NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Browning NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
federal appellate jurisprudence
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law ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Ninth Circuit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalSystem | common law ⓘ |
| memberOf | Judicial Conference of the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | James R. Browning NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership as Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit
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long tenure on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ⓘ |
| notableWork | service as Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
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lawyer ⓘ |
| partOf | United States federal judiciary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
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Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
NERFINISHED
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San Francisco, California 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: James R. Browning Description of subject: James R. Browning was a prominent American judge who served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, including a long tenure as its chief judge.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.