Fremont Weeks
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Fremont Weeks was the defendant in the landmark 1914 U.S. Supreme Court case Weeks v. United States, which established the federal exclusionary rule prohibiting the use of illegally obtained evidence in court.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fremont Weeks canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3966400 — 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: Fremont Weeks Context triple: [Weeks v. United States, party, Fremont Weeks]
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A.
John R. Sinnock
John R. Sinnock was the eighth Chief Engraver of the United States Mint, best known for designing the Roosevelt dime and contributing to several U.S. coin designs.
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B.
James A. McClure
James A. McClure was a Republican U.S. Senator from Idaho known for his strong advocacy of gun rights and conservative policies.
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C.
Joseph R. Walker
Joseph R. Walker was a 19th-century American mountain man and explorer known for pioneering routes across the Sierra Nevada and the American West.
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D.
Thomas P. Moran
Thomas P. Moran is a pioneering human-computer interaction researcher known for foundational contributions to cognitive modeling and user interface design.
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E.
George E. Merrick
George E. Merrick was an American real estate developer and city planner best known for creating the planned community of Coral Gables, Florida.
- 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: Fremont Weeks Target entity description: Fremont Weeks was the defendant in the landmark 1914 U.S. Supreme Court case Weeks v. United States, which established the federal exclusionary rule prohibiting the use of illegally obtained evidence in court.
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A.
John R. Sinnock
John R. Sinnock was the eighth Chief Engraver of the United States Mint, best known for designing the Roosevelt dime and contributing to several U.S. coin designs.
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B.
James A. McClure
James A. McClure was a Republican U.S. Senator from Idaho known for his strong advocacy of gun rights and conservative policies.
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C.
Joseph R. Walker
Joseph R. Walker was a 19th-century American mountain man and explorer known for pioneering routes across the Sierra Nevada and the American West.
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D.
Thomas P. Moran
Thomas P. Moran is a pioneering human-computer interaction researcher known for foundational contributions to cognitive modeling and user interface design.
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E.
George E. Merrick
George E. Merrick was an American real estate developer and city planner best known for creating the planned community of Coral Gables, Florida.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
criminal defendant
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| associatedWithLegalDoctrine | federal exclusionary rule ⓘ |
| associatedWithLegalPrinciple | prohibition on use of illegally obtained evidence in federal courts ⓘ |
| caseOutcomeEffectOnRights | strengthened constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | unknown ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | unknown ⓘ |
| hasCaseCitation | Weeks v. United States, 232 U.S. 383 (1914) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction | federal courts of the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLegalConsequence | influenced later incorporation of the exclusionary rule to the states ⓘ |
| hasLegalImpact | established precedent for exclusion of unlawfully obtained evidence in federal prosecutions ⓘ |
| hasNameInCaseTitle | Weeks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole | defendant ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | central figure in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on exclusion of illegally obtained evidence ⓘ |
| involvedIn | challenge to admissibility of evidence seized without a warrant ⓘ |
| legalCase | Weeks v. United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalStatusInCase | petitioner ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | United States Supreme Court jurisprudence on the exclusionary rule ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the defendant in Weeks v. United States ⓘ |
| occupation | unknown ⓘ |
| participantIn | Weeks v. United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
search and seizure law in the United States ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfNotability | 1914 ⓘ |
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: Fremont Weeks Description of subject: Fremont Weeks was the defendant in the landmark 1914 U.S. Supreme Court case Weeks v. United States, which established the federal exclusionary rule prohibiting the use of illegally obtained evidence in court.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Weeks v. United States